A work by this thinker uses the phrase ";vocabularies of motive"; to ascribe goals like ";useful"; or ";practical"; to a person's actions, and describes society as consisting of institutions, institutional orders, and spheres.
A work by this thinker uses the phrase ";vocabularies of motive"; to ascribe goals like ";useful"; or ";practical"; to a person's actions, and describes society as consisting of institutions, institutional orders, and spheres. An appendix by this author lists eight positive qualities of certain people like ";playfulness toward phrases, words, and ideas"; and finding a bad book just as stimulating as a good book. He coined the name for a movement by writing his ";Letter to the New Left"; for a British journal of that name. One of his best-known books calls on scholars to reject the ";methodological inhibitions"; in the ";abstracted empiricism"; and ";Grand Theory"; of past thinkers. That work begins with the chapter ";The Promise"; and ends with ";On Intellectual Craftsmanship."; For 10 points, name this American sociologist who wrote The Causes of World War Three and The Sociological Imagination, as well as The Power Elite.
A work by this thinker uses the phrase ";vocabularies of motive"; to ascribe goals like ";useful"; or ";practical"; to a person's actions, and describes society as consisting of institutions, institutional orders, and spheres.
Charles Wright  Mills