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Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linkin...

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Character And Social Structure: The Psychology Of Social Institutions

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inheren...

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People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. The...

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Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. ...

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P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between ...

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The Sociological Imagination

p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason...

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The Sociological Imagination

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our ...

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Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understandi...

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The Sociological Imagination

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

When white-collar people get jobs they sell not only their time and energy but their personalities...

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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to ...

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C. Wright Mills

Sociologist

Born: 1916-08-28

Died: 1962-03-20

C. Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society. He advocated relevance and engagement over disinterested academic observation as a "public intelligence apparatus" in challenging the policies of the institutional elites in the "Three" (the economic, political and military).More