C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination

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Contents 3

1. The Promise 4

2. Grand Theory 20

3. Abstracted Empiricism 39

4. Types of Practicality 59

5. The Bureaucratic Ethos 77

6. Philosophies of Science 90

7. The Human Variety 99

8. Uses of History 106

9. On Reason and Freedom 122

10. On Politics 130

APPENDIX: On intellectual Craftsmanship 143

Acknowledgments 166

Index 167

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Baksidetekst

"The critique is hard-hitting, cogent, clearly put, and at times bril­liant.... Wright Mills's views on how social science should he pursued are worth the attention of people in all social disciplines...."

Spectator^.

"Professor Mills's vigorous and admirable proclamation...will, let us hope, start a debate on the functions of the sociologist and his denunciation will certainly prompt a good deal of heart-searching."

W. J. H. Sprott, Nation

“This critique of hardening schools of analysis may turn out to he his most important hook to date.^"

Christian Century

"The Sociological Imagination is an important hook.... It deserves to have an influence tar outside the field of formal sociology"

Donat O'Donnell, Manchester Guardian

"Performs an essential task in the service of intellectual lucidity and truth.^"

American Scholar

"Professor Mills could hardly have rendered a hetter service than by writing this hook, which is at once a challenge, a stimulus and incitement to students everywhere to look at sociology with a fresh and clearer vision. What is more, it contains a practical guide. in the appendix on 'Intellectual Craftsmanship,' to ways in which they may profitably go about their task."

Times Literary Supplement (London)

The late C. Wright Mills was a leading critic of modern American civilization. Among his hooks are White Collar (GB3). The Power Elite (GB20), Sociology and Pragmatism (GB169), Power, Politics and People (GB205 ), and with H. H. Gerth, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (GB13).

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THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

C. Wright Mills

Oxford University Press, London, Oxford, New York

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BOOKS BY C. WRIGHT MILLS

SOCIOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM: The Higher Learning in America (1966) ( Edited and with an Introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz)

POWER, POLITICS AND PEOPLE (1963)

( Edited and with an Introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz )

THE MARXISTS (1962)

IMAGES OF MAN (1960 )

(Edited and with an Introduction )

THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION (1959) THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR THREE (1958) THE POWER ELITE (1956)

CHARACTER AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE (1953) (with H. H. Gerth)

WHITE COLLAR: The American Middle Classes (1951) THE PUERTO RICAN JOURNEY (1950)

(with Clarence Senior and Rose Goldsen )

THE NEW MEN OF POWER (1948 )

FROM MAX WEBER: Essays in Sociology (1946) (Edited and Trans. with H. H. Gerth)

Copyright © 1959 by Oxford University Press, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 59-7506 First published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1959

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1967

printing, last digit: 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41

Printed in the United States of America

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For Harvey and Bette

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Contents

L The Promise, 3

2. Grand Theory, 25

3. Abstracted Empiricism, 50

4. Types of Practicality, 76

5. The Bureaucratic Ethos, 100

6. Philosophies of Science, 119

7. The Human Variety, 132

8. Uses of History, 143

9. On Reason and Freedom, 165

10. On Politics, 177

Appendix: On Intellectual Craftsmanship, 195 Acknowledgments, 227

Index, 229

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