Quantitative and Qualitative Research

How do you understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative research in Sociology? What application do you think those ideas share with the kind of research you need to do when writing an essay for English class?

Sociological Imagination

In Sociology, you talked about the idea of the Sociological Imagination, connecting the personal to the political. Let's expand that discussion to include the connecting of the personal to the cultural or the societal. How do you see the sociological imagination at work in the stories we read this week?