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American Sociology: History and Racially Gendered Classed Knowledge Reproduction.

Authors :
Padilla Wyse, Jennifer
Source :
Journal of Historical Sociology. Mar2014, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p49-74. 25p.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore how racially gendered classed power-relations structure history, knowledge and American Sociology's historical memory and disciplinary knowledge production. In order to do so, this paper will 1) utilize Cabral's (1970) theory of history to center humanity as historically developed into a racially gendered classed capitalist world-system, 2) employ intersectionality as a heuristic device to see how knowledge is manipulated to normalize dehumanization as well as to perpetuate exploitation and privilege by denying ' Othered' ' knowledges, and lastly 3) sociologically imagine this racially gendered classed process in the 'institutional-structure' of American Sociology by exploring the ancestry of the concept of 'intersectionality.' In all this paper argues 1) American Sociology under theorizes history, a central aspect of the sociological imagination and production of new sociological knowledge, 2) American Sociology reproduces a dehumanized theory of history per Marx's 'historical materialism' and 3) the structure of American Sociology's knowledge is racially gendered classed, as illustrated in the collective memory of the concept of 'intersectionality.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
09521909
Volume :
27
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Journal of Historical Sociology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
94832849
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12032