Sociological imagination in respective phenomenon

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One of the larger aims of the study of sociology is to enable one to develop what C. Wright Mills (1959) called Sociological Imagination. Analyze the phenomenon of the Civil Rights Movement OR Hurricane Katrina to answer the following:

1. What constitutes the sociological imagination in the respective phenomenon?

2. If and when applied does it contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon in question? If yes, how? If not, why not?

3. Give substantial reasons.

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