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Quotes from The Sociological Imagination — C. Wright Mills

1916–1962 United States

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To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

As public communications are expanded and speeded up, their effectiveness is worn out by repetition; so there is a continuous demand for new slogans and beliefs and ideologies.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

Every interest and power, every passion and bias, every hatred and hope tends to acquire an ideological apparatus with which to compete with the slogans and symbols, the doctrines and appeals of other interests.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

The demand for explicit ideological justifications has been greatly enlarged, if only because new institutions of enormous power have arisen but have not been legitimated, and because older powers have outrun their old sanctions.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

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