Summary Of The Promise And America's Knowledge Deficit

The Promise by Wright Mills and America’s Knowledge Deficit by Professor Barber relate in the sense that they urge us to consider a larger, justice perspective. The Promise discusses the social imagination, which means having the ability to see things in someone else's perspective and having the knowledge of how individual life and society correlate. The Promise also discusses the difference between an individuals personal troubles and a social issue. Moreover, America’s Knowledge Deficit speaks about what is to distinguish episteme or true Knowledge, and doxa, opinion and the their roles in politics and life. In both these texts, the authors point out that these greater perspectives are lacked by many people in society. Mills points out that