Freud And American Sociology

by Manning, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780745625058
• ISBN10: 0745625053
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• 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	vii
Preface	ix
An Uncertain Place: Freud in American Sociology	1	(34)
Introduction	1	(5)
The Intellectual Background	6	(3)
The Freudian Mirror	9	(2)
Freud's 1909 Visit to the United States	11	(8)
Freud among American Sociologists	19	(2)
Freud's Initial Reception in the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological Review	21	(11)
Assessment	32	(3)
From Sumnerology to Cooley's Social Self: Proto-Symbolic Interactionism	35	(29)
Introduction	35	(1)
From Sumnerology to the Second Sumner	36	(2)
Sumner's Background	38	(3)
The First Sumner	41	(3)
The Second Sumner	44	(4)
The Manifest and Latent Second Sumner	48	(2)
Anti-Sumnerology and the Institutionalization of American Sociology	50	(1)
Three Strands of Cooley's Sociology	51	(2)
Cooley's Cultural Theory	53	(5)
Cooley as Proto-Symbolic Interactionist	58	(3)
Cooley's Methodology	61	(1)
Proto-Symbolic Interactionism and Freud	62	(2)
Symbolic Interactionism and Psychoanalysis: Blumer's and Goffman's Extension of Mead	64	(32)
Introduction	64	(2)
Mead's Social Behaviorism and Assessment of Psychoanalysis	66	(3)
Blumer's Opposition to Freud and Parsons	69	(3)
Goffman's Understanding of Mental Illness	72	(10)
The Implications for Goffman's Sociology	82	(3)
The Interaction Order: Taxonomic Zoology	85	(6)
Tensions in Goffman's Account of the Self	91	(5)
Parsons' Freud: The Convergence with Symbolic Interactionism	96	(21)
Overview	96	(2)
Introduction	98	(4)
Parsons' Action Theory	102	(6)
The Survival Test: AGIL	108	(2)
Integrating Freud into Sociological Theory	110	(2)
The Empirical Demonstration: The American University	112	(5)
Philip Rieff and the Moral Ambiguity of Freud	117	(13)
Introduction	117	(3)
Rieff's Textual Laboratory	120	(3)
Rieff's Sociology of Culture: A Culture Lost	123	(1)
Rieff's Sociology of Culture: A Culture Gained	124	(2)
Rieff's Sociology of Culture: A Culture Imagined	126	(4)
Sociologists as Analysts and Auto-Ethnographers: Hochschild, Chodorow, Prager, and After	130	(27)
Introduction	130	(1)
The Current Context	131	(4)
Hochschild, Chodorow, and Prager	135	(6)
The Analysis of Transference and Ms A.	141	(3)
Rethinking Transference	144	(3)
From Ethnographies of Concepts to Reflexive Ethnography	147	(7)
Concluding Thoughts	154	(3)
References	157	(10)
Index	167