Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought

Yet the common image of "See right" Mills as a lone rebel neglects, as Daniel Geary's book shows, that the Columbia University sociologist was part of a broader insurrectionary undercurrent in the social sciences after World War II. Together they enabled him to refine his conceptual t...

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Published in:Journal of American studies 2010-05, Vol.44 (2)
Main Authors: SCHÄFER, AXEL R, Geary, Daniel
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Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002)
French literature
Mannheim, Karl
Mills, Charles Wright (1916-1962)
Parsons, Talcott (1902-1979)
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980)
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857-1929)
Weber, Max (1864-1920)
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