Our future: sociological imagination matters

Mills gave a very precise definition of sociological imagination: The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. Taking it seriously, we can trace a dyachronic parabola of images of modernity across individual biography, societal interactions and historical heritage: references from artistic productions start with an eroic, picaresque and epistemic conqueror to a pioneer, lone wolf ending as a hallow man within a land wasted by Fordization in body and nature, social life and knowledge endeavors. Concepts as homo clausus (Norbert Elias), Narcissism (Christopher Lasch) and medicalization (Frank Furedi) are used to diagnose modern myths as reductionism, individualism and relativism from which our sociological imagination has to find a quick and resolute way out to re-image social future.