In sociology, there is a particular emphasis on the relevance of W. Mills’ contribution
with his proposal of the sociological imagination as a way to display knowledge in
society and to elaborate its transformation alternatives. In the present conversation, the
Chilean sociologist Manuel Canales Cerón reflects on the ways in which the dense
observation of youth dynamics in diverse historical processes allows such kind of
understanding of social matters. In order to achieve it, Canales connects his own
biography as a sociology student, as an educator inside working-class neighborhoods
during dictatorship, and as a social scientist today, joining his life story, historical context
and structural conditions throughout his reflection; all these three dimensions are
simultaneously the three dimensions he applies in his job in order to analyze youthrelated matters critically, and the three dimensions supporting the proposal of
sociological imagination.
Canales Cerón, M., & Duarte Quapper, K. (2020). Sociological imagination to study youths. Última Década, 28(54), 216–227. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/61499
