Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination

by J. David Knottnerus (Editor), Bernard S. Phillips (Editor), Douglas Hartmann (Contributor)

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described continues to define our world more than ever before. In Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many pressing social, environmental, and economic problems.

208 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2009