Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology

by Graham Cassano (Editor), Richard A. Dello Buono (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462018
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	03/20/2012
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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 “Ricardo” A. Dello Buono, Ph.D. (Boston College, 1986) in Social Economy, is Chair of the Department of Sociology, Manhattan College. He has lectured at various Latin American universities and his research areas include comparative social problems and Latin American/Caribbean Studies.

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