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Wright Mills – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="C. Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills" title="C. Wright Mills – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="C. Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B7_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82_%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%81" title="Чарлз Райт Мілс – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Чарлз Райт Мілс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C._%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B2" title="سی. رایت میلز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سی. رایت میلز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B0%B0%EC%8A%A4_%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8_%EB%B0%80%EC%8A%A4" title="찰스 라이트 밀스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="찰스 라이트 밀스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AC%D5%A6_%D5%8C%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A9_%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%BD" title="Չարլզ Ռայթ Միլս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Չարլզ Ռայթ Միլս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%99._%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%A1" title="סי. רייט מילס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סי. רייט מילס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%BF.%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%88%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಸಿ.ರೈಟ್ ಮಿಲ್ಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಸಿ.ರೈಟ್ ಮಿಲ್ಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8C%C4%81rlzs_Raits_Milss" title="Čārlzs Raits Milss – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Čārlzs Raits Milss" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA" title="ライト・ミルズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ライト・ミルズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills" title="C. Wright Mills – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="C. Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills" title="C. Wright Mills – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="C. Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80._%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%88%E0%A8%9F_%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC" title="ਸੀ. ਰਾਈਟ ਮਿਲਜ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸੀ. ਰਾਈਟ ਮਿਲਜ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%81,_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82" title="Миллс, Чарльз Райт – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Миллс, Чарльз Райт" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%BD_%D9%85%D9%84%D8%B2" title="رائٽ ملز – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="رائٽ ملز" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%81_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%98%D1%82_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%81" title="Чарлс Рајт Милс – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Чарлс Рајт Милс" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wright_Mills" title="Charles Wright Mills – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Charles Wright Mills" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills" title="C. 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<div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Mills" title="Charles W. 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Mills</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American sociologist (1916–1962)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">C. Wright Mills</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:C._Wright_Mills_(1916%E2%80%931962).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/C._Wright_Mills_%281916%E2%80%931962%29.jpg/220px-C._Wright_Mills_%281916%E2%80%931962%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/C._Wright_Mills_%281916%E2%80%931962%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="282" data-file-height="353" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Charles Wright Mills</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1916-08-28</span>)</span>August 28, 1916<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Waco,_Texas" title="Waco, Texas">Waco, Texas</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 20, 1962<span style="display:none">(1962-03-20)</span> (aged 45)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/West_Nyack,_New_York" title="West Nyack, New York">West Nyack, New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Dorothy Helen Smith (<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1937; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1940; <abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1941; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1947)</li><li>Ruth Harper (<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1947; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1959)</li><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Yaroslava Surmach</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1959)<wbr /></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ph.D." class="mw-redirect" title="Ph.D.">PhD</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>A Sociological Account of Pragmatism</i> (1942)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral advisor</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howard_P._Becker" title="Howard P. Becker">Howard P. Becker</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a139_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a139-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Alsworth_Ross" title="Edward Alsworth Ross">Edward Alsworth Ross</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Influences</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Lazarsfeld" title="Paul Lazarsfeld">Paul Lazarsfeld</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallerstein2008_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallerstein2008-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Mannheim" title="Karl Mannheim">Karl Mannheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman1979481_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman1979481-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead" title="George Herbert Mead">George Herbert Mead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Neumann_(political_scientist)" title="Franz Neumann (political scientist)">Franz Neumann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce" title="Charles Sanders Peirce">Charles Sanders Peirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen" title="Thorstein Veblen">Thorstein Veblen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman1979491–493_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman1979491–493-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data">Sociology</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sub-discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Political_sociology" title="Political sociology">Political sociology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">School or tradition</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maryland">University of Maryland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Morris_Rosenberg_(sociologist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morris Rosenberg (sociologist)">Morris Rosenberg</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEElliott200112_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEElliott200112-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Collar:_The_American_Middle_Classes" title="White Collar: The American Middle Classes">White Collar</a></i> (1951)</li><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_Elite" title="The Power Elite">The Power Elite</a></i> (1956)</li><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sociological_Imagination" title="The Sociological Imagination">The Sociological Imagination</a></i> (1959)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable ideas</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elite_theory" title="Elite theory">Elite theory</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sociological_imagination" title="Sociological imagination">sociological imagination</a></li><li>criticism of <a href="/wiki/Abstract_empiricism" class="mw-redirect" title="Abstract empiricism">abstract empiricism</a></li><li>coining the term <i><a href="/wiki/Grand_theory" title="Grand theory">grand theory</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Influenced</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(sociologist)" title="Stanley Cohen (sociologist)">Stanley Cohen</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeeleySimon201140_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeeleySimon201140-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._William_Domhoff" title="G. William Domhoff">G. William Domhoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Hayden" title="Tom Hayden">Tom Hayden</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosabeth_Moss_Kanter" title="Rosabeth Moss Kanter">Rosabeth Moss Kanter</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Miliband" title="Ralph Miliband">Ralph Miliband</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTET._Mills201533_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTET._Mills201533-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teodor_Shanin" title="Teodor Shanin">Teodor Shanin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Appleman_Williams" title="William Appleman Williams">William Appleman Williams</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMattson200122_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMattson200122-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jock_Young" title="Jock Young">Jock Young</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYoung2014357_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYoung2014357-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Charles Wright Mills</b> (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">sociologist</a>, and a professor of sociology at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_Elite" title="The Power Elite">The Power Elite</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/White_Collar:_The_American_Middle_Classes" title="White Collar: The American Middle Classes">White Collar: The American Middle Classes</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sociological_Imagination" title="The Sociological Imagination">The Sociological Imagination</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary20091_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary20091-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–<a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on <a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a> social movements of the 1960s era."