The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills

The Sociological Imagination c wright mills

Overview

“The sociological imagination by C. Wright Mills enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society”

Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 2000
Pages 247
Filesize 8.97 MB
Format PDF

Summary

“The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. It enables him to take into account how individuals, in the welter of their daily experience, often become falsely conscious of their social positions.

Within that welter, the framework of modern society is sought, and within that framework the psychologies of a variety of men and women are formulated. By such means the personal uneasiness of individuals is focused upon explicit troubles and the indifference of publics is transformed into involvement with public issues.”

Contents

  1. The Promise
  2. Grand Theory
  3. Abstracted Empiricism
  4. Types of Practicality
  5. The Bureaucratic Ethos
  6. Philosophies of Science
  7. The Human Variety
  8. Uses of History
  9. On Reason and Freedom
  10. On Politics
  • Appendix: On Intellectual Craftsmanship
  • Acknowledgments
  • Afterword by Todd Gitlin

Extract

"That, in brief, is why it is by means of the sociological imagination that men now hope to grasp what is going on in the world, and to understand what is happening in themselves as minute points of the intersections of biography and history within society.

In large part, contemporary man's self-conscious view of himself as at least an outsider, if not a permanent stranger, rests upon an absorbed realization of social relativity and of the transformative power of history. The sociological imagination is the most fruitful form of this self-consciousness"

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Title The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills
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Publisher Oxford University Press
Date 2000
Pages 247
Country United States of America
ISBN 139780195133738
Format PDF
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