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  2. The Sociological Imagination - Wikipedia

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    According to Mills, social scientists must study social structure, using the sociological imagination, to understand the state of freedom in this epoch. Mills concludes this section of The Sociological Imagination with a call to social scientists: it is the promise of the social sciences to analyze the individual's troubles and society's issues ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Imaginary (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    These deep-seated modes of understanding provide largely pre-reflexive parameters within which people imagine their social existence—expressed, for example, in conceptions of 'the global', 'the national', 'the moral order of our time'." [2] John R. Searle uses the expression "social reality" rather than "social imaginary". [3]: 4

  6. John Lie (professor) - Wikipedia

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    Lie's "sociological imagination" trilogy explores the intersection of biography, history, and social structure by analyzing his Korean diasporic experience. The trilogy comprises Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots , Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea , and Multiethnic Japan . [ 2 ]

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  8. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    [4]: 32–40 Sociological subject matter ranges from micro-level analyses of individual interaction and agency to macro-level analyses of social systems and social structure. Applied sociological research may be applied directly to social policy and welfare, whereas theoretical approaches may focus on the understanding of social processes and ...

  9. 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 ...