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Critical Thinking Questions
  1. More than 1.5 million children are raised by grandparents each year. According to C. Wright Mills, the sociological imagination allows people to transform personal troubles into public issues. How is Mildred Horn an example of someone who exemplifies the sociological imagination?




  2. The sociological imagination also allows us to rise above our own personal location, or look beyond our own experiences, and examine patterns that are occurring among others. What circumstances probably lead families to rely on grandparents to raise children?



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