blog




  • Essay / Sociological Imagination By C. Wright Mills - 796

    According to C.Wright.Mills (1959), the sociological imagination allows us to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its significance for the inner life and external career of 'a variety of people. of individuals. It allows us to take into account the way in which individuals, at the heart of their daily experience, often falsely become aware of their social position. It’s not just information they need – in the age of facts; information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their ability to assimilate it. It is not just the skills of reason that they need, although the struggles to acquire them often exhaust their limited moral energy. What they need, and what they believe they need, is a quality of mind that will help them use information and develop reason in order to arrive at lucid summaries of what is happening in the world and what can happen in them. The concept of sociological imaginations allows us to step out of our own zone of judgment about how we think about social problems. Instead, it allows us to put ourselves in the other person's shoes to see things from their own perspective. Also, try as much as possible to understand why this problem might exist for this person. C. Wright Mills' argument is that we should develop a method or way of looking at things in society from the point of view of the person experiencing the sociological phenomenon. Essentially, we cannot look at things from our own moral point of view; we need to look at things from the perspective of the person facing the problem, concern and problem. Mills believes that the individual cannot understand himself as an individual; nor can they understand their role in society without this understanding...... middle of article...... and the extent of their immediate environment, what he describes as "the social framework which is directly open to those around them”. his personal experience and, to a certain extent, his voluntary activity. Mills' work addresses social issues that we face as individuals in contemporary American society. When, in a town of 100,000, one man is unemployed, it is his personal problem, and to relieve it we must look to that man's character, his skills, and his immediate opportunities. But when, in a nation of 50 million employees, 15 million men are unemployed, it is a problem, and we cannot hope to find its solution in the range of opportunities open to everyone. The problem and the range of possible solutions force us to consider the economic and political institutions of society, not just the personal circumstances and character of a handful of individuals..”