C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On Friday 13th April, 11-12.30pm BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE In March 2012 it will have been 50 years since the death of C. Wright Mills. In that time the world has… Read More ›
Archive for March 2012
RSA Animate Matthew Taylor: Left brain, right brain
In this RSA Animate video, the RSA’s Chief Executive Matthew Taylor, explores the significance which ground-breaking research in neuroscience and behavioural economics has for politics and policy. His biography gives him an interesting perspective on these issues: as a former… Read More ›
Ill Manors: Politics, youth, engagement…. and pop music?
MYPLACE Project Manager, Martin Price, University of Warwick, on UK artist Plan B’s new single and how it relates to the work of the project. This was originally posted on the MYPLACE blog. Follow MYPLACE on Twitter here. For more information on the MYPLACE project, visit the… Read More ›
The Importance of Being Ernest #1
It is difficult as sociologists to disentangle ourselves from the real world; we lose our sense of reality and become immersed in a constant state of abstract analysis. As a final year Sociology student I no longer sit and mindlessly… Read More ›
£9,000… and the costs keep rising
With the tuition fees price hike around the corner, thousands of students across the country have boycotted lectures in a campaign of action organised by the NUS. The protest is part of the NUS’s fight against the government’s higher education… Read More ›
Editorial Note
As a result of a dispute earlier today an article has been removed from the site and we’ll no longer be accepting unsolicited contributions. Today was our first experience of getting inadvertently caught up in the nasty side of the… Read More ›
Add SI on Twitter and Facebook
This is a reminder that the Sociological Imagination has a presence on facebook. Please do add us as a friend and feel free to get in contact. We’re always open to ideas and suggestions so please don’t hesitate if there’s… Read More ›
What does the Sociological Imagination mean today?
It has been over 50 years since C. Wright Mills wrote the Sociological Imagination. In that time the world has changed beyond recognition: the Cold War ended, the Keynesian consensus broke down, a globalizing neoliberalism rose to the ascendancy and… Read More ›
Our Most Popular Posts of the Last Month
Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today The Facebook Project Review of ‘Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller’ Car Boot Sale When Sociology Was Cool When riots have colour The invisible mothers “Hello… Read More ›
Prayers for Bobby
If you had asked me a few days ago, I would have assumed it was obvious that a film about gay teen suicide could not also be morally inspiring. Yet this is precisely what Prayers for Bobby achieves. It tells the… Read More ›
How our society got so fucked up about sex: a brief tour through history…
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Harry’s revenge
This film tells the story of Harry Brown, a pensioner living on a decaying housing estate in South London. Formerly a marine, Harry now lives a lonely life, with his wife on death’s door in hospital and few friends in… Read More ›
Add SI on Twitter and Facebook
This is a reminder that the Sociological Imagination has a presence on facebook. Please do add us as a friend and feel free to get in contact. We’re always open to ideas and suggestions so please don’t hesitate if there’s… Read More ›
What does the Sociological Imagination mean today?
It has been over 50 years since C. Wright Mills wrote the Sociological Imagination. In that time the world has changed beyond recognition: the Cold War ended, the Keynesian consensus broke down, a globalizing neoliberalism rose to the ascendancy and… Read More ›
A PhD in Comics… in Comics!
Do you remember our posts about the Dance your PhD project? Well, that was a bit of fun, but THIS here is just stunning. Nick Sousanis, PhD student at Columbia Teachers’ College, researches comics – and his thesis also uses… Read More ›
It’s tough being a man these days…
We first meet Detective Tommy Craven greeting his daughter at Boston station. He’s clearly a loving but overprotective father, a man subtly ill at ease with the modern world. His daughter chides him for ‘always’ being early, and on the… Read More ›
The Hacktivist Imagination
In The Sociological Imagination, C.W. Mills set out the essential task for sociology as he saw it. His call was simple: to search for and articulate those (casual) connections between individual social environments (what he called ‘milieux’) and the wider socio-historical forces… Read More ›
How much sleep?
In 2001, Roger Ekirch (historian at Virginia Tech) published an important paper that revealed a wealth of historical evidence that throughout our history humans used to have a different sleeping pattern from us today. They used to have a “first… Read More ›
C. WRIGHT MILLS: LEGACIES AND PROSPECTS – 50 YEARS ON
C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On Friday 13th April, 11-12.30pm BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE In March 2012 it will have been 50 years since the death of C. Wright Mills. In that time the world has… Read More ›
Sociology@Warwick
A quick flag up to any interested readers that the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick now has a blog and twitter feed. Although Sociological Imagination has no formal connection to the department, a number of people involved in… Read More ›