According to Mills, the sociological imagination enables one to distinguish between personal troubles which must be solved within the immediate social setting and ______ which affect large numbers of people and often require solutions at the societal level.a. ​unimportant troubles b. ​non-private difficulties c. ​public issues d. ​societal dysfunctions

Social Studies · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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c. Public issues

According to sociologist C. Wright Mills and his concept of the sociological imagination, individuals can use this perspective to distinguish between personal troubles and public issues. Personal troubles are individual challenges that occur within the immediate social setting of a person. In contrast, public issues are broader social problems that affect large numbers of people and require solutions at the societal level.






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