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C. Wright Mills

28 August 1916-20 March 1962

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Abstracted empiricism is a critical term for scientific data-obsessed sociology whereby problems are isolated from historical context and selected to fit the method.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no paris, no rome, no london, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

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Capitalism is a system that nobody talks more of than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

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Inheritance is an incredible source of entitlement. Nobody talks more of free enterprise than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

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Power is the capacity to make and carry out decisions even if others resist.

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The Sociological imagination is a 'quality of mind' that helps us use information and develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.