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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (929 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that situation-and to celebrate the centennial of the American Sociological Association-Craig Calhoun assembled a team of leading sociologists to produce Sociology in America.Rather than a story of great sociologists or departments, Sociology in America is a true history of an often disparate field-and a d

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 (p. [733]-850) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959289

9781281959287

1281959286

9780226090962

0226090965

OCLC:

476229190