ABSTRACT
In The sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills did more than call a plague on the houses of the grand theorists and the abstract empiricists in an energetic and sometimes almost slapstick way.[ 1 ] He did offer some suggestions as to how sociological imagination (which he defines in cryptic phrases such as ‘a fruitful form of self-consciousness’ and ‘a capacity for astonishment’) may be stimulated. These suggestions are mainly put forward in the interesting Appendix ‘On intellectual craftsmanship’.[ 2 ] I should like in this paper to take up some of them with reference to industrial sociology.