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary20091_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary20091-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was Mills who popularized the term <i>New Left</i> in the U.S. in a 1960 open letter, "Letter to the New Left".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills1960_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills1960-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>C. Wright Mills was born in <a href="/wiki/Waco,_Texas" title="Waco, Texas">Waco, Texas</a>, on August 28, 1916. His father, Charles Grover Mills (1889-1973), worked as an <a href="/wiki/Insurance_broker" title="Insurance broker">insurance broker</a>, leaving his family to constantly move around; his mother, Frances Ursula (Wright) Mills (1893-1989), was a homemaker.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman19845–6_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman19845–6-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents were pious and <a href="/wiki/Middle_class" title="Middle class">middle class</a>, with an Irish-English background. Mills was a choirboy in the Catholic Church of Waco, and he developed a lifelong aversion to Christianity. Although being brought up in an Anglo-Irish Catholic family, Mills strayed away from the church, defining himself as an atheist.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills attended <a href="/wiki/Dallas_High_School_(Texas)" title="Dallas High School (Texas)">Dallas Technical High School</a>, with an interest in engineering, and his parents were preparing him for a practical career in a rapidly industrializing world of Texas. His focuses of study besides engineering were algebra, physics, and <a href="/wiki/Mechanical_systems_drawing" title="Mechanical systems drawing">mechanical drawing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198313–14_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198313–14-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1934, Mills graduated from Dallas Technical High School, and his father pressed him to attend <a href="/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University" title="Texas A&M University">Texas A&M University</a>. To fulfill his father’s wishes, Mills attended the university, but he found the atmosphere "suffocating" and left after his first year.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhilips20051705_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhilips20051705-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He transferred to <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">the University of Texas at Austin</a> where he studied anthropology, social psychology, sociology, and philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At this time, the university was developing a strong department of graduate instruction in both the social and physical sciences.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198313–14_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198313–14-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills' benefited from this unique development, and he impressed professors with his powerful intellect.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman19845–6_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman19845–6-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1939, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology, as well as a master's in philosophy. By the time he graduated, he had already been published in the two leading sociology journals, the <i><a href="/wiki/American_Sociological_Review" title="American Sociological Review">American Sociological Review</a></i> and The <i><a href="/wiki/American_Journal_of_Sociology" title="American Journal of Sociology">American Journal of Sociology</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198340_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198340-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While studying at Texas, Mills met his first wife, Dorothy Helen Smith,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary20094_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary20094-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a fellow student seeking a master's degree in sociology. She had previously attended <a href="/wiki/University_of_Science_and_Arts_of_Oklahoma" title="University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma">Oklahoma College for Women</a>, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a34_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a34-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After their marriage, in 1937, Dorothy Helen, or "Freya", worked as a staff member of the director of the Women's Residence Hall at the University of Texas. She supported the couple while Mills completed his graduate work; she also typed, copied and edited much of his work, including his Ph.D. dissertation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a35_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a35-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, he met <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_Gerth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans Gerth (page does not exist)">Hans Gerth</a>, a German political refugee and a professor in the Department of Sociology. Although Mills did not take any courses with him, Gerth became a mentor and close friend. Together, Mills and Gerth translated and edited a few of <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a>'s works. Both collaborated on <i>Character and Social Structure,</i> a social psychology text.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This work combined Mills's understanding of socialization from his work in American Pragmatisim and Gerth's understanding of past and present societies.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mills received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> in 1942. His dissertation was entitled <i>A Sociological Account of Pragmatism: An Essay on the Sociology of Knowledge</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a77_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a77-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills refused to revise his dissertation while it was reviewed by his committee. It was later accepted without approval from the review committee.<sup id="cite_ref-Mills_Bio_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mills_Bio-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag needs to be fact-checked with the cited source(s). (May 2019)">verification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Mills left Wisconsin in early 1942, after he had been appointed Professor of Sociology at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park" title="University of Maryland, College Park">University of Maryland, College Park</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before Mills furthered his career, he avoided the draft by failing his physical due to <a href="/wiki/Hypertension" title="Hypertension">high blood pressure</a> and received a deferment. He was divorced from Freya in August 1940, but after a year he convinced Freya to change her mind. The couple remarried in March 1941. A few years later, their daughter, Pamela Mills, was born on January 15, 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this time, his work as an Associate Professor of Sociology from 1941 until 1945 at the University of Maryland, College Park, Mills's awareness and involvement in American politics grew. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Mills befriended the historians <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter" title="Richard Hofstadter">Richard Hofstadter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Freidel" title="Frank Freidel">Frank Freidel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_M._Stampp" title="Kenneth M. Stampp">Ken Stampp</a>. The four academics collaborated on many topics, and each wrote about contemporary issues of the war and how it affected American society.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a47_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a47-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While still at the University of Maryland, Mills began contributing "journalistic sociology" and opinion pieces to intellectual journals such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Leader" title="The New Leader">The New Leader</a></i>, as well as <i><a href="/wiki/Politics_(1940s_magazine)" title="Politics (1940s magazine)">Politics</a></i>, a journal established by his friend <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Macdonald" title="Dwight Macdonald">Dwight Macdonald</a> in 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198367–71_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198367–71-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his time at the University of Maryland, William Form befriended Mills and quickly recognized that "work overwhelmingly dominated" Mills's life.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills continued his work with Gerth while trying to publish Weber's "Class, Status, and Parties".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Form explains that Mills was determined to improve his writing after receiving criticism on one of his works; "Setting his portable Corona on the large coffee table in the living room, he would type triple-spaced on coarse yellow paper, revising the manuscript by writing between the lines with a sharp pencil. Unscrambling the additions and changes could present a formidable challenge. Each day before leaving for campus, he left a manuscript for Freya to retype."