C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence

by John D. Brewer

Book Overview

This book has two aims: to clarify the meaning of C. Wright Mills's depiction of the sociological imagination; and to use this to develop a sociological framework that assists in understanding the process by which communal violence has ended in Northern Ireland and South Africa. The contrast between these two societies is a familiar one, but the book is novel by developing an explanatory framework based on Mills's 'sociological imagination'. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349421391
• ISBN13: 9781349421398
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"