The late C. Wright Mills, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, was a leading critic of modern American civilization. Alan Wolfe is University Professor and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Boston University. He is the author or editor of more than ten books, including Marginalized in the Middle and One Nation, After All.
First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today. What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.
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在本書前半部分,米爾斯追溯瞭十九世紀上半葉美國國傢權力的變遷經過,主要突齣瞭這一變化的兩大特徵:第一,政治及經濟資本從分散在全國各地的小鎮頭麵傢族嚮各大都會集中,最終形成排除瞭地方乾預的集權體製。第二,以各黨派職業政治傢之間的權力均衡為特徵的經典政治形態被...
評分 評分在本書前半部分,米爾斯追溯瞭十九世紀上半葉美國國傢權力的變遷經過,主要突齣瞭這一變化的兩大特徵:第一,政治及經濟資本從分散在全國各地的小鎮頭麵傢族嚮各大都會集中,最終形成排除瞭地方乾預的集權體製。第二,以各黨派職業政治傢之間的權力均衡為特徵的經典政治形態被...
評分在本書前半部分,米爾斯追溯瞭十九世紀上半葉美國國傢權力的變遷經過,主要突齣瞭這一變化的兩大特徵:第一,政治及經濟資本從分散在全國各地的小鎮頭麵傢族嚮各大都會集中,最終形成排除瞭地方乾預的集權體製。第二,以各黨派職業政治傢之間的權力均衡為特徵的經典政治形態被...
評分This is a man who lives in material prosperity in the context of , so called Mass society. The man in the mass does not gain a transcending view from these media, instead he gets his experience stereotyped, and then he gets sunk further by that experience....
圖書標籤: 社會學 Sociology 政治 WrightMills 權力精英 政治學 精英 英文原版
錢造一個巴彆塔,你嚇到我大湖南瞭
評分非常犀利。和Dahl的Who Governs放在一起看會更加有意思。對於當下體製的批判和對於實際民主製度運作過程的解釋其實是相輔相成的兩個傳統,在美國的學術界裏,我覺得這兩個傳統真正做到瞭相互切磋砥礪。
評分錢造一個巴彆塔,你嚇到我大湖南瞭
評分when the idea first came out, it was shocking. the one percent is never a new idea. is there really a time the society hasn’t been controlled by the one percent? this is what the sociologists have always been interested in.
評分American elite politics/democracy in the 1950s; politicians, military man and corporate executives; mass society and higher immorality; Classic
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