The Sociological Imagination Literary Elements

Non-fiction

United States, 1950s

C. Wright Mills (first person)

Polemical

Classical social science (protagonist), Bureaucracy (antagonist)

Classical social science vs. "grand theory" and "abstracted empiricism"; democracy vs. bureaucracy

Today, social science serves bureaucracy.

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Image of the trap; image of the file; image of bureaucracy; image of human diversity

Reason was supposed to lead to freedom, but under bureaucracy, rationalization has led to less freedom

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