Description

On this fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Mills’s The Sociological Imagination, the “bureaucratic ethos” that he described has continued to escalate. The 11 authors of this book carry further and systematically develop Mills’s broad vision of the scientific method as they analyze escalating bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.

Author Info

J. David Knottnerus, Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, is the author (or coeditor) of numerous articles and books in the areas of social theory, social psychology, and social structure and inequality.

Bernard Phillips, a student of C. Wright Mills at Columbia, received a Ph.D. at Cornell and taught at the University of North Carolina and Illinois before teaching at Boston University. He cofounded the American Sociological Association section on sociological practice as well as the Sociological Imagination Group—a movement toward a broad scientific method that follows scientific ideals.