Social Collaboration And The Sociological Imagination

Social imagination is the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history. Mills writes that social imagination can also serve as a source of comfort, helping us to realize that we are not alone in our experiences, whether they involve our alienation from the increasingly dog eat dog capitalism of modern America, the peculiar combination of intimacy and dissociation that we may experience on the Internet, or the ways that nationality or geography affect our life choices. The sociological imagination does not just leave us hanging with these feelings of recognition (5). The sociological imagination thus allows us to see the veneer of social life for what it is (5). As sociology students,