Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology

by Cassano, Graham; Buono, Richard A. Dello

• ISBN13: 9789004179486
• ISBN10: 9004179488
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Bringing together critical scholars, this volume seeks to understand the roots of our current social and economic crisis on a number of themes including the legacy of critical sociology, the significance of the new Obama administratioadministration, and the relationship of social theory to social practice.

Author Biography

Graham Cassano is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan and the book review editor (with George Sanders) for the journal Critical Sociology. His work theorizes the relationship of New Deal cinema to class formation in the US. Richard A. Dello Buono is Chair of the Department of Sociology at Manhattan College. He was previously a Fulbright lecturer in Panama and a visiting graduate professor at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. His research areas include comparative social problems and Latin Americans-Caribbean Studies.

Table of Contents

On the Contributors	p. vii
What is Critical Sociology?	p. 1
A Critical Sociology of Politics
Reflections on the Sociology Liberation Movement of 1968	p. 19
Scholarship from a Critical Perspective	p. 27
A Left Weberian Road to Identity Politics in the United States	p. 37
Politics and the New Administration
It's Real! Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, and the Urgent Need for Social Movement Politics	p. 47
President Obama and Political Culture in the United States	p. 59
Martin Luther King's Dream, Obama and Post Racial Society-Can We Yet Hope for a New Narrative?	p. 83
Revisiting Social Theory and Politics
Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: On the Practice of Radical Philosophy	p. 109
The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion	p. 135
Moving From Attitudes to Behavior: Using Social Influence to Understand Interpersonal Racial Oppression	p. 143
Teletechnology and Internal Dialogue	p. 161
On Surveillance as a Solution to Security Issues	p. 183
The Political Economy of School Violence in Trinidad: Towards a Caribbean Theory of Youth Crime	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 225
Index
Name Index	p. 243
Subject Index	p. 247
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