- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (16 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195133730
- ISBN-13: 978-0195133738
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Praise for the original edition "A challenge, a stimulus, and incitement to students everywhere to look at sociology with a fresh and clearer vision."--Times Literary Supplement (London)
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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. Leading sociologist Amitai Etzioni brings this fortieth anniversary edition up to date with a lucid introduction in which he considers the ways social analysis has progressed since Mills first published his study in 1959. A classic in the field, this book still provides rich food for our imagination.
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wright Mills perscribes the Sociological Imagination as the way for his discipline to emerge from its chin-stroking inaction. This re-engagement with the world of problems, versus abstract intellectualism, would effectively rerender the Sociologist as an "intellectual craftsman" - subject to no alterior orthodoxy than those of his own choosing. In doing so sociologists would articulate what Mills conceives as the next necessary challenge for effective democracy- to help the "masses" liberate themselves from the invisable fetters of mass society. It is a bold assertion of intellectual autonomy, acutely and passionately aware of the threat to reason and freedom posed by power-blind social analysis - a concern still valid some fifty years after the supposed "End of Ideology".
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was dropped into to the stagnant water of 1950's social thought and continues to stir things up today. Taking offence at 'emperical' studies that would reduce man into being but interchangable figures to be mined for predictable information - Mills demanded a conception of man that held him in his multifarious potentionality. It is the "emancipatory possiblity" of images from Marxism and literature that inspire Mills - with the ability to conceive of social orders offering MORE freedom, fellow feeling and so forth, he trusted his students would be able imagine beyond the confines of the prevailing rationality. The jargon I've utilised here no doubt's alerts you to a sense that Mills was ahead of his time.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Mills publication of The sociological Imagination is a hard book to get your head around. It introduces all the theoretical problems encountered in sociology. Although it appears to be very philosophical it is brilliant revision material for writing essays and exams.
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