On Intellectual Craftsmanship (Mills 1959)
On Intellectual Craftsmanship (Mills 1959) In the appendix to ‘The Sociological Imagination’ Mills outlines his view on ‘doing’ social science in which he suggests that ‘Scholarship’ (scholarship is...
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Constructing the Paraversity using the web. Introduction Higher Education institutions across the globe are changing and changing fast. Several writers have expressed dismay, as well as seeing...
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Alejandro Nieto. Bernal Heights. San Francisco. What has the death of a young man, shot by four police officers in a park in California got to do with with understanding health outcomes in the United...
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The ideology of health care provision. Amid the junior doctors strike of 2016, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt was embroiled in a conflict with the BMA over doctors’ contracts designed to address...
View ArticleThe Sociological Imagination
“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” C. Wright Mills Photo by Lance Anderson on...
View ArticleThe Task….
“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning...
View ArticleWhy do we do what we do?
Photo by Alvin Mahmudov on Unsplash Why do we do what we do? “The powers of ordinary man are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family, and...
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