C. Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, among them The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the U.S. political, military, and economic elites; White Collar, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, where Mills proposes the proper relationship in sociological scholarship between biography and history. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated public and political engagement over uninterested observation. Mills' biographer, Daniel Geary, writes that his writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s." In fact, Mills popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S. in a 1960 open letter, Letter to the New Left. Part of a series on Socialism in the United States History Utopian socialism New Harmony Brook Farm Oneida Community Icarians Bishop Hill Commune Looking Backward Progressive Era St. Louis Commune 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Labor unionisation Women's suffrage Haymarket massacre May Day Repression and persecution Espionage Act of 1917 First Red Scare American Defense Society American Protective League Seattle General Strike The Communist Party USA and African Americans Communists in the United States Labor Movement (1919–37) Communists in the United States Labor Movement (1937–50) McCarthyism Smith Act / Smith Act trials John Birch Society Civil Rights / Anti-imperialism New Left War on Poverty Great Society Poor People's Campaign COINTELPRO Parties and organizations Active Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism Communist Party Democratic Socialists of America Freedom Road Socialist Organization Freedom Socialist Party Industrial Workers of the World International Socialist Organization Party for Socialism and Liberation Peace and Freedom Party Progressive Labor Party Revolutionary Communist Party Socialist Action Socialist Alternative Socialist Equality Party Socialist Organizer Socialist Party Socialist Workers Party Spartacist League Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization) Workers World Party World Socialist Party Former Social Democracy of America Socialist Labor Party of America Social Democratic Party of America Socialist Party of America Social Democratic Federation Democratic Socialist Federation Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee Social Democrats, USA Farmer–Labor Party Proletarian Party of America Communist League of America American Workers Party Workers Party of the United States American Labor Party Puerto Rican Socialist Party Black Panther Party White Panther Party Youth International Party Weather Underground Communist Workers' Party Maoist Internationalist Movement New American Movement Students for a Democratic Society Literature The Jungle Appeal to Reason International Socialist Review Looking Backward The Other America Daily Worker Monthly Review Why Socialism? Voluntary Socialism Monopoly Capital Related topics American Left Anarchism Anarchism in the United States Socialism Utopian socialism Scientific socialism Marxism Marxism–Leninism Labor history Labor unions Libertarian socialism Labor laws Minimum wage Socialism portal Politics portal v t e