C. Wright Mills

Not to be confused with Charles W. Mills.

C. Wright Mills
Born
Charles Wright Mills

(1916-08-28)August 28, 1916
Waco, Texas, U.S.
DiedMarch 20, 1962(1962-03-20) (aged 45)
West Nyack, New York, U.S.
Spouses
  • Dorothy Helen Smith (m. 1937; div. 1940; m. 1941; div. 1947)
  • Ruth Harper (m. 1947; div. 1959)
  • Yaroslava Surmach
    ​
    (m. 1959)​
Children3
Academic background
Education
ThesisA Sociological Account of Pragmatism (1942)
Doctoral advisor
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplinePolitical sociology
School or traditionNew Left
Institutions
Notable studentsMorris Rosenberg[5]
Notable works
Notable ideas
Influenced

Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination.[13] Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era."[13] It was Mills who popularized the term New Left in the U.S. in a 1960 open letter, "Letter to the New Left".[14]

  1. ^ C. W. Mills 2000a, p. 139.
  2. ^ Wallerstein 2008.
  3. ^ Tilman 1979, p. 481.
  4. ^ Tilman 1979, pp. 491–493.
  5. ^ Elliott 2001, p. 12.
  6. ^ Feeley & Simon 2011, p. 40.
  7. ^ Moody, Kim (July 8, 2018). "Turning to the Working Class". Jacobin. Interviewed by Maisano, Chris. New York. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  8. ^ Finnegan, Michael (October 23, 2016). "'The Radical Inside the System': Tom Hayden, Protester-Turned-Politician, Dies at 76". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  9. ^ Potia, Zeenat; Ely, Robin; Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (September 12, 2018). "Celebrating a Landmark Book on Gender in the Workplace". Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  10. ^ T. Mills 2015, p. 33.
  11. ^ Mattson 2001, p. 22.
  12. ^ Young 2014, p. 357.
  13. ^ a b Geary 2009, p. 1.
  14. ^ C. W. Mills 1960.