Personal Troubles and Public Issues in Practice — Quiz

Which best captures Mills's 'public issues'?

Autor, Dorn, and Hanson's 'China shock' research concluded that import competition with China after 2001 accounted for approximately what share of the US manufacturing employment decline?

The Whitehall II study is sociologically important because it shows that:

According to the comparative research on US homelessness, the strongest predictor of homelessness rates across regions is:

Massey and Denton's work on US residential segregation argues that contemporary patterns result primarily from:

The CDP 'Carbon Majors' report (Griffin 2017) found that since 1988, industrial greenhouse gas emissions are highly concentrated:

The concept of 'scale mismatch', as used in this topic, refers to:

Sociological analysis using the Millsian framework:

Define 'scale mismatch' in the climate-change context and give one example.

Explain why Mills's distinction between personal troubles and public issues has political stakes, using unemployment OR homelessness as your example.

Why is individual-level data insufficient to explain the Whitehall II mortality gradient?

Select one of the four cases discussed in this topic (unemployment, mental health, housing, or climate change). Write an analysis showing how the Millsian distinction between personal troubles and public issues applies, what would be missed by an exclusively biographical framing, and what the political stakes of the structural framing are. Draw on at least three of the cited works.