The Power Elite
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The Power Elite is an influential book written by the sociologist, C. Wright Mills, in 1956. In it Mills called attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggested that the ordinary citizen was a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.
The structural basis of The Power Elite was that, following World War II, the United States was the leading country in military and economic terms.
The book is something of a counterpart of Mills' 1951 work, White Collar, which examined the growing role of middle managers in American society. While White Collar characterized middle managers as agents of the elite, The Power Elite did not differentiate them from the rest of the non-elite in society.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
- Power Elite
- Military-industrial complex
- Elite
- Sociological imagination
- The Sociological Imagination
- New Left
- Social alienation
[edit] External links
C. Wright Mills: The Power Elite [1]
