Read the excerpt from C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination, which is provided on the Canvas page. Then answer the following questions in one essay and be prepared to discuss your responses in class.
What is the sociological imagination?Why might it be useful?
How does Mills differentiate between a personal trouble and a public issue?Why is this distinction important?
Using your sociological imagination, explain how a personal trouble from your own life could actually be part of a public issue. Be sure to support your position that the problem is indeed a public issue by citing either a newspaper article or a peer-reviewed article that reinforces the public nature of the problem.