Society under Siege
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780745629858
Subjects: Political science & theory; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Internationalism; International Relations - General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Social change; Political; CIVILIZATION, MODERN_1950-; History / Civilization; General; Sociology - General; 1950-; Civilization, Modern; International relations and cu; International relations and culture
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.