This article narrates the prehistory and posthistory of Personal Influence as an episode in the biographies of Paul Lazarsfeld and C. Wright Mills. It begins in 1945, when Lazarsfeld sent Mills to Decatur, Illinois, to undertake the fieldwork, and ends with Mills's death in 1962.
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Mills, C. Wright. 1946. The middle-classes in middle-sized cities. American Sociological Review11:520-529.
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Mills, C. Wright. 1953. Two styles of research in current social studies. Philosophy of Science20 (October): 266-275.
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Mills, C. Wright. 1956. The power elite. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The sociological imagination.New York: Oxford University Press.
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