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الملخص EN

The theory includes the collection of organized knowledge and hypotheses through which it is possible to experimentally verify the phenomenon and predict the directions of its development, or in that it can reveal some scientific problems.

without theory, the facts that scientists gather through their observations become an unhelpful, disorganized swarm of observations.

there are among sociologists those whose work is limited to simply collecting partial facts about some aspects of social life without these facts leading to the formulation of a general theory about society and without being guided in collecting these facts by a general theory.

which makes this research worthless, or at best little in terms of development scientific knowledge of human society.

there is another group of sociologists who formulate general theories about society that are speculative or librarian without these theories relying on observed facts and verifying their validity and without testing the generalizations and conclusions that these theories contain.

Wright Mills called the first group the proponents of obstructed empiricism, and the second group the proponents of grand theories.

Mills shows the sterility of the two trends, and that each of them hinders the growth of sociology and impedes access to a sound scientific understanding of social phenomena.

Results : from the foregoing, it is clear that Mills' perception of the field of sociology and its tasks had many methodological results.

he did not try to imitate his contemporaries of sociology researchers in collecting quantitative data on social phenomena, and he was also displeased with all forms of abstraction, because his interest was focused on studying a specific society in a specific time and place, and his goal was to understand this society in its historical, spatial, social and cultural borders, and to spread this understanding to the people in the society and the world in which they live.