Society under Siege
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780745629841
Subjects: Political science & theory; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; International relations and culture; General; Social Science; Social change; Internationalism; Civilization; International Relations - General; Sociology - General; CIVILIZATION, MODERN_1950-; History / Civilization; Civilization, Modern; Political; 1950-; International relations and cu
First sentence: Now, as in C. Wright Mills's times, the job of the sociological imagination is a simultaneous reciprocal translation between private and public stories: translation of individually faced and privately tackled problems into public, collectively confronted issues, and of public interests into individually pursued life strategies.