@article{Lyon_Guppy_2015, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Teaching the Sociological Imagination: Imagining the Social Side of Loneliness}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-the-sociological-imagination-imagining-the}, abstractNote={This lesson plan outlines a set of interactive exercises designed for one 50 minute tutorial in a first year introductory sociology course. Students are introduced to Mills’ The Sociological Imagination (1959) and participate in a close reading activity. The class then applies the sociological imagination to research reports on urban loneliness to explore how this seemingly private trouble is also a public issue with social roots and social outcomes.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Lyon, Katherine and Guppy, Neil}, year={2015}, month={Jan.} }