Sociological Imagination

They don't possess the specific qualities of mind required to grasp the interplay between people and society, life and history, self and the world. They lack the ability to navigate their own personal struggles in ways that allow them to manage the structural transformations that often underlie them. What they need, what they feel they need, is a specific quality of mind that can help them process information and develop the rationality to articulate what's happening in the world around them and what they themselves might encounter. My claim is that this quality of mind—what we might call sociological imagination—is increasingly expected of everyone, from journalists to academics, from artists to the public, from scientists to editors.

出版日期/Publication Date：March 2, 2017
出版社/Publisher：北京师范大学出版社
出品方/Imprint:Tan Xufeng Studio
页数/Page: 370