My Sociological Imagination

The sociological imagination challenges a person; to see how an individual biography is shaped by the larger social structures of the past as well as today’s society. C. Wright Mills says that it “is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period.” In the year of 2017 we see this through race, gender, sex, class, and even ability, which is a huge difference from Mills era of the early 1900s. By trying to understand my own sociological place I hope to better understand how and why others react to others as well as