C. Wright Mills
American sociologist
Lived from: 1916 - 1962
Category: History and sociology Country: 
United States
Born: 28 august 1916 Died: 20 march 1962
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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.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
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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)― C. Wright Mills -
S a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)― C. Wright Mills -
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)― C. Wright Mills -
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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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)― C. Wright Mills -
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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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 -
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)― C. Wright Mills -
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)― C. Wright Mills -
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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When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
― C. Wright Mills
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