This piece is dedicated to Stefan Stern, who picked up on – and ran with – a remark I made at this year’s Brain Bar Budapest, concerning the need for a ‘value-added’ account of being ‘human’ in a world in… Read More ›
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A feminist leaves the neoliberal university Congrats, you did not cite any feminist work! CfP: Beyond the Master’s Tools Connected and disconnected writing The place of sociology in the Second Machine Age The Fetishisation of Intelligence Under Neoliberalism PREVENT will… Read More ›
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In recent years, the once negligible hosting costs of this site have begun to increase. Hopefully this has had some positive impact, as the site had been increasingly unreliable on our old host. Our new host is great. But a… Read More ›
We’re having some problems with the new @soc_imagination site. Are any technically skilled readers able and willing to help?
As you’ve probably noticed, we redesigned the site using a new WordPress theme which will fit the site more effectively as we become more image heavy and expand the number of our daily posts. However there’s two problems which we’re… Read More ›
The most popular posts over the last 5 years of Sociological Imagination
Home page / Archives Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today How to write a good sociology essay (and not panic) About Is someone you care about involved with post structuralism? Making the familiar… Read More ›
The next five years of sociologicalimagination.org?
The fact we’ve just moved to a new server, it’s almost five years since we started the site and an impending deadline have left me contemplating future plans for SI. I recently closed my personal blog in order to focus… Read More ›
Opening up @soc_imagination as a platform for public engagement
In my talk at the Digital Sociology conference in New York in February 2015 (available online here) I explained my enthusiasm for the new possibilities afforded by social media for doing research in real time with communities. These are the… Read More ›
The sociological imagination of Ava DuVernay
The latest issue of the BFI’s Sight & Sound has an illuminating interview with Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, in which she describes her sensibility and approach to directing. The film itself resists a tendency towards hagiography, instead focusing upon Martin… Read More ›
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Charlie Hebdo: #JesuisCharlie ou Non? Does Sociology as a Discipline Have a Future in the UK after the REF? How to write a good sociology essay (and not panic) Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match… Read More ›
Sociology’s Promise and the Sociological Imagination
The concept of Sociological Imagination entered circulation in the 1959 book of the same name by the American Sociologist C. Wright Mills. It moves from a prophetic opening (‘Nowadays men often feel that their private lives are a series of… Read More ›
The wisdom of sociology
Can Sociology be life changing? That’s what Sam Richards argues in this thought provoking TED talk which explores how the discipline can lead us to reimagine our circumstances and see those connections which we otherwise miss – it reveals hidden commonalities and… Read More ›
How To Keep Your Sociological Imagination Alive
In this podcast recorded for Sociological Imagination, Les Back discusses the craft of sociology with Howard Becker. As anyone familiar with his Art of Listening will realise, Les has long been concerned with the role of attentiveness in the practice… Read More ›
Stretching the Sociological Imagination: A Conference in Honour of John Eldridge
Glasgow University will be hosting a conference in honour of John Eldridge on16th-17th September. Entitled ‘Stretching the Sociological Imagination’ it will include papers inspired by John’s work in the fields of social theory, work and industry and the media. The… Read More ›
Bev Skeggs discusses the contemporary sociological imagination with Les Back
In this lovely dialogue hosted on the Goldsmiths website, thanks to Dave Beer for flagging it up, Bev Skeggs discusses the contemporary sociological imagination with Les Back. To begin they discuss discomfort and dislocation as an integral aspect of the sociological… Read More ›
Review of Punk Sociology
I actually liked the ‘punk’ bit of this book less than I expected to. I’m a big fan of Nick Crossley’s work – though I disagree with him on a lot of things, engaging with it was really important for developing the… Read More ›
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Pride, Propaganda and Poverty Porn: On Benefits and Proud Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today An invitation to punk sociology A Summer of Television Poverty Porn An Interview with Sociologist Patricia Leavy about… Read More ›
Our Most Popular Posts of 2013
In the absence of anything else we can think of to post on christmas day, here’s our most popular posts of the year: Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today 36 reasons why you… Read More ›
The Sociological Imagination Today: The Need for Biology
C.W. Mills’ (1959) call for a ‘Sociological Imagination’, the suggestion that social, historical and biographical dimensions be considered as integral in the analysis of social life, is important. By highlighting the interplay between individual and society, between private ‘troubles’ and… Read More ›
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The Sociological Imagination Revisited The Sociology of Gossip Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Please keep up, Sociology The Sociology of Hipsters The world as you’ve never seen it before 35 reasons why… Read More ›
Our Most Popular Posts in the Last 12 Months
Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today 35 reasons why you should blog about your research Why Slavoj Zizek is a Waste of Space for the Social Scientifically Literate Left ‘You either die a… Read More ›
Our Most Popular Posts of the Last Week
35 reasons why you should blog about your research The Dangers of Academic Blogging The Sociology of Hipsters Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Why sexual people don’t get asexuality and why it… Read More ›
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The Dangers of Academic Blogging 28 reasons why you should blog about your research Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Why sexual people don’t get asexuality and why it matters Maslow’s Hierarchy of… Read More ›
Our Most Popular Posts in the Past 7 Days
28 reasons why you should blog about your research The craft of giving (bad) presentations Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Why Slavoj Zizek is a Waste of Space for the Social Scientifically… Read More ›
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Why Slavoj Zizek is a Waste of Space for the Social Scientifically Literate Left A Summer of Television Poverty Porn Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Conference Bingo! 28 reasons why you should… Read More ›
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Why Slavoj Zizek is a Waste of Space for the Social Scientifically Literate Left 25 reasons why you should blog about your research How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy (at least not within… Read More ›
LS Lowry and the Sociological Imagination
This isn’t the blog post I have intended to write for ages about LS Lowry’s profoundly sociological sensibility. But it is a percursor to it because this article so succinctly describes exactly the point I’m trying to make about Lowry’s work: What is amazing,… Read More ›
Making the familiar strange
In this video, Dalton Conley discusses the C.W.Mills’ idea that a successful sociologist makes the familiar strange.
An early review of the Sociological Imagination
“Imagine a burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University, carrying in his saddle-bag some books which he reads with absorption while his horse trots along. Imagine that among the books are some… Read More ›
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Sociological Imagination and #UKRiots
“Sociological Imagination and UK Riots” on Bundlr