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  2. The Sociological Imagination - Wikipedia

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    The Sociological Imagination is a 1959 book by American sociologist C. Wright Mills published by Oxford University Press. In it, he develops the idea of sociological imagination , the means by which the relation between self and society can be understood.

  3. C. Wright Mills - Wikipedia

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    The Sociological Imagination (1959), which is considered Mills's most influential book, [d] describes a mindset for studying sociology, the sociological imagination, that stresses being able to connect individual experiences and societal relationships. The three components that form the sociological imagination are history, biography, and ...

  4. Sociological imagination - Wikipedia

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    Using the sociological imagination to analyze feature films is somewhat important to the average sociological standpoint, but more important is the fact that this process develops and strengthens the sociological imagination as a tool for understanding. Sociology and filmmaking go hand-in-hand because of the potential for viewers to react ...

  5. Erving Goffman - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Íslenska; Italiano ... who came to exemplify the best of the sociological imagination", and "perhaps the first postmodern sociological theorist ...

  6. Grand theory - Wikipedia

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    Grand theory is a term coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination [1] to refer to the form of highly abstract theorizing in which the formal organization and arrangement of concepts takes priority over understanding the social reality. In his view, grand theory is more or less separate from concrete ...

  7. Imagination - Wikipedia

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    Olin Levi Warner, Imagination (1896). Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself. [1] These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic ...

  8. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    The sociological canon of classics with Durkheim and Max Weber at the top owes its existence in part to Talcott Parsons, who is largely credited with introducing both to American audiences. [50] Parsons consolidated the sociological tradition and set the agenda for American sociology at the point of its fastest disciplinary growth.

  9. Social research - Wikipedia

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    Mills, C. Wright. Appendix to Sociological Imagination (1959). Appendix, On Intellectual Craftsmanship, pp. 195–226. In the Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, 10th edition, Wadsworth, Thomson Learning Inc., ISBN 0-534-62029-9