Materiales de Sociología Crítica

by C. Wright Mills, Michel Foucault, Michael Pollak

a sociología emerge en Europa occidental en el siglo XIX para extenderse en el presente siglo, a oriente y occidente. USA y la URSS hegemonizan hoy el campo de la teoría sociológical. De un lado un marxismo esclerotizante y, de otro, una sociología académica perfectamente compatible con un empirismo ciego y una racionalidad instrumental. La Escuela de Frankfurt primero, y más tarde diseminadas intervenciones críticas, contribuyeron a cuestionar el imperio sociológico establecido. A partir de los años sesenta y setenta surgieron, tanto en Estados Unidos como en Europa occidental, intentos, más o menos logrados, de formar una sociología alternativa.

286 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 1986

About the author

Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite , White Collar: The American Middle Classes and The Sociological Imagination .

Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. One of Mills's biographers, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era." It was Mills who popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S., in a 1960 open letter "Letter to the New Left".