The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies

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.

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.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhalt

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