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Round 700: Tossup 16

A list for achieving this two-word concept includes an instruction to “avoid the byzantine oddity of associated and disassociated concepts.” A thinker’s outline on using this two-word concept by being “a good craftsman” was extended in “On Intellectual Craftsmanship.” A book titled for this two-word concept states that “the ultimate problem of freedom” is the “Cheerful Robot.” That book, which criticizes Talcott Parsons’s “grand theory,” refers to this two-word concept’s application by Paul Lazarsfeld as “abstract empiricism.” People who understand this two-word concept can connect “private troubles to public issues.” For 10 points, name this two-word concept of understanding personal experiences within a broader social context, (-5[1])which titles a book by C. (-5[1])Wright (-5[1])Mills. ■END■ (0[6])

ANSWER: sociological imagination [or The Sociological Imagination; prompt on imagination; reject “intellectual craftsmanship”]
<NS, Social Science> | Packet-I_Berkeley-A_Cambridge-B_Notre-Dame-A_Oxford-A
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Michael WuSouthampton BWarwick A105-5
Lewis StrachanCambridge EDurham111-5
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU COxford B112-5
Ian McDowellCambridge CCambridge A1140
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge ACambridge C1140
Hamish CampbellDurhamCambridge E1140
Joel CrossleyManchesterImperial A1140
Matt SheldonOxford BNYU C1140
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick ASouthampton B1140

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Florida2025-02-01✓1100%0%89.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓520%20%114.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓520%20%63.00
Midwest2025-02-01✓425%25%56.00
North2025-02-01✓20%50%
Northeast2025-02-01✓425%25%114.00
Overflow2025-02-01✓450%50%82.50
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01✓20%50%
South Central2025-02-01✓250%0%89.00
Southeast2025-02-01✓450%0%96.00
UK2025-02-01✓50%60%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓80%13%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓20%50%