Sociological Imagination vs. Common Sense This essay will aim to explain the differences between the sociological imagination and common sense. What the sociological imagination and common sense are and how they operate in our society today. Using the area of ​​educational outcomes, I will introduce in this essay examples through research and findings from sociologists such as; Pierre Bourdieu, Capital of Culture (1977), Bernstein-(1961)linguistic models' and Paul Willis (1977)learning to work, and use these examples as evidence to show how these would explain educational outcomes in relation to the sociological imagination and common sense hypothesis. I will begin this essay by discussing where the sociological imagination came from and what it represents compared to common sense. The American sociologist C.Wright Mills (1959) published a sociological text entitled "The sociological Imagination" (1959), C.Wright Mills wrote in his book on "environmental problems" the word environment means (environment) this was considered as the place where an individual will find himself in a situation that represents for him a personal social context and therefore could actually influence him personally and in To some extent the situation is created by these people. Mills (1959) also wrote about public issues of social structure, referring to issues that go beyond the individual and look at society as a whole. How society is organized and how it works. This goes far beyond issues of the environment, as it does not look at the person and their individual experiences in society, but looks at the broader social structure, for example social institutions... education, religion, family, law and how developed and interact. mutual examples of the difference...... half of the document ......ion, Sociology making sense of society, 4th edition, Harlow, Pearson Longman, pp. 604-605.Mills C.Wright (1959) The Sociological imagination, Harmondsworth, England, Oxford University Press.Office of National Statistics (2004), Education, Effectiveness and Identity, available at: http://www.statistics. gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id= 461 [accessed 28 September 2010], Cite as (Office for National Statistics 28 September 2010) Pierre B (1961) Culture Capital Cited, Taylor P; Richardson Jr. John; Yeo, A, (1995), Class structure and educational attainment, Sociology in Focus, pp.297, Ormskirk, Causeway Press.Scanlan J Stephen; Guest Editor; Grauerjolz Liz (2009) 50 Years of C.Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination, Teaching Sociology 37, (1), pp1-7Willis Paul (1977) Learning to labour, Westmead, hants, England, Saxon House, Teakfield Limited.