Charles Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination

The Sociological Imagination was authored by American sociologist Charles Wright Mills in 1959 to detail the importance of what he referred to as the sociological imagination. In the book, Mills argues that the sociological imagination, which Mills defined as the ability to recognize relationships between history and biography, is an integral part of the study of sociology. Mills’ belief that the sociological imagination was a core concept that sociology could not accurately be studied without was correct.
The main points discussed in Mills’ The Sociological Imagination include the necessity to use what Mills referred to as the sociological imagination to understand the issues of society as they relate to the plight of the individual. Mills’