He wrote another work about military, corporate, and political leaders.
In an open letter, this thinker attempted to shift the focus of liberal politics from the proletariat to the young intellectual. This erstwhile worker at the Bureau of Applied Social Research critiqued the abstracted empiricism of his former boss Paul Lazarsfeld and the reliance on "grand theories" of Talcott Parsons and his followers in a work that claims that the function of sociology is to find the connections between individuals and social forces. This author of the "Letter to the New Left" and The (*) Sociological Imagination posited a "salesmanship mentality" in a study of middle managers and the American middle class. He wrote another work about military, corporate, and political leaders. For 10 points, name this American sociologist who wrote White Collar and The Power Elite.
In an open letter, this thinker attempted to shift the focus of liberal politics from the proletariat to the young intellectual.
Charles Wright Mills