Name: Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills
Rating: 4.3 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9780195007527

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Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills

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Collects the major writings of the distinguished sociologist concerned with the relation of power to responsibility in the twentieth century

GenresSociologyPoliticsEssaysNonfictionPhilosophyPolitical ScienceHistory

670 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1963

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American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship between biography and history, theory and method in sociological scholarship. He is also known for studying the structures of power and class in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated public, political engagement over uninterested observation.

Mills died from a heart attack on March 20, 1962.

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Chris Gager

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December 7, 2019

Only one of a massive reading list for a Sociology course I "took" at Yale in the fall of 1964. This is the only one I remember but I don't remember any of it. Didn't read anything and flunked the course and was soon gone from the Ivy league forever. A sad tale from my bleeped up youth. Sociology books - UGH! Date (partially)read is approximate.

Jesse

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September 26, 2007

Powerful collection of essays, great to have and keep around for years and read over and over.

Emma

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December 5, 2022

First book I read for fun after grad school when I couldn't quite kick sociological texts. Each essay is incredibly interesting.

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Carlo

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February 28, 2009

Read this collection of Mills in June 1968. In addition to Mills own analysis, he always suggested other writers: Veblen, Beauvoir, Neumann, Fromm, Adorno, Horkheimer. Along with Marcuse's 'One Dimensional Man' (read Jan. 1969), Mills' books provided intellectual/political framework for 60s students. A short version of these essays appeared recently as 'The Politics of Truth', but it was the texts of 'Power, Politics and People' which were read by Tom Hayden and other SDSers in the 60s.