University of Essex | Introduction to United States Sociology (C. Wright Mills)

[@misstuesy]

Thanks for sharing this video! After taking multiple sociology classes I'm still not very excited to learn more. After reading endless books I've turned to videos, this helped me a bit. Take care :)

[@chuckbeattyo]

Excellent well spoken volume of C. Wright Mills simply explained. Applies worldwide all countries. To me my reaction is wondering how the youth will take power and add sustainability to the mix. What seems missing is adding in the story of swords back to ploughshares, which fights against the militariization armament industries worldwide, all major western countries in the war armament businesses, government funded. The modern vested armament and "defense" industries haven't been dislodged or forced into the ploughshares swing in the whole war cycle for humanity. What or which sociologist cultural observer talks about the swords to ploughshares large pattern, missing is any rallying cultural sociologist or thinker who inspires this deeply in any major western country? It's the big patterns which are off the table, not in the top ten news media ideas, which tells more. Missing is swords to ploughshares, seriously. Are our minds just incapable of solving this. (Dreamy hopeful wishful thinking, was the hope Putin, in the early 2000s would have gone ploughshares in Russia, and levered back full scale Russian armaments. Can any leader of any military power pull back the lever to ploughshares, full bore?) --------------------------- Some young person needs to begin seriously solving swords to ploughshares. And start that, with sustainability.

[@abcrane]

Extraordinary lecture and sociologist.

[@jeremybrake6718]

great lecture!

[@abcrane]

I’ve seen coworkers go from physical jobs to admin (in the same organization) and I witness them literally develop OCD! This is not an exaggeration. I see them go from cheerful and playful to anal rigid grumpy and controlling.

[@msa3533]

damn, he looks like the man in "saw".

[@ManInTheBigHat]

This is a pretty good summation of Mills. I think he'd he happy with it.

[@anonfrank546]

When he talks about bureaucracy My first thought is the seemingly never ending convoluted Private Insurance Industry bureaucracy . The reason you have so many paper pusher employees in your doctors office or clinic . In the 1970s you had two doctors, one or two secretaries and a nurse . Today it is insane , several business managers and more paper work employees than you have medical staff .

[@doclime4792]

Yes really unfortunate. I'm working on leaving clinical sciences after having lost interest in pursuing a long-time career in healthcare. Don't feel right about contributing to the waste and unnecessary, increasingly exorbitant costs to the patient.

[@anonfrank546]

40:11 lmao or i'd cry . so true culture in the service of the power elite . then he goes on to advertising(imho also implicit in that is public relations) which is really all about lying really , hit the nail on the head ! i worked in public relations and i hated myself and am happy i quit . I had an Anthropology teacher back in 1987 . Somehow he got on the topic of where the top iq and SAT for undergraduate , most were going into advertising ! My prof then stares at the ceiling for several minutes then his head droops down with shaking of the head left and right , in the negative, no motion, this is depressing . (btw something culturally interesting . I was a roommate with two Asian Indian students for awhile . And one of them from a different part of India would role his head like no i disagree but it really meant yes, i agree, or yes i am listening to you . Another thing is Pakistani and Indian students get along quite well away from their respective nations . It is a crying shame that over in India and Pakistan they hate each other....sigh )

[@DJsaima]

This hate is manufactured from top down to divide ... on the ground the reality is that we actually all get along.

[@konormccracken]

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[@Axesmellsgr8]

Spend too much time with this on your brain and your guranteed a job at taco bell..

[@milmex317th]

Mr. Floy No not taco bell Child support enforcement, breeding more Beuracrates.

[@MetabolicBrain]

Excellent!

[@DJsaima]

that was brilliant

[@freepalestine78652]

Hey I'm Hasnain A sociology student from Pakistan And looking for someone who is Also sociologist

[@a_little_bit_of_wisdom]

Because of the deeply judgmental quality in Mills sociology, his followers were flat-footed against the transformation from 1980 on. His generalizations were theatrical, but his topic largely structural. Stereotyped characters do not explain structural developments, they emerge from it. But Mill's U.S. structure is superficial, avoiding regionalism, generational transactions, immigration, women, etc. The very middle management Mills despised became expendable, yet sociology shrugged, more interested in clearly judgmental subjects like gender, ethnicity, identity. Then the middle management that left companies in 1980s fed right-wing political changes that, more than anything, destroyed U.S. mobility and democratic responsibility. Meanwhile Mills pays no attention to other countries. Germany maintained a middle-sized company sector that hires most Germans while in the U.S. big corporations got to the point of hiring most Americans. To understand this, we need to look at antitrust, regulation, government subsidies, etc.