Presidential Address On THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION REVISITED |
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Authors: | Norman K. Denzin |
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Affiliation: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Abstract: | This article offers a critical reading of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination (1959). Such a reading reveals the need to reassess the basis, practice, purpose, and impact of sociology. Accordingly, interpretive materials drawn from stories about and by alcoholics and a new cultural grouping, Adult Children of Alcoholics, are used to illustrate the foundations of a minimalist sociology. Know that the … sociological imagination has its chance to make a difference in the quality of life in our time. (Mills 1959, p. 226) |
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