Tyler read the news story about a 12-year-old boy who was caught selling crack cocaine. "my hypothesis is that the boy must be living in true poverty in a neighborhood full of crime." in this case, tyler was using his sociological imagination

That statement is True.
Sociological imagination refers to the concept of understanding a certain social phenomenon by imagining as if we're the one who are directly experiencing the situation. In this ase, Tyler tried to put himself in cocaine stealer kid in order to analyze why he did the criminal act.

C.

Explanation:

showing how evidence and ideas are linked together.