新泽西大学：《社会学讲义》英文版 The Sociological Imagination

OCIOLOGIO IMAGINATION I C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination l. Peter Berger: Invitation to Sociology llI. Using the Sociological EMILE DURKHEIM Imagination and MicroCase SUICIDE Explorit Data to Follow in Durkheim's footsteps in Understanding Suicide

I. C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination II. Peter Berger: Invitation to Sociology III. Using the Sociological Imagination and MicroCase Explorit Data to Follow in Durkheim’s footsteps in Understanding Suicide

C. Wright Mills: Sociology COLEGIO as a Form of Imagination IMAGINATION A classic statement (1959) about the promise of SocIOlogy Are there ways in which it WRIGHT MILLS seems dated? Are there ways in which it seems contemporary?

C. Wright Mills: Sociology as a Form of Imagination • A classic statement (1959) about the promise of sociology • Are there ways in which it seems dated? • Are there ways in which it seems contemporary?

C. Wright Mills: Sociology COLEGIO IMAGINATION as a Form of Imagination A product of its time that still speaks powerfully to us today What is thesociological WRIGHT MILLS imagination"basically about?

C. Wright Mills: Sociology as a Form of Imagination • A product of its time that still speaks powerfully to us today • What is the “sociological imagination” basically about?

The Connection Between History and Biography The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise. No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey

The Connection Between History and Biography “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise… No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey

The Connection Between Personal troubles and Public issues Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between the personal troubles of milieu'and the public issues of social structure. This distinction is an essential tool of the sociological imagination and a fe classic work in social science eature of all

The Connection Between Personal Troubles and Public Issues “Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of milieu’ and ‘the public issues of social structure.’ This distinction is an essential tool of the sociological imagination and a feature of all classic work in social science

The Sociological Imagination So what does the sociological imagination help us do? What does Mills' discussion suggest about the nature of sociology?

The Sociological Imagination So what does the sociological imagination help us do? What does Mills’ discussion suggest about the nature of sociology?

Peter Berger TO SCIOLOGY The first wisdom of sociology is this things are not what they seem. 3 What does this mean What are its implications?

Peter Berger “The first wisdom of sociology is this-- things are not what they seem.” What does this mean? What are its implications?

PEIELBRGE 有对不销且 Peter Berger There is a debunking motif inherent in sociological consciousness. the roots of the debunking motif in sociology are not psychological but methodological

Peter Berger “There is a debunking motif inherent in sociological consciousness….the roots of the debunking motif in sociology are not psychological but methodological

EMILE DURKHEIM A Sociological classic SUICIDE that ilustrates the sociological imagination Emile durkheim Suicide: a study in Sociology (1899) Our next task: To use the sociological imagination to reinvent Durkheim's theory of suicide, using the Explorit/Microcase program

A Sociological Classic that illustrates the sociological imagination: Emile Durkheim’s Suicide: a Study in Sociology (1899) • Our next task: To use the sociological imagination to reinvent Durkheim’s theory of suicide, using the Explorit/Microcase program