Charles Wright Mills

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PhD Sociology University of Wisconsin–Madison

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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1948) (11500)
The Sociological Imagination (1960) (4396)
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive (1940) (2314)
Power Elite (1956) (2285)
White Collar: The American Middle Classes. (1954) (994)
Essays in Sociology. (1947) (620)
The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists (1943) (605)
The Social Life of a Modern Community. (1942) (563)
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946) (537)
From Max Weber (1991) (492)
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998) (345)
Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions (1964) (256)
Character and Social Structure (1956) (226)
Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions (2014) (200)
Power, Politics, and People. (1965) (157)
Language, Logic, and Culture (1939) (141)
Race and racism in international relations : confronting the global colour line (2015) (132)
Racial Liberalism (2008) (107)
The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders. (1949) (107)
Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (1963) (102)
The Causes Of World War Three (1958) (101)
Global white ignorance (2015) (97)
The new men of power (1948) (93)
Sociology and pragmatism : the higher learning in America (1967) (92)
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003) (91)
The Academic Man. (1942) (86)
The Lonely Crowd (1959) (82)
The domination contract (2013) (80)
Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy (2015) (78)
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism (2014) (66)
What reading does to people (1940) (64)
Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge (1940) (63)
Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls (2009) (62)
Images of Man. (1961) (54)
Listen, Yankee : the revolution in Cuba (1960) (48)
The Structure of Power in American Society (1958) (48)
``Heart'' Attack: A Critique of Jorge Garcia's Volitional Conception of Racism (2003) (46)
Race and the Social Contract Tradition (2000) (46)
The Puerto Rican journey : New York's newest migrants (1950) (42)
WHITE TIME (2014) (41)
The American Business Elite: A Collective Portrait (1945) (40)
Images of Man: The Classic Tradition in Sociological Thinking. (1960) (39)
The politics of truth : selected writings of C. Wright Mills (2008) (36)
Power, Politics and People. The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (1964) (35)
The Puerto Rican Journey (1950) (34)
Race and Global Justice (2015) (34)
Response to Juliet Hooker’s review of Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (2018) (33)
"But What Are You Really?": The Metaphysics of Race (2000) (29)
C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings (2001) (28)
The New Men of Power -- America's Labor Leaders. (1949) (28)
Critical Race Theory (2009) (27)
A Marx for the Managers (1942) (26)
Multiculturalism as/and/or Anti-Racism? (2007) (24)
On intellectual craftsmanship (1952) (1980) (24)
The new sociology : essays in social science and social theory in honor of C. Wright Mills (1965) (21)
The Racial Contract revisited: still unbroken after all these years (2015) (21)
The Powerless People: The Social Rôle of the Intellectual (1945) (21)
The Middle Classes in Middle-Sized Cities (1949) (18)
RACE IN A “POSTRACIAL” EPOCH (2014) (17)
Letters and autobiographical writings (2000) (16)
Two Styles of Research in Current Social Studies (1953) (15)
The Middle Classes in Middle-Sized Cities: The Stratification and Political Position of Small Business and White Collar Strata (1946) (14)
The new sociology (1964) (13)
The Sociological Imagination. New York (Grove Press) 1959. (1959) (13)
The Sociology of Knowledge and Its Consciousness (2006) (13)
The New Middle Class, II (1951) (13)
Science as a Vocation (2014) (12)
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (2010) (12)
Breaking the Racial Contract (2015) (11)
International Relations and Sociology: Discussion (1948) (11)
Occupy Liberalism!: Or Ten Reasons Why Liberalism Cannot Be Retrieved for Radicalism (And Why They're All Wrong) (2012) (10)
The American Lawyer: A Summary of the Survey of the Legal Profession (1972) (10)
Getting out of the Cave: Tension between Democracy and Elitism in Marx's Theory of Cognitive Liberation (1990) (9)
Notes from the resistance: some comments on Sally Haslanger’s Resisting Reality (2014) (8)
Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers. By Floyd Hunter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953. 297 pp. $5.00 (1953) (7)
Vice’s Vicious Virtues: The Supererogatory as Obligatory (2011) (6)
THE TRADE UNION LEADER: A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT (1945) (6)
Castro's Cuba : the revolution in Cuba (1961) (6)
INTRODUCTION: THE MAN AND HIS WORK (2014) (6)
On Knowledge and Power (1955) (6)
The Puerto Rican Journey, New York’s Newest Migrants (1951) (5)
India: The Brahman and the Castes (2014) (5)
Psychology and Social Science (1958) (4)
5.Revisionist Ontologies Theorizing White Supremacy (2018) (4)
COMMENTARY C. Wright Mills, Power Structure Research, and the Failures of Mainstream Political Science (2010) (4)
Rousseau, the Master's Tools, and Anti-Contractarian Contractarianism (2009) (4)
Determination and Consciousness in Marx (1989) (3)
Schwartzman vs. Okin: Some Comments on Challenging Liberalism (2009) (3)
The human enterprise : an attempt to relate philosophy to daily life (1940) (2)
Racism and modernity. Festschrift for Wulf D. Hund (2011) (2)
Under Class Under Standings (1994) (2)