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1945, Mills moved to <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> after earning a research associate position at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Applied_Social_Research" title="Bureau of Applied Social Research">Bureau of Applied Social Research</a>. He separated from Freya with this move, and the couple later divorced a second time in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary200976_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary200976-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mills was appointed assistant professor in the university's sociology department in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary200976_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary200976-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills received a grant of $2,500 from the <a href="/wiki/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation" title="John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation">Guggenheim Foundation</a> in April 1945 to fund his research in 1946. During that time, he wrote <i>White Collar</i>, which was later published in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a81_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a81-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1946, Mills published <i>From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology</i>, a translation of <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Weber</a>'s essays co-authored with Hans Gerth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a47_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a47-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1953, the two published a second work, <i>Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a93_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a93-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1947, Mills married his second wife, Ruth Harper, a statistician at the Bureau of Applied Social Research. She worked with Mills on <i>New Men of Power</i> (1948), <i><a href="/wiki/White_Collar:_The_American_Middle_Classes" title="White Collar: The American Middle Classes">White Collar</a></i> (1951), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_Elite" title="The Power Elite">The Power Elite</a></i> (1956). In 1949, Mills and Harper moved to Chicago so that Mills could serve as a visiting professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>. Mills returned to teaching at Columbia University after a quarter at the University of Chicago, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology on July 1, 1950. In only six years, Mills was promoted to Professor of Sociology at Columbia on July 1, 1956. </p><p>In 1955, Harper gave birth to their daughter Kathryn. From 1956 to 1957, the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a>, where Mills acted as a <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Program" title="Fulbright Program">Fulbright</a> lecturer at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Copenhagen" title="University of Copenhagen">University of Copenhagen</a>. Mills and Harper separated in December 1957 and officially divorced in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a259_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a259-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_career">Later career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mills married his third wife, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaroslava_Surmach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yaroslava Surmach (page does not exist)">Yaroslava Surmach</a>, an American artist of Ukrainian descent, and settled in <a href="/wiki/Rockland_County,_New_York" title="Rockland County, New York">Rockland County</a>, New York, in 1959. Their son, Nikolas Charles, was born on June 19, 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a346_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a346-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In August 1960, Mills spent time in <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, where he worked on developing his text <i>Listen, Yankee</i>. He spent 16 days there, interviewing Cuban government officials and Cuban civilians. Mills asked them questions about whether the <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerrilla organization</a> that made the revolution was the same as a political party.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, Mills interviewed President <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, who claimed to have read and studied Mills's <i>The Power Elite</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a312_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a312-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Mills only spent a short amount of his time in Cuba with Castro, they got along well and Castro sent flowers when Mills died a few years later. Mills was a supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Fair_Play_for_Cuba_Committee" title="Fair Play for Cuba Committee">Fair Play for Cuba Committee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mills was described as a man in a hurry. Aside from his hurried nature, he was largely known for his combativeness. Both his private life – four marriages to three women, a child from each, and several affairs – and his professional life, which involved challenging and criticizing many of his professors and coworkers, have been characterized as "tumultuous.” He wrote a fairly obvious, though slightly veiled, essay in which he criticized the former chairman<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (October 2023)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> of the Wisconsin department, and called the senior theorist there, <a href="/wiki/Howard_P._Becker" title="Howard P. Becker">Howard P. Becker</a>, a "real fool.” <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERitzer2011215–217_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERitzer2011215–217-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During a visit to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, Mills was honored as a major critic of American society. While there he criticized censorship in the Soviet Union through his toast to an early Soviet leader who was "purged and murdered by the <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinists</a>." He toasted "To the day when the complete works of <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> are published in the Soviet Union!"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERitzer2011215–217_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERitzer2011215–217-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health">Health</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>C. Wright Mills struggled with poor health due to his heart. After receiving his doctorate in 1942, Mills had failed his Army physical exam due to having high blood pressure. Because of this he was excused from serving in the United States military during World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a biography of Mills by <a href="/wiki/Irving_Louis_Horowitz" title="Irving Louis Horowitz">Irving Louis Horowitz</a>, the author writes about Mills's acute awareness of his heart condition. He speculates that it affected the way he lived his adult life. Mills was described as someone who worked quickly, yet efficiently. Horowitz suggests that Mills worked at a fast pace because he felt that he would not live long, describing him as "a man in search of his destiny".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198381_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198381-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1942, Mills' wife Freya had characterized him as being in excellent health and having no heart issue. His cardiac problem was not identified until 1956, and he did not have a major heart attack until December 1960, despite his excessive blood pressure. In 1962, Mills suffered his fourth and final heart attack at the age of 45, and died on March 20 in <a href="/wiki/West_Nyack,_New_York" title="West Nyack, New York">West Nyack, New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary2009216_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary2009216-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roughly fifteen months prior, Mills’s doctors had warned him that his next heart attack would be his last one. His service was held at Columbia University, where Hans Gerth and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bell" title="Daniel Bell">Daniel Bell</a> both travelled to speak on his behalf. A service for friends and family was held at the interfaith pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeary2009216_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeary2009216-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relationships_to_other_theorists">Relationships to other theorists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Relationships to other theorists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mills was an intense student of <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> before he became a sociologist. His vision of radical, egalitarian democracy was a direct result of the influence of ideas from <a href="/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen" title="Thorstein Veblen">Thorstein Veblen</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, and Mead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman19841_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman19841-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time at the University of Wisconsin, Mills was deeply influenced by Hans Gerth, a sociology professor from Germany. Mills gained an insight into European learning and sociological theory from Gerth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a39_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a39-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mills and Gerth began their thirteen year collaboration in 1940. Almost immediately, Gerth expressed his doubts about working collaboratively with Mills. He ended up being right, as they had critical tensions in their collaboration in relation to intellectual ethics. They both recruited advocates to support their sides, and they used ethical positions as a weapon. They still worked together though, and each had their own jobs within the collaboration. Mills worked out a division of labor, edited, organized and rewrote Gerth's drafts. Gerth interpreted and translated the German material. Their first publication together was "A Marx for the Managers", which was a critique of <i>The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World</i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Burnham" title="James Burnham">James Burnham</a>. Mills and Gerth took most of their position from German sources. They had their disagreements, yet they grew a partnership and became fruitful collaborators who worked together for a long time to create influential viewpoints for the field of sociology.