What Does Sociological Imagination Mean

Use examples to explain what Mills means by “the sociological imagination.” Sociological imagination is being able to identify your own problem and using that to help you view what other people are going through. Personal troubles that we think just affect one’s self are becoming more of public problems when a group of the population are experiencing it as well. Being alive, all living things must go through some hardship. In everyday life, we must handle and solve these problems. Initially, these problems start with us, whether we are trying to wake up on time to go to school or work. Once this is solved, getting transportation and arriving on time at our destination is the next problem. Along the way, our problems gets intertwined with other people and their problems. These
Children like to say things are different from their parent’s generation which is not necessarily true. The problems they dealt with is still the same problems as their parents, but in a different form. Going to school and saying classes is harder than when their parents was when they went to school is not exactly right. There might be more topics in the class compared to when their parents took the class, but information is becoming more and more accessible with a computer over the internet compare to when it didn’t exist or not that accessible in their parent’s era. The amount of work correlates with the accessibility of the information. To pass or do well in class, one must spend time to understand the topic. Instead of reading a textbook and looking at other textbooks as reference for hours like their parents, one is spending hours looking at the screen and searching through websites for reference. The problem and solution is the same, but in a different form and method. By not understanding that the problem is the same, but in different form, history will repeat