1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies

Edited By Jon Frauley Copyright 2022
334 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. C. Wright Mills, Authoritarian Democracy and Radical Critique: Introductory Remarks

Jon Frauley

2. Classical Social Theory and the Sociology of C. Wright Mills

Frank W. Elwell

3. History and Biography in a Global Age: And Then Came the Plague

Lauren Langmann and Avery Schatz

4. Stretching Exercises: Stimulating the Sociological Imagination

John Eldridge

5. The Moving Prism: On C. Wright Mills and the ‘Poetics’ of the Sociological Imagination

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

6. Public Sociology and the Lost Legacy of C. Wright Mills

Joseph Scimecca

7. C. Wright Mills and the Public Sociology of Peace

John D. Brewer

8. C. Wright Mills on the Character and Role of The Soviet Intelligentsia

A. Javier Treviño

9. Mills On Intellectual Craftsmanship: Critical Observations

Guy Oakes and Nahid Aslanbeigui

10. C. Wright Mills and the Analysis of Power in American Politics

Joseph Peschek

11. What C. Wright Mills Means Today: US Post-War Politics and Power and Beyond 

Carl Boggs

12. The Militarized International System: Globalization's Sociological Context and Human Rights

Muhammed Asadi

13. C. Wright Mills in Public Administration: The Political and Economic Context of Imagination

Richard C. Box

14. Mills and Political Criminology: Making More Out of the Prison-Industrial Complex

Jon Frauley

15. Another Side of C. Wright Mills: The Theory of Mass Society

James E. Freeman

16. Collective Somnambulism, Social Suggestion, and Fascinated Receptivity in the Writings of C. Wright Mills

Stephen Pfohl

17. C. Wright Mills: Exact Imagination, Late Work

Steven P. Dandaneau

18. Creating Life Before Death with a Vision for Action

Bernard Phillips

Biography

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.