Feminist Theory, Marx, And Marx And C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills focused on social power and believed that only the military government and economy held the power and controlled corporate America. These three groups are consider the Power Elite because they control everything in America and only ever looking out for the best interest and to make sure they keep their power. “In order to have power, one must, as it were, be able to tap the power of something greater than oneself. The “something greater” consists of the collective power of an institute” (Cuzzort & King, 2002, p. 366). They are the wealthiest of the classes, they maintain control to the point only the people within these institutions that allowed to move up into higher hierarchy and only socialize with people of their kind. Another one of Mills theory was focused on the sociological imagination which, according to Machum and Clow “will allow us to overcome the range of dualism- micro and macro, individual and society, …show more content…
Wright Mills both shared the same perspectives that social institutions that were control by the economy and people of power. Marx theory was based on the means of production creating different class structures. This also created two groups the bourgeoisie the wealthy group who control the means and the ones below them such as the proletariat workers who we is labeled as slave because of the hard work they put in while working underneath the bourgeoisie. This is similar to that of Mills, who showed the power within their institutions labeled as the military, economy, and government. Anything that did not fall within these three groups was on the bottom of the economic status and had little interest from the power elite group. Both Marx and Mills share similarities in Marx’s theory of a false consciousness and Mills lack of sociological imagination, which devalues those in the lower class and those who hold higher and powerful position impose their beliefs, ideas, controlling how they live and function in