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The Uses of Sociology

The Sociological Imagination, by C. Wright Mills

by Lewis Coser

The Partisan Review, Winter 1960, pp. 166-173

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    Winter 1960 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. The Woman from Mexico by Alberto Moravia, pp. 9-40
    2. The Novel and America by Leslie Fiedler, pp. 41-61
    3. An Urban Convalescence by James Merrill, pp. 62-64
    4. Two Poems by W.S. Merwin, pp. 65-66
    5. Mystique by Stanley Burnshaw, p. 67
    6. Pine by Howard Moss, p. 68
    7. Ballad: Between the Box Cars by Robert Penn Warren, pp. 69-72
    8. Living in Italy by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 73-81
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      Orwell Reconsidered by Richard Wollheim, pp. 82-97 - 1 Review
      1. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
    10. Soviet Literature in the Doldrums by Max Hayward, pp. 98-110
    11. The Other Dickens by F.W. Dupee, pp. 111-121
    12. Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch, p. 122
    13. London Letter by A. Alvarez, pp. 123-130
    14. Not Everyone is in the Fix by Lionel Abel, pp. 131-136
    15. Art Books, Book Art, Art by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 137-142
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      A Quest for Peril by Irving Howe, pp. 143-147 - 1 Review
      1. Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer
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      What is Culture by Richard Chase, pp. 148-154 - 1 Review
      1. Culture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
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      The Armed Intellectual by George Lichtheim, pp. 155-159 - 1 Review
      1. The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky, 1921-1929 by Isaac Deutscher
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      Poetry Chronicle by Frank Kermode, pp. 160-165 - 7 Reviews
      1. Out in the Open by Katherine Hoskins
      2. Poets of Today VI
      3. The Crow and the Heart by Hayden Carruth
      4. In an Iridescent Time by Ruth Stone
      5. The Self-Made Man, and Other Poems by Reed Whittemore
      6. Scrimshaw by Winfield Townley Scott
      7. O to Be a Dragon by Marianne Moore
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      The Uses of Sociology by Lewis Coser, pp. 166-173 - 1 Review
      1. The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
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      Four Novels by Howard Nemerov, pp. 174-186 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Rack by A.E. Ellis
      2. The Optimist by Herbert Gold
      3. Men Die by Harold Louis Humes
      4. The Cave by Robert Penn Warren
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      Nathalie Sarraute by David Fitelson, pp. 187-191 - 1 Review
      1. Martereau by Nathalie Sarraute
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    Spring 1960 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald, pp. 203-233
    2. A New Year's Fable by Vladimir Dudintsev, pp. 234-269
    3. The Drinker by Robert Lowell, p. 270
    4. Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes, p. 271
    5. Some Foreign Letters by Anne Sexton, pp. 272-274
    6. The Lovemaker by Robert Mezey, p. 275
    7. Two Poems by Salvatore Quasimodo, p. 276
    8. I by Vladimir Mayakovsky, pp. 277-281
    9. Any Day now by James Baldwin, pp. 282-294
    10. Is There a Sociologist in the House? by George Lichtheim, pp. 295-310
    11. The Hypnotized People by Victor Anant, pp. 311-323
    12. Metatheater by Lionel Abel, pp. 324-330
    13. Berlin Letter by Ursula Brumm, pp. 331-340
    14. London Letter by Raymond Williams, pp. 341-347
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      Words and Ideas by Iris Murdoch, pp. 348-352 - 1 Review
      1. Words and Things by Ernest Gellner
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      How It Strikes a Compatriot by Richard Wollheim, pp. 353-362 - 1 Review
      1. The Glittering Coffin by Dennis Potter
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      Poetry Chronicle by John Hollander, pp. 363-373 - 2 Reviews
      1. Summer Knowledge, 1938-1958 by Delmore Schwartz
      2. Ko, or A Season on Earth by Kenneth Koch
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      Fiction Chronicle by R.W. Flint, pp. 374-378 - 4 Reviews
      1. False Coin by Harvey Swados
      2. Pursuit of the Prodigal by Louis Auchincloss
      3. The Body's Cage by Benjamin DeMott
      4. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
    19. Correspondence, pp. 379-385
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    Summer 1960 Issue = 21 Articles
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      Dostoevsky in "Crime and Punishment" by Philip Rahv, pp. 393-425 - 1 Review
      1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David McDuff
    2. Poems by Eugenio Montale, pp. 426-429
    3. September; Reconstructions by W.D. Snodgrass, pp. 430-431
    4. Fiat Justitia by I.A. Richards, p. 432
    5. The Dream by Lenore Marshall, p. 433
    6. Flushing Meadows, 1939 by Daniel G. Hoffman, p. 434
    7. Metaphors for a Pregnant Woman by Sylvia Plath, p. 435
    8. On Falling Asleep to Birdsong by William Meredith, pp. 436-437
    9. The Fact in Fiction by Mary McCarthy, pp. 438-458
    10. Our Friend Judith by Doris Lessing, pp. 459-479
    11. Toward a Portrait of the French Intellectual by Victor Brombert, pp. 480-502
    12. The Life and Death of Caryl Chessman by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 503-513
    13. Notes Towards a Utopia by Francis Golffing, pp. 514-525
    14. The Academic Comedy by Kingsley Widmer, pp. 526-535
    15. Theater Chronicle by Harold Clurman, pp. 536-539
    16. Sex, Sociology, and Criticism by John Henry Raleigh, pp. 540-550
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      Fiction Chronicle by Frank Kermode, pp. 551-557 - 6 Reviews
      1. Free Fall by William Golding
      2. A Heritage and Its History by I. Compton-Burnett
      3. From the Hand of the Hunter by John Braine
      4. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
      5. Ritual in the Dark by Colin Wilson
      6. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
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      In Praise of Florence by Nicola Chiaromonte, pp. 558-560 - 1 Review
      1. The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
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      A Second Novel by Harvey Breit, pp. 561-563 - 1 Review
      1. Set This House On Fire by William Styron
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      End of an Epoch by H. Stuart Hughes, pp. 564-568 - 1 Review
      1. The End of Ideology by Daniel Bell
    21. At Sea With the Beats by Victor Perera, pp. 569-578
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    1. Masscult and Midcult: II by Dwight Macdonald, pp. 589-631
    2. I Drive Westward by J.V. Cunningham, pp. 632-634
    3. The Snow by Donald Hall, p. 635
    4. Drowning With Others by James Dickey, pp. 636-637
    5. Literary Form and Social Hallucination by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 638-651
    6. The Terrace by Ramon Sender, pp. 652-689
    7. Proust's Picture of Society by Louis Auchincloss, pp. 690-701
    8. Socialism and the Cold War by R.H.S. Crossman, pp. 702-725
    9. Revenant by Stanley Burnshaw, p. 726
    10. Modern Evidence by Vissarion Belinsky, pp. 727-736
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      1. Writing in America by John Fischer and Robert B. Silvers
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      1. In Defense of Ignorance by Karl Jay Shapiro
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      1. The Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso
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      Fiction Chronicle by Benjamin DeMott, pp. 748-759 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Double View by Chandler Brossard
      2. The House of Five Talents by Louis Auchincloss
      3. The Inhabitants by Julius Horwitz
      4. Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris
    15. The Conversion of the Jews by Jeremy Larner, pp. 760-766
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