An American sociologist, Charles Wright Mills was born in New York in the year of 1916. He studied the structure of power in the U.S. and was perhaps one of the most influential in that capacity.

Mills graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939. He received a Ph.D. in 1941 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1941. In 1946, he went to work for Columbia University accepting a faculty position.

As an American sociologist, Charles Wright Mills would be remembered for his contributions in writing as much as anything else. He wrote the book The Power Elite where he studied power at all levels.

Mills also wrote The Cause of World War Three and Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba. His work was well written and instrumental in bringing to light issues involving power and the culture many people live in without question.

Charles Wright Mills brought to light various viewpoints. He was concerned with class identity and how the political, military and economic elite class relates to socialization and how these classes have the ability to intermingle with other classes.

Charles Wright Mills died in 1962. He will likely be remembered as more of a writer than as a professor but he was first and foremost an American sociologist with a curious mind that wanted to explore the elements of socialization and factors surrounding it.