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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. [1]
It was coined by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. [2]: 5, 7 Today, the term is used in many sociology textbooks to explain the nature of sociology and its relevance in daily life. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-87154-201-4. Collins, Randall, ed. (1994). Four sociological traditions: selected readings (Revised and expanded ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508702-4. Edles, Laura Desfor; Appelrouth, Scott (2010). Sociological theory in the classical era : text and readings (2nd ed.). Los ...
Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05388-5 OCLC 11030006; C. Wright Mills. 1959 (2000). The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513373-0 OCLC 41476714; Burawoy, Michael: "For Public Sociology" (American Sociological Review, February 2005)
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The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Strauss, Claudia (September 2006). "The Imaginary". Anthropological Theory vol. 6, issue 3. p. 322–344. Vries, Imar de (2012).