Essays on Individuality

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,…

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…

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 Pfortmüller (2017) argued that, the traditional definition of community is outdated.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…

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…

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…

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…

Description of the Theory and Research The development of Self-Esteem is a process that each individual deals with at a certain point in their life. This article by, Richard W. Robins, examines the development of self-esteem and its influence on important life outcomes. The evidence that is given in the article suggests that self-esteem increases…

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…

Two of the three types of qualitative research include phenomenological research and ethnographic research. Phenomenological research is a type of research that seeks to describe a phenomenon from individuals’ perspective and experiences (Grand Canyon University, 2018). This research study does not provide further explanation of the phenomenon rather a description of a particular phenomenon. Information…