The Anthem Companion to C. Wright Mills

by Guy Oakes (Editor)

Overview

‘The Anthem Companion to C. Wright Mills’ offers the best contemporary work on C. Wright Mills, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Wright Mills students and scholars alike.

‘Anthem Companions to Sociology’ offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the last two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological tradition, and will provide students and scholars with both an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857281807
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	06/19/2016
Series:	Anthem Companions to Sociology
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Guy Oakes is Professor in the Department of Management and Decision Science at Monmouth University, USA.

Table of Contents

1: C. Wright Mills on Law and Society: Hidden in Plain Sight? (William Rose); 2: Mills on the Economics of the Old Middle Class (Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes); 3: Revisting C. Wright Mills on the Militarization of Postwar American Society (Andrew D. Grossman);4. A Critical Assessment of the Historical and Economic Underpinnings of C. Wright Mills’s The Power Elite (Michele I. Naples); 5: Mills as Ethical Theorist: The Military Metaphysics and the Higher Immorality (Guy Oakes); 6: C. Wright Mills and Latin America (Verónica Montecinos); 7: For a Feminist Sociological Imagination: A Personal Retrospective on C. Wright Mills (Stevi Jackson); 8: The Sociological Imagination: An Unredeemed Promise (Gerhard Wagner and Kai Müller); 9: Recent Changes in the Shape of Power (Stanley Aronowitz)