C. Wright Mills Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 3 pages of information about the life of C. Wright Mills.

C. Wright Mills Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 3 pages of information about the life of C. Wright Mills.
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American sociologist and political polemicist C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) argued that the academic elite has a moral duty to lead the way to a better society by actively indoctrinating the masses with values. On August 28, 1916, C. Wright Mills was born in Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1941. Subsequently, he taught sociology at the University of Maryland and Columbia University and during his academic career received a Guggenheim fellowship and a Fulbright grant. At his death, Mills was professor of sociology at Columbia.

Mills has been described as a "volcanic eminence" in the academic world and as "one of the most controversial figures in American social science." He considered himself, and was so considered by his colleagues, as a rebel against the "academic establishment." Mills was probably influenced very much in his...

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