NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Wright Mills, who created the concept and wrote the definitive book about it, defined the sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.” The sociological imagination is the ability to see things socially and how they interact and influence each other.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sociological imagination is making the connection between personal challenges and larger social issues. Mills identified “troubles” (personal challenges) and “issues” (larger social challenges), also known as biography, and history, respectively.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mills thought that developing a sociological imagination would help people understand how certain situations could lead to further social consequences. Mills thought that asking larger questions about society and relating them to one’s personal experience could motivate social change.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wright Mills’ conflict theory. Mills focused on several issues within sociology, including social inequality, the power of elites, the shrinking middle-class, the individual’s place in society and the significance of historical perspective in sociological theory.