C. Wright Mills
1916 - 1962
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C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist known for his critical approach to studying society and power. He focused on the relationship between individuals and society, highlighting the importance of understanding how personal troubles are connected to public issues. Mills's work emphasized the role of power elites in shaping societal structures and influencing decision-making processes. His book 'The Sociological Imagination' remains a seminal work in sociology, encouraging readers to analyze the social world from a broader perspective.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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Every eruption of mass politics and every protest contains in it an appeal to the general, public issue: this is, to the political world as a whole.
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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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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives.