Read more
Klappentext C.Wright Mills (1917-63) was one of the great sociologists and leading public intellectuals of the last century. His contribution to the sociology of power elites, industrial relations, bureaucracy, social structure and personality, reformist and revolutionary politics and the sociological imagination are seminal. These three volumes, edited by one of America's most influential sociologists and cultural commentators, provides an unparalleled resource for understanding the intellectual relevance of Mill's writings. Mill's engagement with contemporary issues and his sociological vision emerge powerfully. The challenge he offers to sociologists is reassessed and reaffirmed. This is a landmark collection which provides a timely and masterful critical assessment of Mills's contribution. Zusammenfassung C. Wright Mills was one of the great sociologists and leading public intellectuals. His contribution to the sociology of power elites! industrial relations! bureaucracy! social structure and personality! reformist and sociological imagination are seminal. These volumes provide an understanding of the intellectual relevance of Mill's writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume One PART ONE: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY Possibilities for Politics - Irving Howe Labor's Leaders - Aaron Levenstein Important Study of Union Leaders - Joseph Shister Are the Blind Leading the Blind? - A A Berle Jr Grooming for Power - R H S Crossman The Power Elite - Michael Harrington Do Rich Folks, Bosses and War Lords Run America? - Stuart Chase American Trends - Marcus Cunliffe Power in the United States - Robert S Lynd The Power Elite - Bernard Rosenberg & E V Walter Two Views Review of The Power Elite by C Wright Mills - Harry L Gracey & C Arnold Anderson The Power Elite Reconsidered - Daniel Bell American Sociology in Transition - Edwin Berry Burgum Rethinking World Politics - George Lichtheim A Critique of Some Recent Contributions Two Views of Mass Society - William Kornhauser The Distribution of Power in American Society - Talcott Parsons C Wright Mills' Idea of the Good Society - Norbert Wiley The Dragons of Marxism - Irving L Horowitz The Socio-Political Orientations of C Wright Mills - William Spinrad An Evaluation The Fourth Epoch Epilogue to the Unfinished Social Philosophy of C Wright Mills - Donald Clark Hodges Radicalism versus Liberalism - J L Simich and Rick Tilman C Wright Mills' Critique of John Dewey's Ideas C Wright Mills' Power Elite - Irving Louis Horowitz A Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective The 'Plain Marxism' of C Wright Mills - Donald McQuarie Toward a New Democratic Political Theory - Frederick Swan Contributions by C Wright Mills A Problem for the Sociology of Knowledge - Joseph A Scimecca Similarities in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci and C Wright Mills Reclaiming C Wright Mills - John Alt Theory and Ethics in International Relations - Fred Halliday The Contradictions of C Wright Mills A Letter from History - Robert Udick C Wright Mills and Francis Fukuyama The Cultural Apparatus - Kim Sawchuk C Wright Mills' Unfinished Work Volume Two PART TWO: INFLUENCES C Wright Mills - Ralph Miliband A Typology of Intellectuals - Christopher Lasch The Example of C Wright Mills Whole Life Social Theory - Charles Lemert Conscience, Reason and Imagination - Christopher Lasch C Wright Mills and the Life of the Mind C Wright Mills, Pessimistic Radical - Barbara H Chasin Hans H Gerth and C Wright Mills - Nobuko Gerth Partnership and Partisanship C Wright Mills Meets Prozac - Margot L Lyon The Relevance of 'Social Emotion' to the Sociology of Health and Illness The Influence of C Wright Mills on Students for a Democratic Society - Robert J S Ross interviewed by A Javier Trevino
