Sociology Assignment

Article: C.W. Mills, “The Sociological Imagination”

Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton, "The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience"

Lisa McIntyre, “Hernando Washington”

 

Address the following in your paper:

 

What did C.W. Mills mean by the concept “sociological imagination”?

According to Mills, of what value is the sociological imagination to the average person ?

Consider the work done by Kelman/Hamilton and McIntyre.  In your informed judgment, in what way did each author/reading demonstrate (or not) that they have a sociological imagination? Be sure to explain how you arrived at your conclusion by discussing the evidence you relied upon to form your conclusion. College level writing (proper spelling, grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure proper citations, page length, etc.)