文档介绍：I. C. Wright Mills: The Sociological Imagination II. Peter Berger: Invitation to Sociology III. Using the Sociological Imagination and MicroCase Explorit Data to Follow in Durkheim’s footsteps in Understanding Suicide C. Wright Mills: Sociology as a Form of Imagination A classic statement (1959) about the promise of sociology Are there ways in which it seems dated? Are there ways in which it seems contemporary? C. Wright Mills: Sociology as a Form of Imagination A product of its time that still speaks powerfully to us today What is the “sociological imagination” basically about? The Connection Between History and Biography “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise… No social study that does e back to the problems of biography, of history and of their intersections within a society pleted its intellectual journey.” The Connection Between Personal Troubles and Public Issues “Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of milieu’ and ‘the public issues of social structure.’ This distinction is an essential tool of the sociological imagination and a feature of all classic work in social science.” The Sociological Imagination So what does the sociological imagination help us do? What d