Question

There are various forms of collective violence. These include:

-War, terrorism, political conflicts

-Genocide, disappearances, torture, human rights abuses

-Organized violent crime (gangs, etc.)

In order to apply the sociological imagination to this problem, select one of the forms of collective violence and describe the consequences of that type of collective violence on the macro and micro levels. What might it be like to experience the type of collective violence you selected? Give specifics of how your current life would be affected by this type of violence. What global social problems might be perpetuated by this type of collective violence? Next, propose a possible solution to the global social problems you presented.

Answer 1

Here I would apply the sociological imagination concept over the first group of collective violence which is War. The consequence of war on micro level is loss of life, unemployment and scarcity of food. The consequence with respect to macro level would be an increase in tax burden on public making life more difficult to live and maintain poor quality of life. It would be really horrifying and disturbing to experience this as we would see dead bodies every where and would fear to go out of home for any purpose due to fear of loss of life. Current life would experience the similar ones as mentioned here where we live in fear, gets exposed to act of terror everyday, lose our possessions , job etc. and experience scarcity of food. Global social problem perpetuated would be the lack of employment , scarcity of food and shattered economic growth of countries undergoing war. The only possible solution would be intervening activities made by third parties working for peace such as UNO as to end dispute between countries. Once war comes to an end, all social issues related to the same will be resolved.