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2. C. Wright Mills - Wikipedia

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   C. Wright Mills was born in Waco, Texas, on August 28, 1916. His father, Charles Grover Mills (1889-1973), worked as an insurance broker, leaving his family to constantly move around; his mother, Frances Ursula (Wright) Mills (1893-1989), was a homemaker. [15] His parents were pious and middle class, with an Irish-English background. Mills was ...

3. The Power Elite - Wikipedia

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   The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of the American society and suggests that the ordinary citizen in modern times is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those three entities.

4. Grand theory - Wikipedia

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   Grand theory is a term coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination [1] to refer to the form of highly abstract theorizing in which the formal organization and arrangement of concepts takes priority over understanding the social reality. In his view, grand theory is more or less separate from concrete ...

5. White Collar: The American Middle Classes - Wikipedia

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   The issues in this book were close to Mills' own background; his father was an insurance agent, and he himself, at that time, worked as a white-collar research worker in a bureaucratic organization at Paul Lazarsfeld's Bureau for Social Research at Columbia University. From this point of view, it is probably Mills' most private book.

6. Sociological imagination - Wikipedia

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   It was coined by American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. [ 2 ] : 5, 7 Today, the term is used in many sociology textbooks to explain the nature of sociology and its relevance in daily life.

7. Metro Detroit to see Flower Moon on May 23: Meaning behind ...

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   Michigan will see the Flower Moon, May's full moon, this week. The full moon will occur Thursday morning, with its peak around 9:53 a.m.

8. Elite - Wikipedia

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   American sociologist C. Wright Mills states that members of the elite accept their fellows' position of importance in society. [2] "As a rule, 'they accept one another, understand one another, marry one another, tend to work, and to think, if not together at least alike'." [3] [4] It is a well-regulated existence where education plays a ...

9. Trump visits Detroit church in bid to court Black voters - AOL

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   DETROIT (Reuters) -Donald Trump ventured on Saturday where few Republican presidential candidates tread – the city of Detroit, attending a community forum as part of a push to peel Black voters ...