sociological imagination

As I started to read Mill’s essay I came across a huge barrier, which was some the vocabulary that he used in his essay. It was very advanced when it came to my understanding of some of the terms, naturally this wouldn’t be a problem because I can look up the words and sum it all together but when reading this essay not only would you have to dig deep into what his advanced vocabulary is trying to say but also understanding his theme and topic that he is writing about. That topic would be Sociological Imagination, now of course you can use your common prior knowledge and based upon those words you can take a stab at it and guess what it actually means but there is so much more meaning and actual comprehending to those words than you actually think there is. Social imagination can be define in many different ways such as a concept of a belief in which allows you grasp a relationship between your personal self and how do you fit in the bigger picture. Another important Sub-topic and very important term that Mills’ speaks about is a private orbit. A private orbit in which he indicates to the narrow perspective in which we choose to view the world, meaning we are restrain in our city, homes, and sphere of friends in where we choose to stay. Metaphorically speaking we are technically living in our “private orbits” our own circle that we do not come out of and embrace others in these situations outside of our sphere in which he calls a private orbit.
Sociological imagination allows me to get out of my own personal ideas and thoughts I might be having for example, about a situation or a problem and take a step back and look at it from a social standpoint; which is a method of analyzing. Here you wouldn’t be analyzing this situation as ...

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...er like a social problem which creates a cycle, that’s why it’s relevant because it’s an ongoing cycle that hasn’t ended. Some examples of big picture problems can be divorce, amount of debt piled up, and tuition. Some Mills’ strong points where when he states that what sociology need to do is to have intellectual thinkers, who don’t just report what reality was, instead putting them self in the position of another person’s reality. He further states how scientist should go forth about their work when it comes to concentrating on the social nature of humankind. There are very few but I think a weakness in his idea could be seeing this repeating patterns and have the emotions of not being able to do anything about it therefore, needing a guide. A guide where we can connect the individual with the much larger picture that you can then obtain a sociological imagination