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...George Steinmetz Duke University Press 2005 The Genealogy of a Positivist Haunting: Comparing Prewar and Postwar U.S. Sociology George Steinmetz This essay asks two related questions about the discipline of soci- ology...

...Richard Jean So; Hoyt Long Literary historians have long been interested in sociological approaches to literature. The field of modernism, a major aesthetic movement that flourished between 1915-40 primarily in the United States, England, and Europe, but the rest of the world as well, has been seen...

...W. E. B. Du Bois David G. Du Bois 2000 Sociology Hesitant W. E. B. Du Bois The Congress of Arts and Sciences at St. Louis last summer served to emphasize painfully the present plight of Sociology; for the devotee...

...Tani Barlow This article argues that the polymath Marxist philosopher and Communist Party apparatchik Qu Qiubai, who established sociology in the Chinese Marxist tradition by organizing the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in 1930, proposed that “society” was the sine qua non of human...

... as significant expressions in the “constructive work of bold sociological analysis.” There is a fairly high risk that what we experience will be lost forever to a forgetfulness that is hopelessly closed off from the flow of life. The objective in this essay is to offer a preliminary provisional account of what...

... present Spanos’s seminal work as a polemos . Indeed, more than the production of a corpus of historical or sociological knowledge, what defines his work is his radical confrontation with facticity, that is to say, with the quotidian determinations of being as historical agency. Polemos is a term crucial...

... in postcrisis Japan. In what has become a trend toward singular living and solitary existence—sometimes called Japan's “relationless society” ( muen shakai )—those without human or economic capital are put at risk. The precarity of living/dying without a safety net of others is one sociological fact examined...

... posit” associated with late twentieth-century musicology and sociology that valorizes music's social utility. Recognizing serious limitations in both, we turn to Étienne Balibar's notion of “civility” as an experimental practice that regulates extremes in order to reduce violence. Drawing...

... of awakening as a function of remembrance and expectation. Already in the “early” Benjamin, historical remembrance is understood dialectically as awakening from and to “that dream we name the past” (as he will put it in The Arcades Project more than a decade later). At once metaphysical and sociological...

... or applicability to China. Instead of a sinotheory, the review essay argues that geopolitics can integrate cultural sociology as critical ethos. References Anderson Benedict . 1983 . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism . London : Verso . Appadurai Arjun...

... to contain and disavow racism and imperialism. I propose to integrate within the postcolonial sphere methods and approaches from anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, which have produced a significant body of work on everyday socialist and postsocialist practices...

... to the then emerging anthropological habit. That inquiry had already prompted me to begin as systematic a study as possible of the writ- ings of Du Bois on this question. It was in the course of this that ‘‘Sociology Hesitant’’ came to my attention, first in Francis Broderick’s essay published in the Phylon...

...- nent theoretical meaning in the direction of practical existence.2 In conformity with Mannheim’s description, there emerged a standard criti- cism of the sociology of knowledge, namely, an accusation that it cannot engage with the cognitive structure of its objects. Thus, Theodor Adorno...

... The current overtly pronounced concern with the crisis in Black intel- lectual leadership is grounded in an old familiar theoretical conundrum of sociological thinking: the subject. This requires considerable elaboration...

... ostensibly objec- tive interests could only be made intelligible by measuring the depths of subjective consciousness and reaching for the language of psychopathol- ogy. All of these studies moved in the dialectical space between sociology and psychoanalysis, guided by the critical ambition that one...

... Man (New York: John Wiley, 1964). . Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, N.J.: Anchor, 1966); Michel Foucault, Disci- pline and Punish (New York: Vintage Books, 1979); Erik H. Erikson, Identity: Youth...

... of the Association Jan Hus France. Mouldi Guessoumi is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tunis. His research is on social and protest movements with a focus on how the dynamics of spontaneous social organization crystalize in institutions. An active trade unionist, Guessoumi has been...

... this collection of essays is related to his earlier sociological study, The Philadelphia Negro, which already had been published in 1898, and to his earlier government study of the black community of Farmville (SBF, 115).4 More significantly, perhaps, is the fact that Souls was published when Du Bois...

.... Departments of history, sociology, and political science once considered class to be the crucial area of focus, but by the end of the twentieth century, hardly a course on class or labor studies was to be found. It was no use lamenting, of course. Mainstream Chinese schol- ars instead were happy...