Description
The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies brings together leading scholars of the work of radical sociologist C. Wright Mills to showcase its impact across the social sciences. Showing how Mills’ thought can be taken up - and in some cases, sympathetically reformulated - to tackle problems of power and politics, it presents an authoritative state-of-the-art overview of Mills’ groundbreaking ideas and his far-reaching theoretical and methodological impact. Crucially, the volume also illustrates the value of thinking with Mills in addressing the complexities of contemporary capitalist democracies. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, organization studies, peace and conflict studies, criminology, politics and public administration.
Table of Contents
1. C. Wright Mills, Authoritarian Democracy and Radical Critique: Introductory Remarks
Jon Frauley
2. Classical Social Theory and the Sociology of C. Wright Mills
Frank W. Elwell
3. History and Biography in a Global Age: And Then Came the Plague
Lauren Langmann and Avery Schatz
4. Stretching Exercises: Stimulating the Sociological Imagination
John Eldridge
5. The Moving Prism: On C. Wright Mills and the ‘Poetics’ of the Sociological Imagination
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
6. Public Sociology and the Lost Legacy of C. Wright Mills
Joseph Scimecca
7. C. Wright Mills and the Public Sociology of Peace
John D. Brewer
8. C. Wright Mills on the Character and Role of The Soviet Intelligentsia
A. Javier Treviño
9. Mills On Intellectual Craftsmanship: Critical Observations
Guy Oakes and Nahid Aslanbeigui
10. C. Wright Mills and the Analysis of Power in American Politics
Joseph Peschek
11. What C. Wright Mills Means Today: US Post-War Politics and Power and Beyond
Carl Boggs
12. The Militarized International System: Globalization's Sociological Context and Human Rights
Muhammed Asadi
13. C. Wright Mills in Public Administration: The Political and Economic Context of Imagination
Richard C. Box
14. Mills and Political Criminology: Making More Out of the Prison-Industrial Complex
Jon Frauley
15. Another Side of C. Wright Mills: The Theory of Mass Society
James E. Freeman
16. Collective Somnambulism, Social Suggestion, and Fascinated Receptivity in the Writings of C. Wright Mills
Stephen Pfohl
17. C. Wright Mills: Exact Imagination, Late Work
Steven P. Dandaneau
18. Creating Life Before Death with a Vision for Action
Bernard Phillips
