Q: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
of this thinker's works analyze what he dubs "the symbol sphere. " In one book, he compares that construct to the "status sphere," which is itself similar to a prior writer's idea of "stratification. " He put forth the idea that "role" connects the individual personality to the "orders" of society in that book, which he co-wrote with Hans Gerth. This author of (*) Character and Social Structure claimed that the "military metaphysic" and a "permanent war economy" were characteristics of the title group of another book. He blamed bureaucracy for stripping decision-making power from the middle classes. He also wrote pro-Communist works such as The Causes of World War Three and Listen, Yankee. For 10 points, name this author of The Sociological Imagination, White Collar, and The Power Elite, a 1950s American sociologist.
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Social Science