C wright mills citações

1. "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."

2. "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."

3. "The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances."

4. "Men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction."

5. "The sociological imagination is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another - from the political to the psychological; from examination of a single family to comparative assessment of the national budgets of the world; from the theological school to the military establishment; from considerations of an oil industry to studies of contemporary poetry."