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>C. Wright Mills was strongly influenced by <a href="/wiki/Pragmatism" title="Pragmatism">pragmatism</a>, specifically the works of <a href="/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead" title="George Herbert Mead">George Herbert Mead</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce" title="Charles Sanders Peirce">Charles Sanders Peirce</a>, and <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOakesVidich19991_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOakesVidich19991-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although it is commonly recognized that Mills was influenced by <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen" title="Thorstein Veblen">Thorstein Veblen</a>, the social structure aspects of Mills's works are shaped largely by <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a> and the writing of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Mannheim" title="Karl Mannheim">Karl Mannheim</a>, who followed Weber's work closely.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Max Weber's works contributed greatly to Mills's view of the world overall.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Being one of Weber's students, Mills's work focuses a great deal on <a href="/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills also acknowledged a general influence of Marxism; he noted that Marxism had become an essential tool for sociologists, and therefore all must naturally be educated on the subject; any Marxist influence was then a result of sufficient education. <a href="/wiki/Neo-Freudianism" title="Neo-Freudianism">Neo-Freudianism</a> also helped shape Mills's work.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Outlook">Outlook</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Outlook"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <blockquote><p>"I do not believe that social science will 'save the world', although I see nothing at all wrong with 'trying to save the world' ... If there <i>are</i> any ways out of the crises of our period by means of intellect, is it not up to the social scientist to state them? ... It is on the level of human awareness that virtually all solutions to great problems must now lie" – Mills 1959:193<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>There has long been debate over Mills's intellectual outlook. Mills is often seen as a "closet <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a>" because of his emphasis on social classes and their roles in historical progress, as well as his attempt to keep Marxist traditions alive in social theory. Just as often, however, others argue Mills more closely identified with the work of <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a>, whom many sociologists interpret as an exemplar of sophisticated (and intellectually adequate) <a href="/wiki/Anti-Marxism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Marxism">anti-Marxism</a> and modern liberalism. However, Mills clearly gives precedence to social structure described by the political, economic and military institutions, and not culture, which is presented in its massified form as a means to the ends sought by the power elite. Therefore placing him firmly in the Marxist and not Weberian camp, so much so that in his collection of classical essays, Weber's <a href="/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism" title="The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism">Protestant Ethic</a> is not included. Although Mills embraced Weber's idea of bureaucracy as internalized social control, as was the historicity of his<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (October 2023)">whose?</span></a></i>]</sup> method, he<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (October 2023)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> was far from liberalism (being its critic). Mills was a radical who was culturally forced<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Please clarify the preceding statement or statements with a good explanation from a reliable source. (October 2023)">how?</span></a></i>]</sup> to distance himself from Marx while being "near" him<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. </p><p>While Mills never embraced the "Marxist" label, he told his closest associates that he felt much closer to what he saw as the best currents of a flexible <a href="/wiki/Marxist_humanism" title="Marxist humanism">humanist Marxism</a> than to alternatives. He considered himself a "plain Marxist", working in the spirit of young Marx as he claims in his collected essays: "Power, Politics and People" (Oxford University Press, 1963). In a November 1956 letter to his friends Bette and <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Swados" title="Harvey Swados">Harvey Swados</a>, Mills declared "[i]n the meantime, let's not forget that there's more [that's] still useful in even the <a href="/wiki/Paul_Sweezy" title="Paul Sweezy">Sweezy</a><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> kind of Marxism than in all the routineers of <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">J. S. Mill</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> put together." </p><p>There is an important quotation from <i>Letters to Tovarich</i> (an autobiographical essay) dated Fall 1957 titled "On Who I Might Be and How I Got That Way": </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>You've asked me, 'What might you be?' Now I answer you: 'I am a <a href="/wiki/Wobbly" class="mw-redirect" title="Wobbly">Wobbly</a>.' I mean this spiritually and politically. In saying this I refer less to political orientation than to political ethos, and I take Wobbly to mean one thing: the opposite of bureaucrat. ... I am a Wobbly, personally, down deep, and for good. I am <a href="/wiki/Inside_the_Whale" title="Inside the Whale">outside the whale</a>, and I got that way through social isolation and self-help. But do you know what a Wobbly is? It's a kind of spiritual condition. Don't be afraid of the word, Tovarich. A Wobbly is not only a man who takes orders from himself. He's also a man who's often in the situation where there are no regulations to fall back upon that he hasn't made up himself. He doesn't like bosses—capitalistic or communistic—they are all the same to him. He wants to be, and he wants everyone else to be, his own boss at all times under all conditions and for any purposes they may want to follow up. This kind of spiritual condition, and only this, is Wobbly freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a252_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a252-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>These two<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (October 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> quotations are the ones chosen by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kathryn_Mills&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathryn Mills (page does not exist)">Kathryn Mills</a> for the better acknowledgement of his nuanced thinking.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>It appears that Mills understood his position as being much closer to Marx than to Weber but influenced by both, as <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Aronowitz" title="Stanley Aronowitz">Stanley Aronowitz</a> argued in "A Mills Revival?".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAronowitz2003_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAronowitz2003-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mills argues that micro and macro levels of analysis can be linked together by the sociological imagination, which enables its possessor to understand the large historical sense in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. Individuals can only understand their own experiences fully if they locate themselves within their period of history. The key factor is the combination of private problems with public issues: the combination of troubles that occur within the individual's immediate milieu and relations with other people with matters that have to do with institutions of an historical society as a whole. </p><p>Mills shares with Marxist sociology and other "<a href="/wiki/Conflict_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Conflict theory">conflict theorists</a>" the view that American society is sharply divided and systematically shaped by the relationship between the powerful and powerless. He also shares their concerns for alienation, the effects of social structure on the personality, and the manipulation of people by elites and the mass media. Mills combined such conventional Marxian concerns with careful attention to the dynamics of personal meaning and small-group motivations, topics for which Weberian scholars are more noted. </p><p>Mills had a very combative outlook regarding and towards many parts of his life, the people in it, and his works. In that way, he was a self-proclaimed outsider: "I am an outlander, not only regionally, but deep down and for good."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198384_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198384-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Above all, Mills understood sociology, when properly approached, as an inherently political endeavor and a servant of the democratic process. In <i>The Sociological Imagination</i>, Mills wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It is the political task of the social scientist – as of any liberal educator – continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work – and, as an educator, in his life as well – this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000b_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000b-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination, page 187</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Contemporary American scholar <a href="/wiki/Cornel_West" title="Cornel West">Cornel West</a> argued in his text <i>American Evasion of Philosophy</i> that Mills follows the tradition of <a href="/wiki/Pragmatism" title="Pragmatism">pragmatism</a>. Mills shared Dewey's goal of a "creative democracy" and emphasis on the importance of political practice but criticized Dewey for his inattention to the rigidity of power structure in the U.S. Mills's dissertation was titled <i>Sociology and Pragmatism: The Higher Learning in America</i>, and West categorized him along with pragmatists in his time <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Hook" title="Sidney Hook">Sidney Hook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr" title="Reinhold Niebuhr">Reinhold Niebuhr</a> as thinkers during pragmatism's "mid-century crisis." