Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
C. Wright Mills Quotes
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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| Birth: | 28th August, 1916 |
| Death: | 20th March, 1962 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Professor, Sociologist |
About
Charles Wright Mills was born in Waco, Texas. He was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, among them The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the U.S. political, military, and economic elites; White Collar, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, where Mills proposes the proper relationship in sociological scholarship between biography and history. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939 with a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in philosophy. Mills received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1942.
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