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    C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (HTK 1959; Oxford University Press, 2000)
    Now considered a classic of the social sciences, this book set out to steer the field away from its growing reliance on theory and back toward the social and personal dimensions of our lives. The "sociological imagination," according to Mills, is the ability to pinpoint and comprehend the ills that actually plague us, and the exercising of this talent is a political act.

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