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C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills

American sociologist

Lived from: 1916 - 1962

Category: History and sociology Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 28 august 1916 Died: 20 march 1962

  • Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
  • Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
  • America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
  • A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
  • The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
  • Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
  • Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
  • What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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  • A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
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  • Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
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  • For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    The Power Elite (1956)
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  • In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
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  • Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
    The Power Elite (1956)
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  • Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
    The Causes of World War Three (1960)
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  • The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
    The Power Elite (1956)
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  • These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
    The Power Elite (1956)
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  • To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
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  • What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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What are the most famous quotes from C. Wright Mills?

The two most famous quotes from C. Wright Mills are:

  • "A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates."
  • "Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men."

When did C. Wright Mills live?

C. Wright Mills was born in 1916 and died in the year 1962.