Sociological Imagination
“Sociological imagination is a capacity of form of self-consciousness and awareness of a social structure” (Lecture Feb. ... The sociological imagination enables its owner to comprehend the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of an array of individuals (Mills 5). ... Wright Mills, in “The Promise,” gives examples of unemployment, marriage, war, and the metropolis, the Sociological Imagination helps us understand these examples. He uses Social imagination by explaining that “sociological imagination works between ‘the personal troubles of milieu’ and ‘the public issues of social structure’ ” (Mills 8).