What Does Sociological Imagination Mean

In this paper I will be discussing and explaining what is meant when we hear the term Sociological Imagination and what it means. The sociological imagination enables us to group history and biography and the relations between the two within society. “The Promise” (Mills, 1959). It also helps us understand the ability to observe in a wider social context the actions that are influenced according to situations. “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” “The Promise” (Mills, 1959). Another definition of the term is to break away from your daily routine and relive it in a new perspective. It is important that people are able to relate to certain problems in which

It seemed before the recession, finding a job was very easy and simple. After the recession hit, I didn’t understand exactly what it meant, I didn’t understand what was going to happen. Soon after, I slowly started to see the effects of the recession. The unemployment rates were going up, finding a job wasn’t easy to find anymore, it forced a lot of young kids to move back home with their families and it also caused for many students to delay further education since they wouldn’t be able to afford it. In the book Mills states “If only a few people were unemployed, we could reasonably explain their unemployment by saying they were lazy, lacked good work habits, and so forth. If so, their unemployment would be their own personal trouble. But when millions of people are out of work, unemployment is best understood as a public issue.”(Mills, 1959, P.9) For example, I am one of the many families that were affected by the recession. I couldn’t find a job for one year and I had applied to hundreds of jobs, yet it was so difficult to get employed. Another effect the recession caused was for my father to get laid off at the age of