The Promise of the Sociological Imagination
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Sociological Imagination – Sociology101 1 The Promise of the Sociological Imagination By C. Wright Mills C. Wright Mills will likely prove to be the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century. He was an outsider to the sociology profession of his time, but he was a powerful scholar with a brilliant sociological imagination -- a term he invented. The following excerpt is from the beginning of his classic book "The Sociological Imagination" His opening section argues that people nowadays experience their lives as traps that they feel they cannot overcome. He then offers his solution: ways of seeing the world around us that can help us to make wiser, saner and more effective choices in our lives -- as individuals and through our governments. The sociologically imagination, says Mills, insists on understanding people in terms of the intersection of their own lives (their biographies) and their larger social and historical context (in history). The final section discusses the difference between "private troubles" and "public issues" or "social problems." Mills points out that there are many forms of private troubles, but that some of them also affect many other people -- they have structural or large-scale sociological causes. These personal troubles that are also social issues include poverty, unemployment, many schools in New York and other cities, air and water pollution, war, racism, teenage pregnancy, abortion, drug policy and many other topics in the news and that we have been discussing this semester. Nowadays men and women often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct: What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other mile , they move vicariously and remain spectators. And the more aware they become, however vaguely, of ambitions and of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel. Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a man is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a man takes new heart or goes broke. When wars happen, an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher; a store clerk, a radar man; a wife lives alone; a child grows up without a father.
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