C Wright Mills Used the Term "Sociological Imagination" to Refer

question 5

Multiple Choice

C. Wright Mills used the term "sociological imagination" to refer to important interconnections between personal troubles and public issues. What would he have said about deprivation amplification?

• A) Public issues cause poor health, so work must be done to more properly address disease rates solely at the public level.
• B) Personal troubles cause poor health, so work must be done to more properly address disease rates solely at the personal level.
• C) Both public issues and personal troubles contribute to poor health, so work must be done at both levels to more properly address disease rates.
• D) Neither public issues nor personal troubles contribute to poor health, so work done at these levels would not address disease rates any differently.

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