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Dans la glaciation politique des sciences sociales américaines des années 1950, Wright Mills apparaît en effet comme un franc-tireur, attaquant aussi bien les constructions théoriques pompeuses d’un Talcott Parsons que la division extrême des objets de recherche pratiquée par l’empirisme caractéristique du tournant béhavioriste. Il proclame son
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieux, they move vicariously and remain spectators.
C. Wright Mills, Todd Gitlin (Afterword) • The Sociological Imagination
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
arrangements. Public
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
White collar; the American middle classes : Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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