Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Sociological Imagination
18 Oct 2016
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Concept by c. wright mills in 1959. Sociological imagination is the ability to view our society as an outsider rather than from our own personal experience and cultural biases. Sociological creativeness is a state of mind the place in you recognize the truth that as an person, you too is a member of a bigger and numerous group of people which is the society. Within the book, mills challenges the trends of sociological thinking of his time and encourages sociologists to use sociological imagination in order to alter their perspectives. His theories discouraged specialization; but, instead, urged sociologists to be broad based in their study and application of sociology. His goal in writing this book was to try to reconcile two different and abstract concepts of social reality the individual and society It is the ability to see things socially and how they interact and influence each other.
