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Q: What is a sociological imagination? How did Durkheim, Weber and Marx respectively demonstrate their sociological imagination?

Mankind’s problem is that it doesn’t have the quality of mind to find or see the intricate connection between “man and society, biography and history, of self and the world�; such was the perspective of one C.Wright Mills. He was the man who coined the term sociological imagination. He described the sociological imagination as the ability to grasp history and biography and the relationship between the two in society. Mills said, “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both�. This he describes as the promise of the sociological imagination.
The sociological imagination is not possessed by all mankind. The general populous tends to have the view that the problems and issues they face in life are directly caused by the forces within the scope of their individual experiences in......

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