My Plans Have Always Exceeded My Capacities

You Can Never Really Understand An Individual Unless You Also Understand The Society,historical Time Period In Which They Live,personal Troubles, And Social Issues

As A Proportion Of The Labor Force, Fewer Individuals Manipulate Things, More Handle People And Symbols.

People With Advantages Are Loath To Believe That They Just Happen To Be People With Advantages.

What We Experience In Various And Specific Milieux, I Have Noted, Is Often Caused By Structural Changes. Accordingly, To Understand The Changes Of Many Personal Milieux We Are Required To Look Beyond Them. And The Number And Variety Of Such Structural Changes Increase As The Institutions Within Which We Live Become More Embracing And More Intricately Connected With One Another. To Be Aware Of The Idea Of Social Structure And To Use It With Sensibility Is To Be Capable Of Tracing Such Linkages Among A Great Variety Of Milieux. To Be Able To Do That Is To Possess The Sociological Imagination

The Life-fate Of The Modern Individual Depends Not Only Upon The Family Into Which He Was Born Or Which He Enters By Marriage, But Increasingly Upon The Corporation In Which He Spends The Most Alert Hours Of His Best Years.