Why Is C. Wright Mills Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals. He is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the US political, military, and economic elites; White Collar: The American Middle Classes, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, which presents a model of analysis for the interdependence of subjective experiences within a person's biography, the general social structure, and historical development.
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1940 1950 1960 0 1250 2500 3750 5000 6250 7500 8750 10000 11250 12500 Published Papers The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (11039) The Sociological Imagination (4053) Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive (2216) The Power Elite. (2106) The Sociological Imagination (1888) The Power Elite (1292) White Collar: The American Middle Classes. (950) Essays in Sociology. (633) The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists (587) The Social Life of a Modern Community. (529) From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (453) Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions (239) Character and Social Structure (221) Power, Politics, and People. (159) Language, Logic, and Culture (138) The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders. (103) Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (99) The Causes Of World War Three (97) The Structure of Power in American Society (94) The Sociological Imagination (93) The new men of power (89) Sociology and pragmatism : the higher learning in America (85) The Lonely Crowd (85) The Academic Man. (81) From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (64) What reading does to people (63) Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge (60) Images of Man. (55) Listen, Yankee : the revolution in Cuba (43) The Puerto Rican journey : New York's newest migrants (42) The American Business Elite: A Collective Portrait * (41) Power, Politics and People. The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (38) The Puerto Rican Journey (34) Images of Man: The Classic Tradition in Sociological Thinking. (33) The New Men of Power -- America's Labor Leaders. (30) A Marx for the Managers (24) The new sociology : essays in social science and social theory in honor of C. Wright Mills (18) The Middle Classes in Middle-Sized Cities (18) The Powerless People: The Social Rôle of the Intellectual (17) Two Styles of Research in Current Social Studies (15) The Middle Classes in Middle-Sized Cities: The Stratification and Political Position of Small Business and White Collar Strata (14) The Sociological Imagination. New York (Grove Press) 1959. (14) The New Middle Class, II (13) The new sociology (13) International Relations and Sociology: Discussion (11) Castro's Cuba : the revolution in Cuba (6) Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry. (6) THE TRADE UNION LEADER: A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT (6) Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers. By Floyd Hunter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953. 297 pp. $5.00 (6) On Knowledge and Power (6) The Puerto Rican Journey, New York’s Newest Migrants (4) Psychology and Social Science (4) Men in Business: Essays in the History of Entrepreneurship. (2) The human enterprise : an attempt to relate philosophy to daily life (2) Vectors in Group Change.Lewis Henry Rohrbaugh (1) Power, Politics and People.@@@Pitirim A. Sorokin in Review. (1) The Status Sphere (1) Values, Politics, and Sociology@@@The Sociological Imagination. (1) The New Middle Class, I (1) Problems of the Postwar World. (0) Mills and Radical Politics (0) The Counterfeit Revolution.Sidney Lens (0) Book Review:Higher Civil Servants in American Society. Reinhard Bendix (0) Trade Unions in the New Society , by Harold J. Laski (New York: Viking Press [Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada], 1949, pp. x, 182, $4.00). (0) WHYTE, WILLIAM F. (Ed.). Industry and Society. Pp. vi, 211. New York: Mc Graw-Hill Book Co., 1946. $2.50 (0) The Great Debate, Continued (0) Ethnic Group Status, Class, Gender and Anomie: beyond Single-factor Effects (0) Letter to: Hon. Jesus T. Piñero from The Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, June 15, 1948. (0) Power Elite (0) Chapter 2 Expressive Preference Aggregation Settings (0) Book Review:Symposium on the Significance of Max Scheler for Philosophy and Social Science. Marvin Farber (0) Book Review:The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics. Philip Selznick (0) Letters to the Editor (0) Reason and Freedom (0) The Lonely Crowd@@@White Collar (0) Foundations of the Social Sciences.Otto Neurath (0) The CFR: Fifty Years of Imperialism (0) CENTERS, RICHARD. The Psychology of Social Classes. Pp. xii, 244. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1949. $3.50 (0) OCCUPATIONAL MYTHS (0) 権力・政治・民衆 (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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