Discuss SociologistC

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Discuss sociologistC.Wright Mill's views on the theory of the power elite.
The modern impetus for the theory of elite dominance comes from the sociologist
C.Wright Mills,who wrote a scholarly book in 1956 describing a "power elite" in American society.He saw American society as a pyramid of power and status.At the top was a tiny elite in command of the economic,political,and military domains.Just below was a group of lieutenants who carried out the elite's policies.They included professional managers of corporations,politicians beholden to the elite for their election,and bureaucrats appointed by the politicians.The large base of the pyramid was composed of a mass of powerless citizens,including feeble groups and associations with little policy impact.Mills did not see America as a democracy and thought that the elite simply used government "as an umbrella under whose authority they do their work."