The term "sociological imagination" was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology.
sociological imagination: the use of imaginative thought to understand the relationship between the individual (personal troubles) and the broader workings of society (public issues).
The ground-breaking U.S. Supreme Court case "Brown v. Board of Education" concerned B. racial segregation in American schools. It was one of the most important decisions in American history.
