The Power Elite (Paperback, New edition)

In this classic study C.Wright Mills offers and astute and insightful look at the power base in American and how it came to be. Mills despicts the style of life of the mend and women at the upper echelons and the military/corporate/governmental trinity of pwer. Mills examines the nature of the mass society of which these higher circles, from celebrities to the high-ranking military officers, politicians to corporate exectuvies, constituted the elite. leading sociologist and author Alan Wolfe writes a new Afterword which assesses Mills's thesis against the current climate of American elitism, analysing Mills as a social critic and social scientists, and how the different camps of power have shifted in the late twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	February 2000
Authors:	C. Wright Mills (Former Professor of Sociology)
Foreword by:	Alan Wolfe (University Professor and Professor of Political Science and Sociology)
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	442
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513354-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
LSN:	0-19-513354-4
Barcode:	9780195133547

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