Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It this this quality..what may ...
the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.