Well said, Debra. Thanks. Best to you, Nik Mills, son of C. Wright Mills. Portland, Or

@yutunaga9679

2 жыл бұрын

For real? 😳😳😳

@ManInTheBigHat

2 жыл бұрын

@@yutunaga9679 : Yes, only not in Portland anymore.

@yutunaga9679

2 жыл бұрын

Dude you wrote this comment nine years ago and you still replied that's like a gem 💎! Today i wrote this theory in my exam! UGC ! your family is royal and genius stay safe and keep inspiring

@ro-p9514

2 жыл бұрын

@@ManInTheBigHat ur goated fam

@ManInTheBigHat

2 жыл бұрын

@@ro-p9514 : THX.

Thanks, Nik! What an honor--your dad was a great sociologist. Debra

That example in the breakdown in the end really helped me understand the sociological imagination and in turn help me understand what mills was talking about in those quotes

Thank you. I've read so many explanations from other sites but this is the only one that I understand. Thank you so much. :D

Wow, you're gifted at explaining theories and concepts. Thank you!

Thank you Debra. This gave me a clearer picture of the Sociological Imagination in a lighter and more understandable sense.

This is the first video that actually gave me good info. Thank you so much. Please keep these coming!

Thank you, this was much more helpful in understanding this term than my professors video.

You posted this on Christmas Eve?? A real one fr, thank you. I remember the people thought the world would end in 2012, now I'm watching this amazing video. Appreciate it.

Wonderful! :) I have a sociology exam tomorrow at uni in Brazil! This has helped me no end! Thank you very much!

Dr. Marshall...that was a wonderful explanation!

You explained this very well and I am significantly less confused. Thanks!

This honestly helped me understand the concept more clearly. Bless you

Love those artifacts!

That was a really well explained example thank you so much!

These videos are very helpful for my studies and understanding. Thank you!

Excellent explanation!!

this is great it makes me more intelligent as a student of sociology, thinking within the box not outside the box

It is so clear to me now, I was confused before. Thank you

This is so helpful, thank you!

debra marshall you make complicated reading into a simple form of understanding thank you

Awesome breakdown of Sociological Imagination :-)

Thank you for your answer!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

thank you, that was very helpful!

Thank you so much😭 you may have just saved my grade.

I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

Thank you!

thank you so much... i have a midterm on monday surrounding this topic

I am really enjoying your videos Dr. Marshall. You have the wonderful ability to make clear difficult and complex subjects. It's one thing to know stuff, but not everyone has your ability to teach to others what they know. I particularly enjoyed your teaching on Talcott Parsons. The ideas of C. Wright Mills seem comparatively quite insubstantial to me to be honest; he doesn't seem to be saying anything new or useful. However, one thing your teaching has encouraged me to do is to read over everything I write and try to detect how many assumptions I unconsciously make . Self-debunking if you like. It's always good to be corrected in the light of additional information - getting it wrong is part of getting it right! I have only recently found an interest in Sociology (at 71 years old), but I am keen as mustard to enlarge my understanding. I am basically only a beginner (although I studied Sociology as part of my social work training in England nearly forty years ago) but I am already beginning to see from my current studies the connections between sociological theory and real-time events, as well as the power of the former to induce the latter. For instance the insanity of Marcuse being taken up by those groups who wish to defund the police and do away with the courts, and bring about a global revolution by means of rioting and terror, as well as by dictating the accepted meaning of everyday language. Sir Roger Scruton pointed out that as a historian Marcuse should have been aware of the lessons of history regarding the aberrant 'justice of the proletariat' which followed on from revolutions, for example in France and Russia and China. I look forward to viewing your videos on Marcuse and Marx. I know I will learn a lot and be encouraged to further study. I am so glad that I have subscribed to your blog. You really are a blessing. Many thanks! And God bless you!

