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Gina Rinehart's Theory Of Social Imagination

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Sociologist C. Wright Mills introduced the term, social imagination the world in 1959. This term interprets to the capacity to identify that an individual person’s private predicaments are a consequence of community concerns and issues and that this person does not have very much influence over the situation. Gina Rinehart’s father Lang Hancock was born and raised in a remote area of the Pilbara Western Australia. He descended from hard working cattlemen who took originally unclaimed bushland and forged out a living from it. This helped to formulate him into a very ambitiously driven man. He voraciously held onto conventionally old fashioned European attitudes towards reaping and pillaging from the land. His racism and contempt towards the

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