The Social Network and The Sociological Imagination.

2)In "The Promise", Mills stresses what he calls the sociological imagination. Apply the sociological imaginat?

• 2)In "The Promise", Mills stresses what he calls the sociological imagination. Apply the sociological imagination to your own life and an issue that impacts you.

• Answer:

  Only you can write the essay because it asks about your own life. But, here's a way to get started: C. Wright Mills was a sociologist whose work was well known in the 1950's and well into the next decade or two. By the "sociological imagination," he meant the ability to connect biography to history. In other words, he wanted us to see how the events in our lives and around us relate to the course of history. For example, if you live in poverty, you can better understand your circumstances if you know what factors in society led to a stratified system that resulted in some people becoming fabulously wealthy while others live in shelters and depend upon soup lines. The sociological imagination teaches us that individual experience does not exist separate from the conditions that create the type of society in which we live. I hope this helps. Pick out some aspect of your life and figure out how that ties in to your knowledge of social and historical events.