Our textbook states that the sociological imagination is the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society. Michael Moore's recent documentary, Bowling for Columbine, of which I will make repeated reference to, demonstrates how gun violence affects the U.S. from a sociological perspective. From an individual perspective, any person can get angry at another person, pick up a gun, and go shoot them. ... From a sociological perspective, then, handgun violence has societal linkages. ...

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Wright Mills who invented Sociological Imagination. ... Furthermore, I will also be describing Mills work in shaping Sociological Imagination. ... In this way we can look at our own problems from a more knowledgeable perspective and then go about fixing it (Fuller, 2007). ... In other words, seeing things from someone else's perspective may help us understand their situation a lot better with deeper understanding (Isaksen, 2013). "The key element in Sociological Imagination is the ability to view our society as an outsider, rather than relying only on our individual perspective whi...

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Sociology plays a significant role in understanding who we are as well as who others are. Understanding sociology helps you learn to ask questions that go beyond "common sense.... When one looks at society from a Sociological Perspective, they are able to see the general in the particular, to see the strange in the familiar and finally, to see the individuality in social context. ...

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