Chris is examining the broad stream of social and historical events that have occurred over the past 50 years and pondering the impact these events have had on her own life. chris is using:

Sociological imagination. which is applying imaginative thought to creating and answering sociological questions. The term was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959. It can be used in daily life. Simply looking at any event, issue, or activity using a different perspective is sociological imagination