C. Wright Mills Quotes
Power has to do with whatever decisions men make about the arrangements under which they live and about the events which make up the history of their times.
C. Wright Mills, 1916-1962, Sociologist, The Causes of World War III, Simon and Schuster, 1958
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Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals. He is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the US political, military, and economic elites; White Collar: The American Middle Classes, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, which presents a model of analysis for the interdependence of subjective experiences within a person's biography, the general social structure, and historical development.
