• One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

  Source: The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo

  C. Wright Mills
  American sociologist 1916-1962
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1. straightforward
2. impressive
3. system
4. result
5. would

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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. by : C. Wright Mills

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