ABSTRACT
During the early summer of 1960, C. Wright Mills was working on everything from the classic tradition theme, which was to introduce the Images of Man reader, to some initial thoughts on Fidel Castro's revolutionary system in Cuba. To be sure, this strange admixture of American pragmatism and European idealism contains some of the best social theorizing produced in the supposedly dismal decade. Problems of social psychology are happily liberated from the ugly cliches of deviance and disorganization—catchall words that have little to do with science and a lot to do with the sociologist's distasteful acceptance of polite definitions of reality. They are also both committed to worldliness, even if they understood that term differently Gerth was cosmopolitan. The social psychological gamesters are distinguished from the experimenters and the ethnographers in that they deal with possibilities but not with people.
