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Mills: The Power Elite In Modern Society

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Mills believes that in modern societies there is an elite who controls the resources of majority of bureaucratic organizations that have come to dominate industrial societies. As time passed by, these bureaucracies have converged and expanded, the circle of those who run these organizations have narrowed and the impact of their decisions have become enormous. According to Mills, the power elite are the key people in the thre major institutions of modern society. These are people working in the Economy, Government and Military. The bureaucracies of state, corporations, and military have become so big and centralized and their power isunprecedented in human history. These hierarchies of power are the crucial to understanding modern industrial
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