Sociology Imagination Summary

C Wright Mills begins his essay “The Sociology Imagination” by looking at the contrast that exists between the “everyday worlds’” that common people are aware of, and where there are visions and their powers limited by the close-up scenes of job, neighborhood, family, and structure of continent-wide societies’. Mills defines the rare abilities that some have to see themselves in relation to the larger social processes and devices. People seem to be in a series of traps, and they cannot overcome their troubles. There is a distinction between “the personal troubles of milieu” and “public issues of social structure” as they relate to human imagination as Mills uniquely describes in the essay “promise.”
"Personal troubles of the milieu."
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The facts that contemporary history is the facts about the success of failures of individual men and women such as when classes rise and fall a man is employed or unemployed. As such, to understand the life of an individual the history of the society comes into context and both go hand in hand. Despite this close connection Mills believes that there is a distinction between the two in that; unlike milieu the public issues of social structure is considerably large and have a wider bearing and is of great significance to the majority of people, such as the widespread of unemployment. He suggests that people should look at their “private troubles” as “public issue” and, in general, try to link their experiences with the mechanism of the society. This can be achieved through the use of sociological imagination that helps to understand the linkage between the individual acts like rape, violence, and the collective acts of …show more content…
What is the structure of this society? Different communities have the different perspective of life depending on their cultures. The society has different components that are interrelated, and sociologist should seek to understand how they are different and related. How is it differ from other varieties of social order? Within it what is the meaning of any particular feature for its continuance and its change? Different elements in a particular society carry different meaning to that particular community and have the different meaning in the growth and the progress of the community. A sociologist is; therefore, required to evaluate and understand the exact context of things and aspects of