Deviance and Social Control: Marginalization, Identities and Social Justice in the United States
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History of Social Theory
Fall 2013 Sociology 101 Michael Burawoy HISTORY OF SOCIAL THEORY A course on the history of social theory can be presented with two different emphases -- as intellectual history or as theoretical tradition. In the first approach the classics are examined in relation to their political, social, economic and particularly their cultural context. In the second approach the classics are systematically compared to one another to show both similarities and differences but also to place them in some developmental sequence. In this course we shall primarily follow the second approach although it will still be essential to situate the ideas of any given writer in his or her historical milieu. It is the hypothesis of this course that within our field there are essentially three theoretical traditions: a marxist tradition, a sociological tradition and an emergent third tradition that transcends both Marxism and sociology. In this view sociology developed out of a critical dialogue with the writings of Marx and Engels and the Marxists that followed them, while this third tradition, often referred to as postmodernism, seeks to go beyond the optimistic accounts of both marxism and sociology. Accordingly, in the first semester we shall examine the Marxist tradition, beginning with Marx and Engels, passing rapidly through German Marxism (Kautsky, Bernstein, Luxemburg), stopping at Russian Marxism to study Lenin's treatise on the transition from capitalism to communism, moving on to Antonio Gramsci as the foremost "Western Marxist" and from there dealing with Third World Marxism as represented by Frantz Fanon. Next semester we will work through key representatives of the sociological tradition, Durkheim and Weber, followed by Foucault, our “postmodern” thinker, before ending with the feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, followed by those who have worked in that tradition in the United States – Catherine MacKinnon and Patricia Hill Collins. -
Rethinking Burawoy's Public Sociology: a Post-Empiricist Critique." in the Handbook of Public Sociology, Edited by Vincent Jeffries, 47-70
Morrow, Raymond A. "Rethinking Burawoy's Public Sociology: A Post-Empiricist Critique." In The Handbook of Public Sociology, edited by Vincent Jeffries, 47-70. Lantham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 3 Rethinking Burawoy’s Public Sociology: A Post-Empiricist Reconstruction Raymond A. Morrow Following Michael Burawoy’s ASA presidential address in August 2004, “For Public Sociology,” an unprecedented international debate has emerged on the current state and future of sociology (Burawoy 2005a). The goal here will be to provide a stock-taking of the resulting commentary that will of- fer some constructive suggestions for revising and reframing the original model. The central theme of discussion will be that while Burawoy’s mani- festo is primarily concerned with a plea for the institutionalization of pub- lic sociology, it is embedded in a very ambitious social theoretical frame- work whose full implications have not been worked out in sufficient detail (Burawoy 2005a). The primary objective of this essay will be to highlight such problems in the spirit of what Saskia Sassen calls “digging” to “detect the lumpiness of what seems an almost seamless map” (Sassen 2005:401) and to provide suggestions for constructive alternatives. Burawoy’s proposal has enjoyed considerable “political” success: “Bura- woy’s public address is, quite clearly, a politician’s speech—designed to build consensus and avoid ruffling too many feathers” (Hays 2007:80). As Patricia Hill Collins puts it, the eyes of many students “light up” when the schema is presented: “There’s the aha factor at work. They reso- nate with the name public sociology. Wishing to belong to something bigger than themselves” (Collins 2007:110–111). -
Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology
#2714-ASR 71:1 filename:71101-Duster 2005 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology Troy Duster New York University Sociology faces three important interrelated challenges in the coming decades. The first will be the increasing authority of reductionist science for which partial evidence is found in the strikingly imbalanced allocation of research funding for “causes” of wide- ranging problems—from disparities in health and educational achievement to explanations of alcoholism and violence. The second is the attendant expansion of databases on markers and processes “inside the body.” Directly but inversely related is the third challenge: new evidence that the release of already collected data sets is blocked and data collection on social and economic forces is reduced. These challenges can be confronted and addressed directly if sociologists emulate an earlier generation of sociological researchers and turn greater attention to an analysis of data collection at the site of reductionist knowledge production. This includes, for example, close scrutiny of new computer technologies assisting several DNA identification claims. It is Delivered by Ingenta to : insufficient to simply assert the arbitrarinessHarvard of the University “social construction” of these claims. Instead, the architecture of thatWed, construction 25 Oct 2006 must 22:39:39 be demonstrated. Unless that is done, competing explanations (from various disciplines) will have far greater significance on public policy and on the particular discipline’s status with public and private funding sources. he centennial of the American Sociological field in new and unchartered ways, because TAssociation (ASA) is an appropriate time to they experience their group’s perspective as step back and take a full sociohistorical view of either thwarted or ignored. -
