| The Sociological Imagination (Galaxy Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: C.wright Mills
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 426701
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 242
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0195007514
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780195007510
ASIN: 0195007514
Publication Date: June 1, 1959
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 re-imagining society March 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Review of Mills' sociological imagination January 5, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 A perscription for all November 27, 2001
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
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".
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