P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

C. Wright Mills
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. The word imagination is used here in a special way. It's not simply a faculty of the mind, it's a way of seeing things, a mode of thought, a mode of understanding.

Source: The Sociological Imagination

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