Create a new account  It's simple, and free.  Mills' Theory of
Modern Society  Using the major sociological and historical
traditions as a backdrop, the sociologist C. Wright Mills
criticized and amplified some of the major arguments against
trends in modern thought (Mills, 1959). In his work, Mills
identified two major traditions that he believed were vital in
the development of a modern, workable theory of society. The
first was the tendency, particularly from the implications of
the writings of Max Weber, to manipulate the evidence of history
in such a way as to make initial theories "fit" into a
preconceived notion of society (Mills, 1959, p. 22). The second,
identified as an even larger block to progress in the
identification and elaboration of sociological theory, was
called the Grand Theory. In this, Mills likely meant that the
primary goal of the social disciplines should be that of the
identification and further development of a "systematic theory
of the nature of man and society" (Mills, 1959, p. 23