Confronting Gouldner

Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980) was a leading sociologist of his era who provided groundbreaking analyses in the areas of industrial sociology, critical sociological theory, ideology, reciprocity, and class analysis. In Confronting Gouldner James J. Chriss confronts the larger issue of the place of critical theory, and specifically Marxism, in framing the perspective of sociology as political activism.

Foreword by Richard Lee Deaton
The Two Masks of Alvin Ward Gouldner: Angry Outsider and Intellectual Street Fighter – Reflections of an Undutiful Son

Acknowledgments

1. The Classics and Beyond

2. Intellectuals and Radical Sociology

3. Crime and Deviance

4. Bourdieu and Reflexive Sociology

5. Radical Politics and Soviet Sociology

6. Religion and Critical Theory

7. Social Justice, Politics, and Religion

8. Locals, Cosmopolitans, and the Politics of a Global Humanity

9. Mao and the Communist Horizon

References

Index