Rick Kuhn Australian National University [email protected] Henryk Grossman’s article and pamphlet ‘Fifty years of struggle over Marxism, 1883‐1932’ provided a survey of Marxism and particularly Marxist crisis theory since Marx’s death. He identified both innovations in and major departures from Marx's own approach amongst those who called themselves Marxists. The processes of innovation an...

There is much that is attractive about Michael Burawoy’s examination of the critical turn to a public sociology. I find plausible his account of the academic nature of 1970s radical sociology especially that mobilized notions such as Althusser’s “theoretical practice.” I also was cheered to read the account of the positive developments currently in train in the USA and especially with how socia...

This article is an overview of the contributions of photography to sociology and a discussion of potential uses of photography in sociological research. Visual sociology, after contributing to several studies in the early decades of American sociology, disappeared to reemerge during the 1960s. In the meantime, the use of visual methods in ethnographic description, the study of social processes ...

The Research-oriented teaching model is the new idea of education reform, its combination with the characteristics of the course on Marxist theories opened up new ways for the teaching of Marxism principles. It not only provided new approach for learners and researchers but also brings a new field for today's college education.