Question

Tyler read the news story about a 12-year-old boy who was caught selling crack cocaine. "my hypothesis is that the boy must be living in true poverty in a neighborhood full of crime." in this case, tyler was using his sociological imagination

Answer 1

This is a true or false question and answer is True
Sociological Imagination has different meaning for sociologists and it could be defined as the awareness of personal experience relation with that of society.Here Tyler relates his personal experience of watching poor kids getting addicted to the kid in this case

Answer 2

That statement is True.
Sociological imagination refers to the concept of understanding a certain social phenomenon by imagining as if we're the one who are directly experiencing the situation. In this ase, Tyler tried to put himself in cocaine stealer kid in order to analyze why he did the criminal act.