C. Wright Mills

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C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist best known for his critiques of power structures in modern society and for introducing the concept of the "sociological imagination."

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Label Occurrences
C. Wright Mills canonical 4
Charles Wright Mills 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
human
sociologist
writer
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1916-08-28
dateOfDeath 1962-03-20
educatedAt Texas A&M University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
employer Columbia University
familyName Mills
fieldOfWork critical sociology
political sociology
social theory
sociology
fullName C. Wright Mills self-linksurface differs
surface form: Charles Wright Mills
genre non-fiction
social criticism
givenName Charles
hasOccupation author
essayist
university teacher
influenced New Left
critical sociology
influencedBy Karl Marx
Max Weber
Thorstein Veblen
knownFor analysis of the power elite in the United States
concept of the sociological imagination
critique of power structures in modern society
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement critical theory
nationality American
notableWork Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba
The Causes of World War Three
The Marxists
The New Men of Power
The Power Elite
The Sociological Imagination
White Collar: The American Middle Classes
placeOfBirth Waco, Texas
surface form: Waco, Texas, United States
placeOfDeath Nyack, New York, United States of America
surface form: Nyack, New York, United States
positionHeld professor of sociology at Columbia University
spouse Dorothy Helen Smith
Ruth Harper
Yale Hilsman Mills
workLocation New York City

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: C. Wright Mills
Description of subject: C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist best known for his critiques of power structures in modern society and for introducing the concept of the "sociological imagination."

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Max Weber influenced C. Wright Mills
Mills hasNotableBearer C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills fullName C. Wright Mills self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Charles Wright Mills
Veblen influenced C. Wright Mills
subject surface form: Thorstein Veblen
The Mind and Society influenced C. Wright Mills