The Sociological Imagination
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C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the…
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Mills’ description of the sociological imagination has become central to the way I think.
He writes of the importance of linking personal troubles to social issues, of moving from the deeply personal to the impersonal, and of linking biography and history.
The sociological imagination is at the heart of my research on domestic economic abuse. It links the stories of personal devastation to the global social issue of family violence. The personal gets transformed to policy and legal issues of the criminalisation of coercive control.
From Supriya's list on money, relationships and family violence.
This sociological classic is a stinging critique of much academic sociology as amounting to little more than verbose platitudes and cliches that hardly reach beyond common sense. But the book is also an eloquent advocacy of an often neglect academic virtue – imagination. Mills argues that social science can bring dazzling insights to the world we inhabit if it reaches beyond data and observations to identify underlying patterns and truths.
From Yiannis' list on reigniting meaningful social sciences.
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