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Sociology revolves around culture and the dynamics of social interaction within a wide range of cultuaral settings. Psychology concentrates on psycho-social behaviour from a nature (rganic)/nurture perspective.
The Sociological Imagination is C. Wright Mills’s 1959 statement about what social science should be and the good it can produce. In this way, it is a polemical book. It has a vision for sociology, and it criticizes those with a different vision....
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