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This book offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Mills's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of his life and his position in American sociology.
The Emerald Guide to C. Wright Mills focusses on his concern with the interrelationship between social structure and personality, and with the bureaucratisation of modern society and the power relations it produces. The book takes a chronological and biographical approach in illustrating the development of Mills's ideas and interests over the course of his career. In doing so, it reveals the consistency as well as the evolution of his thinking.
Essential reading for students and those new to Mills's ideas, this is a readable, clear, and comprehensive overview of the work of C. Wright Mills, and conveys his influence on contemporary social thought.
Price: $28.99
Pages: 192
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: Emerald Guides to Social Thought
Publication Date:
26 July 2021
ISBN: 9781800715448
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Social and ethical issues, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, Social research and statistics, Social, group or collective psychology
This very lively and readable book brilliantly locates Mills's work in its biographical and social context - something which was also characteristic of his own wide-ranging critical sociology. Treviño's comprehensive knowledge of Mills's work and of the American society and sociology of the period makes this much more than just an introductory book. It will be a valuable resource for specialists as well as for readers beginning an encounter with a thinker who remains highly relevant today.
A. Javier Treviño is the author and editor of several books including The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills and C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Moldova and is a Visiting Professor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Chapter 1. Mills in Context
Chapter 2. Mills: Life, Career, Politics
Chapter 3. Pragmatism, Sociology of Knowledge, and Sociological Psychology
Chapter 4. Organised Labour
Chapter 5. The American Middle Classes
Chapter 6. The High and the Mighty
Chapter 7. Political Responsibility and Truth
Chapter 8. The Sociological Imagination
Chapter 9. Mills: Looking Back, Forward-Looking
Chapter 2. Mills: Life, Career, Politics
Chapter 3. Pragmatism, Sociology of Knowledge, and Sociological Psychology
Chapter 4. Organised Labour
Chapter 5. The American Middle Classes
Chapter 6. The High and the Mighty
Chapter 7. Political Responsibility and Truth
Chapter 8. The Sociological Imagination
Chapter 9. Mills: Looking Back, Forward-Looking