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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the…
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes…
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…
The principal cause of war is war itself.
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store…

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. — C. Wright Mills

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