The Sociological Imagination
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the crossroads of history and biography stands one of the most electrifying works in the social sciences — a manifesto that forever changed how we understand the relationship between the individual and society. The Sociological Imagination argues that to truly comprehend one's own life, one must situate it within the broader currents of history and social structure, transforming private troubles into public issues and illuminating the hidden forces that shape human experience. C. Wright Mills writes with the urgency of a radical intellectual and the precision of a rigorous scholar, crafting a text that is at once a scathing critique of mid-20th-century American sociology and a visionary blueprint for a more humane social science. He challenges the grand abstractions of Talcott Parsons and the narrow empiricism of bureaucratic research, calling instead for a practice of inquiry rooted in human freedom and democratic responsibility. Decades after its first publication, this landmark work remains a vital provocation — a challenge to every reader to ask not merely what is happening, but why, and to whom.
Author: C. Wright Mills
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of history and biography stands one of the most electrifying works in the social sciences — a manifesto that forever changed how we understand the relationship between the individual and society. The Sociological Imagination argues that to truly comprehend one's own life, one must situate it within the broader currents of history and social structure, transforming private troubles into public issues and illuminating the hidden forces that shape human experience. C. Wright Mills writes with the urgency of a radical intellectual and the precision of a rigorous scholar, crafting a text that is at once a scathing critique of mid-20th-century American sociology and a visionary blueprint for a more humane social science. He challenges the grand abstractions of Talcott Parsons and the narrow empiricism of bureaucratic research, calling instead for a practice of inquiry rooted in human freedom and democratic responsibility. Decades after its first publication, this landmark work remains a vital provocation — a challenge to every reader to ask not merely what is happening, but why, and to whom.