C. Wright Mills

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In his book, The Sociological Imagination, Mills explains how power in society is held in the hands of three interlocking groups, the corporate elite, university presidents, and preachers.

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In his book. White Collar, Mills urges sociologists to use the sociological imagination as a tool to uncover solutions to social problems.

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Mills was invited to work for the State Department as a government analyst of dictators and tyrants in Latin America.

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Mills wrote Those Who Make the Rules, Get the Gold, as a sequel to The Power Elite and included it in his trilogy of books on power in America.

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Mills wrote three books about political power and class structure in America: The New Men of Power; Blue Collar; and The Power Brokers.

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One of Mills' books is a study of western outlaws like Jesse James who he idolized.

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The leaders at the top of the military, government, and big business are not particularly close or know each other.

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C. Wright Mills collaborated with a professor at the University of Wisconsin to translate one of the books written by Karl Marx.

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In his book White Collar, Mills analyzes the new middle class, middle managers in white collar jobs who he argues will champion rights of workers including better pay and authority.

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A person who is unemployed is experiencing a personal problem while a nation's high unemployment rate is a social issue.

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According to Mills, "the good old boy system" was reflected in the top leaders who have common interests and close relationships.

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Because of his concerns about power being held in the hands of a few, and together with his personality, his writings often have a pessimistic tone.

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By the power elite, Mills meant top white male leaders in government, military, and big business who tend to control decisions in the U.S.

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C. Wright Mills said, "By the fact of his living he contributes, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by society and by its historical push and shove".

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Like Merton, Mills also taught at Columbia University in New York City.

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Major concerns in Mills' sociology were the American power structure and elites who make the rules in society.

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Mills believed that sociologists should fill the role of "public intellectuals" by promoting active involvement in social issues.

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Mills had a knack for alienating people, especially those closest to him.

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Mills worried about 'cheerful robots', people who settle into white collar jobs and middle class lives characterized by boredom, greed, and concern about oneself rather than for others.

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Mills wrote in the style of the classical sociologists and was highly influenced by Karl Marx and Max Weber.

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Mills' greatest sociological contribution is his concept of the sociological imagination.

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The connection between individual biography and collective history, between private issues and public problems is what Mills called the sociological imagination.

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The group Mills referred to as the "rearguard" of the present occupational structure was the young, new hires who were unwilling to offer any opposition to the power structure.

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The message of The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders is that the leadership of labor in the nation would become co-opted into corporate America keeping workers in a subordinate rank in society.

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Troubles are those negative situations or characteristics that affect individuals; issues are the negative situations or characteristics that affect the greater society.

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