Character and Social Structure: Psychology of Social Institutions - Hardcover

Gerth, Hans & Mills, C. Wright

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710014449 ISBN 13: 9780710014443

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954

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About the Author

Hans Gerth is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, West Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for his 1959 book The Sociological Imagination in which he lays out a view of the proper relationship between biography and history, theory and method in sociological scholarship. He is also known for studying the structures of power and class in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated public, political engagement over disinterested observation.

Mills initially attended Texas A&M University but left after his first year and subsequently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1941. After a stint at the University of Maryland, College Park, he took a faculty position at Columbia University in 1946, which he kept, despite controversy, until his untimely death by heart attack. In the mid-1940s, together with Paul Goodman, he contributed to Politics, the journal edited during the 1940s by Dwight Macdonald.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Publication date: 1954
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710014449
• ISBN 13: 9780710014443
• Binding: Hardcover