Community Quote by C.Wright Mills

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its…

— C. Wright Mills

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues,…

— C. Wright Mills

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many…

— C. Wright Mills

“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…

— C.Wright Mills

In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result…

— James Hillman

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

— Robert Bly

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to…

— Malcolm X

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human…

— Kenneth Clark

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the…

— Anonymous

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts…

— Erich Fromm

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science,…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

— Francis Schaeffer