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The Sociological Imagination

The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1960
Hans A. Illing, C. Wright Mills
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Sociological Imaginings and Imagining Sociology: Bodies, Auto/Biographies and other Mysteries

Sociology, 1998
This 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.
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On revisiting the sociological imagination

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
On 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 ...
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Ralph Ellison's Sociological Imagination

The Sociological Quarterly, 2003
This 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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The Sociological Imagination

The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1959
C. J. Nuesse, C. Wright Mills
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Developing a Sociological Imagination by Doing Sociology

Teaching Sociology, 2010
The 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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The sociological imagination

2022
Haydn Aarons, Evan Willis
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History and Sociological Imagining

The Tocqueville Review, 1994
Sociology 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, 1969
C 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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The Sociological Imagination within Teaching Sociology: 1973–2020

Teaching Sociology, 2023
Nathan Palmer
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