Fast Capitalism. Bob Antonio. Ben Agger. Mark Worrell. PGM (power god money) Mark Worrell. Marxists Internet Archive. Craig Calhoun. Calhoun, Craig. (2007) Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream. Routledge. Calhoun, Craig. (2001) Nationalism.
Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press. Calhoun, Craig. (1995) Critical Social Theory. Basil Blackwell. Calhoun, Craig. (1994) Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. Calhoun, Craig. (1989; 7th ed., 1996) Sociology. Calhoun, Craig. (1982) The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution. International Handbook of Sociology (with Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner). Lessons of Empire?
Societas podcast: Conversations with Craig Calhoun about political and social issues in the United States and around the globe. President's Question: An interactive forum led by Craig Calhoun posing questions on issues of the day to prominent social scientists. Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory,[1] associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. The school initially consisted of dissident Marxists who believed that some of Marx's followers had come to parrot a narrow selection of Marx's ideas, usually in defense of orthodox Communist parties.
Meanwhile, many of these theorists believed that traditional Marxist theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the twentieth century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.[2] History[edit] The Institute for Social Research[edit] Weil (1898-1975), a young Marxist, had written his doctoral thesis (published by Karl Korsch) on the practical problems of implementing socialism. The German prewar context[edit] The Other Frankfurt School. Situationist international online. Guy Debord. Guy Debord. Guy Ernest Debord (French: [dəbɔʁ]; December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI).
He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Early life[edit] Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931. Guy's father, Martial, was a pharmacist who died due to illness when Guy was young. Guy's mother, Paulette Rossi, sent Guy to live with his grandmother in her family villa in Italy. During World War II, the Rossis left the villa and began to travel from town to town. As a result, Guy attended high school in Cannes, where he began his interest in film and vandalism.[1] As a young man, Debord actively opposed the French war in Algeria and joined in demonstrations in Paris against it.[2] Involvement with the Letterists[edit] Debord joined the Letterist International when he was 19. Founding of the Situationist International[edit] Situationist International. Praxis School. The Praxis school was a Marxist humanist philosophical movement.
It originated in Zagreb and Belgrade in the SFR Yugoslavia, during the 1960s. Prominent figures among the school's founders include Gajo Petrović and Milan Kangrga of Zagreb and Mihailo Marković of Belgrade. From 1964 to 1974 they published the Marxist journal Praxis, which was renowned as one of the leading international journals in Marxist theory. The group also organized the widely popular Korčula Summer School in the island of Korčula. Basic tenets[edit] Due to the tumultuous sociopolitical conditions in the 1960s, the affirmation of 'authentic' Marxist theory and praxis, and its humanist and dialectical aspects in particular, was an urgent task for philosophers working across the SFRY.
The Praxis philosophers considered Leninism and Stalinism to be apologetic due to their ad hoc nature. Different theorists emphasized different aspects of the theory. The Praxis journal[edit] Korčula Summer School[edit] The aftermath[edit] PRAXIS International. The Praxis Group. Slavoj Žižek. "Žižek" and "Zizek" redirect here. For the biographical documentary film, see Zizek!. Slavoj Žižek (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk] ( ); born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, and cultural critic, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University,[1] and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
He writes widely on a diverse range of topics, including political theory, film theory, cultural studies, theology, and psychoanalysis. Žižek achieved international recognition as a social theorist after the 1989 publication of his first book in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, which disputed a Marxist interpretation of ideology as false consciousness and argued for ideology as an unconscious fantasy that structures reality. Thought[edit] Ontology, ideology, and the Real[edit] Political thought and the postmodern subject[edit] New York Journal of Sociology. Goran Therborn. Summary Göran Therborn holds the Chair of Sociology since October 1st 2006. Previously he was co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, and University Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University.
He was born in 1941 and was educated at Lund University, in sociology, politics, and economics, where he was the last social scientist to receive the old Fil. Dr. degree in 1974. He was Professor of Political Science in the Netherlands in the 1980s. For shorter periods he has taught in Eastern Europe was well as in half a dozen countries of Western Europe, in the Americas from Boston to Buenos Aires, in Asia in Tehran and Seoul, and in Australia. Research Interests He is currently working on: Capital cities as representations of power Global processes of inequality, and other global processes and comparisons, in particular of sex-gender-family relations Contemporary radical thought and forces of possible change Pathways into and out of modernity Further Information: Mark Worrell. PGM (power god money) Mark Worrell. Mark Featherstone.
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The Sociology staff at Keele are amazing! Chris Carlsson. Craig Calhoun. Stephen Eric Bronner. Ben Agger. Bob Antonio. Graham Cassano. Harry Dahms. Welcome to the web-site of Harry F. Dahms Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director, Center for the Study of Social Justice Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1993 my departmental web-page curriculum vitae Department of Sociology University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-0490 ph: (865) 974-7028 fax: (865) 974-7013 email: hdahms@utk.edu Classical Social Theory Contemporary Sociological Theory Critical Social Theory Globalization Social Justice Economic Sociology Comparative Sociology Sociology of Science Fiction "Modern society is in such a state that not only is it the worthless that commands the pay, but the truly valuable is systematically kept out of view.
Lester F. Lecture on "Possibilities and Dangers of a Guaranteed Basic Income" (in German) ...held May 20, 2007, at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany available online at Uniradio Magdeburg Realplayer. David Fasenfest. Mark Gottdiener. Lauren Langman. Lauren Langman received his PhD in Human Development from the University of Chicago. Although he had planned a career in psychology, as a result of participation in civil rights and anti war movements, his interest shifted to sociology as a way of understanding how social conflict was based on group membership and interests rather than individual personality.
As a result, his work as a sociologist has always had an interdisciplinary focus largely concerned with the relations of the historically instantiated social structure and culture to the individual. Current Research Dr. Langman is primarily a social theorist writing in the tradition of the Frankfurt School-especially their early concerns with character and culture, which currently inform questions of identity and hegemony in a global age. Selected Publications (2002-2005) Recent Presentations (2002-2004) Conferences: Sessions Organized (2002-2004) Courses Taught (2003/2004) David N Smith. Logos. Stephen Eric Bronner. Critical Sociology. Please visit the Association for Critical Sociology website Find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter "At a time when many are buried in narrow crevices of knowledge, Critical Sociology has the boldness and courage to take on the ‘big questions’.
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