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This paper is a contribution to the discourse on sociological imagination. The history of imagination reveals that the concept has shifted its focus from a mere reproductive or imitative ability which forms images from a preexisting phenomena to a productive or creative power which produces or constructs its own image of reality. The shift underscores the role of the actor or agent in its engagement with and transformation of the world. Thus, the metaphor of the mirror in imagination has been shattered and replaced with a prism that refracts or diffracts different images. We attribute this creative power to human imagination in society capable of creating surprising possibilities beyond expectation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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