The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills

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HAVING CRITICIZED at considerable length several prevailing tendencies in social science, I want now to return to more positive-even programmatic-ideas of the promise of social science. Social science may be confused, but its confusion should be exploited rather than bemoaned. It may be sick, but recognition of this fact can and should be taken as a call for diagnosis and perhaps even as a sign of coming health.

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