SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. Mills emphasizes the society changes, sometimes at a pace that some people can"t keep up with. A: if many people experience a personal problem, that tends to become a public issue. i. e domestic violence, sexual assault, etc. There"s always room for personal triumph, however when we deal with personal issues, as public issues, we tend to seek broader, more inclusive solutions. We can"t understand these personal issues, if it"s taken out of its social context. We tend to think of things in dichotomies, or as if results are binary. However sociology tends to give more than one answer . A sociological perspective provides us with historical, and geographical, reasoning as to why problems exist within society.
