Charles Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination

C. Wright Mills is one of the best known sociologists of the 20th century. Hes works analyzed power and different structures of society. However, hes idea of sociological imagination has become a core idea of sociology and could be described as sociology 101. In this episode we will examine what sociological imagination as a concept means and how did it differ from other sociological approaches of its time.

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