C. Wright Mills
Mills was the most polemical sociologist in American history, coining the term 'the power elite' and attacking the smugness of academic sociology in The Sociological Imagination. He was the godfather of the New Left.
Works
- The Power EliteStudy of how military, corporate, and political elites form a unified ruling class in America
- The Sociological ImaginationFramework for connecting personal troubles to public issues through sociological imagination
- White CollarAnalysis of the American middle class and white-collar workers in post-war society
- The Causes of World War ThreeNuclear age critique arguing policy decisions make World War Three a possible outcome
- Listen, YankeeSympathetic portrait of the Cuban Revolution based on interviews with Cuban leaders