[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently … - C. Wright Mills
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently …
- C. Wright Mills
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. - C. Wright Mills
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We … - C. Wright Mills
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We …
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions havi… - C. Wright Mills
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions havi…
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? - C. Wright Mills
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?
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. - C. Wright Mills
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.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its pro… - C. Wright Mills
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its pro…
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and pu… - C. Wright Mills
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and pu…
History is the shank of the social sciences. - C. Wright Mills
History is the shank of the social sciences.
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