What to Read After The Power Elite
Readers who loved The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Power Elite is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Power Elite
The Great Transformation
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Theory of the Leisure Class
States and Social Revolutions
Sociology of Religion
Who Rules America? Power and Politics
The Lonely Crowd
The Sociological Imagination
A Dying Colonialism
Regulating the Poor
Outsiders
Will
Labor and Monopoly Capital
From Max Weber
Honest Signals
Art Worlds
The Revolt of the Elites
Managed Heart
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto (Great Books in Philosophy)