Quotes About The Sociological Imagination

#1. P5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It this this quality..what may be called the sociological imagination.

C. Wright Mills

#2. The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn - often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling - to realize that, just as often, one's personal troubles are in fact public issues.

Charles Lemert

#3. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

C. Wright Mills

#4. P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

C. Wright Mills

#5. There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Heinrich Harrer

#6. You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#8. Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

Wes Anderson

#10. Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Aron Ralston

#11. She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.

Ann Brashares