SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills
31 Dec 2018
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Sociology is often defined as the science of society. Suggested that science is not possible without the imagination. C. wright mills spoke of the sociological imagination". Mills" concerns with the relationship between personal trouble" and public issues". Three dimension or sensibilities of the sociological imagination. Never does the soul think without phantasm" (imagination) -aristotle. The union of deep feeling with profound thought to see again, those things in which custom and the common view had bedimmed all the lustre, had direid up the sparkle and dew drops" -samuel taylor coleridge. [that] whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way" - That which is now proved was once only imagined" -william blake. Science is an activity which seeks to establish a single body of objective knowledge or truth about the world through the use of logic and empirical (and repeatable) testing. It aims to achieve certainty and control over its subject matter.
