What Is the Sociological Imagination

question 15

Multiple Choice

What is the sociological imagination?

• A) a property of society that ensures that people remain ignorant of the connections between their lives and social change
• B) a particular way of understanding the criminal mind, such as that of a serial killer
• C) the sociological approach that assumes that large-scale social institutions structure individual interactions
• D) the ability to understand the connections between biography and history, or the interplay of the self and the world
• E) the sociological approach that assumes that individual decisions and interactions create larger social institutions

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Definitions:

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