Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

S. political military and economic elites White Collar on the American middle class and The Sociological Imagination where Mills proposes the proper relationship in sociological scholarship between biography and history. Among them The Power Elite which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the U.