Forgotten Founders and Other Neglected Social Theorists

AvChristopher T. Conner,Nicholas M. Baxter

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social issues. While other similar texts tend to focus primarily on intellectual biography, our emphasis here is on the scholar’s theories and their application to contemporary social issues. We provide a contextualization of each scholar’s work, using present-day social issues or problems. Many of these individuals played a significant role in the development of sociology. Our hope is to provide a resource that will help re-integrate these marginalized social theorists, rescuing them from obscurity and elevating their status.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-17
Mått:154 x 219 x 19 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498573733

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Christopher T. Conner is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Knox College.Nicholas M. Baxter is acting assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University Kokomo.David R. Dickens is professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Editors Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, and David R. Dickens have done us a great service by publishing this volume on important theorists that, as its title suggests, have been largely left unread and underappreciated. I hope the book is picked up by advanced undergraduates planning for graduate school, current graduate students focusing on social theory, and faculty looking to add to or modify existing theory courses. Instructors can assign the full text or add value to their courses by selecting some chapters while recommending the rest. Perhaps teachers looking to move beyond Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Du Bois in classical theory will focus on the first part, while those teaching contemporary theory will pick up the latter. Each audience will find much to appreciate here, as the book whets the appetite for more from these founders and more recent theorists.

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Introduction Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, and David R. DickensPart 1: Forgotten Founders1 John Stuart-Glennie’s Lost LegacyEugene Halton2 Annie Marion Maclean and Sociology at the University of Chicago and Hull HouseMary Jo Deegan3 Marianne Weber and the March for Our Lives MovementStacy L. Smith4 Luther BernardAlan Sica and Christine Bucior5 Radhakamal Mukerjee: A Regional, Social Ecological OutlookDiane M. RodgersPart 2: Other Neglected Social Theorists6 Pitirim A. Sorokin: Integral Science, Global Culture, and LoveLawrence T. Nichols7 Gregory P. Stone’s Contributions to Urban Sociology, Social Psychology, and the Sociology of SportHarvey A. Farberman8 Carl J. CouchMichael A. Katovich and Shing-Ling S. Chen9 Jack Douglas: The Reinvention of Society and Sociology: Creative Deviance, the Construction of Meaning, and Social OrderThaddeus Müller10 Ben Agger: Social Theory as Public SociologyLukas Szrot