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... Espinas drafted his pioneering work Animal Societies (1877) in the wake of a period of pronounced national failure. In what was widely recognized as the “first chapter” in French sociology, Espinas's work signaled a growing struggle in the French university that echoed a larger struggle in the early Third...

...Galin Tihanov Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Calin Tihanov VoloSinov, Ideology, and Language: The Birth of Marxist Sociology from the Spirit of Lebensphilosophie Valentin Volosinov s and Mikhail Bakhtin s views of ideology and language in the late 1920s, articulated...

... metaphysics. Claiming to think the problem through to its logical conclusion, the sociology of knowledge went so far as to reconcile the concept of ideology with precisely the speculative thought that historical materialism was originally conceived to displace. In effect, Mannheim's notion of history...

...Aubrey C. Land The Sociology of Colonial Virginia . By Talpalar Morris . New York : Philosophical Library, Inc. , 1960 . Pp. xi , 371 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 320 The South Atlantic Quarterly Briefly Mr. Levy argues that the First Amendment...

...Harold T. Parker Sociology and History: Theory and Research . Edited by Cahnman Werner J. Boskoff Alvin . New York : The Free Press of Glencoe (Macmillan) , 1964 . Pp. xix , 596 . $9.95 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 414 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Hans Baron Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 A SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN FLORENCE* HANS BARON EACH GENERATION of historians owns a magic wand, whose touch opens the past more readily to them, than other methods of approach could do. The magic wand...

...Alexander DeConde European Union and United States Foreign Policy: A Study in Sociological Jurisprudence . By Northrop F. S. C. . New York : Macmillan Company , 1954 . Pp. x , 230 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 274 The South Atlantic Quarterly when...

... contemporaries. Given that Du Bois’s argument goes so thoroughly against the grain of the scholarship of his day and yet lacks references to any alternative archival or other sources to support his startling insights, the author speculates that his earlier sociological and literary endeavors were the likely...

..., and the United States to speculate on the sociological background of these actions. It argues that the breadth of protests in solidarity with the resisting students and faculty at Boğaziçi is in part due to the de facto exile of young university graduates and academics from Turkey across Europe and North America...

... militant poets such as Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire, especially by Roumain’s poem “Sales négres.” Fanon’s damned hence cannot be considered as a mere sociological category. Reading The Wretched of the Earth through Giorgio Agamben’s ideas on the modernist meanings of the witness and the remnants, I...

...Sven Opitz; Ute Tellmann This article analyzes how infrastructures take part in constituting Europe as a material collectivity. To that end, it modifies Bruno Latour’s sociology of associations in two respects: In order to theorize the relation between connectivity and collectivity, we consider...

... capitalist legitimacy to collective forms of autonomy. The second part examines central sociological dimensions permeating the reality of austerity, from the power of the state, via the pervasive processes of commodification, to the emergence of a “new spirit of capitalism.” The third part reflects...

... of truth speaking ( dire vrai, parrhesia ), what political and theoretical weight will be given to the exhausting conditions of these spaces? The goal of this essay is not to solve this paradox ontologically, but to face it sociologically, not to develop an ontology of potentiality but to understand...

... in sociological and political-economic thought on labor: the distinction between what counts as labor and what doesn’t, between productive and nonproductive labor, and between legal and illegal labor. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 The South Atlantic Quarterly 111:4, Fall 2012 doi 10.1215/00382876-1724129...

... first engages an exegesis of Max Weber's sociological theory of the state, a theory that aims to yoke violence and legitimacy to the means and ends of statecraft. Weber's theory is then used to uncover the rhetorical strategies of representing and redeploying grounds for lethal state action...

... working on a book manuscript that addresses film and finance in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Lisa Adkins is a professor of sociology at the University of Newcastle, Aus- tralia, and was previously a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, Univer- sity of London. Widely published in the areas of economic...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Notes on Contributors Malcolm ashmore, Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough Univer­ sity, UK, is the author of The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (1989) and coauthor (with Michael Mulkay and Trevor Pinch...

... and otherness, everyday nationalisms, and consumption. She is a founding member of the study group Nación Otredad Deseo. Hugo Sir Retamales received a joint PhD in sociology and social sciences from the University of Chile and the University of Paris VIII. He is an associated researcher at the Laboratorio...

... tensions between the social sciences and the humanities than between the humanities and the natural sciences; moreover, it is no secret that within the social sciences there is a chronic tension (some­ time a creative one in sociology, as was the case of Robert Merton and Paul Lazarsfeld at Columbia...

... 2012 Notes on Contributors Gurminder K. Bhambra is an associate professor of sociology and director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (2007). She is a founding...