Quotes About C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we arrived at this point. Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us. We need to know our history, and according to sociologist C. Wright Mills, we know we do.8