C. Wright Mills

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C. Wright Mills


Born
in Waco, Texas, The United States
August 28, 1916

Died
March 20, 1962

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Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite , White Collar: The American Middle Classes and The Sociological Imagination .

Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era." It was Mills who popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S., in a
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The Sociological Imagination

4.16 avg rating — 3,286 ratings — published 1959 — 82 editions
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The Power Elite

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White Collar: The American ...

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4.04 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 1951 — 56 editions
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The Marxists

3.53 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1962 — 16 editions
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Listen, Yankee:  The Revolu...

3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1960 — 14 editions
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Power, Politics and People:...

4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions
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The Causes of World War Three

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Letters and Autobiographica...

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Sobre o artesanato intelect...

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The New Men of Power; Ameri...

3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions
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“Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist”
C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

“People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.”
Charles Wright Mills

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