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins • Eloquent Rage: a Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr
Resource List Books to read: • Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon • How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad • Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold • Redefining Realness by Janet Mock • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander • The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga • When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America by Ira Katznelson • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD • Fania Davis' Little Book of Race and RJ • Danielle Sered's Until We Reckon • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Films and TV series to watch: • 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix • American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent • Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent • Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S. -
The Outsider's Edge: Geography, Gender, and Sexuality in the Local
Sociological Forum, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2020 DOI: 10.1111/socf.12622 © 2020 Eastern Sociological Society The Outsider’s Edge: Geography, Gender, and Sexuality in the Local Color Movement1 Wendy Griswold,2 Anna Michelson3 Outsider status, especially multiple social marginalities, usually constitutes a burden. Certain combinations can be advantageous for cultural producers, however, especially when geographic marginality is part of the mix. The Local Color movement demonstrates the outsider’s edge. In mid-nineteenth century in America, print technology, reduced postal rates, and mass literacy led to the golden age of magazines. Their readers sought stories about the regional cultures that were disappearing in an industrializing nation. Local Color— fiction about places outside the northeast cultural heartland—met this demand. Local Color authors shared outsider identities—geography, gender, and sexuality—that characterized and shaped the movement. Com- parison with authors in the adjacent genres of Bestselling, Sentimental, and The Atlantic Monthly fiction reveals that multiple outsiderness (1) was not typical for authors of the period, and (2) advantaged women from the geographic periphery, especially those with unconventional sexual careers. KEYWORDS: gender; literature; marginality; outsiders; region; sexuality. INTRODUCTION: MULTIPLE MARGINALITIES, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND OUTSIDERNESS Since sociology focuses on power and the unequal distribution of resources and influence, sociologists tend to envision social relations as involving some social or institutional boundary separating one set of people from another: insiders vs. out- siders, center vs. periphery, elite vs. non-elite, dominant vs. subordinate, normative vs. deviant, majority vs. minority, conventional vs. unconventional. Although we recognize that some people move between the sets—the boundary spanners, the socially mobile, the trans—the line between the two remains clear. -
What Is Racial Domination?
STATE OF THE ART WHAT IS RACIAL DOMINATION? Matthew Desmond Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin—Madison Mustafa Emirbayer Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin—Madison Abstract When students of race and racism seek direction, they can find no single comprehensive source that provides them with basic analytical guidance or that offers insights into the elementary forms of racial classification and domination. We believe the field would benefit greatly from such a source, and we attempt to offer one here. Synchronizing and building upon recent theoretical innovations in the area of race, we lend some conceptual clarification to the nature and dynamics of race and racial domination so that students of the subjects—especially those seeking a general (if economical) introduction to the vast field of race studies—can gain basic insight into how race works as well as effective (and fallacious) ways to think about racial domination. Focusing primarily on the American context, we begin by defining race and unpacking our definition. We then describe how our conception of race must be informed by those of ethnicity and nationhood. Next, we identify five fallacies to avoid when thinking about racism. Finally, we discuss the resilience of racial domination, concentrating on how all actors in a society gripped by racism reproduce the conditions of racial domination, as well as on the benefits and drawbacks of approaches that emphasize intersectionality. Keywords: Race, Race Theory, Racial Domination, Inequality, Intersectionality INTRODUCTION Synchronizing and building upon recent theoretical innovations in the area of race, we lend some conceptual clarification to the nature and dynamics of race and racial domination, providing in a single essay a source through which thinkers—especially those seeking a general ~if economical! introduction to the vast field of race studies— can gain basic insight into how race works as well as effective ways to think about racial domination. -
