With and Beyond Mills

Social Suffering and the Sociological Imagination

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ID2408504
AuthorsIain Wilkinson (0000-0002-2390-0576, University of Kent, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume12
Issue3
Pages182-191
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708612441768
OpenAlexW2168357548
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited45

This article offers a critical appraisal of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination with focus brought to how he sets his sociology into practice. It is designed as an invitation to further dialogue and debate over the methodology of this work. It reviews Mills's attempt to create a 'sociologized pragmatism' and analyzes the contribution of The Sociological Imagination to this project. It argues that the critical praxis that informs the development of research and writing on 'social suffering' demonstrates an approach to social inquiry that moves both with and beyond Mills, particularly with regard to the task of cultivating social understanding from conflicts met in lived experience

Art history · Epistemology · Positivism · Pragmatism · Praxis · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociology · Wright · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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