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4. Losing their head.

Author

FFRENCH, PATRICK

Subjects
*SOCIOLOGY, *NONFICTION
Published
2019

6. Comments on American Sociology: From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal.

Author

Gross, Neil

Subjects
*SOCIOLOGY, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Stephen Turner's book, American Sociology, is valuable contribution to the history of the field. In this comment paper, however, I raise questions about two of its core claims: that the feminization of American sociology prevented its collapse, and that the discipline has a two-tiered status structure, with activist scholarship located primarily in the lower tier. We should be sure that Turner is right about these points before we accept his evaluation of the current state of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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8. Bringing the margins into the middle: reflections on racism, class and the racialized outsider.

Author

Meer, Nasar

Subjects
*RACE & society, *SOCIAL classes, *NONFICTION, *HISTORY
Abstract

This paper explores Virdee’s account of how racialized minorities in socialist movements ‘played an instrumental role in trying to align struggles against racism with those against class exploitation’ (p. 164). In so doing, Virdee makes an important intervention at a time when popular historians and other ideologues are colluding in the elevation of myths and – no doubt in their view – noble lies that preclude these stories. Moving through theoretical debates concerning the relationships between race and class, the nature and form of sociologies of ‘outsiders’, to political issues of mobilization, Virdee’s book successfully brings in from the margins an account the multi-ethnic character of the working class in England from the very moment of its inception. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2015
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9. Structures of Power and Constraint (Book).

Author

Kitch, Laura W.

Subjects
*SOCIOLOGY, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau," edited by Craig Calhoun.

Published
1992