The power elite

C. Wright Mills First published 1956

About this book

>In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills published the classic book The Power Elite, which looked at how a narrow segment of the population with high positions in different institutions (legislators, corporations, the military) tended to make decisions for the population as a whole, with the consensus among these actors displacing authentic democracy.

- Current Affairs

Subjects

  • civilization
  • classes sociales supérieures
  • condiciones económicas
  • elite
  • elites
  • elite (social sciences)
  • macht
  • mills, c. wright (charles wright), 1916-1962
  • politieke processen (rechtspraak)
  • power (social sciences)
  • social conditions
  • sociale structuur
  • united states, civilization
  • united states, social conditions
  • upper class