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C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was an American sociologist and university teacher. Born in Waco, he died of a myocardial infarction in Nyack. His academic career included positions at Columbia University and the University of Maryland. Mills received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in sociology.
He is noted for works such as *The Sociological Imagination* and *The Power Elite*. Mills was educated at Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Columbia University. His personal library is held at the Harry Ransom Center.
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- Waco
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- university teacher
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- Columbia University
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- University of Maryland
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- The Power Elite
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- sociology
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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 published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination, which was in 1998 named by the International Sociological Association as the second most important sociological book of the 20th century.
Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era." It was Mills who popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S., in a 1960 open letter "Letter to the New Left".
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