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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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The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1959
C. J. Nuesse, C. Wright Mills
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C. J. Nuesse, C. Wright Mills
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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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History and Sociological Imagining
The Tocqueville Review, 1994Sociology without history resembles a Hollywood set: great scenes, sometimes brilliantly painted, with nothing and nobody behind them. Seen only as the science of the present or, worse yet, of the timeless, sociology misses its vocation to fix causation in time. It thereby vitiates its vital influence on historical thinking, its influence as the study
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Varieties of Sociological Imagination
American Sociological Review, 1969C WRIGHT Mills' concept of the "sociological imagination"-a contempo* rary fashionable equivalent to Charles H. Cooley's somewhat more comprehensive "sympathetic introspection" of fifty years ago-has proved to be valuable for understanding one of the scientific operations of the sociologist.
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Sinclair Lewis's Sociological Imagination
American Literature, 1970S INCLAIR LEWIS was a novelist blessed with what C. Wright Mills called "the sociological imagination," the capacity to see and be interested in the overriding dramatic quality of "the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world."' Lewis was often accused of being a kind of social scientist, although usually the similarity
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Practicing Sociological Imagination Through Writing Sociological Autobiography
Teaching Sociology, 2009Sociological imagination is a quality of mind that cannot be adopted by simply teaching students its discursive assumptions. Rather, it is a disposition, in competition with other forms of sensibility, which can be acquired only when it is practiced. Adhering to this important pedagogical assumption, students were assigned to write their sociological ...
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Stalking the Sociological Imagination
1999It is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While no one was above suspicion, Hoover appears to have held a special disdain for sociologists and ...
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