Intersectional Meditations: A Reply to Kathryn Gines and Shannon Sullivan (2017) (2)
An Englishman Abroad: Robert Bernasconi’s Work on Race (2017) (2)
Race, Liberalism, and Global Justice: Interview with Charles W. Mills (2021) (1)
Note Ken Plummer ( 2001 ) . Documents of Life 2 : An Invitation to a Critical Humanism (2001) (1)
Industrial Exemption and Conservatism (2017) (1)
The Belief in Luck (2017) (1)
Is it immaterial that there's a ‘material’ in ‘historical materialism'? (1989) (1)
racial realities and corrective justice (2013) (1)
Locke on slavery (2021) (1)
Comments on Lorraine Code's ecological thinking: The politics of epistemic location (2008) (1)
Better Dread (if Still Dead) than Red: High‐Brown Passing in John Hearne's Voices Under The Window (2017) (1)
Power, Politics and People.@@@Pitirim A. Sorokin in Review. (1963) (1)
The Wretched of Middle‐Earth: An Orkish Manifesto ☆ (2022) (1)
The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture (2017) (1)
Class, Status, Party (2014) (1)
Epistemological Ignorance (2019) (1)
Vectors in Group Change.Lewis Henry Rohrbaugh (1942) (1)
The Status Sphere (1953) (1)
Values, Politics, and Sociology@@@The Sociological Imagination. (1960) (1)
Artificial Persons, Natural Sub-Persons: Hobbes’s Aristotelian Contractarianism (2011) (1)
Stacy Clifford Simplican: The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. ix, 181.) (2016) (1)
The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics. Shalini Puri (ed.). London: Routledge, 2010. xix + 136 pp. (Cloth US$ 125.00) (2013) (1)
Pecuniary Canons of Taste (2017) (1)
Book Review:Symposium on the Significance of Max Scheler for Philosophy and Social Science. Marvin Farber (1944) (0)
OCCUPATIONAL MYTHS (0)
Contractarianism as Method: Rawls contra Mills (2008) (0)
The Conservation of Archaic Traits (2017) (0)
Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos. By Juliet Hooker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 296p. $53.00 cloth. (2018) (0)
Rethinking Propaganda and Ideology: Some Comments on Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works (2018) (0)
Foundations of the Social Sciences.Otto Neurath (1945) (0)
Chapter 2 Expressive Preference Aggregation Settings (0)
The Middle Class (1998) (0)
Interview with Professor Charles Mills (2016) (0)
Reason and Freedom (1969) (0)
The Color of Freedom: Race and Contemporary American Liberalism. By David Carroll Cochran. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Pp. ix+207. $17.95 (paper). (2001) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1952) (0)
Ethnic Group Status, Class, Gender and Anomie: beyond Single-factor Effects (0)
Red Peril to the Green Island: The 'Communist Threat' to Jamaica in Genre Fiction, 1955-1969 (1988) (0)
Dark Mores: Some Comments on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2019) (0)
Breaching Cosmopolitan Theory's Global Color Line (2022) (0)
Improving Our Habits: Peirce and Meliorism (2008) (0)
TV. The Emigre Scholar and His American Disciple: An Epistolary Note (1993) (0)
Book Review:The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics. Philip Selznick (1953) (0)
Clerical Labour: Some Early Arguments (1983) (0)
Problems of the Postwar World. (1945) (0)
The Pecuniary Standard of Living (2017) (0)
Black Counterpublic Philosophy? Some Comments on George Yancy's Across Black Spaces (2021) (0)
Book Reviews 559 Patterns of Political Elite Mobility in Modern China, 1912-1949. By (2008) (0)
Re-Theorizing Justice: Some Comments on Amartya Sen's the Idea of Justice (2011) (0)
The 'Racial Contract' as Methodology (Not Hypothesis): Reply to Jorge Garcia (2002) (0)
Black Liberation from White ‘Liberty’: Some Comments on Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage (2017) (0)
Book Review Symposium: Handbook of Trust Research, edited by Reinhard Bachmann and Akbar Zaheer. Chelten- (2007) (0)
Structures of Power (2014) (0)
Book Review: Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015) (2015) (0)
CENTERS, RICHARD. The Psychology of Social Classes. Pp. xii, 244. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1949. $3.50 (1950) (0)
Comments on John Arthur's Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History (2009) (0)
Book Review:Higher Civil Servants in American Society. Reinhard Bendix (1952) (0)
Excerpts from “The Structure of Power in American Society” (2020) (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). (1950) (0)
Letter to: Hon. Jesus T. Piñero from The Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, June 15, 1948. (1948) (0)
The Great Debate, Continued (1959) (0)
Notes from the resistance: some comments on Sally Haslanger’s Resisting Reality (2013) (0)
National Character and the Junkers (2014) (0)
Modern Survivals of Prowess (2017) (0)
The Lonely Crowd@@@White Collar (1952) (0)
Comments on John Pittman's 'MacIntyre on Tradition' (1992) (0)
The New Middle Class, I (1951) (0)
WHYTE, WILLIAM F. (Ed.). Industry and Society. Pp. vi, 211. New York: Mc Graw-Hill Book Co., 1946. $2.50 (1947) (0)
New Left Project Interview with Charles Mills (2017) (0)
The Red and the Black (2021) (0)
Dark Mores: Some Comments on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2019) (0)
Mills and Radical Politics (1963) (0)
Comments on Shannon Sullivan's Revealing Whiteness (2007) (0)
権力・政治・民衆 (1971) (0)
Introduction to the new edition (2003) (0)
Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest (2017) (0)
European Spectres (1999) (0)
Breach of Fiduciary Duty as Securities Fraud: SEC v. Chancellor Corp. (2005) (0)
The Counterfeit Revolution.Sidney Lens (1953) (0)
The CFR: Fifty Years of Imperialism (1971) (0)

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