Background
Mills, C. Wright was born in 1916 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Charles G. and Frances (Wright) Mills.
Mills, C. Wright was born in 1916 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Charles G. and Frances (Wright) Mills.
Bachelor of Arts, University Texas, 1939, Master of Arts, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1941.
Associate professor sociology U. Maryland., 1941-1945. Fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1945-1946. Director labor research div., bureau applied social research Columbia, 1945-1948, assistant professor sociology Columbia, 1946-1950, associate professor sociology, 1950-1956, professor sociology, since 1956.
Visiting professor University Chicago, 1949. Visiting professor human relations Brandeis U., 1953. Lecturer William Alanson White Institute Psychiatry, 1954-1956.
Fulbright professor U. Copenhagen, Denmark, 1956-1957. Special business consultant Smaller War Plants Corporation, War Production Board, 1945.
Author: The New Man of Power: America’s Labor Leaders, 1948. The Puerto Rican Journey: New York’s Newest Migrants (with Clarence Senior, Rose K. Goldsen), 1950. White Collar: The American Middle Classes (translations German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, 1951).Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions (with Hans Gerth), 1953. The Power Elite, 1956. The Causes of World War Three, 1958.The Sociological Imagination, 1959. Images of Man, 1960
Listen Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba, 1960.
Member American Sociological Society, Industrial Relations Research Association (Vice-President 1947-1948).
Married Yaroslava Surmach, June 11, 1959.