TY - BOOK AU - Mills,C.Wright TI - The sociological imagination SN - 9780195133738 AV - H61 A39 U1 - 300 PY - 2000/// CY - Oxford,England, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology N1 - Originally published: 1959; Includes index; TOC; 1. The promise -- 2. Grand theory -- 3. Abstracted empiricism -- 4. Types of practicality -- 5. The bureaucratic ethos -- 6. Philosophies of science -- 7. The human variety -- 8. Uses of history -- 9. On reason and freedom -- 10. On politics -- Appendix : on intellectual craftsmanship -- Acknowledgments -- Afterword / Todd Gitlin -- Index; Sociology N2 - Summary: In this book, the author set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. The book took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The author's view is a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important Read more... UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/sociological-imagination/oclc/41476714&referer=brief_results ER -