The Power Elite

Name: The Power Elite
Author: C. Wright Mills

by C. Wright Mills

Study of how military, corporate, and political elites form a unified ruling class in America

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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.

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