Crisis, politics and critical sociology

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cassano, Graham (Editor), Dello Buono, Richard Alan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 17
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Table of Contents:
  • What is critical sociology? / Graham Cassano.
  • Part I. A critical sociolology of politics. Reflections on the sociology liberation movement of 1968 / Robert J.S. Ross.
  • Scholarship from a critical perspective / David Fasenfest and Rhonda F. Levine.
  • A left Weberian road to identity politics in the United States / James W. Russell.
  • Part II. Politics and the new administration. It's real! Racism, color blindness, Obama, and the urgent need for social movement politics / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Victor Ray.
  • President Obama and political culture in the United States / Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr.
  • Martin Luther King's dream, Obama and post racial society : can we yet hope for a new narrative? / Rodney D. Coates.
  • Part III. Revisiting social theory and politics. Why new socialist theory needs Guy Debord : on the practice of radical philosophy / Richard Gilman-Opalsky
  • The case for a critical sociology of religion / Warren S. Goldstein.
  • Moving from attitudes to behavior : using social influence to understand interpersonal racial oppression / Chavella T. Pittman.
  • Teletechnology and internal dialogue / Gordon Gauchat and Casey Borch.
  • On surveillance as a solution to security issues / Vida Bajc.
  • The political economy of school violence in Trinidad : towards a Caribbean theory of youth crime / Daphne Phillips.