Charles Wright Mills
Impact in
- Public Administration top 0.5%
- Sociology and Political Science top 0.05%
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Race, History, and American Society
Papers in
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- Race, History, and American Society 10
- Critical Theory and Philosophy 8
- Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies 7
- Political Economy and Marxism 6
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice 4
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- Political Philosophy and Ethics 21
- American Constitutional Law and Politics 4
- Co-authors
- Joffre Dumazedier (1 shared paper)Hans H. Gerth (3 shared papers)Hans A. Illing (1 shared paper)Celestine Joseph Nuesse (1 shared paper)Tom B. Bottomore (1 shared paper)Philip Selznick (1 shared paper)Frank Thistlethwaite (1 shared paper)Irving Louis Horowitz (5 shared papers)
- Journals
- American Sociological Review (7 papers)Hypatia (5 papers)British Journal of Sociology (3 papers)Journal of Social Philosophy (3 papers)The Journal of Ethics (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesCanadaNew Zealand
In The Last Decade
Charles Wright Mills
136 papers receiving 10.4k citations
Charles Wright Mills's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 170
- Public Administration 646
- Sociology and Political Science 7.8k
- Political Science and International Relations 2.9k
- Gender Studies 985
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 912
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 154 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sociological Imagination Hit paper breakdown → | 1959 | 5739 |
| 2 | The Power Elite Hit paper breakdown → | 1956 | 2554 |
| 3 | The Sociological Imagination Hit paper breakdown → | 1960 | 1038 |
| 4 | White Collar: The American Middle Classes. Hit paper breakdown → | 1951 | 704 |
| 5 | “Ideal Theory” as Ideology Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 397 |
| 6 | Black Rights/White Wrongs Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 295 |
| 7 | 1960 | 231 | |
| 8 | 1956 | 212 | |
| 9 | 1954 | 205 | |
| 10 | 1959 | 171 | |
| 11 | 1956 | 165 | |
| 12 | 1963 | 161 | |
| 13 | 1954 | 122 | |
| 14 | 2015 | 119 | |
| 15 | 2019 | 114 | |
| 16 | 1967 | 100 | |
| 17 | 2014 | 73 | |
| 18 | Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba | 1960 | 72 |
| 19 | 2005 | 71 | |
| 20 | 2015 | 69 |
About Charles Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy, Cultural Studies and History, having authored 154 papers that have together received 14.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (21 papers), Race, History, and American Society (10 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (8 papers), Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (7 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (6 papers), Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (5 papers), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (646 citations), Sociology and Political Science (7.8k citations), Political Science and International Relations (2.9k citations), Gender Studies (985 citations) and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (912 citations). Charles Wright Mills has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and New Zealand. Frequent co-authors include Joffre Dumazedier, Hans H. Gerth, Hans A. Illing, Celestine Joseph Nuesse, Tom B. Bottomore, Philip Selznick, Frank Thistlethwaite, Irving Louis Horowitz, John Hayes and Robert Bierstedt. Their work appears in journals such as American Sociological Review, Hypatia, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Social Philosophy and The Journal of Ethics.
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