1st Edition

Postmodern Cowboy C. Wright Mills and a New 21st-century Sociology

By Keith Kerr Copyright 2009
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

More than 50 years ago, C. Wright Mills heralded a new age for sociology for the 1960s and beyond. Yet his forward-looking vision also foretold some of the social conditions we associate, more recently, with postmodern society. This intellectual biography of Mills emphasizes early life experiences that shaped Mills's expansive vision of the future, just as Kerr develops, from Mills, tools for... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian; Chapter 3 Private Troubles and Public Issues; Chapter 4 Mills the Intellectual; Chapter 5 Postmodernity’s Texas Roots; Chapter 6 The Postmodern Cowboy;

Biography

Authored by Kerr, Keith