Public Sociology/Contexts
Sociology 504: Public Sociology Spring 2013 Arlene Stein [email protected] Thursday 1:10‐3:50 Office hours: Thursday 4‐5 and by appointment This is a course that will both reflect upon the idea of “public sociology” and produce public sociological work. In the analytical component, we will explore such questions as: what is the sociological audience? What is the relationship between academia and public intellectual life? How do styles of writing/public address determine our relationship to different publics? We will read work by M. Burawoy, B. Agger, C. W. Mills, among others. The workshop component of the course will involve participating in the production of Contexts, the ASA’s hybrid magazine/journal which is dedicated to disseminating translating sociological work to broader publics. The magazine is now housed at Rutgers (and at Seattle University). Students in this course will learn about the production of the magazine from the inside, and actually participate in writing, editing, image selection, and other tasks. The course will: 1) deepen students’ substantive expertise in cutting‐edge sociological scholarship; 2) guide them in developing writing skills that address academic and non‐academic audiences; 3) engage in critical and constructive discussion of the field of sociology; 4) provide an inside view of the journal reviewing and editorial decision‐making. And they may even get their work published! Required books: Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, et al, eds., Public Sociology (California 2007) Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed (Holt 2002) Requirements: Do the reading, participate in discussion, and contribute: 1) an “in brief” piece for Contexts 2) a blog entry 3) a podcast for Contexts.org ** Note: Syllabus subject to change January 24. -
SOCIOLOGY 9191A Social Science in the Marxian Tradition Fall 2020
SOCIOLOGY 9191A Social Science in the Marxian Tradition Fall 2020 DRAFT Class times and location Wednesday 10:30am -12:30pm Virtual synchronous Instructor: David Calnitsky Office Hours by appointment Department of Sociology Office: SSC 5402 Email: [email protected] Technical Requirements: Stable internet connection Laptop or computer Working microphone Working webcam “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx That is the point, it’s true—but not in this course. This quote, indirectly, hints at a deep tension in Marxism. If we want to change the world we need to understand it. But the desire to change something can infect our understanding of it. This is a pervasive dynamic in the history of Marxism and the first step is to admit there is a problem. This means acknowledging the presence of wishful thinking, without letting it induce paralysis. On the other hand, if there are pitfalls in being upfront in your desire to change the world there are also virtues. The normative 1 goal of social change helps to avoid common trappings of academia, in particular, the laser focus on irrelevant questions. Plus, in having a set of value commitments, stated clearly, you avoid the false pretense that values don’t enter in the backdoor in social science, which they often do if you’re paying attention. With this caveat in place, Marxian social science really does have a lot to offer in understanding the world and that’s what we’ll analyze in this course. The goal is to look at the different hypotheses that broadly emerge out of the Marxian tradition and see the extent to which they can be supported both theoretically and empirically. -
Resituating Erving Goffman: from Stigma Power to Black Power
Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power Abstract This paper offers a critical re-reading of the understanding of stigma forged by the North American sociologist Erving Goffman in his influential Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity (1963). One of the most widely read and cited sociologists in history, Goffman was already famous when Stigma was published in 1963. His previous books were best-sellers and Stigma alone has sold an astonishing 800,000 copies in the fifty years since its publication. Given its considerable influence, it is surprising how little sustained engagement there has been with the historicity of Goffman’s account. This paper resituates Goffman’s conceptualisation of stigma within the historical context of Jim Crow and the Black freedom struggles that were shaking “the social interaction order” to its foundations at the very moment he crafted his account. It is the contention of this paper that these explosive political movements against the ‘humiliations of racial discrimination’ invite revision of Goffman’s decidedly apolitical account of stigma (Robinson, 2000, p. 318). This historical revision of Goffman’s stigma concept builds on an existing body of critical work on ‘the relationship between race, segregation and the epistemology of sociology within the United States’ (Bhambra, 2014). Throughout, it reads Goffman’s Stigma through the lens of “Black Sociology”, a field of knowledge that here designates not only formal sociological scholarship, but political manifestos, journalism, creative writing, oral histories and memoirs. It is the argument of this paper that placing Goffman’s concept of stigma into critical dialogue with Black epistemologies of stigma allows for a timely reconceptualisation of stigma as governmental technologies of de-humanisation that have long been collectively resisted from below. -
