Sociological Imagination In Sociology

The more I read over Sociological Imagination, the more intrigued I became with this topic. According to C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination is defined as "The vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society." The Sociological Imagination was term that sociologists used to explain the nature of sociology and its relevance in daily life. Most of us are not aware that Sociological Imagination is actually all around us. When we do something that we may think is just our very own personal problem, but actually be a social problem. In other words, things that we do in society may lead to outcomes. The things we do are shaped by: the situation we are in, the values we have, and the way people around us act

In middle school, I had a friend who wasn’t the thinnest girl at the school but she sure did have a beautiful personality. I knew that she had been struggling with her weight for quite some time now and being surrounded with so many thin girls at that school did no justice. She had told me that models would vomit everything that they had eaten so they could maintain their weight. It was like a light bulb had lit inside her head. It had seem to her that it would the best and easy way out. Never in a million years would I think that she would have bulimia. It came to my senses that this is not a personal problem anymore. It greatly affected everyone around her and especially the people that love her. Everyone became devastated when she was admitted to the hospital due to her health. She only saw it as a personal problem but began to realize the toll it has taken on her