“Xiii- men must...find their way from false to true consciousness, from their immediate to their real interest. They can do so only if they live in need of changing their way of life, of denying the positive, of refusing, it… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share
“P3- neither the life of an individual nor the history off a society can be understood without understanding both” — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Xiii- men must...find their way from false to true consciousness, from their immediate to their real interest. They can do so only if they live in need of changing their way of life, of denying the positive, of refusing, it is precisely this need which the established society manages to repress using the scientific conquest of nature for the scientific… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share
“p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It this this quality..what may be called the sociological imagination.” — C.Wright Mills Copy Share
“p11- when people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them they experience well being 12- we are frequently… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.” — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.” — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they do not… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image