ABSTRACT
This chapter presents colloquy that are differentiated very greatly from one another in terms of the nature of the images of society being considered. The fact that images contain an element of imagination is more than a simple truth. Perhaps there should be published books of images for adults, or more to the point, for adult sociologists, asking talented designers to make less analytic the classical thoughts which were not all that analytic but appeared to be so in their original, written form. Many conceptions of an image of society suggest an idea of fixity, often of permanence, at least of crystallisation for a quite considerable period. Perhaps the sociologist of images should reach beyond the comfortable simplicity of a straightforward causal chain, and look more closely at the processes which involve various interdependencies. Nearly any kind of sociological data can be used to investigate an image of society.
