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Sociology, like most disciplines/institutions in racialized (and other oppressive) social systems, are steeped with policies and practices that are designed to maintain the status quo. Thus, they are partly responsible for the gatekeeping, careerism, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination that plague our scholarly communities. In this piece, an extension of my 2018 Presidential Address to the Association for Humanist Sociology, I challenge academics to push back and find better ways, through critical humanist sociology, to serve the public good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociology subdisciplines are notorious for being siloed in their respective fields of study. This is sometimes more noticeable in those arenas that surprisingly (to some) do not make sense, as there are bound to be greater sociological insights gleamed from an intra‐subdisciplinary approach that allow for better synthesis of theory(ies) or even epistemology(ies). In this piece, we issue a challenge to the need for more sociological engagement that weaves together the cultural, those structured stories that render our lives and the order of those lives meaningful, and the racial, those storied structures of white supremacy that give rise to that order of our lives and undergird our identities and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews racial microaggressions, specifically psychology and sociology's historical trajectory in informing existing literatures and disciplines, in its connections to meso and macro levels of systemic racism. In doing so, we contend that a sociological understanding of racial microaggressions presents opportunities to better understand the cumulative and deleterious effects of racial violence on racialized groups. Furthermore, we argue that beyond bridging the disciplines of psychology and sociology to allow for more interdisciplinary analyses of racial microaggressions will help to move conversations in ways that more meaningfully capture the monstrosity of white supremacy and its cumulative deleterious effects of daily racial terrorism at all levels of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's comments presented at the 2016 American Sociological Association annual meetings in Seattle, Washington within the disciplines of sociological hypnagogia, negligence, and denial. It presents the author's response to the questions addressed by Professor Aldon Morris pertaining to sociology's ability and commitment to social problems and inequalities in the house. It also discusses the sociological concept of racial apathy and the particulars of white sociology.

Our goal with this special issue is to expand currently untapped ideas about racial microaggressions from a sociological point of view. As noted, research on this issue comes largely out of psychiatry, psychology, and education-disciplines that tend to place less emphasis on structural and institutional causes of racism. There is a need for more sociologically guided research to examine how subtle, covert, and non-apparent forms of racism affect minorities physiologically, psychologically, and emotionally-and how these micronooses can best be understood in a larger context of structural racism. Examination of racial microaggressions from a sociological point of view promises additional insight to help understand the complexities of contemporary race and racism in America and abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the issue surrounding interdisciplinarity, post-disciplinarity and anomic specialization in the field of sociology. Topics covered include the dearth of interdisciplinary research in sociology, the impact of the practice of sociology in the pursuit of a wider comprehension of social forces, and the institutional barriers hindering scholars to pursue interdisciplinary research and testing.

The authors focus on the concept of sociology and explore for whom and what purpose it serves, citing the highlights of the 50-year career of the Association for Humanist Sociology's first president, Alfred McClung Lee. Topics discussed include the ideas of marketplace citizenship, the move of universities toward an apparent denotative endorsement of corporatization, and an analysis of Lee's statement of purpose for humanist sociology.