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mills's_critique_of_sociology_at_the_time"><span id="Mills.27s_critique_of_sociology_at_the_time"></span>Mills's critique of sociology at the time</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mills's critique of sociology at the time"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While a sociologist himself, Mills was still quite critical of the sociological approach during his time. In fact, scholars saw <i>The Sociological Imagination</i> as "Mills' final break with academic sociology."<sup id="cite_ref-McQuarie_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McQuarie-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the process of laying out the eponymous theory of sociological imagination, Mills was critical of specific people, criticizing Talcott Parsons' theories and the work of Paul Lazarsfeld, a member of his department at Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-McQuarie_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McQuarie-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, while <i>The Sociological Imagination</i> was and still is sometimes read as "an attack on empirical research" it is much closer to "a critique of a certain research style."<sup id="cite_ref-McQuarie_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McQuarie-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills was worried about sociology falling into the traps of normative thinking and ceasing to be a critic of social life. Throughout his academic career, Mills fought with mainstream sociology about different conflicting sociological styles, being primarily worried about social sciences becoming susceptible to the "power and prestige of normative culture" and veering away from its original objective.<sup id="cite_ref-McQuarie_57-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McQuarie-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Up until his death, Mills fought to maintain what he thought was the integrity of sociology.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EDITORIALIZING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EDITORIALIZING"><span title="A statement that draws an independent conclusion. (October 2023)">editorializing</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_work">Published work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Published work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Primary_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Primary_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>relies excessively on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">references</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">primary sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please improve this section by adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">secondary or tertiary sources</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology</i> (1946) was edited and translated in collaboration with Gerth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a206_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a206-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Mills and Gerth had begun collaborating in 1940, selected a few of Weber's original German text, and translated them into English.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOakesVidich19996_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOakesVidich19996-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The preface of the book begins by explaining the disputable difference of meaning that English words give to German writing. The authors attempt to explain their devotion to being as accurate as possible in translating Weber's writing. </p><p><i>The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders</i> (1948) studies the "Labor Metaphysic" and the dynamic of labor leaders cooperating with business officials. The book concludes that the <a href="/wiki/Labor_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor movement">labor movement</a> had effectively renounced its traditional oppositional role and become reconciled to life within a capitalist system. </p><p><i>The <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rican</a> Journey</i> (1950), published in New York, was written in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Senior" title="Clarence Senior">Clarence Senior</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rose_Goldsen" title="Rose Goldsen">Rose Kohn Goldsen</a>. Clarence Senior was a Socialist Political activist who specialized in Puerto Rican affairs. Rose Kohn Goldsen was a sociology professor at <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> who studied the social effects of television and popular culture. The book documents a methodological study and does not address a theoretical sociological framework. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/White_Collar:_The_American_Middle_Classes" title="White Collar: The American Middle Classes">White Collar: The American Middle Classes</a></i> (1951) offers a rich historical account of the middle classes in the United States and contends that bureaucracies have overwhelmed middle-class workers, robbing them of all independent thought and turning them into near-automatons, oppressed but cheerful. Mills states there are three types of power within the workplace: coercion or physical force; authority; and manipulation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMann200847_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMann200847-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through this piece, the thoughts of Mills and Weber seem to coincide in their belief that Western Society is trapped within the iron cage of bureaucratic rationality, which would lead society to focus more on rationality and less on reason.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMann200847_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMann200847-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills's fear was that the middle class was becoming "politically emasculated and culturally stultified," which would allow a shift in power from the middle class to the strong social elite.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimParker1997_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimParker1997-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Middle-class workers receive an adequate salary but have become alienated from the world because of their inability to affect or change it. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Frank_W._Elwell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank W. Elwell (page does not exist)">Frank W. Elwell</a> describes this work as "an elaboration and update on Weber's bureaucratization process, detailing the effects of the increasing division of labor on the tone and character of American social life."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Character and Social Structure</i> (1953) was co-authored with Gerth. This was considered his most theoretically sophisticated work. Mills later came into conflict with Gerth, though Gerth positively referred to him as, "an excellent operator, a whippersnapper, promising young man on the make, and Texas cowboy à la ride and shoot."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERitzer2011215–217_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERitzer2011215–217-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Generally speaking, <i>Character and Social Structure</i> combines the social behaviorism and personality structure of pragmatism with the social structure of Weberian sociology. It is centered on roles, how they are interpersonal, and how they are related to institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScimecca1977_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScimecca1977-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_Elite" title="The Power Elite">The Power Elite</a></i> (1956) describes the relationships among the political, military, and economic elites, noting that they share a common world view; that power rests in the centralization of authority within the elites of American society.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMann2008_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMann2008-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The centralization of authority is made up of the following components: a "military metaphysic", in other words a military definition of reality; "class identity", recognizing themselves as separate from and superior to the rest of society; "interchangeability" (they move within and between the three institutional structures and hold interlocking positions of power therein); cooperation/socialization, in other words, socialization of prospective new members is done based on how well they "clone" themselves socially after already established elites. Mills's view on the power elite is that they represent their own interest, which include maintaining a "<a href="/wiki/Permanent_war_economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Permanent war economy">permanent war economy</a>" to control the ebbs and flow of American Capitalism and the masking of "a manipulative social and political order through the mass media."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimParker1997_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimParker1997-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (October 2021)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Additionally, this work can be described as "an exploration of rational-legal bureaucratic authority and its effects on the wielders and subjects of this power."