Essays on Individuality

Individualism is the view that each person has moral significance and individual rights that are either of divine origin or inherent in human nature. Each individual exists, perceives, experiences, thinks, and acts in and through his own body and, therefore, from unique points in time and space. It is the individual who has the capacity…

Social development is a clinical part in today’s society that can have a drastic impact in one’s life. In John Stuart Mill’s book, On Liberty, social development is being promoted by a large idea, individuality, that has parts to it like: play, freedom of opinion and speech, and meaning. With the promotion of this idea,…

The traditional definition of community is, a community is a group of people that reside together in a geographical location and share the same interest, attitudes and goals. A community is a group of people who come together for the same goals. Pfortmüller (2017) argued that, the traditional definition of community is outdated. He said…

In sociology there are individual’s problems and societal issues which connect with sociological imagination, the term coined by C. Wright Mills (1959) and it have an interlink with unemployment. Mills elaborate sociological imagination as the ‘the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and wider society and to think yourself away from the familiar routine…

The title of this is story is interesting because of many things. In one way, the title refers to the social status of the Greasers being the “outsiders” of the story. This title also refers to the theme of the story, one of social and economic class conflict. This is shown in the form of…

John Dickson’s Humilitas is a study of the virtue of humility. He states, “My thesis is simple: The most influential and inspiring people are often marked by humility.” (p. 19). He writes with an easy common-sense style and gives us examples of humble leaders. I found it equally to be a study of humility that…

According to Mills (1959: 6) he defined the sociological imagination as “a quality of mind that enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.” In this essay I will write about the sociological imagination and the problems that African University students come across. Firstly, I will discuss the…

Sociological Imagination is the practice in which individuals take themselves out of their personal troubles, or disconnect themselves from their daily routine, in order to view their problems through a new, critical scope. In 1959, C. Wright Mills coined the term, defining Sociological Imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the…

Adaptive leadership is a leadership model that focuses on mobilizing individuals to adapt to changes in organizations brought about by internal or external factors that may negatively impact organizations (Lewis, 2014). However, adaptive leadership helps in effectively preparing individuals to respond and accommodate any changes or challenges affecting an organization. This has enabled organizations to…

The identity of individuals and what shapes their identity is something that has been debated for many years within the different disciplines of psychology. Identity is said to be how one makes sense of who they are (Crafter, 2015), their own theory of themselves (Davies and Horton-Salway, 2016). There are many theories surrounding identity and…