Chapter 1: Question 1

B-Block
01/20/09


1. What aspects of social and work environment in a fast-food restaurant would be of particular interest to a sociologist because of his or her “sociological imagination?”

· Customer service
o Good or bad, depending on how the people feel going to work.
· Attitude at work
o The way that people act at work are in direct correlation to how they feel about there job.
· Age of workers
o There are low age workers, ranging to higher ages. (16 to ??)
· Reason for employment
o Need for money
· Living on minimum wage
o Hard life, with not many luxuries

Sociological Imagination: awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.