How Does C Wright Mills Relate To Sociology

"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both." These were some wise words from the sociologist C.Wright Mills. To draw to your attention, he believed that a person must look inside themselves to see where the problem is, since some social scientists make private issues into public issues. As a matter of fact,C.Wright is one of the few sociologists in the 20th century that wrote the classical tradition in sociology. By means of that,Mills made an interpretative analysis, trying to base this analysis in a worldwide vision and an empirical evidence. C.Wright Mills and his worries on middle class,and the dominant class, the social inequality, powers from elites, the difference and relationship of society and the human beings.

Mills was raised on Waco, Texas. His parents job included a lot of traveling and living on places all over the world, and due to the fact that he lived in many states or countries, C.Wright lived an isolated life and had less possibilities of having a relationship with girls. When he graduated from high school, he applied to Texas A&M University, and was accepted, but unfortunately, a year later he dropped from collage. In 1939 , he graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and received later his P.H.D in sociology in the University of Wisconsin -Madison in 1941.Mills famous work is the book called "The Sociological Imagination". He stated that this sociological imagination had a way of thinking to make sociology able to connect individual experiences and some social relations. The 3 things that make up sociological imagination are: History,social structure and biography. He then died from a heart