Introduction The notion of the sociological imagination encompasses the connection within the lives of individuals and the processes of altercations in social order (Mills 2000). This can assist with the understanding of the ubiquitous circumstances surrounding the issue of drugs in sport and the questioning of society. Performance enhancing drugs are substances used by athletes to improve their abilities while competing and training. There are many different reasons athletes decide to use these drugs including peer pressure and forces within society, including the media. (Murray 2013). The use of these drugs shows that it doesn’t just affect the individual but concerns the whole of society on a broader social scale; including why athletes are influenced to take these drugs and the sociological impacts put upon them. To grasp these issues that are faced by society, it is important to establish a relationship between the social, economic and historical happenings in the lives of individuals and in a larger sense. And to also understand how the concept of sport has changed over time. This essay will explore how the sociological imagination influences the concern of performance enhancing drugs in sport and how it relates to historical contexts, gender issues and the social forces behind winning. (Mills 2000) Key Point 1 According to Mills (2000) the sociological imagination is the relationship between what happens to the individual in their lives and the large processes of social, historical and economic change, which lie beneath those happenings. The sociological imagination works by analyzing how history has changed and how it impacts upon human biography. It shows us how societies views differ from a more mainstream individualistic view. The action of taking performance-enhancing drugs is a personal issue relating to the individual, but then it becomes a social issue because it concerns society as a whole. Because the use of these drugs is private, it becomes a public problem because performance-enhancing drugs have been banned. (Connor 2009). Sociologist C. Wright Mills believed the sociological imagination worked by the questioning of society using a diversity of viewpoints. Mills (cited in Connor 2009, p. 327-328) explained in this ‘analytical framework’ to ‘place the issue in their historical context’. This analytical framework shows us how historical change of society and biographical change of the individual depict reality. It is important to understand the origin of today’s modern sporting lifestyle and how it has developed over time; and how a dominance in capitalism has changed the morals of