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What according to the sociologist Evan Willis is a BULSH detector and how would you apply this technology to an investigation of mortality and morbidity in a workplace?  

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SECTION A QUESTION 1: What according to the sociologist Evan Willis is a BULSH detector and how would you apply this technology to an investigation of mortality and morbidity in a workplace? The major methodological tool required for sociological investigations of any public issue is the sociological imagination. Without the sociological imagination, patterns of mortality and morbidity will be presented as a personal trouble experienced by a scatter of atomized individuals rather than as a public issue. According to the sociologist Evan Willis, the sociological imagination is a BULSH detector. To apply the sociological imagination or as Evan Willis states, a BULSH detector, to the investigation of mortality and morbidity in a workplace, requires the engagement of the four sensitivities that comprise the sociological imagination. These include historical, cultural and structural issues. Through these, a critical analysis is reached. I will now be applying the sociological imagination to an investigation of...

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