C. Wright Mills was a sociologist born in Waco, Texas in 1916 and died at the age of 45 in 1962 leaving behind a legacy of thought provoking sociological beliefs. Throughout his life, Mills believed that sociologists should use information to bring about social change. He was critical of intellectuals who, he believed, were merely observers of human nature. He examined, critiqued, and wrote extensively about capitalism, bureaucracies, and class structure. Three of his major works written between 1948 and 1956 include The New Men of Power, White Collar, The Sociological Imagination, and The Power Elite. As Gitlin points out, “These books were, all in all, his major statements on what he liked to call "the big questions" about society….” While,
