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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 ...
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.
The Marxists is a 1962 book about Marxism by the sociologist C. Wright Mills. Reception. The political scientist David McLellan praised The Marxists, ...
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 ...
In Protestant Christianity, a day of humiliation or fasting was a publicly proclaimed day of fasting and prayer in response to an event thought to signal God's judgement. A day of thanksgiving was a day set aside for public worship in thanksgiving for events believed to signal God's mercy and favor. Such a day might be proclaimed by the civil ...
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From this point of view, it is probably Mills' most private book. The familiarity with the studied object as a lived matter undoubtedly refers to Mills himself and his own experiences. As Mills described it: In a society of employees, dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great ...
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