One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of — and hence be able to control — the levels of abstraction on which he is working. The capacity to shuttle between levels of abstraction, with ease and with clarity, is a signal mark of the imaginative and systematic thinker.


The Sociological Imagination (1959)

C. Wright Mills Quotes

One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all...

One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all...

One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all...

One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all...