The Sociological Imagination By C Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills is born in Texas and lived there until early adulthood. He went to college and graduated with a bachelors in sociology, and a masters in philosophy. one of them most well know historical sociologist. He was an American sociologist and a professor and a main stream university. C. Wright Mills is mostly known for the book that he wrote in 1958 called “The Sociological Imagination.” It stresses the connection between someones experiences and societal relationships. There’s three main points that Mills emphasis in his most influential book. These are: History, Social Structure, and Biography. His book showed the world how he was seeing life differently. A main concept Mills stressed is the ability to “think ourselves away.” How
this is accomplished is by stepping back from a situation and think for a different point of view. He put a lot of thought into his writing. The idea of sociological imagination was a foreign concept to the world. He challenged everyone to learn a knew way of thinking. No one had adventured to this new level of social thinking. There has been a lot of controversy over Mills’ intellectual outlook, but he knew what he was talking about. People criticizing him, or debating with him didn’t make him shy away from what he understood to be true. His health at the end of his life was not the greatest. He had a prolonged heart condition and had three heart attacks in his lifetime. Yet, he died from the forth one in 1962. But today C. Wright Mills is remembered as an important sociologist who changed the field of sociology. His material that he wrote is still used throughout sociology. He is a respectable man who a lot of sociologist look up to. //310//