Sociology 3307F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Participatory Action Research, Hitachi Maxell

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 3307F/G
• Professor: Stephen Lin

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How we move from a kernel of a question to a researchable question. Researchers are often interested in a topic because of a personal experience or because they feel strongly about an issue. Mills social imagination is the capacity to recognize the connection between individuals and their social context. He (cid:396)efe(cid:396)s to the so(cid:272)ial i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)atio(cid:374) as (cid:858)the p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise of so(cid:272)iolog(cid:455)(cid:859) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it allo(cid:449)s us to identify social issues and determine the questions that need to be asked to understand those issues. He believed it could lead us to understanding the connections between biography and history. Mills also believed the sociological imagination could help us differentiate between p(cid:396)i(cid:448)ate p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h e(cid:454)ist (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396) of the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859) a(cid:374)d pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) issues which have to do with matters that transcend from local environment. Sociological imagination allows us to develop an understanding of how the social context shapes many phenomena that we often treat as individual problems.