Mills insisted that for intellectuals, work and nonwork are inseparable. The author examines the relationship between Mills' theory of social structure and his biography. For data, the …
Mills is regarded as the father of the modern conflict theory; he regards society as a dynamic entity constantly undergoing change as a result of competition over scarce resources. Most of these ideas have been originated from Marx's theory on …
"Throwing the Sociological Imagination into the Garbage: Using Students' Waste Disposal Habits to Illustrate C. Wright Mills's Concept." Teaching Sociology 36(2):150–5. Crossref
This chapter reviews C. Wright Mills's analysis of power and the elites of his era in his three major texts of the 1940s and 1950s.
This presentation is based on the theory of C. Wright Mills as presented in books listed in the bibliography. A summary of this and other macro-social theories can be found in …
C. Wright Mills was one of the most important critics of Talcott Parsons who succeeded in establishing the image of Parsons as a conservative "grand theorist" out of …
Mills developed a distinctive political sociological understanding of international politics, theorising the state as a historically-situated structural determinant …
This paper revisits and presents a critical appraisal of Mills's analysis of power and the power elite. There are signs of a revival of interest in Mills, but recent …
