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C. Wright Mills · 1959
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What this book knows
Private troubles only become legible when placed inside the historical and structural forces that actually produce them.
self-and-identity
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
VLA-BF08D57E-RC-002Classic social analysis is a definable set of traditions whose problems are of direct relevance to urgent public issues and insistent human troubles.
VLA-BF08D57E-RC-017obedience-and-authority
In so far as the family turns women into darling little slaves and men into their chief providers, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of personal solution.
VLA-BF08D57E-RC-008Their psychological relevance lies in the fact that they become the basis for adherence to the structure of power or for opposing it.
VLA-BF08D57E-RC-029work-as-meaning
Anyone who spends his life studying society has chosen his values, whether he wants it or not, or whether he is aware of it or not.
VLA-BF08D57E-RC-060Men have become stuck in epistomological problems of method; others cannot get down from very high levels of generalization to fact.
VLA-BF08D57E-RC-057Illuminates
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