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Sociological Imagination is a sociological term coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959 describing the process of linking individual experience with social institutions and one's p...
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Excerpt from C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (originally published in 1959) ... This classic statement of the basic ingredients of the "sociological imagination retains its full vitality and relevance today and remains one of the most influential statements of what sociology is all about.
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The Sociological Imagination (ISBN 0195133730) was a book written by C. Wright Mills in 1959. A 1997 survey of members of the International Sociological Association asked them to identify the ten boo...
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But, if we consider the broader social factors that have shaped, influenced, and indeed allowed this discussion to take place, the insight provided by the Sociological Imagination can bring a new understanding to this social event.
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THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION ... So what is the "sociological imagination"? It is the perspective described thusly (in pre-gender-sensitive times) by C. Wright Mills: ... that he lives out a biography, and that he lives it out within some historical sequence (The Sociological Imagination, 1959:3-10).
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The "sociological imagination" helps us look at the influence a society has on its individual members. By using the sociological imagination, we can more closely examine trends in history. The sociological imagination asks us, in part, to look at the influence of historical place and time on us as individuals.
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The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills (1959) The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
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This is what C. Wright Mills states in his essay, The Sociological Imagination; The Promise. Mills believes that the "possessor" is able to understand the "whole historical scene in terms of inner life and external career."
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The sociological imagination is very important to an understanding of sociology and an understanding of your place in your society and in the world.
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