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Charles Wright Mills

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born

August 28, 1917 in Waco, Texas, The United States

died

March 20, 1961

gender

male

website

http://www.cwrightmills.org/

genre

Social Sciences

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Karl Marx

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American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship between biography and history, theory and method in sociological scholarship. He is also known for studying the structures of power and class in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated public, political engagement over uninterested observation.

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Books by Charles Wright Mills

Average rating: 3.97 · 261 ratings · 4 reviews · 19 distinct works

	The Sociological Imagination by Charles Wright Mills, Todd Gitlin 4.08 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1959 — 8 editions	My rating:
	White Collar: The American Middle Classes by Charles Wright Mills, Russell Jacoby (Afterword) 3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1951 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Power Elite by Wright C. Mills, Alan Wolfe, Wright C. Mills 4.01 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1956 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Marxists 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills by Charles Wright Mills, Irving Louis Horowitz (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1960	My rating:
	Images of Man: The Classic Tradition in Sociological Thinking 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1960	My rating:
	Letters and Autobiographical Writings by Charles Wright Mills, Pamela Mills (Editor), Kathryn Mills (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Causes Of World War Three 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The New Men Of Power; America's Labor Leaders 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Charles Wright Mills

“Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist”
― Charles Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

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“Nie można zrozumieć ani życia jednostki, ani życia społeczeństwa, nie odnosząc jednego do drugiego.”
― Charles Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

tags: science , society , sociology

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“Wiele ważnych problemów publicznych, podobnie jak wiele prywatnych kłopotów, opisuje się w kategoriach „psychiatrycznych” – często, jak się wydaje, w żałosnej próbie ucieczki przed wielkimi problemami i pytaniami nowoczesnego społeczeństwa.”
― Charles Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

tags: social-problems , society