About C. Wright Mills
American sociologist (1916–1962), professor at Columbia University and a fierce critic of mainstream social science. A forerunner of the New Left who urged a politically engaged 'sociological imagination,' Mills wrote White Collar and The Power Elite before his early death; the latter remains a touchstone of elite theory.
Books by C. Wright Mills
The Power Elite
The classic sociological case that real power in modern America is concentrated in a few interlocking hands. Mills argues that the leaders of the corporate, military, and political worlds form a single 'power elite' who…
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A passionate manifesto for what social science is for. Mills argues that the 'sociological imagination' — the capacity to connect personal experience ('private troubles') to large historical and structural forces ('publ…
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