The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367861896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str.

Jonathan Frauley

Opis

A comprehensive overview of the impact and breadth of Mills’ influence, this book brings together leading scholars of the work of C. Wright Mills to showcase its transdisciplinary impact, showing how Mills’ thought can be taken up - and in some cases, sympathetically reformulated - to tackle problems in disciplinary various fields.

Spis treści

1. C. Wright Mills, Authoritarian Democracy and Radical Critique: Introductory Remarks  2. Classical Social Theory and the Sociology of C. Wright Mills  3. History and Biography in a Global Age: And Then Came the Plague  4. Stretching Exercises: Stimulating the Sociological Imagination  5. The Moving Prism: On C. Wright Mills and the ‘Poetics’ of the Sociological Imagination  6. Public Sociology and the Lost Legacy of C. Wright Mills  7. C. Wright Mills and the Public Sociology of Peace  8. C. Wright Mills on the Character and Role of The Soviet Intelligentsia  9. Mills On Intellectual Craftsmanship: Critical Observations  10. C. Wright Mills and the Analysis of Power in American Politics  11. What C. Wright Mills Means Today: US Post-War Politics and Power and Beyond  12. The Militarized International System: Globalization's Sociological Context and Human Rights  13. C. Wright Mills in Public Administration: The Political and Economic Context of Imagination  14. Mills and Political Criminology: Making More Out of the Prison-Industrial Complex  15. Another Side of C. Wright Mills: The Theory of Mass Society  16. Collective Somnambulism, Social Suggestion, and Fascinated Receptivity in　the Writings of C. Wright Mills  17. C. Wright Mills: Exact Imagination, Late Work  18. Creating Life Before Death with a Vision for Action

O autorze

Jon Frauley is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Criminology, Deviance and the Silver Screen and is editor of and contributor to C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination and (with Frank Pearce) Critical Realism and the Social Sciences.