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Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts, until recently ruled by the sovereign... read more
First Sentence
Now, as in C. Wright Mills's times, the job of the sociological imagination is a simultaneous reciprocal translation between private and public stories: translation of individually faced and privately tackled problems into public, collectively confronted issues, and of public interests into individually pursued life strategies.
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- Zygmunt Bauman (Author)
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