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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在我們的心目中,美國由於是在一張白紙上規劃的國傢,製度設置的基礎就是民主政治的充分實現、自由經濟的競爭發展、公民權利的強力保障、政府權力的相互製衡,總之是人人羨慕不來的現代國傢典範。但是,看瞭美國查爾斯.賴特.米爾斯的《權力精英》之後,纔知道也許事實並非...
評分1950年代的美國,是一個“物質繁榮、國傢主義甚囂塵上和政治真空”的時代。大多數美國人處在一種自鳴得意的狀態中,知識分子們也將自己齣賣給保守主義情緒。這時,米爾斯寫下瞭《權力精英》,告訴美國人他們處在怎樣一種糟糕的境地當中:這個國傢已經被商界、政界和軍界的權力...
評分一個社會中的財富、聲望、權力不可能均衡,也必然會有不同的階層而導緻的不平等,而信息和權力手段的集中又必然使一小部分人脫離普通人而成為社會上層,米爾斯的 《權力精英》對難以接近和看清楚的上層進行描述,揭示事實真相和不易被人所知的細節,並“使我們知道的或顯而...
評分Chapter 8, “The Warlords,” briefly introduces the short history, especially the origin of military elites/warlords in the United States, and how the transition occurred since the Second World War. The people of America in its early period was born wit...
圖書標籤: 社會學 Sociology 政治 WrightMills 權力精英 政治學 精英 英文原版
學校圖書館藉的,也是隻有1965的版本
評分American elite politics/democracy in the 1950s; politicians, military man and corporate executives; mass society and higher immorality; Classic
評分部分章節。隻能說米爾斯實在太狠,字句如刀,刀刀見血。他對interlocking directorates 的論述恐怕是對連鎖董事最早的觀察,充滿著反諷和批判,卻在後世讓這些在bureaucratic體係裏掙紮的學術民工不斷生産齣蒼白無力的工業量化分析,不得不讓人感嘆天纔已死,世事無常。昔日玫瑰以其名留芳,今人所持唯玫瑰之名。
評分錢造一個巴彆塔,你嚇到我大湖南瞭
評分1.“美國曾是一個小而美的地方,現在她變瞭。”這句話社會學傢說瞭六十年。2.書裏幾乎每個重要觀察,都在後世衍生齣豐富的文獻,可怕。3.有趣的是,一些被歸因於越戰或民權運動或石油危機的政治變化,在米爾斯的書裏已經體現瞭。4.國內不平等研究最喜歡引用的著作之一,卻恰恰反襯他們的蒼白。
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