Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete Mills’ formula.
The sociological imagination connects personal ______ to public ______.
Word bank: troubles · issues · opinions · budgets
Hints
- One half of the pair belongs to biographies, the other to structures.
- The discipline lives in the bridge between the two.
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The sociological imagination connects personal troubles to public issues.
Why
Troubles belong to biographies; issues belong to structures. The discipline lives in the bridge between them.
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