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A penetrating sociological and psychological study of the new middle class that comprise the backbone of modern American society.

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• Introduction(p. ix)
• 1 Old Middle Classes
• 1. The World of the Small Entrepreneur(p. 3)
• 1. The Old Middle Classes(p. 3)
• 2. Property, Freedom and Security(p. 7)
• 3. The Self-Balancing Society(p. 9)
• 2. The Transformation of Property(p. 13)
• 1. The Rural Debacle(p. 15)
• 2. Business Dynamics(p. 20)
• 3. The Lumpen-Bourgeoisie(p. 28)
• 3. The Rhetoric of Competition(p. 34)
• 1. The Competitive Way of Life(p. 35)
• 2. The Independent Farmer(p. 40)
• 3. The Small Business Front(p. 44)
• 4. Political Persistence(p. 54)
• 2 White Collar Worlds
• 4. The New Middle Class: I(p. 63)
• 1. Occupational Change(p. 63)
• 2. Industrial Mechanics(p. 65)
• 3. White-Collar Pyramids(p. 70)
• 5. The Managerial Demiurge(p. 77)
• 1. The Bureaucracies(p. 78)
• 2. From the Top to the Bottom(p. 81)
• 3. The Case of the Foreman(p. 87)
• 4. The New Entrepreneur(p. 91)
• 5. The Power of the Managers(p. 100)
• 6. Three Trends(p. 106)
• 6. Old Professions and New Skills(p. 112)
• 1. The Professions and Bureaucracy(p. 113)
• 2. The Medical World(p. 115)
• 3. Lawyers(p. 121)
• 4. The Professors(p. 129)
• 5. Business and the Professions(p. 136)
• 7. Brains, Inc.(p. 142)
• 1. Four Phases(p. 144)
• 2. The Bureaucratic Context(p. 149)
• 3. The Ideological Demand(p. 153)
• 4. The Rise of the Technician(p. 156)
• 8. The Great Salesroom(p. 161)
• 1. Types of Salesmen(p. 161)
• 2. The Biggest Bazaar in the World(p. 166)
• 3. Buyers and Floorwalkers(p. 169)
• 4. The Salesgirls(p. 172)
• 5. The Centralization of Salesmanship(p. 178)
• 6. The Personality Market(p. 182)
• 9. The Enormous File(p. 189)
• 1. The Old Office(p. 190)
• 2. Forces and Developments(p. 192)
• 3. The White-Collar Girl(p. 198)
• 4. The New Office(p. 204)
• 5. The White-Collar Hierarchy(p. 209)
• 3 Styles of Life
• 10. Work(p. 215)
• 1. Meanings of Work(p. 215)
• 2. The Ideal of Craftsmanship(p. 220)
• 3. The Conditions of Modern Work(p. 224)
• 4. Frames of Acceptance(p. 229)
• 5. The Morale of the Cheerful Robots(p. 233)
• 6. The Big Slipt(p. 235)
• 11. The Status Panic(p. 239)
• 1. White-Collar Prestige(p. 240)
• 2. The Smaller City(p. 250)
• 3. The Metropolis(p. 251)
• 4. The Status Panic(p. 254)
• 12. Success(p. 259)
• 1. Patterns and Ideologies(p. 259)
• 2. The Educational Elevator(p. 265)
• 3. Origins and Mobilities(p. 272)
• 4. Hard Times(p. 278)
• 5. The Tarnished Image(p. 282)
• 4 Ways of Power
• 13. The New Middle Class: II(p. 289)
• 1. Theories and Difficulties(p. 290)
• 2. Mentalities(p. 294)
• 3. Organizations(p. 298)
• 14. White-Collar Unionism(p. 301)
• 1. The Extent Organized(p. 302)
• 2. Acceptance and Rejection(p. 304)
• 3. Individual Involvement(p. 308)
• 4. The Shape of Unionism(p. 314)
• 5. Unions and Politics(p. 320)
• 15. The Politics of the Rearguard(p. 324)
• 1. Models of Consciousness(p. 324)
• 2. Political Indifference(p. 327)
• 3. The Mass Media(p. 332)
• 4. The Social Structure(p. 340)
• 5. U.S. Politics(p. 342)
• 6. The Rearguarders(p. 350)
• Acknowledgments and Sources(p. 355)
• Afterword(p. 365)
• Index(p. 381)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

C. Wright Mills, an American sociologist, was one of the most controversial social scientists of the mid-twentieth century. He considered himself a rebel against both the academic establishment and American society in general, and he rarely tried to separate his radical ideas from his teaching and writing. Irving Louis Horowitz summarized much of Mills's ideas in the subtitle of his biography of him: An American Utopian. Mill's most traditional sociological study is The Puerto Rican Journey. His most direct attack on his colleagues in sociology is The Sociological Imagination (1959) (which he found left much to be desired). His most ideological work is The Power Elite (1956), an attempt to explain the overall power structure of the United States. Mills thought that the dominant "value-free" methodology of American sociology was an ideological mask, hiding values that he did not share. According to his younger colleague Immanuel Wallerstein, Mills was essentially a utopian reformer who thought that knowledge properly used could bring about a better society.

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