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    Before I begin to explain what a sociological imagination is I would like to explain when this physical theory started and tell you that it was once called something else before that. Sociology was discovered in the early 17th century in “The Age of Enlighten “Where the scholars wanted a more scientific theory then just basing everything off of things being super natural. Sociology was once called “social physics “by August Comte. Sociological imagination is when you take all your personal beliefs

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    Society needs to understand or have a sociological imagination because it might be helpful with their life and it could affect others. You need to understand why this or that happened the way it is. You might be able to connect everything together. A sociological imagination is the way how people think and see about the world by having sociological questions and answers. It might be useful because having a questions or answers about sociological can see what people think and it might be able to

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    Sociological Imagination is defined as “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individual” in the reading by Garth Massey. This meaning that it allows the individual to take accounts for all personal framework of experiences and also plays a role in self-consciousness. We are going to go over the benefits of sociological imagination, understand how it plays a huge concept in the world we live

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    A way to approach sociology is to carry out a sociological imagination.One way to describe sociological imagination is"the ability to think yourself away from the familiar everyday life”(quoted from C. Wright Mills) and to look at society with an entirely different perspective. Its about thinking outside of your own mind and your way of seeing things.This essay will discuss gender inequality by looking at society with a sociological imagination.Candace West and Don Zimmerman stated that “gender

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    C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination brings forth a way of thinking where in order to understand the biography of a distinct individual or the overall history of society, the two entities must be understood as one reciprocal relationship. He states that one cannot be understand without the other, and it is a thought that emphasizes how interlaced and dependent an individual is of society, and a society is of the individuals that compose it. As a result, readers are invited in moments of

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    Sociological imagination is a term that I was not familiar with until taking sociology. I quickly learned that sociological imagination is a concept that was described by sociologist C. Wright Mills. Sociological imagination is an awareness of the relationships between an individual and the wider society. I began to think about this term while I did my observing. I observed three different settings in order to find out more about the sociological imagination and how it affects our daily lives.

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    In my own words, The Sociological imagination is the relationship between the personal problem and society problems. It is also being able to understand that there are problem that man can control and possibly could change to benefit itself. The sociological imagination is also being able to understand that our personal action also have a big impact in our own society and to prevent those issues from happening, we must trying to avoid personal problems. When I went to visit my great grandfather village

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    Introduction to the Sociological Imagination The concept of the sociological imagination according to CW Mills is the capacity to understand and see that society and history plays a large part in the choices and experiences in our life. It is the ability to perceive the connections to the world around us and know that it influences who we are as an individual. Using the sociological imagination will allow someone the capacity to step outside of themselves and view life from a new perspective. Mills

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    Ikea Hicks September 12, 2015 Professor Goldberg Introduction to Sociology Sociological Imagination In order to understand the term “social imagination,” it is important to identify what Sociology is and what do sociologists study. Sociology is the study of society and a sociologist is a person who studies society. But, what is a society? Society is you! Our families, our friends, our co-workers are also considered a society as well. Sociologists are always trying to understand how individual’s

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    Sociological Imagination: Cars According to About.com Education, Sociological Imagination is defined as, “the concept of being able to ‘think ourselves away’ from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew”. In my opinion, sociological imagination offers a new perspective into a simple occurrence. This concept breaks down the broad over-generalization of everyday tasks and objects and give it a multi-dimensional purpose that either benefits or harms society. To the common

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