The Sociological Imagination (crash course)
We can thank journalist and sociologist C. Wright Mills for a concept called “the sociological imagination” — a way of looking at the world that can see links / connection between:
biography (the events of your own life)
personal experience
the apparently private problems of the individual
and
history
wider society
important social issues
This framework for understanding social reality is relevant to anyone who seeks to
a). understand the conditions of their or others’ daily life (both struggles/challenges and privileges)
b). to build empathy
“The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise.”