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The Sociological Imagination

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The sociological imagination, named by C. Wright Mills, is the awareness that a person's private experience is shaped by history and social structure.

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Whom a person marries feels wholly personal, yet law, income, religion, and neighborhood narrow the field first.

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The claim is that choice is shaped, not that choice is absent.