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> President Dwight D. Eisenhower referenced Mills and this book in his farewell address of 1961. He warned about the dangers of a "military-industrial complex" as he had slowed the push for increased military defense in his time as president for two terms. This idea of a "military-industrial complex" is a reference to Mills' writing in <i>The Power Elite,</i> showing what influence this book had on certain powerful figures.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Causes of World War Three</i> (1958) and <i>Listen, Yankee</i> (1960) were important works that followed. In both, Mills attempts to create a moral voice for society and make the power elite responsible to the "public".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000aScimecca1977_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000aScimecca1977-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (October 2021)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Although <i>Listen, Yankee</i> was considered highly controversial, it was an exploration of the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a> written from the viewpoint of a Cuban revolutionary and was a very innovative style of writing for that period in American history.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a365_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a365-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In his paper on Mills's work, Elwell describes <i>The Causes of World War Three</i> as a jeremiad on Weber's ideas, particularly that of "crackpot realism": "the disjunction between institutional rationality and human reason".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sociological_Imagination" title="The Sociological Imagination">The Sociological Imagination</a></i> (1959), which is considered Mills's most influential book,<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> describes a mindset for studying sociology, the <a href="/wiki/Sociological_imagination" title="Sociological imagination">sociological imagination</a>, that stresses being able to connect individual experiences and societal relationships. The three components that form the sociological imagination are history, biography, and social structure. Mills asserts that a critical task for social scientists is to "translate personal troubles into public issues".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000b187_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000b187-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The distinction between troubles and issues is that troubles relate to how a single person feels about something while issues refer to how a society affects groups of people. For instance, a man who cannot find employment is experiencing a trouble, while a city with a massive unemployment rate makes it not just a personal trouble but a public issue.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills201213–18_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills201213–18-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This book helped the "penetration of a field by a new generation of social scientists dedicated to problems of social change rather than system maintenance".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198388–89_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorowitz198388–89-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mills bridged the gap between truth and purpose in sociology<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. Another important part of this book is the interpersonal relations Mills talks about, specifically marriage and divorce. Mills rejects all external class attempts at change because he sees them as a contradiction to the sociological imagination. Mills had<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (October 2023)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:C._Wright_Mills#Dubious" title="Talk:C. Wright Mills">discuss</a></i>]</sup> a lot of sociologists talk about his book, and the feedback was varied. Mills' writing can be seen as a critique of some of his colleagues, which resulted in the book generating a large debate. His critique of the sociological profession is one that was monumental in the field of sociology and that got lots of attention as his most famous work. One can interpret Mills's claim in <i>The Sociological Imagination</i> as the difficulty humans have in balancing biography and history, personal challenges and societal issues. Sociologists, then, rightly connect their autobiographical, personal challenges to social institutions. Social scientists should then connect those institutions to social structures and locate them within a historical narrative. </p><p>The version of <i>Images of Man: The Classic Tradition in Sociological Thinking</i> (1960) worked on by C. Wright Mills is simply an edited copy with the addition of an introduction written himself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a207_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a207-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Through this work, Mills explains that he believes the use of models is <i>the</i> characteristic of classical sociologists, and that these models are the reason classical sociologists maintain relevance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScimecca1977_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScimecca1977-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Marxists" title="The Marxists">The Marxists</a></i> (1962) takes Mills's explanation of sociological models from <i>Images of Man</i> and uses it to criticize <a href="/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Modern liberalism in the United States">modern liberalism</a> and Marxism. He believes that the liberalist model does not work and cannot create an overarching view of society, but rather it is more of an ideology for the entrepreneurial middle class. Marxism, however, may be incorrect in its overall view, but it has a working model for societal structure, the mechanics of the history of society, and the roles of individuals. One of Mills's problems with the Marxist model is that it uses units that are small and autonomous, which he finds too simple to explain capitalism. Mills then provides discussion on Marx as a determinist.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScimecca1977_62-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScimecca1977-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (May 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/C._Wright_Mills" title="Special:EditPage/C. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>According to Stephen Scanlan and Liz Grauerholz, writing in 2009, Mills's thinking on the intersection of biography and history continued to influence scholars and their work, and also impacted the way they interacted with and taught their students.<sup id="cite_ref-Scanlan_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scanlan-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "International Sociological Association recognized <i>The Sociological Imagination</i> as second on its list of the 'Books of the Century'".<sup id="cite_ref-Scanlan_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scanlan-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At his memorial service, Hans Gerth (Mills's coauthor and coeditor) referred to Mills as his "alter ego", despite the many disagreements they had.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Interestingly, many of Mills's close friends "reminisced about their earlier friendship and later estrangement when Mills mocked them for supporting the status quo and their conservative universities."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to the impact Mills left on those in his life, his legacy can also be seen through the prominence of his work after his passing. William Form describes a 2005 survey of the eleven best selling texts and in these Mills was referenced 69 times, far more than any other prominent author.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_19-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frank W. Elwell, in his paper "The Sociology of C. Wright Mills" further explains the legacy Mills left as he "writes about issues and problems that matter to people, not just to other sociologists, and he writes about them in a way to further our understanding."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His work is not just useful to students of sociology, but the general population as well. Mills tackled relevant topics such as the growth of white collar jobs, the role of bureaucratic power, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and the spread of <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_47-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1964, the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_the_Study_of_Social_Problems" title="Society for the Study of Social Problems">Society for the Study of Social Problems</a> established the <a href="/wiki/C._Wright_Mills_Award" title="C. Wright Mills Award">C. Wright Mills Award</a> for the book that "best exemplifies outstanding social science research and a great mutual understanding of the individual and society in the tradition of the distinguished sociologist, C. Wright Mills."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Paul M. Sweezy was the founder of <i>Monthly Review</i> magazine, "an independent socialist magazine".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">a liberal intellectual.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Wobblies</i> are members of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World" title="Industrial Workers of the World">Industrial Workers of the World</a> (IWW), and the direct action they are favouring includes passive resistance, strikes, and boycotts. They want to build a new society according to general socialist principles but they are refusing to endorse any socialist party or any other kind of political party.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sociological_Imagination" title="The Sociological Imagination">The Sociological Imagination</a></i> ranked second (outranked only by <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Economy_and_Society" title="Economy and Society">Economy and Society</a></i>) in a 1997 survey asking members of the <a href="/wiki/International_Sociological_Association" title="International Sociological Association">International Sociological Association</a> to identify the books published in the 20th century most influential on sociologists.