This article presents a reappraisal of the book Sociological Imagination, by C. Wright Mills. Mills was Thorstein Veblen's successor in the U.S. radical tradition, but the question remains unanswered as to the extent to which the ideals he articulated have been realized in U.S. sociology. ...
C.WrightMills,“TheSociologicalImagination” C. Wright Mills, “The Sociological Imagination” [Intro] What is needed to escape the traps that seem to constrain us in our private lives? Neither information nor the skills of reason alone will allow us to understand either what is going on in ...
Inside the group of critical cultural workers there can be yet a new subdivision. Wright Mills had, in previous books, made a classification between the types of “moral intellectuals” and “aesthetic intellectuals”. While the former question the social order based on ethical values, the latter...
C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination: Contemporary Perspectives To many of its critics, sociology is a strange subject. As an 'ology', to use the idea of a popular British television advertisement several years ago, it appears to have sufficient prestige and honour that the proudest...
内容提示: Trustees of Princeton UniversityProfessor Mills on the Calling of SociologyThe Sociological Imagination. by C. Wright MillsReview by: Edward ShilsWorld Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Jul., 1961), pp. 600-621Published by: Cambridge University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable...
类似的批评,还有学界熟知的美国社会学家米尔斯(Charles Wright Mills)在《社会学的想象力》(The Sociological Imagination)中对“抽象经验主义”的批判。因此,这类批评定量研究方法的观点,与其说是中国社会学本土化的产物,不如将其理解为是美国社会学渗透到中国的结果...
I demonstrate that Mills fulfilled the promise of the sociological imagination. For Mills, a proper sociological explanation contains the interrelationship of three aspects: history, biography, and social structure. Consistent with Mills' definition of the sociological imagination, I have placed his work...
As this essay shows, the existing consensus is fundamentally mistaken. Mills' social theory of sex and gender and his emerging critique of patriarchy were heavily influenced by the 'silent feminists,' Shira Tarrant's name for the leading women social scientists and philosophers of the 1930s and ...
goode, erich. 2008. `From the Western to the Murder Mystery: the sociological 14 15 imagination of C. Wright Mills.' Sociological Spectrum 28(3): 237-53.goode, erich. 2008. `From the Western to the Murder Mystery: the sociological 35 36 imagination of C. Wright Mills.' Sociological ...
The Sociological Imagination of C. Wright MillsMarsiglia, Giorgio