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 ...

I propose to approach economic sociology as the application of social stratification, organizational theory, and the sociology of development to the study of the organization of economic activity. I begin by reviewing the growth of specialty fields in sociology during the postwar period. I then outline the origins and major tenets of a comparative economic sociology that breaks with specializat...

The discussion in the sociology of science about the role of model systems in biology provides an invitation to reflect on whether and how they operate in sociology in comparison to other disciplines. This paper shows that sociology too relies on objects of study that receive a disproportionate amount of attention and implicitly come to stand in for a specific class of objects. But, unlike othe...

These are times that trouble the soul. American sociologist, pragmatist, and race historian, W.E.B. Du Bois can be helpful in examining resolving some of racial political tensions United States. After lynching sixty-two African Americans Atlanta 1906, wrote a year later problem nineteenth century is color line. An examination his’ theory same way as history instructive. Black intertwined ...

The relationship between religion and civil society at the macro-level has attracted attention of sociologists but empirical detail how is connected to social relations practices that constitute local relatively lacking. This article explores contemporary communal significance religious dimension in using authors’ ethnographic fieldwork biographical interviews a post-industrial village North Ea...

This article presents a mapping of the changing religious landscape Latin America, specifically focusing on place Catholicism therein. It explores how varying forms in America reflect reality mixed modernities, described as “tiempos mixtos” (Waldo Ansaldi), where elements pre-modern, modern, and late modern worldviews values are intertwined ways very different from those North Atlantic West. By...

In this article we revisit Alvin Gouldner’s The Corning Crisis o,f Wvstern Sociology ( I 970). I n part, this article is an attempt to apply Gouldner’s own lessons about the sociology of knowledge to his own work, situating it with respcct to the dominant epistemological unconscious of late 1960s American sociology as well as thc broader historical context of a still-vibrant Fordist inode of so...