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 model merges developments in the two countries at the individual, social structural and political arenas in order to account for the emergence of their peace processes.
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"I found [Brewer's work] full of interest and have certainly learned a great deal from it. The idea of drawing upon and applying Mills to [this] field of study is one which I liked and it works...a scholarly piece of work on a timely topic."--John Eldridge, University of Glasgow
"There is an inevitable tension between writing about C. Wright Mills and doing the kind of comparative analysis done here...it works. I ended up with a much better understanding of what Mills was on about [and] the Northern Ireland-South Africa comparison worked very well. I learnt a lot."--David McCrone, University of Edinburgh
"There is an inevitable tension between writing about C. Wright Mills and doing the kind of comparative analysis done here...it works. I ended up with a much better understanding of what Mills was on about [and] the Northern Ireland-South Africa comparison worked very well. I learnt a lot."--David McCrone, University of Edinburgh
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John D. Brewer is Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Belfast.
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To many of its critics, sociology is a strange subject. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual biographical experiences, personal milieux, unreconstructed opponents, personal biographical experiences, former militarists, mobilisation strategies, present peace process, local milieux, current peace process, abstract empiricism, social structural conditions, issue duality, sociological imagination, private troubles, ontological insecurity, equality agenda, metropolitan core, paramilitary organisations, personal troubles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, South Africa, Good Friday Agreement, National Party, Northern Irish, Cold War, United States, Anglo-Irish Agreement, United Kingdom, World War, Charles Wright Mills, Gerry Adams, Ulster Protestants, Great Trek, Gross Domestic Product, Nelson Mandela, Orange Volunteers, Soviet Union New!
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To many of its critics, sociology is a strange subject. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual biographical experiences, personal milieux, unreconstructed opponents, personal biographical experiences, former militarists, mobilisation strategies, present peace process, local milieux, current peace process, abstract empiricism, social structural conditions, issue duality, sociological imagination, private troubles, ontological insecurity, equality agenda, metropolitan core, paramilitary organisations, personal troubles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, South Africa, Good Friday Agreement, National Party, Northern Irish, Cold War, United States, Anglo-Irish Agreement, United Kingdom, World War, Charles Wright Mills, Gerry Adams, Ulster Protestants, Great Trek, Gross Domestic Product, Nelson Mandela, Orange Volunteers, Soviet Union New!
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- The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills on 20 pages
- Northern Ireland by Frank Wright on 16 pages
- Northern Ireland by Guelke on 15 pages
- Northern Ireland (Flashpoints) by Simon Adams on 9 pages
- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills on 4 pages
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