" The first attack in this work is against the elaborate ungrounded systems propounded especially by Talcott Parsons which are deemed "Grand Theory."
This work notes that people are being willfully controlled by large social structures and worries they will become "cheerful robots." An appendix published with this book includes excerpts of its author's detailed notes on Gaetano Mosca as an example for students and is titled "On Intellectual Craftsmanship." This work attacks the relentless pursuit of data on minutiae exemplified by Paul Lazarsfield's work, which its author compares to market research and terms "abstracted empiricism." The first attack in this work is against the elaborate ungrounded systems propounded especially by Talcott Parsons which are deemed "Grand Theory." Instead, beginning in its opening chapter "The Promise," this work advocates a problem oriented approach which focuses on connecting the travails of individual people to greater social movements. For 10 points, name this work by C. Wright Mills.
This work notes that people are being willfully controlled by large social structures and worries they will become "cheerful robots."
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