Difference between revisions of "C. Wright Mills"
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| − | While American society in the fifties was as a whole characterized by conformism, scholars working quietly in academia formulated critical analyses of the consumerist malaise. | + | While American society in the fifties was as a whole characterized by conformism, scholars working quietly in academia formulated various critical analyses of the consumerist malaise. |
In "White Collar: The American Middle Classes" (1951), sociologist C. Wright Mills contended that bureaucracies had overwhelmed the new class of city workers. Mills proposed that bureaucratic control deprived city workers of all independent thought and turned them into cheerful robots, paid a decent salary, but alienated from the world because of their inability to affect or change it. | In "White Collar: The American Middle Classes" (1951), sociologist C. Wright Mills contended that bureaucracies had overwhelmed the new class of city workers. Mills proposed that bureaucratic control deprived city workers of all independent thought and turned them into cheerful robots, paid a decent salary, but alienated from the world because of their inability to affect or change it. | ||
