C. Wright Mills Quote

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman


The Sociological Imagination (ed. Oxford University Press, 2000) - ISBN: 9780199761128


To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity...

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity...

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity...

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity...