Sociological Imagination
What Sociological Imagination means to me.
In my own words sociological imagination to me means how individuals in their everyday daily lives look at their situation and often then become upset are conscious of their social positions. There are many people who look at there lives and see that things in there lives could be better but as of now they are not going right and they do not look like they are getting better which means there stuck in a trap. They began to look at there everyday troubles and how bad they are and then the start to think that it will be impossible to get over them. Sometimes this just may be they case. Mills believed that being able to see the relationship between the ordinary lives of people and the wider social forces was the key to the sociological imagination. In C. Wright Mills article The Sociological Imagination the promise. He states that “ the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel (Mills 1). This means the more they began to know about there problems the more they feel helpless and refuses to react are do something about it.
I feel that this is true because the more you may feel that things are not going to get better the less you are going to do to try and help fix it. You may also feel that you are the only person in the world going through this but the odds are that you are not. There is millions of other people going through the same things and feelings the same way. When dealing with a society of people you have to expect these kinds of things. There will always be these kinds of issues when you have people who give up on trying to change there problems. If they can never really understand what they are going through and that they are not alone how can they overcome there
In my own words sociological imagination to me means how individuals in their everyday daily lives look at their situation and often then become upset are conscious of their social positions. There are many people who look at there lives and see that things in there lives could be better but as of now they are not going right and they do not look like they are getting better which means there stuck in a trap. They began to look at there everyday troubles and how bad they are and then the start to think that it will be impossible to get over them. Sometimes this just may be they case. Mills believed that being able to see the relationship between the ordinary lives of people and the wider social forces was the key to the sociological imagination. In C. Wright Mills article The Sociological Imagination the promise. He states that “ the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel (Mills 1). This means the more they began to know about there problems the more they feel helpless and refuses to react are do something about it.
I feel that this is true because the more you may feel that things are not going to get better the less you are going to do to try and help fix it. You may also feel that you are the only person in the world going through this but the odds are that you are not. There is millions of other people going through the same things and feelings the same way. When dealing with a society of people you have to expect these kinds of things. There will always be these kinds of issues when you have people who give up on trying to change there problems. If they can never really understand what they are going through and that they are not alone how can they overcome there