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Abstract
C. Wright Mills has been forgotten by sociological theories however there is no doubt about how much he contributed to the field of Epistemology. He successfully participated in the American Sociology of Knowledge and, at the same time, he upheld the tradition of the Conflict Theory, including the sociological dimension into one of the most questioned political subjects of his period. Undoubtedly, Wright Mills was morally committed to the value of reason and freedom. His central issue was to analyse the real possibilities for a particular individual within a particular social order to become a free man capable of reasoning. He wondered how someone could be able to transcend his daily nature through reason and eperience and to act accordingly to his power. The power and political processes were constant in his works, since he claimed that any political process was a struggle for power and prestige, for authoritative positions, both within each nation and among the different states. On the other hand, he bserved that the social structure in the United States of America was not completely democratic, since the course of action depended on the decision of a small group of wealthy, powerful individuals. These concentrating spaces of power amongst some economic, military and political corporations were supported by their underlying ideology, a fact that became clearer when referring to international affairs. Nowadays, in a world of structural antagonisms, wars and rebellions, the need for looking at the work of intellectuals like Mills re-emerges. Mills showed us a way in which a comple entity as power can be understood, and, at the same time, the need to consider the course of history, its mechanics and process.
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