Black Lives Matter: Understanding Social Media and the Changing Landscape of Social Trust
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Theses and Dissertations 8-2019 Black Lives Matter: Understanding Social Media and the Changing Landscape of Social Trust Diana Carolina Cascante University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd Part of the American Popular Culture Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Recommended Citation Cascante, Diana Carolina, "Black Lives Matter: Understanding Social Media and the Changing Landscape of Social Trust" (2019). Theses and Dissertations. 3375. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/3375 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Black Lives Matter: Understanding Social Media and the Changing Landscape of Social Trust A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology by Diana Cascante John Brown University Bachelor of Science in Business 2016 August 2019 University of Arkansas This thesis is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council. _____________________________ Shauna Morimoto, Ph.D. Thesis Director _____________________________ Juan Jose Bustamante, Ph.D. Committee Member _____________________________ Casey Harris, Ph.D. Committee Member Abstract This study aims to understand how social media is changing the landscape of social capital. Current research indicates a paradox between the growing use of mediated sources that are building social capital and low levels of social trust found in social media. -
Inside: Sanderson on Reforming Theory (P. 1) • Scheff on Goffman (P. 5) • Bergesen Replies to His Critics (P
Inside: Sanderson on reforming theory (p. 1) • Scheff on Goffman (p. 5) • Bergesen replies to his critics (p. 10) • Announcements and awards (p. 14) Perspectives Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section volume 28, number 2, August 2005 Section Officers Reforming Theoretical Work in Sociology: Chair A Modest Proposal Robin Stryker (University of Minnesota) Stephen K. Sanderson Chair-Elect Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Konstanz) Indiana University of Pennsylvania Past Chair Thirty-five years ago, Alvin Gouldner (1970) predicted a coming crisis of Murray Webster Western sociology. Not only did he turn out to be right, but if anything he (University of North Carolina-Charlotte) underestimated the severity of the crisis. This crisis has been particularly Secretary-Treasurer severe in the subfield of sociology generally known as “theory.” At least Lisa Troyer, University of Iowa that is my view, as well as that of many other sociologists who are either Council theorists or who pay close attention to theory. Along with many of the most Julia Adams (Yale University) trenchant critics of contemporary theory (e.g., Jonathan Turner), I take the Uta Gerhardt (Universität Heidelberg) view that sociology in general, and sociological theory in particular, should Jack A. Goldstone (George Mason University) J. David Knottnerus (Oklahoma State University) be thoroughly scientific in outlook. Working from this perspective, I would Jane Sell (Texas A & M University) list the following as the major dimensions of the crisis currently afflicting Lynn Spillman (University of Notre Dame) theory (cf. Chafetz, 1993): 1. An excessive concern with the classical theorists. Despite Sociological Theory Editors Julia Adams (Yale University) Jeffrey Alexander’s (1987) strong argument for “the centrality of the Jeffrey Alexander (Yale University) classics,” mature sciences do not show the kind of continual concern with Ron Eyerman (Yale University) the “founding fathers” that we find in sociological theory. -
2007 Ess Book
Eastern Sociological Society New Diversity Persistent Inequality 77TH Annual Meeting Sheraton Philadelphia Center City Hotel March 15-18, 2007 GENERAL IN&ORMATION REGISTRATION Hours: Thursday, 12:00-5:00 pm &riday, 8:00 - 5:00 pm. Saturday, 8:00-5:00 pm Sunday, 8:00-10:00 am. The Registration Desk is located outside the Independence Ballroom on the Mezzanine level 1. When you register, you will be given a registration badge. 2. Badges are to be worn at all sessions and are required for admission to ESS events. 3. Registered participants may request complimentary badges for their nonmember spouses. ESS COMMONS The ESS COMMONS is on the Mezzanine level in Independence Ball Room. It includes: The Book Exhibit, which is described on the back inside cover of the program. The Message Board, where participants can leave and receive messages. The Employment Center which will be open Thursday 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM -riday 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Saturday 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM MEETING ROOMS Most meeting rooms are on the Mezzanine level of the hotel. The Liberty Ballroom and -oyer are on the Ballroom level. Seminar Room A is on the -irst -loor. A map can be found on the back of this program. COPIES O& PAPERS The ESS does not sell or distribute papers or abstracts. Please contact authors directly to obtain copies of papers or to get further information. SESSION AND PAPER LENGTH In sessions without a discussant, presenters should take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to make their initial presentations, while in those where a discussant is listed (or which have more than four papers), presenters should plan on approximately 10 to 15 minutes and discussants the same amount of time.