<span>According to Wirth, who was drawing on <u>Simmel</u>, "The close physical contact of numerous individuals necessarily produces a shift in the medium through which we orient ourselves to the urban milieu... our physical contacts are close but our social contacts are distant." In other words, as the city intertwines and grows in a population that coexists with differences, co-ordination and organization is required.</span>
The sociological imagination enables you to look at your life and your own personal issues and relate them to other people, history, or societal structures.