C. Wright Mills wrote sociology that links personal experience with institutions, class and political power. The Sociological Imagination argues that private troubles such as unemployment or family strain can only be understood fully by connecting biography with wider historical structures. The Power Elite examines the concentration of influence among corporate, military and political leaders in mid-century America, while White Collar studies the expanding salaried middle class and the changing character of work. Mills's prose is energetic, critical and unusually readable for social theory, often attacking both complacent empiricism and abstract grand theory. His work fits sociology, power studies, class analysis and American political thought, especially for readers who want a method for moving between individual lives and large institutions. Read more Less
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