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Corbett, Michael – Ethnography and Education, 2015
In 1959, C. Wright Mills coined the phrase "the sociological imagination" to offer a critical assessment of a discipline he saw descending into a technical or abstract empiricist practice that he feared would ultimately deepen human alienation and oppression. Mills positioned the sociologist as a careful, critical scholar working in the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Alienation, Disadvantaged