Social Problems Perspectives, Disaster Research and

For many of us, this insight is one of the cornerstones of “the sociological imagination” so well articulated by C. Wright Mills (1959) in his book by that title. Back in the 1960s, Merton and Nisbet did not use the language, but proposed similar ideas which they ascribed to such theorists as Weber (1946) and Mannheim (1936). ................
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