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Confronting Gouldner

Confronting Gouldner

Sociology and Political Activism

Studies in Critical Social Sciences

by James J. Chriss

Published by: Haymarket Books

Imprint: Haymarket Books

241 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9781608466436
Published: April 2017

$30.00

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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

James J. Chriss, Ph.D. (1994), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Cleveland State University. His most recent books are Beyond Community Policing (Paradigm, 2013) and Social Control: An Introduction 2nd ed. (Polity, 2013).

Praise for Social Control

"The author is widely read in the field of social control, and is to be commended for his coverage of a broad range of material … [T]he connections among disparate literatures reflect insight and originality. The quality of the content is excellent – I thoroughly enjoyed reading it."
—John DeLamater, University of Wisconsin-Madison