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C. Wright Mills

Born

in Waco, Texas, The United States

August 28, 1917

Died

March 20, 1962

Website

http://www.cwrightmills.org/

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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.

Mills died from a heart attack on March 20, 1962.

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	The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, Amitai Etzioni (Contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 2,850 ratings — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills, Alan Wolfe 4.14 avg rating — 1,435 ratings — published 1956 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Collar: The American Middle Classes by C. Wright Mills, Russell Jacoby (Afterword) 4.02 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1951 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marxists 3.52 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1962 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1960 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills by C. Wright Mills, Irving Louis Horowitz (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters and Autobiographical Writings by C. Wright Mills, Pamela Mills (Editor), Kathryn Mills (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Causes of World War Three 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Men of Power; America's Labor Leaders 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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

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“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
― Charles Wright Mills

tags: choice, freedom

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