Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sociological imagination

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: so-ci-o-log-i-cal imag-i-na-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

9

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social and historical context.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination.

Usage

Inflected Forms

sociological imaginations (plural)

Questions

What does sociological imagination mean?: A framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social and historical context.
Where does sociological imagination come from?: Coined by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination.

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