C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination 

Well said, Debra. Thanks. Best to you, Nik Mills, son of C. Wright Mills. Portland, Or

Thanks, Nik! What an honor--your dad was a great sociologist. Debra

You posted this on Christmas Eve?? A real one fr, thank you. I remember the people thought the world would end in 2012, now I'm watching this amazing video. Appreciate it.

That example in the breakdown in the end really helped me understand the sociological imagination and in turn help me understand what mills was talking about in those quotes

Thank you Debra. This gave me a clearer picture of the Sociological Imagination in a lighter and more understandable sense.

Thank you. I've read so many explanations from other sites but this is the only one that I understand. Thank you so much. :D

This is the first video that actually gave me good info. Thank you so much. Please keep these coming!

It is so clear to me now, I was confused before. Thank you

Wonderful! :) I have a sociology exam tomorrow at uni in Brazil! This has helped me no end! Thank you very much!

Thank you, this was much more helpful in understanding this term than my professors video.

This honestly helped me understand the concept more clearly. Bless you

Wow, you're gifted at explaining theories and concepts. Thank you!

I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

I am really enjoying your videos Dr. Marshall. You have the wonderful ability to make clear difficult and complex subjects. It's one thing to know stuff, but not everyone has your ability to teach to others what they know. I particularly enjoyed your teaching on Talcott Parsons. The ideas of C. Wright Mills seem comparatively quite insubstantial to me to be honest; he doesn't seem to be saying anything new or useful. However, one thing your teaching has encouraged me to do is to read over everything I write and try to detect how many assumptions I unconsciously make . Self-debunking if you like. It's always good to be corrected in the light of additional information - getting it wrong is part of getting it right! I have only recently found an interest in Sociology (at 71 years old), but I am keen as mustard to enlarge my understanding. I am basically only a beginner (although I studied Sociology as part of my social work training in England nearly forty years ago) but I am already beginning to see from my current studies the connections between sociological theory and real-time events, as well as the power of the former to induce the latter. For instance the insanity of Marcuse being taken up by those groups who wish to defund the police and do away with the courts, and bring about a global revolution by means of rioting and terror, as well as by dictating the accepted meaning of everyday language. Sir Roger Scruton pointed out that as a historian Marcuse should have been aware of the lessons of history regarding the aberrant 'justice of the proletariat' which followed on from revolutions, for example in France and Russia and China. I look forward to viewing your videos on Marcuse and Marx. I know I will learn a lot and be encouraged to further study. I am so glad that I have subscribed to your blog. You really are a blessing. Many thanks! And God bless you!

Thank you so much😭 you may have just saved my grade.

debra marshall you make complicated reading into a simple form of understanding thank you

this is great it makes me more intelligent as a student of sociology, thinking within the box not outside the box

Dr. Marshall...that was a wonderful explanation!

You explained this very well and I am significantly less confused. Thanks!

these concepts are extremely part of society today.

Love those artifacts!

That was a really well explained example thank you so much!

thank you so much... i have a midterm on monday surrounding this topic

These videos are very helpful for my studies and understanding. Thank you!

I was lost, now I'm found

Great questions! I don't think that enough people question the economical structure of the US--it is simply not on the radar for most for a variety of reasons (and that, in and of itself, is a very troubling notion!). Neoliberalism is also not well known outside of political circles, although I'd hazard a guess that this is the case in most democratic (and socialist/democratic mixed systems). Personally, I question social reality, in myriad ways, every day :)

not just sociological research... pretty much every form of research in any academic field. quantity and variety endangers and clouds understanding. this leads to a consolidation of information, energy, power, and once the dust has settled, clarity begets creativity and variety and therefore an unending cycle of "learning" or "progress" or simply the very fundamental mechanisms of life or of this universe.

Thank you very much for this clear explanation...

Thank you!

please help me there is this thing I can't understand. can I say that teachers strike is a schooling challenge in South Africa? and I can discuss it according to public issue and personal problem.

Awesome breakdown of Sociological Imagination :-)

This is so helpful, thank you!

Excellent explanation!!

Thank you , very nice explaination.

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Thanks Deborah

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Thanks, for that clear explanation it is very helpful.

Very well explained thank you!

Thank you for your answer!

It's funny to me that my understanding of sociology (very little) before I took Soci 101 was what Mills describes as the problem with sociology back then!

Thank you it was well explaned :-) Great video

thank you this video !

What is an example what C. Mills defines private troubles? And public issues example?

Student Loans , for example. One of the reasons Mr.Robot is so popular among the young, as it tries to wipe the debts off the books of the predatory banks.

Very enlightening

How can we interpret events such as 9/11 or war to sociological imagination and notions of race, gender ect? Then relating these events to to personal social practices such as participation in ethnic traditions, marriage, child bearing, working, voting, personal values, beliefs, and stereotypes...

Thank you !!!

I'm ... I'm understanding something! Yay!

Sociological imagination is useful in our life.

This video goes hard omg

thanks!

leeway... when crisis strikes, does the individual have the leeway and movement required to recover. think of the atoms of water molecules. in the liquid form, water takes the shape of its container. this is looked upon as the ideal form, where one has just enough leeway and freedom to do as one pleases but not too much or else one becomes too chaotic in the gas form. in the solid form the individual (or atoms) don't have much leeway to move or recover if the ice shatters. balance ...

This was really goooooood :)

Interesting. What is wrong with the structure? That's the question, and should always be the question. But I have one thing to point out. You mentioned education, for example, or housing market if I understand correctly, but you didn't question the economical model, just to say. And I just wanted to point that out, because I really want to know if in the US, neoliberalism is questioned, or at least the very fundamentals of economy. I am not saying communism, but I ask myself if you question it.

this shit is too smart for me. fuckimg midterms suck

C. Wright Mills would not be impressed with today's academics.

Thank yo

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Society should "avoid the bureaucratization of reason and discourse". Wow, America has really failed at that haven't we?

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Thank you so much for making this video, this helped me a lot in understanding the concept more clearly for my reporting

Thank you!

Thank you!