biography
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Mills, C(harles) Wright
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–62)
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| biography:
| Political scientist, born in Waco, Texas, USA. Educated at Texas and Wisconsin, he took up a lecturing post at the University of Maryland before becoming a professor at the University of Columbia. A radical US political sociologist, his works were concerned to lay open the power structure of modern capitalist America. His White Collar (1951) examined the changes that had occurred in the nature of the American middle class since the early 19th-c. In The Power Elite (1956), he identified a largely self-perpetuating group that dominates the rest of the society. This group, which he called the power elite to distinguish his work from that of Marxist scholars, was comprised of the top elites in the government, the miltary, and the major corporations. His work provided the major but non-Marxist critique of the USA in the post-World War 2 years. He also collaborated in the translation into English of some of Max Weber' most important writings. |
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