Sociological Imagination- differences between our generation and our granparent's

Different Times, Different Lives "The ability to grasp the relationship between our lives as individuals and the larger social forces that help to shape them," (Pg 6, Applebaum) is the idea of the sociological imagination, a term made popular by sociologist C. Wright Mills. Whether society knows it or not, our lives aren't always shaped by our own thoughts and emotions. We don't have total control of our destinies. During the twentieth century the world changed …

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