Social Science Perspectives: A Failure of the Sociological Imagination

2010 ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Morgan ◽  
Arthur Kleinman
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Sociological Imagination

scholarly journals Committing Sociology: Being Healthy, Happy, and Up-High in St. James Town

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bisaillon ◽  
Mehdia Hassan ◽  
Maryam Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

There is a doggedly persistent, pervasive, and pernicious tendency to individualize ratherthan socialize problems. This is a discernable pattern that we see all around us,independent of any one particular social context. This collaboratively produced article isan example of and commitment to feminist praxis. We intentionally mobilize the “toolsof social science, friendship, and the power of conversation” (Mountz, 2016) to bring tolife ideas that Mehdia experienced for the first time in Laura’s undergraduate classroom.Specifically, she and fellow classmates, along with Maryam, learned how to cultivate andemploy their “sociological imagination” (Mills, 1959, 2000); connecting aspects ofbiography with materially arising social conditions. The aim of such inquiry is togenerate new insights and critically minded, contextually situated, and empiricallysupported explications for how things happen for and around us in the world we inhabit.In doing so, we are able to “sociologically reimagine” analysis by using visual modes ofinquiry and intentional “interdisciplinary entanglement” to blur the boundaries betweentraditional and so-called non-traditional modes of knowledge making (Jungnickel &Hjorth, 2014). We argue that the time is absolutely upon us to “commit sociology,”[1]and we offer this article as an intervention that does just this. [1] As per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yT9dhHsKwc

scholarly journals FICTIONING SOCIAL THEORY: THE USE OF FICTION TO ENRICH, INFORM, AND CHALLENGE THE THEORETICAL IMAGINATION. Introduction

Digithum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olli Pyyhtinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The introduction to the special issue taps into discussions about the inseparability of science and fiction. Commencing from the idea that scientific statements are distinguished from fiction only a posteriori, not a priori, the piece asks, how fiction could be used as a theoretical resource in social scientific thinking. Could it inform, enrich, extend, intensify, and challenge the sociological imagination? Besides rejecting any clear-cut separation of social science and fictional and artistic forms, the text seeks to unsettle our certainty as to what counts as “fact” and what as “fiction” in the first place. It also suggests that examining the relationship of sociology and fictional and artistic forms helps us unsettle the institutionalized disciplinary ways of ordering knowledge and thought and that there may be a poetics or fiction to be uncovered in sociological scholarship, as sociology is also a form of storytelling.

scholarly journals O sociologické imaginaci

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Kobes
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Charles Wright ◽  
Social Metaphysics

This article discusses the controversy of the sociological imagination as it was developed by Charles Wright Mills and its relevance for the current epistemology of social science. His notion of the sociological imagination has several problems due to the unreflected general prejudice distinguishing between structure and subjectivity, which creates from sociology a kind of social metaphysics. As a result, social context is conceptualised as an unproblematic domain used for the rationalisation of an actor’s behaviour and knowledge, and the sociological imagination gives the sociologist an absolute critical position which situates him paradoxically in the name of justice and freedom against humanity.

Expanding the borders of The Sociological Imagination: Spatial difference and social inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Shields
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
North American ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Spatial Difference ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Technologies

This article argues that C Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination has changed, as evident in sociologies that think beyond national societies and analyse globalization. This ‘imagination’ has in effect been ‘expanded’, moving from one-dimensional (linear) analyses based on historical vectors of force and teleologies to a more contextualized, relativized spatial analysis with more dimensions. There were always outliers. However, at least for mainstream North American sociology, this represents a change in the spatialization of social science, a change in its presuppositions about space, not the becoming spatial of a non-spatial sociology. Borders and mobilities across and along borders are examined in relation to what is needed to confront them critically in a new spatial regime – a new ‘spatialization’ of the social. A hypothesis is developed that understands borderlines relationally as institutions and social technologies that introduce difference and inequalities into an otherwise homogeneous social and spatiotemporal ‘cultural topology’.

Maximum Likelihood for Social Science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Ward ◽  
John S. Ahlquist
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Social Science
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