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Enriching the Sociological Imagination

Studies in Critical
Social Sciences

Series Editor

DAVID FASENFEST

College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs Wayne State University

Editorial Board

JOAN ACKER, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon

ROSE BREWER, Afro-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota

VAL BURRIS, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon

CHRIS CHASE-DUNN, Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside

G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF, Department of Sociology, University of California-Santa Cruz

COLLETTE FAGAN, Department of Sociology, Manchester University

MARTHA GIMENEZ, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder

HEIDI GOTTFRIED, CULMA, Wayne State University

KARIN GOTTSCHALL, Zentrum fr Sozialpolitik, University of Bremen

BOB JESSOP, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

RHONDA LEVINE, Department of Sociology, Colgate University

JACKIE OREILLY, WZB, Berlin

MARY ROMERO, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University

CHIZUKO UENO, Department of Sociology, University of Tokyo

VOLUME 1

Enriching the
Sociological
Imagination

How Radical Sociology Changed
the Discipline

Edited by

Rhonda F. Levine

First published 2004 by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Copyright 2004 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication data

Enriching the sociological imagination: how radical sociology changed the discipline / edited by Rhonda E Levine.

p. cm. (Studies in critical social sciences, ISSN 1573-4234; v. 1)

Some chapters are edited versions of articles originally published in The insurgent sociologist.

Includes biographical references and index.

ISBN 90-04-13992-3 (alk. paper)

1. Sociology. 2. Radicalism. 3. Critical theory. I. Levine, Rhonda F. II. Insurgent sociologist. III. Series.

HM585.E67 2004

305.5dc22

2004048563

ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-168-4 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 978-90-04-13992-3 (hbk)

Contents

RHONDA F. LEVINE

RICHARD FLACKS

RICHARD FLACKS

GORAN THERBORN

GORAN THERBORN

G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF

G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF

HARVEY MOLOTCH

HARVEY MOLOTCH AND MARILYN LESTER

SAMUEL BOWLES AND HERBERT GINTIS

SAMUEL BOWLES, HERBERT GINTIS, AND PETER MEYER

VAL BURRIS

VAL BURRIS

MARTHA E. GIMENEZ

MARTHA E. GIMENEZ

EDNA BONACICH

EDNA BONACICH

ZILLAH EISENSTEIN

ZILLAH EISENSTEIN

ERIK OLIN WRIGHT

ERIK OLIN WRIGHT

FRED BLOCK

FRED BLOCK

MICHAEL BURAWOY

The 21st Century began with a very different political and social environment when compared with most of the last century: Capitalism as a system evolved from national and rapacious, to international and imperial, to global and invasive. The revolutionary workers movements at the start of the last century, with its hopes for international solidarity in the struggle against capitalism begun at the end the 19th Century, culminating in the Russian Revolution of Workers and Peasants in 1917 and the Chinese Revolution in 1949, faded by the end of the 20th Century with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and with China experimenting with a peoples capitalism. The social welfare gains won in industrial Europe and to some extent the United States have been eroded in the name of liberal deregulation, international competition, and global rationalization. The Third World is much worse off both relatively and in most cases even absolutely as developed countries, that had promised spreading of the wealth, have turn their backs or perhaps have never made a full effort to improve these countries economically.

For the last 35 years scholars associated with the Insurgent Sociologist, and more recently Critical Sociology, have sought to both understand and change the social, political and economic climate of this society (and by extension how our society impacts on the rest of the world). As Rhonda Levines Introduction to this volume chronicles, the journal charts a journey that brings radical and critical thinking into the mainstream of sociology. In 1999 a decision was made to celebrate 25 years of articles in the journal that helped shape the academic landscape and created a whole generation of scholars by publishing a retrospective issue with updated commentary by the original authors. The response was very positive and many people asked how this issue could be made more widely available. After discussions with Joed Elich at Brill Academic Press, and with the recognition that the time is right to provide an outlet for new critical writings, this series was created. It is dedicated to publishing expanded versions of recent special issues of Critical Sociology as well as new books and collections of essays.

We launch the series with this volume, a update of Critical Sociology 25:2/3 to reflect on 30 years of critical scholarship, because we believe we can look forward by looking back. In addition, this first volume ends with a challenge that critical sociologists who have managed to bring radical thinking into the mainstream should now bring their analysis of contemporary society into the mainstream of public discussion. This volume helps us see what we have accomplished and what still needs to be done.

Future volumes we will be guided by two general conceptual frameworks. First, that Marx was a thinker and writer who provided us with perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of capitalism as a system of production unlike no other that came before. Many have prematurely heralded the end of Marxism because of the end of the European experiment with some version of socialism. However, so long as we live in a capitalist society Marx still provides us with best tools and concepts to help us understand how that society works so that we can continue to struggle for positive social change.

Second, Marx and Marxism is not a complete system of thought in response to our complex society. As the scholarship of the past 50 years by critical scholars of race and gender should make clear, there are serious gaps that continue to demand our attention. The second volume of this series,

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