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sociological imagination

sociological imagination noun: a framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social and historical context.

Noun

sociological imagination (countable and uncountable, plural sociological imaginations)

  1. A framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social and historical context.

Forms of sociological imagination

pluralsociological imaginations

Origin of sociological imagination

Coined by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination.

Questions about sociological imagination

What does sociological imagination mean?
Sociological imagination means a framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social and historical context.
What part of speech is sociological imagination?
Sociological imagination is a noun.
What is the plural of sociological imagination?
The plural of sociological imagination is sociological imaginations.

Words near sociological imagination in the dictionary

  1. sociolinguistics
  2. sociolinguists
  3. sociologese
  4. sociologic
  5. sociological
  6. sociological imagination
  7. sociological imaginations
  8. sociologically
  9. sociologies
  10. sociologism
  11. sociologisms

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