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a139-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEC.&nbsp;W._Mills2000a139_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFC._W._Mills2000a">C. W. Mills 2000a</a>, p. 139.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallerstein2008-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallerstein2008_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWallerstein2008">Wallerstein 2008</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman1979481-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman1979481_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTilman1979">Tilman 1979</a>, p. 481.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETilman1979491–493-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETilman1979491–493_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTilman1979">Tilman 1979</a>, pp. 491–493.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEElliott200112-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEElliott200112_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFElliott2001">Elliott 2001</a>, p. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeeleySimon201140-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeeleySimon201140_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFeeleySimon2011">Feeley & Simon 2011</a>, p. 40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMoody2018" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Kim_Moody" title="Kim Moody">Moody, Kim</a> (July 8, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/07/kim-moody-new-left-working-class-labor-notes">"Turning to the Working Class"</a>. <i>Jacobin</i>. 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Abingdon, England: Routledge. pp. 39–52. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781843925583">10.4324/9781843925583</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-00595-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-134-00595-6"><bdi>978-1-134-00595-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Folk+Devils+and+Moral+Panics%3A+An+Appreciation+from+North+America&rft.btitle=Crime%2C+Social+Control+and+Human+Rights%3A+From+Moral+Panics+to+States+of+Denial&rft.place=Abingdon%2C+England&rft.pages=39-52&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2011&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.4324%2F9781843925583&rft.isbn=978-1-134-00595-6&rft.aulast=Feeley&rft.aufirst=Malcolm+M.&rft.au=Simon%2C+Jonathan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGeary2009" class="citation book cs1">Geary, Daniel (2009). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/radicalambitionc0000gear_2009">"C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought"</a></span>. <i>Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought</i>. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-94344-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-94344-5"><bdi>978-0-520-94344-5</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppzdg">10.1525/j.ctt1ppzdg</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=C.+Wright+Mills%2C+the+Left%2C+and+American+Social+Thought&rft.btitle=Radical+Ambition%3A+C.+Wright+Mills%2C+the+Left%2C+and+American+Social+Thought&rft.place=Berkeley%2C+California&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2009&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.1525%2Fj.ctt1ppzdg%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=978-0-520-94344-5&rft.aulast=Geary&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fradicalambitionc0000gear_2009&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHorowitz1983" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Irving_Louis_Horowitz" title="Irving Louis Horowitz">Horowitz, Irving Louis</a> (1983). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cwrightmillsamer00horo"><i>C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian</i></a>. New York: Free Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-02-914970-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-02-914970-6"><bdi>978-0-02-914970-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=C.+Wright+Mills%3A+An+American+Utopian&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Free+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=978-0-02-914970-6&rft.aulast=Horowitz&rft.aufirst=Irving+Louis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcwrightmillsamer00horo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMann2008" class="citation book cs1">Mann, Doug (2008). <i>Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social Theory</i>. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-542184-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-542184-2"><bdi>978-0-19-542184-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Understanding+Society%3A+A+Survey+of+Modern+Social+Theory&rft.place=Don+Mills%2C+Ontario&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-19-542184-2&rft.aulast=Mann&rft.aufirst=Doug&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMattson2001" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Mattson" title="Kevin Mattson">Mattson, Kevin</a> (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180411215357/http://www.nea.org/assets/img/PubThoughtAndAction/TAA_01Win_03.pdf">"Responding to a Problem: A W.P.A. for PhDs?"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Thought & Action</i>. <b>17</b> (2): 17–24. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0748-8475">0748-8475</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nea.org/assets/img/PubThoughtAndAction/TAA_01Win_03.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on April 11, 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 5,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Thought+%26+Action&rft.atitle=Responding+to+a+Problem%3A+A+W.P.A.+for+PhDs%3F&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=17-24&rft.date=2001&rft.issn=0748-8475&rft.aulast=Mattson&rft.aufirst=Kevin&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nea.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2FPubThoughtAndAction%2FTAA_01Win_03.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFC._W._Mills1960" class="citation journal cs1">Mills, C. Wright (1960). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/humanism/mills-c-wright/letter-new-left.htm">"Letter to the New Left"</a>. <i>New Left Review</i>. 1 (5)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 5,</span> 2019</span> – via Marxists Internet Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+Left+Review&rft.atitle=Letter+to+the+New+Left&rft.issue=5&rft.date=1960&rft.aulast=Mills&rft.aufirst=C.+Wright&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2Fsubject%2Fhumanism%2Fmills-c-wright%2Fletter-new-left.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFC._W._Mills2000a" class="citation book cs1"> <span style="letter-spacing:-.25em;">———</span>  (2000a). Mills, Kathryn; Mills, Pamela (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lettersautobiogr0000mill"><i>C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings</i></a>. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-21106-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-21106-3"><bdi>978-0-520-21106-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=C.+Wright+Mills%3A+Letters+and+Autobiographical+Writings&rft.place=Berkeley%2C+California&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-520-21106-3&rft.aulast=Mills&rft.aufirst=C.+Wright&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flettersautobiogr0000mill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFC._W._Mills2000b" class="citation book cs1"> <span style="letter-spacing:-.25em;">———</span>  (2000b). <a href="/wiki/The_Sociological_Imagination" title="The Sociological Imagination"><i>The Sociological Imagination</i></a> (40th anniversary ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-513373-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-513373-8"><bdi>978-0-19-513373-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Sociological+Imagination&rft.place=Oxford&rft.edition=40th+anniversary&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-19-513373-8&rft.aulast=Mills&rft.aufirst=C.+Wright&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFC._W._Mills2012" class="citation book cs1"> <span style="letter-spacing:-.25em;">———</span>  (2012). "From <i>The Sociological Imagination</i>". In Massey, Gareth (ed.). <i>Readings for Sociology</i> (7th ed.). New York: W. W. 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(1999). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/collaborationrep0000oake"><i>Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills</i></a></span>. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-252-06807-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-252-06807-2"><bdi>978-0-252-06807-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Collaboration%2C+Reputation%2C+and+Ethics+in+American+Academic+Life%3A+Hans+H.+Gerth+and+C.+Wright+Mills&rft.place=Urbana%2C+Illinois&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0-252-06807-2&rft.aulast=Oakes&rft.aufirst=Guy&rft.au=Vidich%2C+Arthur+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcollaborationrep0000oake&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPhilips2005" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Philips, Bernard (2005). 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London: Prentice Hall. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-13-524885-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-13-524885-0"><bdi>978-0-13-524885-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+A%E2%80%93Z+Guide+to+Modern+Social+and+Political+Theorists&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Prentice+Hall&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-13-524885-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTilman1979" class="citation journal cs1">Tilman, Rick (1979). "The Intellectual Pedigree of C. Wright Mills: A Reappraisal". <i>The Western Political Quarterly</i>. <b>32</b> (4): 479–496. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F106591297903200410">10.1177/106591297903200410</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0043-4078">0043-4078</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/447909">447909</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143494357">143494357</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Western+Political+Quarterly&rft.atitle=The+Intellectual+Pedigree+of+C.