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Postmodern Cowboy - C. Wright Mills and a New 21st-century Sociology (Hardcover)
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Postmodern Cowboy - C. Wright Mills and a New 21st-century Sociology (Hardcover)
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This book explores what contemporary sociology can learn from
Mills. Mills, exploring foundations for social solidarity during
his times, turned backward just as we now turn backward toward
Mills. Mills, however, was not content to allow the dead to speak
for the living, recognizing that midcentury America, while sharing
historical links to past times, also possessed people and
structures that moved beyond what sociology of old was prepared to
engage. At the start of the twenty-first century, we too must
understand it is time to take from Mills what we can, but like
Mills, we must learn to move forward and confront the problems of
our own age. It is not argued that Mills should be forgotten; only
that if Mills is to be relevant to contemporary sociology, a
forward-looking vision must be drawn from his work rather than the
nostalgic glance backward characteristic of much of Millsian
scholarship.Exploring the impetus for Mills's statements on
American culture, these pages are partly a biographical exploration
into Mills's first 20 years and how these formative years shaped
the scope and concern of Mills's later formulation of the emerging
"postmodern" world. In exploring Mills's early experiences and how
these later reappear in his academic work, the book examines
previously unpublished-and in some cases previously unknown-primary
documents, and shows what contributions a forward-looking Millsian
scholarship could provide to an ailing contemporary sociology.
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