When Sociologist C

question 52

Multiple Choice

When sociologist C. Wright Mills said that the sociological imagination "enables us to grasp history and biography and the relation between the two in society," he meant that sociology

• A) is a subfield of history
• B) requires us to imagine things that may not have happened
• C) is the study of how individuals contribute to history
• D) is the effort to understand our individual stories within a larger historical frame

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Milgram's Experiment

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