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Introduction to
Sociology
Dr. William Taylor
TRAPPED
You know they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion
Happiness, living on the streets is a delusion
Even a smooth criminal one day must get caught
Shot up or shot down with the bullet that he bought
Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about what the streets do to me
Too many brothers daily heading for the big pen
[ people ] commin' out worse off then when they went in
There must be another route, way out
To money and fame, I changed my name
And played a different game
Tired of being trapped in this vicious cycle
Society, why did ya lie to me?
I couldn't find a trace of equality
Work me like a slave while they laid back
Homie don't play that
- Tupac Amaru Shakur
Nowadays men and women often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct: What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to
the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other mile , they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination (1959)
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