# C. Wright Mills (@c-wright-mills)

C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist and public intellectual who wrote about power, class, bureaucracy, and the responsibilities of social inquiry. At Columbia he combined empirical research with historically grounded criticism aimed beyond a specialist audience.

White Collar, The Power Elite, and The Sociological Imagination became his most influential books. Together they connect changes in institutions to the experiences and political possibilities of ordinary people.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from C. Wright Mills's public record._

## Topics

- [The Sociological Imagination](/@c-wright-mills/sociological-imagination.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Power Elite](/@c-wright-mills/power-elite.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [White Collar and Mass Society](/@c-wright-mills/white-collar-and-mass-society.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Public Intellectual](/@c-wright-mills/public-intellectual.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/charles_mills.html
- blog: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/c-wright-mills/paper
- blog: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/taking-it-big/9780231509503/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "c-wright-mills", "question": "…"}`.