+Wright+Mills%3A+A+Reappraisal&rft.volume=32&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=479-496&rft.date=1979&rft.issn=0043-4078&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A143494357%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F447909%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F106591297903200410&rft.aulast=Tilman&rft.aufirst=Rick&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTilman1984" class="citation book cs1"> <span style="letter-spacing:-.25em;">———</span>  (1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cwrightmillsnati0000tilm"><i>C. Wright Mills: A Native Radical and His American Intellectual Roots</i></a>. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-271-00360-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-271-00360-3"><bdi>978-0-271-00360-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=C.+Wright+Mills%3A+A+Native+Radical+and+His+American+Intellectual+Roots&rft.place=University+Park%2C+Pennsylvania&rft.pub=Pennsylvania+State+University+Press&rft.date=1984&rft.isbn=978-0-271-00360-3&rft.aulast=Tilman&rft.aufirst=Rick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcwrightmillsnati0000tilm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWallerstein2008" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Wallerstein" title="Immanuel Wallerstein">Wallerstein, Immanuel</a> (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-biographies/c-wright-mills">"Mills, C. Wright"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/International_Encyclopedia_of_the_Social_Sciences" title="International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences">International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences</a></i>. Detroit, Michigan: Thomson Gale<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 5,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mills%2C+C.+Wright&rft.btitle=International+Encyclopedia+of+the+Social+Sciences&rft.place=Detroit%2C+Michigan&rft.pub=Thomson+Gale&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Wallerstein&rft.aufirst=Immanuel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopedia.com%2Fpeople%2Fsocial-sciences-and-law%2Fsociology-biographies%2Fc-wright-mills&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYoung2014" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jock_Young" title="Jock Young">Young, Jock</a> (2014). "In Memoriam: Jock Young". <i>Punishment & Society</i>. <b>16</b> (3). Interviewed by van Swaaningen, René: 353–359. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1462474514539440">10.1177/1462474514539440</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1741-3095">1741-3095</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:220635491">220635491</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Punishment+%26+Society&rft.atitle=In+Memoriam%3A+Jock+Young&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=353-359&rft.date=2014&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A220635491%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1741-3095&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F1462474514539440&rft.aulast=Young&rft.aufirst=Jock&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=C._Wright_Mills&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAptheker1960" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Aptheker" title="Herbert Aptheker">Aptheker, Herbert</a> (1960). <i>The World of C. Wright Mills</i>. New York: Marzani and Munsell. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/244597">244597</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+World+of+C.+Wright+Mills&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Marzani+and+Munsell&rft.date=1960&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F244597&rft.aulast=Aptheker&rft.aufirst=Herbert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAronowitz2012" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Aronowitz" title="Stanley Aronowitz">Aronowitz, Stanley</a> (2012). <i>Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals</i>. New York: Columbia University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-231-13540-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-231-13540-5"><bdi>978-0-231-13540-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Taking+It+Big%3A+C.+Wright+Mills+and+the+Making+of+Political+Intellectuals&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-231-13540-5&rft.aulast=Aronowitz&rft.aufirst=Stanley&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDomhoff2006" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/G._William_Domhoff" title="G. William Domhoff">Domhoff, G. William</a> (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/theory/mills_review_2006.html">"Review: Mills's <i>The Power Elite</i> 50 Years Later"</a>. <i>Contemporary Sociology</i>. <b>35</b> (6): 547–550. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F009430610603500602">10.1177/009430610603500602</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1939-8638">1939-8638</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30045989">30045989</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:152155235">152155235</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 5,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Contemporary+Sociology&rft.atitle=Review%3A+Mills%27s+The+Power+Elite+50+Years+Later&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=6&rft.pages=547-550&rft.date=2006&rft.issn=1939-8638&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A152155235%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F30045989%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F009430610603500602&rft.aulast=Domhoff&rft.aufirst=G.+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwhorulesamerica.ucsc.edu%2Ftheory%2Fmills_review_2006.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDowd1964" class="citation magazine cs1">Dowd, Douglas F. (1964). "On Veblen, Mills... and the Decline of Criticism". <i>Dissent</i>. Vol. 11, no. 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 29–38. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0012-3846">0012-3846</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Dissent&rft.atitle=On+Veblen%2C+Mills...+and+the+Decline+of+Criticism&rft.volume=11&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=29-38&rft.date=1964&rft.issn=0012-3846&rft.aulast=Dowd&rft.aufirst=Douglas+F.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEldridge1983" class="citation book cs1">Eldridge, John E. T. (1983). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cwrightmills0000unse"><i>C. Wright Mills</i></a></span>. Key Sociologists Series. Chichester, England: E. Horwood Tavistock Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85312-534-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85312-534-1"><bdi>978-0-85312-534-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=C.+Wright+Mills&rft.place=Chichester%2C+England&rft.series=Key+Sociologists+Series&rft.pub=E.+Horwood+Tavistock+Publications&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=978-0-85312-534-1&rft.aulast=Eldridge&rft.aufirst=John+E.+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcwrightmills0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrauley,_Jon2021" class="citation book cs1">Frauley, Jon, ed. (2021). <i>The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies</i>. New York: Routledge.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Routledge+International+Handbook+of+C.+Wright+Mills+Studies.&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2021&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGeary2008" class="citation journal cs1">Geary, Daniel (2008). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Becoming International Again': C. Wright Mills and the Emergence of a Global New Left". <i>Journal of American History</i>. <b>95</b> (3): 710–736. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F27694377">10.2307/27694377</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1945-2314">1945-2314</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27694377">27694377</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+American+History&rft.atitle=%27Becoming+International+Again%27%3A+C.+Wright+Mills+and+the+Emergence+of+a+Global+New+Left&rft.volume=95&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=710-736&rft.date=2008&rft.issn=1945-2314&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F27694377%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F27694377&rft.aulast=Geary&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHayden2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Hayden" title="Tom Hayden">Hayden, Tom</a> (2006). <i>Radical Nomad: C. 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Wright Mills," <i>New Left Review,</i> whole no. 15 (May–June 1962), pp. 15–20.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMusteHowe1959" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/A._J._Muste" title="A. J. Muste">Muste, A. J.</a>; <a href="/wiki/Irving_Howe" title="Irving Howe">Howe, Irving</a> (1959). "C. Wright Mills' Program: Two Views". <i>Dissent</i>. Vol. 6, no. 2. 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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press: 35–42. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0012-3846">0012-3846</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Dissent&rft.atitle=C.+Wright+Mills%3A+A+Personal+Memoir&rft.volume=10&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=35-42&rft.date=1963&rft.issn=0012-3846&rft.aulast=Swados&rft.aufirst=Harvey&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AC.+Wright+Mills" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompson1979" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/E._P._Thompson" title="E. P. Thompson">Thompson, E. P.</a> (1979). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://library.brown.edu/pdfs/1125404303746164.pdf">"C. Wright Mills: The Responsible Craftsman"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Radical America</i>. Vol. 13, no. 4. Somerville, Massachusetts: Alternative Education Project. pp. 60–73. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308060622/https://library.brown.edu/pdfs/1125404303746164.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on March 8, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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