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SOCIOLOGIST

C. Wright Mills

1916 - 1962

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. Wright Mills has received more than 1,086,202 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 44 in 2019). C. Wright Mills is the 20th most popular sociologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 946th most popular biography from United States (down from 752nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Sociologist.

C. Wright Mills is most famous for his book, The Sociological Imagination, which discusses the need for a sociological imagination in order to understand social problems.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, C. Wright Mills ranks 20 out of 54. Before him are Ulrich Beck, Karl Mannheim, Gabriel Tarde, Manuel Castells, Pitirim Sorokin, and Peter L. Berger. After him are Alain Touraine, Daniel Bell, Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Michels, Stuart Hall, and Ziya Gökalp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, C. Wright Mills ranks 33. Before him are Marcel Cerdan, Peter Weiss, Jean Dausset, Christian B. Anfinsen, Virginia Satir, and Bernard Lewis. After him are Abdul Rahman Arif, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Vitaly Ginzburg, Emil Gilels, Raf Vallone, and Alexander Prokhorov. Among people deceased in 1962, C. Wright Mills ranks 24. Before him are Hans Luther, Fritz Kreisler, Stuart Sutcliffe, René Coty, Michael Curtiz, and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim. After him are Therese Neumann, Bruno Walter, Joseph Berchtold, Ronald Fisher, Alfred Cortot, and Hans Lammers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, C. Wright Mills ranks 946 out of 18,182. Before him are Albert Pike (1809), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Pat Garrett (1850), Alfred Hershey (1908), Stan Getz (1927), and Laura Bush (1946). After him are E. O. Wilson (1929), Calamity Jane (1852), Ali MacGraw (1939), Rick Rubin (1963), Timothy Leary (1920), and Don Cherry (1936).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, C. Wright Mills ranks 4. Before him are Robert K. Merton (1910), Talcott Parsons (1902), and Immanuel Wallerstein (1930). After him are Daniel Bell (1919), Robert E. Park (1864), W. I. Thomas (1863), Harold Garfinkel (1917), Herbert Blumer (1900), Edwin Sutherland (1883), Charles Tilly (1929), and David Riesman (1909).

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