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
The Social Construction of Reality
States and Social Revolutions
Who Rules America? Power and Politics
Sociology of Religion
The Lonely Crowd
The Sociological Imagination
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Regulating the Poor
- Outsiders
A Dying Colonialism
Will
From Max Weber
Art Worlds
Honest Signals
Managed Heart
The Revolt of the Elites
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.