米尔斯强调通过个人经历与历史经验提炼学术灵感的思维方式，然而其对社会学想象力的理解存在一定的时代局限性。在当代社会背景下，“数智想象力”作为一种能够从局部数据实现视角转换与跃迁，进而认知社会总体的心智能力，理应成为社会学想象力的重要组成部分。社会学研究中的数智想象力涵盖九种思维模式：逆向思维、外生思维、可视思维、借喻思维、仿真思维、延展思维、跃迁思维、预测思维以及具象思维。这一新型想象力不仅是构建中国自主知识体系的关键实践能力，也能为社会科学其他学科提供重要的方法论借鉴。

社会学想象力, 数智想象力, 米尔斯峡谷, 后米尔斯时代, 定量研究

C. Wright Mills emphasized a mode of thinking that draws academic inspiration from personal experiences and historical contexts, yet his conceptualization of sociological imagination has certain constraints of its time. In the contemporary social landscape, digital-intelligence imagination, as a cognitive capacity to achieve perspective shifts and transitions from localized data to a comprehensive understanding of society, should become an essential component of sociological imagination. Digital-intelligence imagination in sociological research encompasses nine cognitive modes: reverse thinking, exogenous thinking, visual thinking, metaphorical thinking, simulation thinking, expansive thinking, transitional thinking, predictive thinking, and concrete thinking. This new form of imagination is not only a key practical capability in constructing China’s independent knowledge system but also a valuable source of methodological insights for other disciplines in the social sciences.

sociological imagination, digital-intelligence imagination, Mills canyon, post-Mills era, quantitative research