The chapter 1 of the book “sociological imagination” entitled “the promise” written by c. wright mills is mainly about the promise and the task of a quality of the mind that can understand the interplay of man’s biography, society and history, such trait is called the sociological imagination. According to the first chapter of the book, the promise of such imagination is that it will help a confuse man amidst of the society to be self-conscious where he truly fits in such environment, knowing that, he can be able to put his feet to other shoes, and to have widen perspective about his/her environment.
While its task to be able to make a man, curious about his/her surroundings, asking to what issue a society have been, having or will be facing, in such means one can realize how he can affect the society, and vice versa.