Sociological Imagination

Douban high score 9.1! 3000+ High-quality comments! When you feel confused in life, you might as well return to the perspective of sociology to find answers to key concepts! Received the recommended book list of "200 Cognitive Construction Readings" by He Fan, the famous course director. An introductory guide to the growth of life concepts - the concept of critical moments returns to the sociological perspective. To grasp the interaction between people and society, life and history, self and the world, certain mental qualities are necessary, and they do not possess such qualities. They are not equipped to deal with their private troubles in a special way to control the structural transformations that often lurk behind them. What they need, and what they feel they need, is a certain quality of mind that will help them use information and develop rationality in order to clearly summarize what is going on in the world around them and what they themselves will encounter. My contention is that from journalists to scholars, from artists to the public, from scientists to editors, there is an increasing expectation of this mental quality, which we might call sociological imagination. ——Wright Mills This book can be regarded as the culmination of Mills' lifetime academic work. It takes criticism of the achievements of American sociology as the theme of the book. It uses the perspective of knowledge sociology and combines the author's research experience in social class and other aspects to criticize the abstract and rigid boundaries of traditional disciplines, thus emphasizing the great significance of "sociological imagination." First published in 1959, it has now become a widely respected introductory classic in sociology teaching in the English-speaking world and even around the world. In 1989, the American sociology community convened scholars for a retrospective seminar on the 30th anniversary of the publication of this book. About the author: Wright Mills, a famous American critical sociologist. He studied at the University of Wisconsin in his early years, covering a wide range of social and political theories, as well as history and anthropology, and received his doctorate at the age of 25. In the early 1950s, he became famous with "White Collar: America's Middle Class" and taught in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He has made outstanding achievements in the sociology of knowledge and the study of American social classes, and is regarded as his main masterpiece. The "Selected Works of Weber's Sociology" he co-edited is also considered an authoritative translation. Mills died of illness in New York in 1962 at the age of 46. After his death, he was hailed as "one of the most important critics of contemporary American civilization."