Heuristic Potentials of the Sociological Imagination

Sandro  Serpa; Carlos Miguel  Ferreira

doi:10.36941/jesr-2020-0060

Authors

Sandro Serpa Professor Dr., Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of The Azores; Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences – CICS.UAc/CICS.NOVA.UAc; Interdisciplinary Centre for Childhood and Adolescence – NICA – UAc, Portugal
Carlos Miguel Ferreira Professor Dr., Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences – CICS.NOVA; ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon; Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2020-0060

Abstract

The concept of sociological imagination, originally proposed by Charles Wright Mill, is a classic of Sociology. This paper aims to present and discuss the sociological imagination projecting its heuristic capacity in contemporary society, in which the digital is a novelty vis-a-vis the original social context that shaped this proposal. The results of this analysis allow concluding that there are some contemporary challenges to be considered in this crucial analytical proposal in Sociology.