Sociological Imagination

Last week in class we learned about sociological imagination, which is to explain sociology and its relevance in daily life. Mills defined it as "The vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society."It can help to see the bigger details and pay attention to things you normally wouldn't, and see the motives behind peoples actions. It requires you to see things from another point of view. The things around people shape what they do to create an outcome. Sociological imagination seems so simple and obvious, but none of us take the time to actually think about it, so when we do, certain things stand out, and we see things we maybe didn't see before.