Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline

by Levine,Rhonda F.

• ISBN13: 9789004139923
• ISBN10: 9004139923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents classical articles influencing the field that appeared in The Insurgent Sociologist, along with current reflections by the original authors. These selections reflect radical sociology s continuing interest in capitalist development, class, race, gender, and power. The introduction contextualizes the role of The Insurgent Sociologist in the development of a radical sociology and its impact on the discipline. The conclusion provides an agenda for how the next version of critical sociology should relate to and strengthen the heterogeneous world of civil society. Never have so many prominent sociologists provided such a rare intellectual treat by being so frank about their own past work, and then suggest how we can do better in the future to provide frameworks for a critical and relevant sociology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Legacies of The Insurgent Sociologist	1	(12)
Rhonda F. Levine
I. Conceptualizing Sociology for Radicals
The Trajectory of a Radical Sociology: Reflections	13	(6)
Richard Flacks
Towards a Socialist Sociology: Some Proposals for Work in the Coming Period	19	(18)
Richard Flacks
II. Power and Class
The Ruling Class Thirty Years Later	37	(4)
Goran Therborn
What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? Some Reflections on Different Approaches to the Study of Power in Society	41	(22)
Goran Therborn
State and Ruling Class in Corporate America: Reflections, Corrections, and New Directions	63	(10)
G. William Domhoff
State and Ruling Class in Corporate America	73	(14)
G. William Domhoff
Spilling Out (Again)	87	(4)
Harvey Molotch
Accidents, Scandals, and Routines: Resources for Insurgent Methodology	91	(16)
Harvey Molotch
Marilyn Lester
III. Class and Inequality
Comments on ``The Long Shadow of Work''	107	(6)
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
The Long Shadow of Work: Education, the Family, and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor	113	(20)
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
Peter Meyer
The Future of Class Analysis: Reflections on ``Class Structure and Political Ideology''	133	(6)
Val Burris
Class Structure and Political Ideology	139	(26)
Val Burris
Reflections on ``The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?''	165	(8)
Martha E. Gimenez
The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?	173	(18)
Martha E. Gimenez
IV. Race and Gender
Comments on ``Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race''	191	(4)
Edna Bonacich
Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race	195	(28)
Edna Bonacich
Reflections on ``Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism''	223	(2)
Zillah Eisenstein
Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism	225	(26)
Zillah Eisenstein
V. Capitalism and the World Economy
Introductory Comments to ``Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis''	251	(4)
Erik Olin Wright
Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis	255	(28)
Erik Olin Wright
Introduction to ``Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System''	283	(8)
Fred Block
Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System	291	(18)
Fred Block
VI. The Future for a Critical Sociology
The Critical Turn to Public Sociology	309	(14)
Michael Burawoy
Notes on Contributors	323	(4)
Bibliography	327	(14)
Index	341