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Assessing the sociology of sport: On revisiting the sociological imagination
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Jim McKay, a wide ranging and influential international scholar on sport, gender, power and globalization, reflects on the benefits for the field of revisiting C Wright Mill and his work on the ‘sociological imagination.’ McKay notes this is important at a time when the ‘parent’ discipline of sociology ...
Jim Mckay
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Developing a Sociological Imagination by Doing Sociology
Teaching Sociology, 2010The author addresses the development and implementation of a service-learning project for an undergraduate course in which students interview immigrant women, incorporate the interviewees’ experiences into an analytical paper, and present the findings at the end of the semester. Students are required to use C.
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Racism and the sociological imagination
The British Journal of Sociology, 2008AbstractOur chief purpose in this article is to argue for a restoration of a strong notion of agency to sociological accounts of social relations, and particularly those concerned with group formation and conflict. We contend that much contemporary sociological writing on this topic continues to rely on the concepts of race and ethnicity as primary ...
Bob, Carter, Satnam, Virdee
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2019
Sustainability has become an area of increasing relevance and prevalence in higher education, most universities now practising and encouraging various sustainability and environment-based initiatives. However, the more specific areas of Education for Sustainable Development and sustainability in the curriculum remain widely contested.
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Sustainability has become an area of increasing relevance and prevalence in higher education, most universities now practising and encouraging various sustainability and environment-based initiatives. However, the more specific areas of Education for Sustainable Development and sustainability in the curriculum remain widely contested.
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ImaginingThe Sociological Imagination: the biographical context of a sociological classic
The British Journal of Sociology, 2004AbstractCharles Wright Mills's arguments inThe Sociological Imaginationare very popular and this paper focuses on the biographical context in which his programmatic statements were occasioned. This breaks new ground by locatingThe Sociological Imaginationand earlier programmatic statements in the professional and personal travails that motivated them ...
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On the Sociological Imagination
Critical Inquiry, 2004I have had trouble writing a statement primarily because I have always thought ofmyself first as an analyst of politics and second as a literary critic. Criticism, for me, has generally been an instrument for coming to understand political orders and phenomena and then for intervening in them.As I read it, the call for statements is addressed rather to
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The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1960
Hans A. Illing, C. Wright Mills
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Hans A. Illing, C. Wright Mills
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Studia Neophilologica, 2014
In the context of the apparent closure of neoliberalism, I can think of no more profoundly humanist statement than “no mode of production and therefore no dominant social order and therefore no dom...
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In the context of the apparent closure of neoliberalism, I can think of no more profoundly humanist statement than “no mode of production and therefore no dominant social order and therefore no dom...
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Sociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology: Bodies, Auto/Biographies and other Mysteries
Sociology, 1998This paper seeks to explore sociology as an imaginative pursuit. After a brief reconsideration of Mills's notion of `the sociological imagination' I examine three areas illustrating the various imaginations within the discipline: the work of Robert K. Merton; ethnomethodology; and the diversities of feminist scholarship. Two particular case studies are
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Ralph Ellison's Sociological Imagination
The Sociological Quarterly, 2003This article investigates how the theoretical frameworks of Hegel, Marx, and Freud inform Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and it highlights the novel's exploration of sociological concepts such as alienation, freedom, and the unconscious. I will consider Ellison's emergence as a writer and explore how the formal and the thematic variations of the novel ...
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