2021, issue 46, Angela Maria Zocchi and Rossella Di Federico: In the second half of the 1950s, Charles Wright Mills, in The Sociological Imagination, drew attention to the usefulness of writing down, in a diary, “marginal thoughts”, putting his life experience at the service of his intellectual work [1]. That is, writing down ideas that can be considered as "by-products of everyday life, fragments of conversation caught in the street, or maybe dreams”.
