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C. Wright Mills was an influential American sociologist known for his work on power structures and social theory. His most famous concept, the "sociological imagination," encouraged people to connect personal experiences with larger social forces. He challenged mainstream sociology and remains an important figure in critical social thought. Here are 64 of his quotes:
In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.
C. Wright Mills
One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of - and hence be able to control - the levels of abstraction on which he is working. The capacity to shuttle between levels of abstraction, with ease and with clarity, is a signal mark of the imaginative and systematic thinker.
C. Wright Mills
In a society which the money-makers have had no serious rival for repute and honor, the word "practical" comes to mean useful for private gain, and "common sense," the sense to get ahead financially. The pursuit of the moneyed life is the commanding value, in relation to which the influence of others values has declined, so men eas**"Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness", III.
C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills
Occupation: American Sociologist
Born: August 28, 1916
Died: March 20, 1962
Quotes count: 64
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