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What We Experience In Various And Specific Milieux, I Have Noted, Is Often Caused By Structural Changes. Accordingly, To Understand The Changes Of Many Personal Milieux We Are Required To Look Beyond Them. And The Number And Variety Of Such Structural Changes Increase As The Institutions Within Which We Live Become More Embracing And More Intricately Connected With One Another. To Be Aware Of The Idea Of Social Structure And To Use It With Sensibility Is To Be Capable Of Tracing Such Linkages Among A Great Variety Of Milieux. To Be Able To Do That Is To Possess The Sociological Imagination

[o]ne Could Translate The 555 Pages Of The Social System Into About 150 Pages Of Straightforward English. The Result Would Not Be Very Impressive.

A Society That Is In Its Higher Circles And Middle Levels Widely Believed To Be A Network Of Smart Rackets Does Not Produce Men With An Inner Moral Sense; A Society That Is Merely Expedient Does Not Produce Men Of Conscience. A Society That Narrows The Meaning Of 'success' To The Big Money And In Its Terms Condemns Failure As The Chief Vice, Raising Money To The Plane Of Absolute Value, Will Produce The Sharp Operator And The Shady Deal. Blessed Are The Cynical, For Only They Have What It Takes To Succeed.

All Politics Is A Struggle For Power; The Ultimate Kind Of Power Is Violence.

Not Wishing To Be Disturbed Over Moral Issues Of The Political Economy, Americans Cling To The Notion That The Government Is A Sort Of Automatic Machine, Regulated By The Balancing Of Competing Interests.