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The Promise This article, The Promise, was taken straight from the book “The Sociological Imagination”. The author of this book is C. Wright Mills, who was thought of as a very controversial sociologist when The Sociological Imagination was published in 1959. The main idea in this excerpt from Mills’ book is that a normal man doesn’t view things the way that a sociologist might view them. One of the major points he makes is that a single man has “troubles”, while the society he lives in has “issues”. Even though I thought that this article was difficult to read and follow along with, I did pick up on this idea about “troubles” and “issues” pretty easily. One example that Mills uses in the article is marriage. He explains that a man may have a problem in his marriage, and that problem is the only thing he needs to deal with. At the same time, the divorce rate of this same man’s society may be rapidly increasing. Mills explains that sociologists do not tend to focus on the one man’s problem, instead they try to find out a way to help the society as a boys, mills, society, group, article, writing, way, very, sociologists, same, problem, one, man, idea, groups, book, about, wright, while, view, troubles, topic, thought, thing, tasks, sociologist, sociological, seemed, realize, reading, read, put, promise, pretty, point