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C. Wright Mills - 1916-1962 -  United States


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Conflict Theory


Reading

The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders (1948), 

White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951) contends that the titular workforce is politically conservative because members tend to identify with the companies the work for

The Power Elite (1956) describes the relationship between political, military, and business leaders, noting that such individuals are often graduates of certain universities, are members of the same exclusive social and country clubs, and usually intermarry with other elites

The Causes of World War Three (1958)

The Sociological Imagination (1959) describes a mindset for doing sociology that stresses being able to connect individual experiences and societal relationships

Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba (1960),

The Marxists (1962).

 


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Commentary

C. Wright Mills, an American Utopian (1983). Irving Louis Horowitz. 

C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings (2000). Kathryn and Pamela Mills (eds).

 


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