Sociology in America : a history / edited by Craig Calhoun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--United States--History.

Sociology.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 913 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Contents:

Sociology in America : an introduction / Craig Calhoun

The American Spencerians : theorizing a new science / Daniel Breslau

Thrice told : narratives of sociology's relation to social work / Patricia Lengermann & Gillian Niebrugge

A life in the first half-century of sociology : Charles Ellwood and the division of sociology / Stephen Turner

Knowledge from the field / Marjorie L. DeVault

Pragmatism, phenomenology, and twentieth-century American sociology / Neil Gross

On edge : sociology during the Great Depression and the New Deal / Charles Camic

Hot war, Cold War : the structures of sociological action, 1940-1955 / Andrew Abbott & James T. Sparrow

American sociology before and after World War II : the (temporary) settling of a disciplinary field / George Steinmetz

Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and hierarchy : "mainstream" sociology and its challengers / Craig Calhoun & Jonathan VanAntwerpen

From relevance to irrelevance : the curious impact of the sixties on public sociology / Doug McAdam

The culture of sociology in disarray : the impact of 1968 on U.S. sociologists / Immanuel Wallerstein

Assessing the feminist revolution : the presence and absence of gender in theory and practice / Myra Marx Ferree, Shamus Rahman Khan, & Shauna A. Morimoto

Feminist sociology in the twentieth-century United States : life stories in historical context / Barbara Laslett

Sociology of race and W.E.B. Dubois : the path not taken / Aldon D. Morris

The dark side of the force : one hundred years of the sociology of race / Howard Winant

Pushing the boundaries or business as usual? : race, class, and gender studies and sociological inquiry / Patricia Hill Collins

Criminology, criminologists, and the sociological enterprise / James F. Short Jr. with Lorine A. Hughes

Betwixt and between discipline and profession : a history of sociology of education / Pamela Barnhouse Walters

Internationalism and global transformations in American sociology / Michael D. Kennedy & Miguel A. Centeno

Defining disciplinary identity : the historiography of U.S. sociology / Alan Sica

Appendix: Histories of American sociology : readings and resources / Alton Phillips & Jonathan VanAntwerpen.

Notes:

"An ASA Centennial Publication."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [733]-850) and index.

ISBN:

0226090949

9780226090948

0226090957

9780226090955

OCLC:

68623947

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