Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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If everything is caused by innumerable ‘factors,’ then we had best be very careful in any practical actions we undertake. We must deal with many details, and so it is advisable to proceed to reform this little piece and see what happens, before we reform that little piece too.
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Birth: | 28th August, 1916 |
Death: | 20th March, 1962 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Professor, Sociologist |
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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