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A Critique Paper in
English for Academic and
Professional Purposes

Submitted by:

Juriss Clarence C Basa 12-Meyer

Submitted to:

Ms. Celine G. Aquino

Teacher, EAPP

October 24, 2022

 “The Sociological Imagination”
The Sociological Imagination was a book written by Charles Wright Mills published in
1959. Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist and a professor in Columbia
University. His idea of the sociological imagination has not been recognized during its
birth; but utmost people recognize it moment. Until now, it's one of the most read books in
Sociology. Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological imagination deals with the relationship of
individual, bio, society, and history.

In his article he expresses a viewpoint about The Sociological Imagination deals with how
people would and should respond to certain problems and struggles. The author mentioned
that people take in problems as particular and individual shortcomings. They tend to feel
that they are the only bones passing this and that. They do n’t look into the external and
extended situations on what might have caused their struggle.

still, it becomes a habit for people to only collect and gather information; and simply report
it and let the authority do its job — to choose whether the complication should be paid
attention to, because it would harness a big impact in the society or just let it take place in
the society because it will not lead into negative vestiges, If faced with difficulty in their
everyday lives. In order for us to avoid this kind of accumulating problems, we have to
stop relating problems as individualities. We can start this by viewing at a social standpoint.

First of all, we have to avoid incubating the bureaucratization of reason and discourse.
Bureaucracy, according to Max Weber, is a system of association; which appoints people
predicated on demanded qualifications and not on ascriptive criteria. In other words, it's a
system of association that relies on impersonal rules. In addition, nonsupervisory
associations are also superior in terms of technical and handmade products. therefore, if
Bureaucracy is applied to society, there will be an profitable increase that might lead to the
reduction of financial problems. The exceptional effect of bureaucracy is that there has to
be authority and power to produce rules and apply it in an association. This authority and
power is what we call as the top position of scale — the scale in structural functionalism
by Emile Durkheim.

According to Emile Durkheim, a society must correspond of a scale of workers in order to

use a important effective and effective vast product of goods and services. The scale of
workers is also called an assembly line. It's wherein work is properly allocated to the fags.
For illustration, a factory of clothes divides and simplifies its workers ’ arrears. The various
process of making clothes measuring, cutting, threading, attaching buttons, laundering, and
packing clothes are subdivided into each of the worker’s places. With this, you will be
suitable to produce farther clothes compared to the number of clothes a single needleworker
can produce.
In distinction to bureaucracy’s positive effect in the economy, it also has negative goods on labor
and on the workers. Those who are professed and trained sewers will have lower significance in
the society since their work can formerly be done by farther people and indeed of faster product
and farther volume of products produced

form, ” Form" refers to the way that members of a society willfully organize huge groups
by enforcing regulations that everyone must abide by in order to exercise power and
violence. For illustration, a company’s lately- deposited CEO imposes a law that abuses
the worker’s rights, unallowable absences and day- offs. In order for the CEO to coercively
let the workers follow the law, he declares that whoever performs the violation of the said
law will be palmed with a discipline of severance. Every hand will also prefer to observe
the laws, may they be unjust or just. Making use of the nonsupervisory system, the workers
will sweat violating the law. therefore, workers will not fight for their rights because of the
fear of the discipline assessed.

also, Mills wrote the Sociological Imagination in order to associate the links of bio and
history to society. He also said that sociological imagination is a state of mind has no limits
and is bound to a realistic operation in society. It must therefore be tried and tested by all
people.

The Sociological Imagination promotes superintendent associations rather of intellectual

bones. It also was presented that sociological imagination is addressing one’s tone to issues
and troubles. Before addressing to these, one must first know how it's to be an intellectual
man. Mills set forth some guidelines on how to come intellectual; for illustration, an
intellectual man must have a sportful station with twisting words to get meanings and
deeper surrounds, must be suitable to express his studies and ideas without hesitancy, and
does not separate his life from work.

Mills also concentrated on the social problems in America, utmost especially souring. Like
Marx, C. Wright Mills considered souring as a part of the modern society, which is in the
confines of work. still, in contradiction to Marx, he does not relate souring to capitalism
alone. He believes that souring is more on the division of labor( Emile Durkheim). conduct
and behavior in response to these social mass problems depend on the accepted principle
of the society( cooperative knowledge by Emile Durkheim).

In order for a person to resolve his/ her problems, he she must have a larger view of
everything. He must consider his society. The wider the view, the farther options and
druthers are to be sought. The problem in this case is that people only come spectators, but
not attestors. The difference between an bystander and an attestor is that an bystander
observes his terrain but does n’t do anything about it
Because of all the problems that the society is passing day by day, people tend to lose their trust
and belief in their political leaders ’ capability to revise and rebuild the government and its rotten
system; performing in people getting apathetic. As people get disinterested, their views towards
morality also depreciates; thus causing the people to let their leaders perform unethical geste
because the citizens wo n’t complain anyway, and The society of watchers becomes one of mortal
substantiations of nothing, which is worse.”

According to Max Weber, one( especially the ordinary people) must make use of verstehen to look
into the deeper meanings of conduct. Only understanding and having perceptivity will help us
come apprehensive of everything around us. still, the further we come apprehensive of our terrain,
the more trapped we may feel to feel. This is in contradiction to the saying “ The verity will set
you free. ” Why would we feel trapped if we start to fear the truth that frees us?? We feel more
trapped upon digging the contents of verity because we realize that we ’re exposed to the offensive
sides of reality, that there's a positive and a negative in all aspects of life and of wonder. Why
should we still look forward to mindfulness if it'll make us feel more trapped anyway? Well, we
must still be in hunt of getting apprehensive of our society because we're looking for ways on how
to change this unwelcome reality into a beautiful bone .

Sociological imagination thus encourages individual persons to take particular problems with the
consideration of society, history, memoir and all the other fields that can affect a society; to grasp
the real cause on why difficulties are endured, if these difficulties are either issues or troubles and
if these need attention in the society. Mills suggests that people be avoiding apathy and start
rehearsing vindication process. It isn't also preferred that particular problems will be resolved
through particular points of view but of a broader sense of contemplation.

In conclusion, Sociological Imagination is concerned substantially on impersonal and regulatory

kinds of administration so that conclusions and results to societal problems will be fluently taken
forth without permitting the individual perspective that has not enough base. It's the life- changing
that Sociological Imagination bears if we try to use it in our everyday lives. His article is excellent
and very helpful overall. It has several terminology and their meanings, making it easier to read.
he arranged the framework and listed each component. It would be preferable if there were a
conclusion to signify that this is the end as well as graphical illustrations to add some style and
provide readers a visual depiction of the Materials.
 REFERENCE
What is Sociological Imagination? (2022, July 19). National University. Retrieved October 24,

2022, from https://www.nu.edu/blog/what-is-sociological-imagination/

https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf