In his article "The Promise of Sociology", Mills defines “sociological imagination” as the ability to see things socially, and shows how they interact and affect each other. "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understand without understanding both." As this quote shows, Mills believes that the individual cannot understand themselves as individuals, yet they can’t understand their role in society without this understanding. Therefore it is required to understand the society in individual perspectives. Mills believes in the power of the sociological imagination and that personal troubles can be connected to public issues. In other words, our individual problems can influence the society. From this belief it
