The social imagination is the most important tool sociologists can use to understand the world. Social imagination is used to help scientists understand why individuals live in certain ways by showing how they are explained by overall social and historical factors. There are many people in the world today who do not have a basic privilege that everyone in Concordia enjoys. This privilege is freedom. Human trafficking is modern slavery. It is the illegal trade of selling human beings for labor or sexual exploitation through coercion, fraud, or force. The worst human trafficking occurs in Southeast Asia. According to Xinhua news agency, authorities in Myanmar (also known as Berma) discovered 161 cases of human trafficking in 2010. This number is actually an increase from the 155 cases found in 2009. This shows that trafficking of human beings is increasing. trafficking is the second largest producer of illegal profits related to the illegal arms trade. In first place is drug dealing. It is estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year. Human trafficking claims victims of at least twelve million people every year. There could be many more, but it is difficult to know exactly how many there are if some perpetrators are not caught. The enormous number of people who are victims of trafficking for sex or labor demonstrates that this is a social issue. 12 million is a lot of people. It is very difficult to imagine such a large number. If this were a personal problem for some people, it wouldn't happen to so many people. Furthermore, it wouldn't even be located in Southeast Asia. This is concrete proof that human trafficking is an international social issue. One of... half of article......tp://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20110206-318769/ Philippines vows to curb human traffickingSindelar, D. (2011 , February 1). In new book, whistleblower alleges US and UN involvement in Bosnian sex trafficking. Radio Free Europe Radio Freedom. Retrieved from http://www.rferl.org/content/the_whistleblower_sex_trafficking_bosnia_un_kathryn_bolkovac/2302334.html(2010, May 7). Human trafficking will remain until poverty and injustice are fought. Pakistani international press. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/346774091?accountid=10244(2011, January 5). In 2010, over 160 cases of human trafficking occurred in Myanmar. Xinhua News Agency – CEIS. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/822525188?accountid=10244International Justice Mission. (2010). Sex trafficking. Retrieved from http://www.ijm.org/statistics&factsheets/viewcategory