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Editor's Notes

• #2: focus shifted on the relationship of the self with its external world.
• #4: Consequently, the self which was dominantly regarded by Philosophers as whether or not a concept of duality has been questioned by the Social Scientists. To re-examine the true nature of the self, their focus shifted on the relationship of the self with its external world.
• #7: When buying a new gym shirt, sociological imagination asks you to look beyond simple questions, like your needs for new clothing, or your aesthetic preferences. For instance, why are you buying a gym shirt in particular? Why go to the gym as opposed to some other kind of exercise? Why exercise? Why look for new products instead of used ones? Answering these questions involves raising a variety of different factors, like your economic circumstances, the stores available in your community, and the styles that are popular in your area. Maybe you saw a health study that scared you into wanting to improve your fitness, or recently found inspiration by watching someone else on social media.  Provided a different context and circumstances, you would make different choices. Perhaps you would have considered alternatives to the gym if you had the resources or space to purchase training equipment. The societal values and norms which exist around us can even have a subconscious influence on our decisions.  Interestingly, the reasons that people get married have changed throughout history, and continue to vary across cultures. Marrying “for love” is a relatively new societal norm, one which didn’t start becoming popular until the 17th century. Viewing this kind of contrast can help us better understand our own decisions about marriage, and how they are made within our own contemporary social frameworks.  
• #15: Self in Families -It is also the main avenue for teaching young individuals the basic things that they need to learn in order to fit in the society. It has also the capacity to develop or encourage the actualization of one’s potentials. Through rewards and punishments, some behaviors and attitudes are indirectly taught to a child. Another important aspect of social process within the family is the learning of gender by a child. Gender partly determines how one sees him/herself in the world. Though gender is considered as one aspect of the self that is subject to alteration, change and development, it is noteworthy that its concept is primarily acquired in the family.