SOCIOL 4HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Sociological Imagination, The Power Elite, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada
17 Feb 2020
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Sociology and the canadian labour market: a. Understanding the labour market through the ideas of c. wright mills. The sociological imagination: the sociological imagination is the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and public issues, troubles and issues. Troubles are private matters and they occur within the individual and within the range of his or her immediate relations with others. The context for personal troubles is biography or individual life. On the other hand, the context for public issues is history or the development of society, and on the other hand structure, which is the organization of society. Mills argued that someone who has the sociological imagination is able to grasp how history and structure affect biography. Mills wrote that the sociological imagination is the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self and to see the relations between the two .
