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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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  • Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
    The Sociological Imagination
    ― C. Wright Mills
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  • The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
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  • The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    ― C. Wright Mills
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