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“社会学的想像力”是一种将个人生活与社会历史联系起来认识问题的心智品质,也是一种关注公众论题的行动力量。批判社会学家C·赖特·米尔斯认为当代社会学的困境均源于社会学想像力的缺失,因此社会学应该重拾其充满想像力的经典传统。只有回归社会学的经典传统,恢复社会学的想像力,才能完成社会学最初的“创造一个更美好的世界”的道德允诺,也才能借助民主的力量增进整个社会的自由与理性。
“Sociological Imagination ” is a kind of mental quality that links personal life with social history to recognize the problem, and is also a kind of action force that pays attention to the public topic. Critical sociologist C Wright Mills believes that the predicament of contemporary sociology stems from the lack of sociological imagination, so sociology should regain its imaginative classic tradition. Only by returning to the classical tradition of sociology and restoring the imagination of sociology can we fulfill the moral promise of “creating a better world” first in sociology and only by using the power of democracy can we promote the freedom and rationality of the entire society.