Confronting Gouldner: Sociology And Political Activism - Studies in Critical Social Science, Volume 76

An important new appraisal of one of the 20th century's most important activist sociologists.

List of contents

Foreword by Richard Lee Deaton
The Two Masks of Alvin Ward Gouldner: Angry Outsider and Intellectual Street Fighter – Reflections of an Undutiful Son

Acknowledgments

1. The Classics and Beyond

2. Intellectuals and Radical Sociology

3. Crime and Deviance

4. Bourdieu and Reflexive Sociology

5. Radical Politics and Soviet Sociology

6. Religion and Critical Theory

7. Social Justice, Politics, and Religion

8. Locals, Cosmopolitans, and the Politics of a Global Humanity

9. Mao and the Communist Horizon

References

Index

About the author

James J. Chriss, Ph.D. (1994), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Cleveland State University. His most recent books are Beyond Community Policing (Paradigm, 2013) and Social Control: An Introduction 2nd ed. (Polity, 2013).

Summary

Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980) was a leading sociologist of his era who provided groundbreaking analyses in the areas of industrial sociology, critical sociological theory, ideology, reciprocity, and class analysis. In Confronting Gouldner James J. Chriss confronts the larger issue of the place of critical theory, and specifically Marxism, in framing the perspective of sociology as political activism.

Foreword

Title will be prominently featured at all of the academic conferences we attend

Promotion to coincide with the annual American Sociological Association conference

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Product details

• Authors: James J. Chriss, James J. Chriss
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2017
• EAN: 9781608466436
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-643-6
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, Political activism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political ideologies and movements, Political activism / Political engagement