Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction and Overview 1
5. 1. Mills’s Sociology and Pragmatism 28
6. 2. Mills and the New York Intellectuals 54
7. 3. On Mills’s The New Men of Power 85
8. 4. White Collar 125
9. 5. On Social Psychology and Its Historical Contexts: The Origin of Psychology as an Independent Discipline 150
10. 6. The Structure of Power in American Society 167
11. 7. What Is a Political Intellectual? 187
12. 8. Taking It Big 214
13. Afterword: Mills Today 240
14. Notes 251
15. Bibliography 261
16. Index 265