The Sociological Imagination By C. Wright Mills

The sociological imagination is a term coined by C. Wright Mills that describes the awareness of the connections between our personal experience, and how this is interconnected with the larger forces of society. Mills also described it in the book The Sociological Imagination (1959) as, “The first fruit of this imagination and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.” This begins with apprehension of the relationship between self and society, and where one fits into the role of their
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