Having spent much of the past year writing about research methods, I found myself returning to a book I had not read properly for many years: C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination. Published in 1959, it is still surprisingly fresh, especially when Mills turns from criticising sociology to explaining how researchers should actually go about… Continue reading Revisiting C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
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cross over books
When a student I remember reading a series of articles written by Richard Boston on best selling ‘cross over’ books*. Boston was primarily known as writer on beer but also an iconoclastic commentator on a range of subjects and here he was branching out to talk about four books which had reached out beyond their… Continue reading cross over books
