Freud And American Sociology

by Manning, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780745625041
• ISBN10: 0745625045
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-05
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

Although Freud's impact on social science - and indeed 20th century social thought - has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book aims to fill this knowledge gap. By examining the work of pioneers such as G.H.Mead, Cooley, Parsons and Goffman, as well as a range of key contemporary thinkers, it provides an accurate history of the role Freud and psychoanalysis played in the development of American social theory. Despite the often reluctant, and frequently resistant, nature of this encounter, the book also draws attention to the abiding potential of fusing psychoanalytic and sociological thinking. Freud and American Sociology represents an original and compelling contribution to scholarly debate. At the same time, the clarity with which Manning develops his comprehensive account means that the book is also highly suitable for adoption on a range of upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, including sociology, social theory, social psychology, and related disciiplines.

Author Biography

Philip Manning is Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

An Uncertain Place: Freud in American Sociology

Introduction

The Intellectual Background

The Freudian Mirror

Freud's 1909 Visit to the United States

Freud among American Sociologists

Freud's Initial Reception in the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological review

Assessment

From Sumnerology to Cooley's Social Self: Proto-Symbolic Interactionism

Introduction

From Sumnerology to the Second Sumner

Sumner's Background

The First Sumner

The Second Sumner

The Manifest and Latent Second Sumner

Anti-Sumnerology and the Institutionalization of American Sociology

Three Strands of Cooley's Sociology

Colley's Cultural Theory

Colley As Proto-Symbolic Interactionist

Cooley's Methodology

Proto-Symbolic Interactionism and Freud

Symbolic Interactionism and Psychoanalysis: Blumer's and Goffman's Extension of Mead

Introduction

Mead's Social Behaviorism and Assessment of Psychoanalysis

Blumer's Opposition to Freud and Parsons

Goffman's Understanding of Mental Illness

The Implications for Goffman's Sociology

The Interaction Order: Taxonomic Zoology

Tensions in Goffman's Account of the Self

Parson's Freud: The Convergence with Symbolic Ineractionism

Overview

Introduction

Parson's Action Theory

The Survival Test: AGIL

Integrating Freud into Sociological Theory

The Empirical Demonstration: the American University

Philip Rieff and the Moral Ambiguity of Freud

Introduction

Rieff's Textual Laboratory

Rieff's Sociology of Culture: A Culture Lost

Rieff's Sociology of Culture: A Culture Gained

Rieff's Sociology of Culture: A Culture Imagined

Sociologists as Analysts and Auto-Ethnographers: Hochschild, Chodorow, Prager, and After

Introduction

The Current Context

Hochschild, Chodorow, and Prager

The Analysis of Transference and MsA

Rethinking Transference

From Ethnographies of Concepts to Reflexive Ethnography

Concluding Thoughts

References

Index

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