White Collar: The American Middle Classes is a study of the American middle class by sociologist C. Wright Mills, first published in 1951. It describes the forming of a "new class": the white-collar workers. It is also a major study of social alienation in the modern world of advanced capitalism, where cities are …
The Sociological Imagination is a 1959 book by American sociologist C. Wright Mills published by Oxford University Press. Mills felt that the central task for sociology and sociologists was to find the connections between the particular social environments of individuals and the wider social and historical forces in …
The Power Elite is a book written by sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1956. In it Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.