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Sociological Imagination In 1959, C. Wright Mills released a book entitled 'The sociological Imagination'. It was in this book that he laid out a set of guidelines of how to carry out social analysis. But for a layman, what does the term 'sociological imagination' actually mean? In his own words, Mills claimed "it is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another...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 of them." . Mills believed that being able to see the relationship between the ordinary lives of people and the wider social forces was the key to the sociological imagination. Fundamental to Mills' theory is the idea of 'public issues' and 'private troubles'. An individual's troubles are personal when they occur because of the person's character. Public issues, however, are a direct result of...

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