Posts tagged: sociology

Belonging on the Left: An Appreciation of Stanley Aronowitz

Bruce Robbins on Stanley Aronowitz as a public intellectual.
For a Critical Criminology

For too long the field of criminology in general, and police studies in particular, has cut itself off from larger questions of justice.
The Crisis in Culture: The Frankfurt School, 1923–1969

To mark the publication of Stuart Jeffries' Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School we're publishing excerpts and pieces related to Frankfurt School thinkers. Grand Hotel Abyss is now out in paperback and 30% off.
Constructing a Common Language: A conversation with Razmig Keucheyan

Keucheyan discusses environmental inequality, the past and present of the workers' movement, populism, and the relationship between strategy and theory.
Video: Vivek Chibber — Eurocentrism, the Academy, and Social Emancipation

Video of Vivek Chibber's talk at University of Cape Town on "the relations between the critique of Eurocentrism and the aspiration for social emancipation — and the place of the academy."
Shifting Objectives: On Methodology and Identity Politics

Recent controversies in philosophy and sociology illustrate that identity-based dismissals do not seek to strengthen the quality of academic conversation, but rather employ ad hominem fallacies to re-assert hierarchies of knowledge, discourse, and personhoods.
Displacements of the Problem of Women's Sexualization

At the point at which we wrote these stories, we had not yet turned our attention to the way in which sexuality itself is constructed. Writing and discussing stories of this kind left us with a feeling of helplessness; how were we to identify means of defending ourselves against the forms of oppression they described? No matter how far back they went, these stories always depicted the results of an already existing repression of sexuality. Examining the notion of sexuality more closely, we found it to be represented and lived as oppression at the very moment of its emergence; thus its suppression could not be assumed, as we had hitherto believed, to consist solely in a prohibition of the sexual. But then, what is “the sexual”? In the first instance it seems clear that it is something that happens with our bodies. In an attempt then to discover the origins of our deficiencies and our discontents in the domain of the sexual, we decided at an early point in our research to focus our study on our relationships to our bodies and to their development.
The Feudal Synthesis

An excerpt from Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974) by Perry Anderson.
Constructing the Modern Prince

Sociologist Razmig Keucheyan, a professor at the Université Paris IV (Sorbonne), reflects on the fallout of the French presidential election. First published in Spanish at Nueva Sociedad, and then revised in French after the first round results for Contretemps. Translated from the French by David Broder.
Reconceptualizing Family History
Reconceptualizing Family History (Part II)
The Unexceptional Racism of Andrew Sullivan