...employed or unemployed * * *. When wars happen, an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher * * *. Neither the life of an individual nor the history...society can be understood without understanding both. 1 When an industry undergoes consolidation and/or significant technological change, a 45-year-old semiskilled...

...employed or unemployed * * *. When wars happen, an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher * * *. Neither the life of an individual nor the history...a society can be understood without understanding both.1 When an industry undergoes consolidation and/or significant technological change, a 45-year-old...

...rocket launcher; a store clerk, a radar man, a wife lives 154 alone; a child grows up without a father. Neither the life of an individual nor the history...society can be understood without understanding both. To understand the "personal troubles" of the individual, Mills argued, we must understand the "public...

...Carroll. II. Title. III. Series. KF8754.H45 1990 347.73'2-dc20 [347.3072l 89-19676 10 987654321 CIP Neither the life of an individual nor the history...society can be understood without understanding both. Yet [people] do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional...

...perspective, spoke of 243 the intersecting of history and biography and its consequences for identity. "Neither the life of an individual nor the history...society can be understood without understanding both" (p. 3). The history of the society, its institutions and value configuration, is the context within...

...we now turn is: Exactly how and why did such a major movement emerge? Five GRASPING TiiE BIG PICTURE Neither the life of an individual nor the history...society can be understood without understanding both. Yet people do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional...

...process that shape what is possible in family life. Sociologist C. Wright Mills (1959:3) once wrote: "Neither the life of an individual, nor the history...society, can be understood without understanding both." In this collection of readings, we apply Mills's insight to the study of families in the United States....

...elegantly balanced formulation of the relation of the micro and the macro, in social theory, to the effect that "neither the life of an individual nor the history...a society can be understood without understanding both".10 Mills' concern was with the development of a form of social theory capable of comprehending...

...tools. This is to our detriment. We should not consider individuals apart from their social reality. "Neither the life of an individual nor the history...society can be understood without understanding both" (Mills 1959:3). The scientific method usually consists of two major mental activities. First is observation....

...represents the core story of an individual patient with details altered to prevent identif1cation. Neither the life of an individual, nor the history...society, can be understood without understanding both. —C. WRIGHT MILLS To understand the dynamics of the social process we must understand the dynamics...