Peter Berger claims that sociologists are tempted to listen to gossip, peek through keyholes, and look at other people’s mail. This can be interpreted to mean that the sociologist has an insatiable curiosity about other people. 
How does the sociologist differ from the psychologist or the economist or the historian? (Make sure to discuss the differences for all 3 disciplines in relation to sociology)
Are the fields of psychology, economics, and history likely to be in competition with sociology or to complement it?
What do you think C. Wright Mills meant when he said that to be a sociologist, one had to develop a sociological imagination? Explain what the Sociological Imagination (Mills 1959) is as a theory about modern society. In what ways is the Sociological Imagination (Mills 1959) more than just having an understanding of different cultural, social, and political perspectives? (In other words, what makes it unique as a theory about modern society?)