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Sociology in America: A History

Craig Calhoun

Abstract

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—the author has assembled a team of sociologists to produce this book. Rather than a story of great sociologists or departments, it is a true history of an often-disparate field—and a considered look at the ways sociology developed intellectually and institutionally. T ... More

Keywords: American sociology, American Sociological Association, race, gender, Depression, 1960s, twentieth century, Europe, America

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9780226090948
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226090962.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Craig Calhoun, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

[One] Sociology in America: An Introduction

Craig Calhoun

[Two] The American Spencerians: Theorizing a New Science

Daniel Breslau

[Three] Thrice Told: Narratives of Sociology's Relation to Social Work

Patricia Lengermann & Gillian Niebrugge

[Four] A Life in the First Half-Century of Sociology

Stephen Turner

[Five] Knowledge from the Field

Marjorie L. DeVault

[Six] Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Twentieth-Century American Sociology

Neil Gross

[Seven] On Edge: Sociology during the Great Depression and the New Deal

Charles Camic

[Eight] Hot War, Cold War: The Structures of Sociological Action, 1940–1955

Andrew Abbott & James T. Sparrow

[Nine] American Sociology before and after World War II

George Steinmetz

[Ten] Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Hierarchy: “Mainstream” Sociology and Its Challengers

Craig Calhoun & Jonathan VanAntwerpen

[Eleven] From Relevance to Irrelevance: The Curious Impact of the Sixties on Public Sociology

Doug McAdam

[Twelve] The Culture of Sociology in Disarray: The Impact of 1968 on U.S. Sociologists

Immanuel Wallerstein

[Thirteen] Assessing the Feminist Revolution: The Presence and Absence of Gender in Theory and Practice

Myra Marx Ferree, Shamus Rahman Khan & Shauna A. Morimoto

[Fourteen] Feminist Sociology in the Twentieth-Century United States: Life Stories in Historical Context

Edited byBarbara Laslett

[Fifteen] Sociology of Race and W. E. B. DuBois: The Path Not Taken

Aldon D. Morris

[Sixteen] The Dark Side of the Force: One Hundred Years of the Sociology of Race

Howard Winant

[Seventeen] Pushing the Boundaries or Business as Usual? Race, Class, and Gender Studies and Sociological Inquiry

Patricia Hill Collins

[Eighteen] Criminology, Criminologists, and the Sociological Enterprise

James F. with Lorine A. Hughes

[Nineteen] Betwixt and Between Discipline and Profession: A History of Sociology of Education

Pamela Barnhouse Walters

[Twenty] Internationalism and Global Transformations in American Sociology

Michael D. Kennedy & Miguel A. Centeno

[Twenty-One] Defining Disciplinary Identity: The Historiography of U.S. Sociology

Alan Sica

End Matter

[Appendix] Histories of American Sociology: Readings and Resources

References

Contributors

Index