C. Wright Mills is well known as an important sociologist of the social stratification of the United States, 2 a critic of mainstream sociology and the social sciences of the 1950s, 3 and as a trenchant commentator on US politics.
C. WRIGHT MILLS, SOCIOLOGY, AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2011. HOWARD BRICK. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Extract. How are we to grasp the genealogy of the "public intellectual"?
"Throwing the Sociological Imagination into the Garbage: Using Students' Waste Disposal Habits to Illustrate C. Wright Mills's …
RICHARD HOFSTADTER, С. WRIGHT MILLS, AND "THE CRITICAL IDEAL* to believe: that the mind, far from having reached "the end of its tether," is still a potent force in human affairs. It is this message that continues to appeal with special poignancy to our own dour and anxious times. I Richard Hofstadter and C. Wright Mills met in 1942 as young
C. Wright Mills' famous essay, "The Sociological Imagination," is the most frequently assigned reading in sociology syllabi …
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the contributions of C. Wright Mills. A half century after his death in 1962 at the age of forty-five, Mills remains one of the most admired and controversial social thinkers of our time.
The recent publication of The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills' study of American society, has aroused a great deal of discussion and controversy in the press. Perhaps because it contains a caustic criticism of much that is happening in American society and to American thought, the book evoked strong reactions from many reviewers.
C. Wright Mills was born in Waco, Texas on August 28th, 1916. His father was an insurance agent originally from Florida, his mother – Frances Wright Mills – was Texas born and bred. In the 1920s the family moved to Dallas, with Mills graduating from Dallas High School in 1934. He then went on to Texas Agricultur…
Understanding the significance of Mills' approach, we argue, requires grasping the way the notion of 'milieu' or 'setting' itself draws upon spatial and topological notions – notions that have become prominent in much contemporary sociological thinking.