C. Wright Mills
American sociologist (1916-1962) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 45
Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.
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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, which was in 1998 named by the International Sociological Association as the second most important sociological book of the 20th century.
