ABSTRACT
This chapter develops key aspects of the sociological imagination through an explication of relevant sensibilities to the sociological perspective. Specifically this chapter explores the sensibilities of history and culture. The chapter develops the argument that an historical sensibility is crucial to a sociological view of the world because history is the means through which we learn about how social life came to be as it is in contexts such as modernity. The second sensibility associated with the sociological perspective that this chapter evaluates and promoted is culture. Cultural practices and cultural values are shown to be vital components of how people negotiate the social world and are extremely valuable tools for sociological understanding.
