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The fact that it is still taught in Sociology courses close to 60 years later means it is still relevant today. The new men of power: Character and social structure: But very hard to read for somebody.
Feb 06, David Schaafsma rated it really liked it Shelves: And we do that despite the evidence, rather than because of it.
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I cannot rate it five stars because of Mill’s lack of critical engagement with classical social theory. Imaglnacion summarize his stance on the subject: Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination The Sociological Imagination is a classic sociological text published inthree years before Mills died at the age of Mar 18, EEC rated it it was amazing.
Mills is more of a questions, than an answers sort of guy — best to be one of those if you possibly can — and so a lot of this book is devoted to looking at the kinds of questions sociology ought to ask and some of the ways that it might be worthwhile seeking out answers to those questions.
Sometimes commentators many years after a book imaginxcion published will note such sexist language ruefully, but Todd Gitlin in his Afterword seems oblivious to it.
Power, politics, and people: Wright Mills argues are missing the forest for the trees. Subscribe to our newsletter Some error text Name.
Sep 04, Tom Crosby rated it really liked it. His arguments against these modes of thought make sense: I enjoied of reading this book.
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
The appendix provides some guidance on how to conduct such research. In the West we like to place out bets closer to the self-made end of that spectrum. He believes in work linking history and biography exploring the relations between the two, and he personally cares about issues of equity and social. But read instead as a critique of politics, ethics and craft, it is much more power This book is known as a classic of any sociological canon.
Mills’ description of the way in which Americans tend to perceive problems as emanating from the individual – rather than considering larger, structural forces at play – captures the predominance of reductionist thinking in American society.
That this is also true of some of the research that is done — that is too grandiose and not at all clear about what it is seeking to answer or why and so stumbles and trips if never actually seeming to fall on its face – although a lot of it is so unclearly written that it could fall on its face and no one might notice. Think of this as a manifesto for the social sciences. Method and Theory must be informed by the issue, not the other way round.
Sep 26, Fereidoun rated it really liked it.
Lists with This Book. Though I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone and it’s certainly not light reading, it provides an excellent toolkit for starting to understand what is going on in our complex world. The collected essays of C. Cookies are little nuggets of information that web servers store on your computer to make it easier for them to keep track of millx browsing session. Not that I completely agree with everything in this book, but Mills definitely challenged my ideas on how the social sciences should be approached.
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They are that we are entirely self-made or that we chzrles completely the product of our environment. He was a sociologist at Columbia University, and the goal of this book was to analyze the discipline of sociology with suggestions for improvement.
All of this boils down to a myriad of ‘microscopic’ studies which cannot be logically construed together to form a coherent understanding of social issues. Paperbackpages.
The Sociological Imagination
The book was deeply boring. Jan 10, Abby Brown rated it really liked it. Just as timely today as it was over fifty years ago, it continues to be an excellent introduction to the discipline of sociology and how to think sociologically.
Mills died from a heart attack on March 20, Though I’m guessing Mills was unaware of what he was doing, in these mid-century books the world consists only of men and one mention of Karen Horney. Apr 13, Lobstergirl rated it it was ok Shelves: May 23, Melissa Corbett rated it it was ok. Conveniently, Mills provides his own three-sentence summary — perhaps more authors should be so handy: May 20, leighcia rated it it was amazing Shelves: Mills provides the basis for any good social research.
What I like most about him is he goes out of his way to be as clear as possible — something that academics and academic writing often tries to avoid as if on pain of death. The first pages of this book were really hard to get through, and even after that, the book was very dense and took quite a bit of effort to understand. Mills makes some great arguments on what social scientists’ real purpose and responsibility should be – focusing on the relationship between the individual and social structures when defining research problems, comparing structures to the societies and historical eras they exist in, and taking on a political role by informing the public of serious societal issues.