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C. Wright Mills, American sociologist who, with Hans H. Gerth, applied and popularized Max Weber's theories in the United States. He also applied Karl Mannheim's theories on …
C. Wright Mills, American sociologist who, with Hans H. Gerth, applied and popularized Max Weber's theories in the United States. He also applied Karl Mannheim's theories on …
Understanding the significance of Mills' approach, we argue, requires grasping the way the notion of 'milieu' or 'setting' itself draws upon spatial and …
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the contributions of C. Wright Mills. A half century after his death in 1962 at the age of forty-five, Mills remains one of the most …
This paper revisits and presents a critical appraisal of Mills's analysis of power and the power elite. There are signs of a revival of interest in Mills, but recent …
Today, Mills looks even better than he did 50 years ago in his characterization of the benefactors of American capitalism as a cor-porate rich led by the chief executives of …
This chapter reviews C. Wright Mills's analysis of power and the elites of his era in his three major texts of the 1940s and 1950s.
Abstract. Although Mills was only age 45 years when he died, he had become the leading critic of the nation and its conscience. Mills insisted that for intellectuals, work and …
Charles Wright Mills (1916–62) Sociologist. Faculty 1945–62. A public intellectual whose impact on sociology reverberates more than four decades after his death, C. Wright Mills turned a practiced eye on what …
Letters and Autobiographical Writings: C. Wright Mills. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
This chapter examines The Power Elite, a radical work by C. Wright Mills that challenges the foundations of US liberal democracy and analyses the conditions under which …