Enriching the Sociological Imagination

Rhonda F. Levine, Ph.D. (1980) in Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton is Professor of Sociology at Colgate University. Her most recent books include Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York (2001) and Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates (1998).

• Introduction; I: Conceptualizing Sociology for Radicals; I: The Trajectory of a Radical Sociology; I: Towards a Socialist Sociology; II: Power and Class; The Ruling Class Thirty Years Later; What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? Some Reflections on Different Approaches to the Study of Power in Society; State and Ruling Class in Corporate America; State and Ruling Class in Corporate America *; Spilling Out (Again); Accidents, Scandals, and Routines: Resources for Insurgent Methodology *; III: Class and Inequality; Comments on “The Long Shadow of Work”; The Long Shadow of Work: Education, the Family, and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor; III: The Future of Class Analysis: Reflections on “Class Structure and Political Ideology”; Class Structure and Political Ideology *; Reflections on “The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?”; The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?; IV: Race and Gender; Comments on “Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race”; Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race; Reflections on “Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism”; Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism; V: Capitalism and the World Economy; Introductory Comments to “Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis”; Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis *; Introduction to “Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System”; Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System *; VI: The Future for a Critical Sociology; The Critical Turn to Public Sociology 1