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RESEARCH

QUESTIONS

THROUGH

SOCIOLOGICAL

Reading 2

WHY?

TO LOOK

DIFFERENTLY IN

ORDER TO

UNDERSTAND THE

SOCIAL WORLD

THOSE WHO ARE

IMAGINATIVELY

AWARE ASK

QUESTIONS

LIKE:

(1) What is the structure of this particular society as a

whole? What are its essential components, and how

are they related to one another? How does it differ

from other varieties of social order? Within it, what is

the meaning of any particular feature for its

continuance and for its change?

(2) Where does this society stand in human history?

What are the mechanics by which it is changing? What

is its place within and its meaning for the development

of humanity as a whole? How does any particular

feature we are examining affect, and how is it affected

by, the historical period in which it moves? And this

period - what are its essential features? How does it

differ from other periods? What are its characteristic

ways of history-making? (3) What varieties of men and women now prevail in

this society and in this period? And what varieties are

coming to prevail? In what ways are they selected and

formed, liberated and repressed, made sensitive and

blunted? What kinds of `human nature' are revealed in

the conduct and character we observe in this society

in this period? And what is the meaning for 'human

nature' of each and every feature of the society we are

examining?

2. TO

DIFFEREN

TIATE:

PERSONAL

TROUBLES

FROM

PUBLIC

ISSUES

I.E. A SHIFT FROM

LOOKING WITHIN TO

LOOKING AT LARGER

STRUCTURES

E.G. UNEMPLOYMENT

SOCIOLOGICAL

IMAGINATION /

C WRIGHT MILLS

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