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Frank W. Elwell at Rogers State University has constructed a website with a great deal of information about C. Wright Mills, the sociologist who coined the term "sociological imagination." Visit his site at www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Mills/, and click on Mills' Major Works. Page through the bibliographical information on Mills, and answer these questions.
  1. Apart from the sociological imagination, what were Mills' other research interests?
  2. At what point in his career did Mills pen The Sociological Imagination?
  3. Reading through the descriptions of these books, in what ways can you see Mills using his own sociological imagination?
Press your browser's back button, and link to The Sociology of C. Wright Mills. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and view the slides on The Sociological Imagination.
  1. What do you think the statement "Sociological research has come to be guided more by the requirements of administrative concerns than by intellectual concerns" means (slide 74)? Do you agree with this statement?
  2. What do you think about Mills' guidelines for good social science research (slides 81-88)? Do you follow some or all of these guidelines in your own work?





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