Institute of Education, University of London

Alumna, Faculty of Policy and Society

It is the political task of the social scientist continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work -- and, as an educator, in his life as well -- this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. (C.Wright Mills,1959, The Sociological Imagination)