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  • The _________ can… know his own chances in life only by becoming ________ of those of all individuals in his _______?

individual, aware, circumstances

100
  • Even when they do not ______, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have ______ and that newer beginnings are _______ to the point of moral stasis.

panic, collapsed, ambiguous

100
  • What are the three main questions social analysts ask?

What is the structure of this particular society as a whole?

Where does this society stand in human history?

What varieties of men and women now prevail in this society and in this period? 

100
  • Perhaps the most ______ distinction with which the sociological imagination work is between “______ ___________ ___________ ____ __________” and “____ _____ _______ __ ________ _______.”

fruitful, the personal troubles of milieu, the public issues of social structure

200
  • The facts of ________ history are also facts about the _______ and the ______ of individual _______ and ________

contemporary, success, failure, men, women

200
  • What happens in an under developed world?

ancient ways of life are broken up and vague expectations become urgent demands.


200
  • Whether the point of _______ is a great power state or a ________ literary mood, a _______, a ________, a _______ —these are the kinds of questions the best social _______ have asked.

interest, minor, family, prison, creed, analysts

200
  • _______ occur within the character of the ________ and _______ the rage of his immediate ________ with others; they have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is ______ and ________ aware.

troubles, individual, within, relations, directly, personally

300
  • Neither the life of an ______ nor the _______ of a society can be understood without understanding ________.

individual, history, both

300
  • What happens in an over developed world?

The means of authority and of violence become total in scope and bureaucratic in form.


300
  • It is the ______ to range from the most _______ and ________ transformations to the most _______ features of the human self—and to see the _______ between the two.

capacity, impersonal, remote, intimate, relations

300
  • An issue, in fact, often involves a crisis in ________ arrangements, and often too it involves what _______ call “__________” or “________.”

institutional, Marxists, contradictions, antagonisms

400
  • They do not ______ the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of ____ and ______, of biography and ______, of self and _______. 

possess, man, society, history, world

400
  • It is this quality, I am going to contend, that _______ and _______, _________ and _________, _________ and __________ are coming to expect of what may be called the social imagination.

Journalists, scholars, artists, publics, scientists, editors

400
  • Back of its use there is always the _______ to know the _____ and ______ meaning of the individual in the society and in the period in which he has his ______ and his being. 

urge, social, historical, quality

400
  • What is the divorce rate during the first four years of marriage?

250 out of every 1,000 attempts

500
  • They cannot ______ with their personal ________ in such ways as to control the ________ transformations that usually lie behind them.

cope, troubles, structural

500
  • What does the sociological imagination enable its possessor to do?

To understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.

500
  • in large part, _______ man’s self-conscious view of himself as at least an ________, if not a _________ stranger, rests upon an absorbed _________ of social _________ and of the _______ power of history.

contemporary, outsider, permanent, realization, relativity, transformative

500
  • To be aware of the idea of _______ _______ and to use it with sensibility is to be ______ of tracing such linkages among a great variety of _______. To be able to do that is to possess the ______ ______.

social, structure, capable, milieux, sociological, imagination