C. Wright Mills theory can be broken down into three main components: biography, history, and social structure, which collate to form “The …show more content…
Wright Mills’ theory is YouTube clip “C. Wright Mills – The Sociological Imagination”, whereby, as with the two previous clips, the concept of relating personal problems to societal issues is examined in depth. The narrator uses an example of students struggling to make ends meet on a monthly basis, and details that students perceive this to be a result of individual circumstance, as opposed to a much wider social issue (high rent, price increases in groceries, and so forth). Furthermore, the clip continues on to discuss the importance of implementing the Sociological Imagination into research, stressing that it “allows us to grasp the relationship between personal biography and how you fit into the bigger picture, history and society” (Marshall, 2012). In doing so, all three core aspects to the Sociological Imagination theory are examined, using relatively complex language within the slides, however simplified with relevant examples and narration, in a bid to instruct persons as to how to view the world form an outsiders perspective and the “sociological reality of everyday life” (Marshall,