Analysis Of Sociological Imagination By C. W. Mills

As a whole the world itself is a series of “fates” or “destinies” that are inevitably intertwined, the acts of one man changing the acts of another. C.W Mills believed that in order to understand the way in which one person comes to be whom they are in this world, we must look at their life through the idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals” (2014, 3). A concept as broad as the one presented to us by Mills is something that is open for interpretation and further development. One can elaborate that not only does Mills identify this as a sociological …show more content…
That they do not seem to make the connection between there life and their environment. This is just the first example or area where the filter of sociological imagination can be implied. It truly is, to us, an idea that reaches limitlessly. That there is nothing that is without the ability to be interpreted by this core concept. Even though there are those who do not possess the ability to interpret in their surroundings in such a way. That is what makes the sociological imagination is such an amazing filter because it stands for something more than looking at the world through the average mind of mankind. It does take over the brain like a filter on a camera, only allowing the image to be seen a certain way. I think that Mills was brave enough to question the reality that was presented before him and in creating the concept of the sociological imagination he would have been subconsciously using it all along. For if he had chosen to look at problems like the rest of the world; a simple cause effect method, everything being a personal problem, he himself could never have created a concept outside of