on a particular type of critical thinking. A leading sociologist,
C. Wright Mills, described such thinking as the sociological
imagination —an awareness of the relationship between an individual
and the wider society, both today and in the past (Mills
[1959] 2000a). This awareness allows all of us (not just sociologists)
to comprehend the links between our immediate, personal
social settings and the remote, impersonal social world that
surrounds and helps to shape us. Kelsey Timmerman certainly
used a sociological imagination when he studied foreign garment
workers. - McGraw Hill Education
