The Sociological Imagination

Name: The Sociological Imagination
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: C. Wright Mills
ISBN: 9798350827552

Author: C. Wright Mills

Narrator: Adriel Brandt

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/19/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology

Synopsis

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 United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues.

About C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books such as The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the US political, military, and economic elites; White Collar: The American Middle Classes, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, which presents a model of analysis for the interdependence of subjective experiences within a person's biography, the general social structure, and historical development.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abby

The Sociological Imagination was written by C. Wright Mills in 1959, and he died in 1962 only three years later. He was a sociologist at Columbia University, and the goal of this book was to analyze the discipline of sociology with suggestions for improvement. He felt most mid-century sociologists l......more

Goodreads review by Kate

The Sociological Imagination is a term coined by Mills to describe the way that good sociologists view a problem and the possible solutions. He suggests that we view everything through the intersection of history, biography, and sociology, and that we multidisciplinary approaches to finding solution......more

Goodreads review by Dave

“Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist.” “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.” “Neither the life of an individual nor the history off a society can be understood without understan......more