Question
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, which titles a book by C. Wright Mills. ■END■
ANSWER: sociological imagination [or The Sociological Imagination; prompt on imagination; reject “intellectual craftsmanship”]
<NS, Social Science>
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Summary
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20% | 0% | 20% | 114.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20% | 0% | 20% | 63.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% | 56.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% | 114.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 82.50 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 0% | 0% | 13% | 0.00 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0.00 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Georgetown A | 51 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago D | 56 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago C | 61 | -5 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | UNC C | 63 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Iowa | 64 | -5 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Case Western A | 69 | -5 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida State A | 89 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW B | 89 | -5 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 89 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Louisville A | 96 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Cornell B | 99 | -5 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brown A | 105 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 105 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 107 | -5 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Liberty B | 109 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Iowa State | 109 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon A | 114 | 0 |
| Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan C | 114 | 0 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan A | 114 | 0 |
| Anthony Yin | Case Western B | Kenyon | 114 | 0 |
| Cade Smith | Michigan State | Michigan B | 114 | 0 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Case Western B | 114 | 0 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Ohio State A | 114 | 0 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan State | 114 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Liberty A | 114 | 0 |
| Adam Pascoe | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 114 | 0 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC D | 114 | 0 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Duke | 114 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Virginia A | 114 | 0 |
| Audrey Read | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 114 | 0 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | South Carolina | 114 | 0 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Chicago B | 114 | 0 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Illinois B | 114 | 0 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Illinois C | 114 | 0 |
| Marissa Satos | Illinois C | Missouri | 114 | 0 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Carleton | 114 | 0 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Winona State | 114 | 0 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 114 | 0 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT A | UMass Boston | 114 | 0 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Tufts A | 114 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 114 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Brandeis A | 114 | 0 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Northwestern A | 114 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 114 | 0 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Stanford B | 114 | 0 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW A | 114 | 0 |
| Catherine Welch | UW A | UBC | 114 | 0 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas A | 114 | 0 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 114 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 114 | 0 |
| Christopher Dekermanji | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 114 | 0 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 114 | 0 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 114 | 0 |
| Ben Sterling | Yale A | Columbia B | 114 | 0 |
| Kaiden Carey | Penn B | Haverford A | 114 | 0 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 114 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | John Jay College | 114 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Vassar A | 114 | 0 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 114 | 0 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Yale A | 114 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Maryland B | 114 | 0 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 114 | 0 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | NYU B | 114 | 0 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Haverford B | 114 | 0 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia C | 114 | 0 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Penn B | 114 | 0 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | George Washington A | 114 | 0 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 114 | 0 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 114 | 0 |