How do you say how Sociological Imagination is used in an article?
The question of what Sociology is about has long been a subject of interest (particularly to sociologists for some strange reason). In 1895, French Sociologist Emile Durkheim produced “The Rules of Sociological Method” in which he suggested that Sociolgy was concerned with “Social Facts” and these social facts were part of a reality of itself which formed the core of Sociological explanation. Durkheims substantive works: The Division of Labour In Society Suicide : A Study In Sociology Elementary Forms of The Religious Life Might be regarded as illustrations of a purely Sociological method of explanation (and possibly illustrations of a “Sociological Imagination” at work). In 1959 American sociologists C. Wright Mills (who keeled over at a comparatively early age after suffering a heart attack – I think) wrote a book called “The Sociological Imagination”. As far as I’m aware it is from the work of Mills that the phrase gained its popularity. In “The Sociological Imagination” Mills ident
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