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What makes the power elite is occupying pivotal positions; even their failure to act is a consequential act
Drawn from what C. Wright Mills said
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- C. Wright Mills Sociologist (1916 to 1962) whose The Power Elite (1956)…
Whether they do or do not make such decisions is less important than the fact that they do occupy such pivotal positions: their failure to act, their failure to make decisions, is itself an act that is often of greater consequence than the decisions they do make.
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