2022 Volume 21 Pages 73-80
How can we teach sociological imagination to high school students and beginners of sociology? I explain to them that the most important theme of sociology is the understanding of others and the difficulties of understanding others. I have written paperbacks on sociology for beginners: the themes of these paperbacks are self-evidentness, everyday life world, presentness, and otherness. For beginners, these themes are very important to understand sociology and to develop their own sociological imagination. The reason why I continue to write paperbacks is to express the attraction of sociology freely beyond various restrictions of textual style. In order to familiarize high school students with sociology, we should think about the following question, how can we invite them into the world of sociology by plain, intelligible and fascinating style to liberate them from their “radius of several meters everyday world” and to invite them into civil society.
