The Sociological Imagination
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789350027639
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Power, Politics and People
Author: Charles Wright Mills
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 657
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKC. Wright Mills
Author: C. Wright Mills
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-09-14
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0520232097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of letters and writings, edited by his daughters, allows readers to see behind Mills's public persona for the first time.
C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
Author: John Scott
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2013-11-29
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1782540032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith renowned international contributors and expert contributions from a range of specialisms, this book will appeal to academics, students and researchers of sociology.
THE POWER ELITE
Author: C.WRIGHT MILLS
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking it Big
Author: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0231135408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKC. Wright Mills (1916-1962) transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. This book reconstructs this icon's formation and the new dimension of American political life that followed his work.
Radical Ambition
Author: Dan Geary
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-04-14
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780520943445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America. Offering an important new understanding of Mills and the times in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges the captivating caricature that has prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of 1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills within broader trends in American politics, thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary reveals that Mills shared key assumptions about American society even with those liberal intellectuals who were his primary opponents. The book also sets Mills firmly within the history of American sociology and traces his political trajectory from committed supporter of the Old Left labor movement to influential herald of an international New Left. More than just a biography, Radical Ambition illuminates the career of a brilliant thinker whose life and works illustrate both the promise and the dilemmas of left-wing social thought in the United States.
The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills
Author: A. Javier Trevino
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2011-05-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1483341755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis inaugural volume of the Pine Forge Press Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of C. Wright Mills. Accessible and provocative, this book closely examines the writings and ideas of C. Wright Mills that now, over half a century later, remain crucial in better understanding today's world. The book's primary focus is on two of his lifelong intellectual concerns: the interrelationship between social structure and personality and the bureaucratization of modern society and the power relations it produces. The book is ideal for use as a self-contained volume or in conjunction with sociological theory textbooks.
The Politics of Truth
Author: Charles Wright Mills
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2008-09-11
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0195343050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKC. Wright Mills was a radical public intellectual, a tough-talking, motorcycle-riding anarchist from Texas who taught sociology at Columbia University. Mills's three most influential books--The Power Elite, White Collar, and The Sociological Imagination--were originally published by OUP and are considered classics. The first collection of his writings to be published since 1963, The Politics of Truth contains 23 out-of-print and hard-to-find writings which show his growth from academic sociologist to an intellectual maestro in command of a mature style, a dissenter who sought to inspire the public to oppose the drift toward permanent war. Given the political deceptions of recent years, Mills's truth-telling is more relevant than ever. Seminal papers including "Letter to the New Left" appear alongside lesser known meditations such as "Are We Losing Our Sense of Belonging?" John Summers provides fresh insights in his introduction, which gives an overview of Mills's life and career. Summers has also written annotations that establish each piece's context and has drawn up a comprehensive bibliography of Mills's published and unpublished writings.
The Stickup Kids
Author: Randol Contreras
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0520273370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRandol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
