Wright Mills says in “The Promise of Sociology” that there is a good and bad lesson to be learned from the sociological imagination. In simple terms it states that someone can more easily understand why certain things happened to them, or turned out as they did, by looking beyond what they where doing personally when it occurred, and instead look at what society was doing. Individuals can also use the sociological imagination to compare themselves and prepare themselves simply by taking a step back and looking at their current society. What are its strengths? What are its weaknesses? Where does the individual, or can the individual fit in? Or even, where do the people around that individual fit in? This is a terrible lesson because you will always find that there are others that are greater or lesser than yourself, or you are trapped by geography or obligations to society/social forces (i.e. employment, family, etc.). This is also a magnificent lesson because you can prepare yourself for what you have to do, or gain, to change your circumstances and/or society’s for the
Wright Mills says in “The Promise of Sociology” that there is a good and bad lesson to be learned from the sociological imagination. In simple terms it states that someone can more easily understand why certain things happened to them, or turned out as they did, by looking beyond what they where doing personally when it occurred, and instead look at what society was doing. Individuals can also use the sociological imagination to compare themselves and prepare themselves simply by taking a step back and looking at their current society. What are its strengths? What are its weaknesses? Where does the individual, or can the individual fit in? Or even, where do the people around that individual fit in? This is a terrible lesson because you will always find that there are others that are greater or lesser than yourself, or you are trapped by geography or obligations to society/social forces (i.e. employment, family, etc.). This is also a magnificent lesson because you can prepare yourself for what you have to do, or gain, to change your circumstances and/or society’s for the