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2020
Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination: How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and its utopianisms affect one’s ability to purpose existence with self ...
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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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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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THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION:

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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