Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology
Description
The world has entered a sustained period of crisis, and in order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the work of contemporary sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems
Author Bios
Graham Cassano is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, in Rochester Michigan and an associate editor of Critical Sociology. He publishes on social theory and the relationship of New Deal cinema to class formation in the US.
Richard A. Dello Buono, Ph.D. (1986) in Sociology is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Manhattan College. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Havana, National University of Colombia, Autonomous University of Zacatecas and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Panama. His research areas include comparative social problems and Latin American/Caribbean Studies.
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Publication date: March 20, 2012
Table of Contents
On the Contributors
1. What is Critical Sociology?, Graham Cassano
I. A CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS
2. Reflections on the Sociology Liberation Movement of 1968, Robert J. S. Ross
3. Scholarship from a Critical Perspective, David Fasenfest and Rhonda F. Levine
4. A Left Weberian Road to Identity Politics in the United States, James W. Russell
II. POLITICS AND THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
5. It’s Real! Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, and the Urgent Need for Social Movement Politics, Eduardo
Bonilla-Silva and Victor Ray
6. President Obama and Political Culture in the United States, Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr.
7. Martin Luther King’s Dream, Obama and Post Racial Society—Can We Yet Hope for a New
Narrative?, Rodney D. Coates
III. REVISITING SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICS
8. Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: On the Practice of Radical Philosophy, Richard
Gilman-Opalsky
9. The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion, Warren S. Goldstein
10. Moving From Attitudes to Behavior: Using Social Infl uence to Understand Interpersonal Racial Oppression,
Chavella T. Pittman
11. Teletechnology and Internal Dialogue, Gordon Gauchat and Casey Borch
12. On Surveillance as a Solution to Security Issues, Vida Bajc
13. The Political Economy of School Violence in Trinidad: Towards a Caribbean Theory of Youth Crime, Daphne Phillips
Bibliography
Index
Name Index
Subject Index
