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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieux, they move vicariously and remain spectators.
C. Wright Mills, Todd Gitlin (Afterword) • The Sociological Imagination
Dans la glaciation politique des sciences sociales américaines des années 1950, Wright Mills apparaît en effet comme un franc-tireur, attaquant aussi bien les constructions théoriques pompeuses d’un Talcott Parsons que la division extrême des objets de recherche pratiquée par l’empirisme caractéristique du tournant béhavioriste. Il proclame son att
... See moreAntoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)
The legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills proposed that the “sociological imagination”—an understanding of how our own experiences reflect broader social and historical forces—could help us link our seemingly private troubles to public issues. Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor system, is a prime candidate for such reimagining.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
government. And only if you
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
aspect, and seemed