Charles Lemert Quotes & Sayings

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased. — Charles Lemert

The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn - often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling - to realize that, just as often, one's personal troubles are in fact public issues. — Charles Lemert