num_pages: 288
description: This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today′s postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own.
language: English
title: Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
titlecomplete: Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
ratings_count: 4
publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc