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Enriching the Sociological Imagination
How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline
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Since the 1960s, radical sociology has had far more influence on mainstream sociology than many observers imagine. This book pairs seminal articles with new reflective essays written by the founders of progressive sociology, including Fred Block, Edna Bonacich, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Val Burris, G. William Domhoff, Richard Flacks, Harvey Molotch, Goran Therborn, and Erik Olin Wright. The book highlights the wider impact of radical sociology and shows how the work of these and other writers has continued to influence sociology's continuing interest in capitalism, class, race, gender, power, and progressive social change. It also describes future directions for a critical sociology relevant to a multicultural and global world.
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Index
Abbott, Andrew, 320
absolute surplus value, expansion of, 276
academic appointments, 16
academic social relations: call for new model, 14
competitive individualism, 16
accidents: defined, 96
as news events, 96–101
potential mobilizing force for change, 100
as resource for accessing unstudied political features, 98–99
routinizing tactics, 99
accumulation: constraints and impediments to, 255–56
contradictory role of the state in, 257
historical pattern of constraints on and emergent structural solutions, 278–79
impediments and contradictions in, 256–74
actual profits, 266
administrative/bureaucratic elites, 69
administrative interventions, in reproduction, 58–59
advanced capitalism, and inflation, 292n1
advanced monopoly capital, 280–82
advertising councils, 83
advisory committees, 76
affirmative action, 16, 17
affluence and poverty, intergenerational persistence within families, 108
African Americans: disproportionately unemployed and criminalized, 193
higher proportion of poor female-headed families, 175
workers more class conscious and ready for socialist revolution than the white working class, 208
aged poor, decreased proportion of, 166
agency, problem of, 23–26
aggregate demand, 258, 265–66, 267, 293
Agricultural Adjustment Act, 64, 68
alienated labor: reflected in student’s lack of control over his or her education, 119
reproduced on the level of personal consciousness, 117
alienation, theory of, 227
allocative policies, 273
alternate media, 29
Althusser, Louis, 311
Althusserian structuralist Marxism, 251
American Assembly, 77
American Bar Association, 85
“American Empire,” 285
American intellectuals, adversary culture, 20
Americans, unusually illusioned by myths of powers, 23
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Legacies of The Insurgent Sociologist
- I. Conceptualizing Sociology for Radicals
- II. Power and Class
- III. Class and Inequality
- IV. Race and Gender
- V. Capitalism and the World Economy
- VI. The Future for a Critical Sociology
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index