C. Wright Mills
C. Wright MillsAbstracted empiricism is a critical term for scientific data-obsessed sociology whereby problems are isolated from historical context and selected to fit the method.
America is a nation with no truly national city, no paris, no rome, no london, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
Capitalism is a system that nobody talks more of than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
Free enterprise is talked about by nobody so much as by the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
Inheritance is an incredible source of entitlement. Nobody talks more of free enterprise than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
Revolution always has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
The Sociological imagination is a 'quality of mind' that helps us use information and develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.
The Sociological imagination is a mode of scholarly engagement which enables us to grasp the relations between history and biography within society.
The Sociological imagination is a self-consciousness based on social relativity and the personal nature of history.
The Sociological imagination is concerned with looking to linkages among a great variety of (personal troubles) mileux and public issues (social structure).
The Sociological imagination is concerned with what kind of individuals now prevail. . . And what kind are coming to prevail.
The Sociological imagination is concerned with what kind of structure we have as a whole.
The Sociological imagination is the ability to view decisions as not simple, but as 'products of a mind unaccountably dense.
The Sociological imagination is the capacity to understand these perspectives as minute intersections between biography and history.