@debramarshall905

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mr. Bunter 😊 You’re very kind. Mills is one of my favorite theorists. Remember that what he said was enlightening *when* he said it. As an American sociologist, he was fighting against a strong functionalist current in sociology. Having come out of WWII as the “saviors” of the West, the US was experiencing an era of growth and prosperity. While US history has whitewashed (literally) history to suit its purposes, we were undoubtedly positioned to help rebuild the West. Then, along comes Mills, building on the work of Marx, to tell us that things aren’t as rosy as we think they are. Aside from Mills’ strong bend toward conflict perspective, the sociological imagination is his strongest contribution (IMO). While much of his work lol only reformulates Marx’s original ideas about the proletariat and bourgeoisie relationship, the sociological imagination shook up how we “do sociology.” Enjoy your studies-we are never too old to learn! As I received my PhD later in life, I am a case in point.

@williambunter3311

4 жыл бұрын

@@debramarshall905 Thanks for your reply : i will investigate further. With your good self as one of my teachers, I know I will enjoy my studies a lot.

Very well explained thank you!

thank you this video !

Thank you very much for this clear explanation...

Thanks, for that clear explanation it is very helpful.

Thank you it was well explaned :-) Great video

Thanks Deborah

Thank you !!!

Thank you , very nice explaination.

This was really goooooood :)

Very enlightening

these concepts are extremely part of society today.

Great questions! I don't think that enough people question the economical structure of the US--it is simply not on the radar for most for a variety of reasons (and that, in and of itself, is a very troubling notion!). Neoliberalism is also not well known outside of political circles, although I'd hazard a guess that this is the case in most democratic (and socialist/democratic mixed systems). Personally, I question social reality, in myriad ways, every day :)

please help me there is this thing I can't understand. can I say that teachers strike is a schooling challenge in South Africa? and I can discuss it according to public issue and personal problem.

I was lost, now I'm found

thanks!

not just sociological research... pretty much every form of research in any academic field. quantity and variety endangers and clouds understanding. this leads to a consolidation of information, energy, power, and once the dust has settled, clarity begets creativity and variety and therefore an unending cycle of "learning" or "progress" or simply the very fundamental mechanisms of life or of this universe.

It's funny to me that my understanding of sociology (very little) before I took Soci 101 was what Mills describes as the problem with sociology back then!

This video goes hard omg

Ya book Kasai ha? Is kay kia benefits ha ? Kia ma buy kar lo?? Someone plz guide me

I'm ... I'm understanding something! Yay!

Thank yo

How can we interpret events such as 9/11 or war to sociological imagination and notions of race, gender ect? Then relating these events to to personal social practices such as participation in ethnic traditions, marriage, child bearing, working, voting, personal values, beliefs, and stereotypes...

Sociological imagination is useful in our life.

Student Loans , for example. One of the reasons Mr.Robot is so popular among the young, as it tries to wipe the debts off the books of the predatory banks.

Interesting. What is wrong with the structure? That's the question, and should always be the question. But I have one thing to point out. You mentioned education, for example, or housing market if I understand correctly, but you didn't question the economical model, just to say. And I just wanted to point that out, because I really want to know if in the US, neoliberalism is questioned, or at least the very fundamentals of economy. I am not saying communism, but I ask myself if you question it.

What is an example what C. Mills defines private troubles? And public issues example?

@victoriawalker2837

8 жыл бұрын

+Hunter Wilson Maybe a private trouble could be low self esteem towards ones own body image then by using sociological imagination we could then say it could be a public issue because there is a cultural obsession with thinness. This is one example my lecturer gave me, I hope it helps.

@terri-annyoung9656

8 жыл бұрын

+Hunter Wilson Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others; they have to do with self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and personally aware..... Issues have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of his inner life. *******Issues are more holistic, Issues are what affect you the individual.

leeway... when crisis strikes, does the individual have the leeway and movement required to recover. think of the atoms of water molecules. in the liquid form, water takes the shape of its container. this is looked upon as the ideal form, where one has just enough leeway and freedom to do as one pleases but not too much or else one becomes too chaotic in the gas form. in the solid form the individual (or atoms) don't have much leeway to move or recover if the ice shatters. balance ...

imagine that!

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Society should "avoid the bureaucratization of reason and discourse". Wow, America has really failed at that haven't we?

C. Wright Mills would not be impressed with today's academics.

this shit is too smart for me. fuckimg midterms suck

wtf is going on

Thank you so much for making this video, this helped me a lot in understanding the concept more clearly for my reporting

Thank you!

Thank you!