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

question 35

Multiple Choice

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

• A) It didn't really apply to a sociological imagination.
• B) Public issues cause poor health, so work needs to be done to more properly address disease rates solely at the public level.
• C) Personal troubles cause poor health, so work needs to be done to more properly address disease rates solely at the personal level.
• D) Both public issues and personal troubles contribute to poor health, so work needs to be done at both levels to more properly address disease rates.
• E) 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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Definitions:

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