Sharkey S.R. Beyond Mills sociological imagination Using a Pedagogy Based on Sorokin's Integralism to Reach Today's Introductory Sociology Students (translated from the English by V.V. Sapov). In: Ideas of integralism in the Social Sciences : Discussions of Russian and American researchers : collection of scientific works ...

Abstract

In this paper, author explores some important limitations of the typical pedagogy of sociology based on C. Mills sociological imagination, and suggests a deeper, more effective approach that incorporates the best of Mills' idea but goes beyond it. Sociology faculty commonly hope that introductory students embrace a type of liberal political ideology embedded in how Mills originally defined the sociological imagination, but in today's classroom one often encounters students for whom this teaching model does not work. He examines what might lay behind students' seeming rejection of sociological disciplinary messages, a rejection rooted in their experience of a horizontal culture. Then he presents certain teaching strategies, based on Sorokin's integral sociology, that may assist faculty to more effectively reach students who seek something deeper and more meaningful than political leftism—something that respects and connects and grounds the empirical, the conceptual, and spiritual— but who lack the tools to pursue it because of how sociology has been framed for them.

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