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The Sociological Imagination Author: [US] Charles Wright Mills / Edited by Li Junpeng and Wen Xiang
The Sociological Imagination Author: [US] Charles Wright Mills / Edited by Li Junpeng and Wen Xiang
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They do not have the mental qualities required to grasp the interaction between people and society, life and history, self and world. They do not have the ability to deal with their private troubles in a special way to control the structural transformations that usually lie behind them. What they need, and what they feel they need, is a mental quality that can help them use information and develop reason to summarize clearly what is happening in the world around them and what is happening to them. My claim is that this mental quality, which we can call sociological imagination, is increasingly expected from everyone from journalists to scholars, from artists to the public, from scientists to editors.
About the Author
C. Wright Mills is an American sociologist. He studied at the University of Wisconsin in his early years, and was involved in social and political theories, history and anthropology. He received his doctorate at the age of 25. In the early 1950s, he became famous for his book White Collar: America's Middle Class, and taught at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He has made outstanding achievements in the fields of knowledge sociology and American social class research. The "Selected Works of Weber's Sociology" he co-edited is also considered an authoritative translation. Mills died of illness in New York in 1962 at the age of 46. After his death, he was hailed as "one of the most important critics of contemporary American civilization."
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