sociological imagination

is a 'quality of mind' that helps us use information and develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.

C. Wright Mills' notion : (1) The sociological imagination is 'a 'quality of mind' that helps us use information and develop reason 'in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves' (Mills 5). enables us to understand a larger historical scene in terms of (1) meaning for INNER LIFE and EXTERNAL CAREER of individuals .**

is a mode of scholarly engagement which enables us to grasp the relations between history and biography within society.

a mode of thinking which enables us to grasp the relations between history and biography within society' (in Mesny 1999:170)

is a self-consciousness based on social relativity and the personal nature of history.

3. a self-consciousness based on social relativity and the personal nature of history

is concerned with looking to linkages among a great variety of (personal troubles) mileux and public issues (social structure).

Looking to linkages among a great variety of (personal troubles) mileux and public issues (social structure)

is concerned with what kind of individuals now prevail. . . And what kind are coming to prevail.

3. what kind of individuals now prevail. . . and what kind are coming to prevail.

is concerned with what kind of structure we have as a whole.

3 questions 1. what kind of structure we have as a whole'

is concerned with where we stand in human history.

is the ability to view decisions as not simple, but as 'products of a mind unaccountably dense.

4. ability to view decisions as not simple, but as 'products of a mind unaccountably dense' 8

sociological imagination, n.All

sociological imagination