Eleanor Townsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 140214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Townsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Townsley |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNSLEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Media meta-commentary and the performance of expertise
This article examines the rise of meta-commentary in US media, and considers the consequences it has for the social construction and the performance of intellectual expertise. Media meta-commentary is defined as critical reflection about media practices and performances, in which the primary basis for criticism is the comparison of different media formats. Meta-commentary began to emerge with the differentiation of the aesthetic sphere and the de…
Science, Expertise and Profession in the Post–Normal Discipline
The Hermeneutics of Hannity: Format Innovation in the Space of Opinion after September 11
This article explores changes in media and political culture in the US since 11 September 2001. Our specific focus is opinion media on cable television, in particular Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes program. We argue that the events of September 11 provided an opportunity for conservative pundits to respond to some of the cultural limitations that had been associated with the cable talk format, creating a new cultural environment for mediated…
Contexts of Cultural Diffusion: A Case Study of “Public Intellectual” Debates in English Canada
La controverse sur le “déclin” et le “décès” de l'intellectuel publique est venue au Canada en réponse à l'ouvrage The Last Intellectuals de Russell Jacoby en 1987. Cette recherche examine la diffusion des débats sur les intellectuels publiques au Canada dans une étude de cas détaillé de toutes les mentions du terme “intellectuel publique” dans 25 journaux anglophones de 1987 à 2005. Dans une analyse profonde des dynamiques de l'attribution de l'…
The Space of OpinionMedia Intellectuals and the Public Sphere: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere
Opinion is increasingly central in American news media, but there has been little systematic attention paid to the institutional spaces of media opinion, or to the role of media commentary in contemporary civil society. The Space of Opinion fills this gap, offering an insightful and authoritative account of the newspaper op-ed pages, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable news television lineup. In this major…
The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind in and Around Academy
On the Communicative Geography of Global Sociology
This article analyzes the two distinct communicative logics that inform the institutional geography and normative understanding of global sociology. The globalizing logic imagines a unitary global space that organizes sociological debate; the transnational logic envisions a series of overlapping sociological debates, often organized within a national context that is in the process of cosmopolitan, global, and transnational transformation. We argu…
The Social Construction of Social Facts: Using the U.S. Census to Examine Race as a Scientific and Moral Category
This article describes an exercise that explores how race categories and classifications are socially constructed scientifically. In an introductory sociology setting, students compare their perceptions of the size of minority populations with counts from the U.S. Census. In a series of debriefing sessions, students analyze both their perceptions and Census counts as social constructions of the moral phenomena we call race. In the process, studen…
The public intellectual trope in the United States
Ironie als Methode: Ansätze und Fragestellungen einer neoklassischen Soziologie
On Irony: An Invitation to Neoclassical Sociology
This article proffers an invitation to neoclassical sociology. This is understood as a Habermasian reconstruction of the fundamental vision of the discipline as conceptualized by classical theorists, particularly Weber. Taking the cases of Eastern and Central Europe as a laboratory, we argue against the idea of a single, homogenizing globalizing logic. Currently and historically what we see instead is a remarkable diversity of capitalist forms an…
Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe: Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. What Is to Be Explained and Why? 3. Professional Aspirations to Class Power: A Comment on Civil Society in a Centrally Planned Economy. 4. Professional Innovation and Information Gap. 5. Organizations and Social Construction of Expert Commodity. 6. Organizations and Social Processing of Information. 7. Professional Service and Public Benefit Status. 8. Toward a Partial Theory of the Origins of Social Proximity Organiz…
Making Capitalism without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
The Sixties' Trope
Combining insights from narrative analysis in sociology and trope theory in anthropology, this article develops a theory of tropes that emphasizes their historical production and political effects. Tropes function politically to enable some narratives, identities and resolutions while foreclosing others. As a powerful tool for socio-historical analysis, a consideration of tropes is crucial for deconstructing the taken-for-granted predicates and t…
The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology
Michael Burawoy offers three thought-provoking criticisms of our book, Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe: (1) that we abandon class analysis, (2) that we do not suggest an alternative to the present capitalist order, and, therefore, (3) that our “neoclassical sociology” abandons the critical vision of classical sociology. At this abstract level, we plead not guilty to all t…
A history of intellectuals and the demise of the new class: Academics and the U.S. government in the 1960s
Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time
Wives' and Husbands' Housework Reporting: Gender, Class, and Social Desirability
This investigation places recent research about changes in wives' and husbands' domestic labor in the context of well-known reporting differences between different kinds of housework surveys. An analysis of the 'reporting gap' between direct-question reports of housework hours from the National Survey of Families and Households (1988) and time-diary reports from Americans' Use of Time, 1985, shows that both husbands and wives overreport their hou…
The Theory of Post-Communist Managerialism
The most distinctive characteristic of post-communist social structure in East Central Europe is the absence of a capitalist class. Private property rights are in place, markets in labour and capital exist, these economies are open to world markets, and they have strong relationships with international financial institutions. However
The social composition of the Communist nomenklatura: A comparison of Russia, Poland, and Hungary
Neighborhood Politics: Residential Community Associations in American Governance.Robert Jay Dilger
Wives' and Husbands' Housework Reporting: Gender, Class, and Social Desirability
This investigation places recent research about changes in wives' and husbands' domestic labor in the context of well-known reporting differences between different kinds of housework surveys. An analysis of the 'reporting gap' between direct-question reports of housework hours from the National Survey of Families and Households (1988) and time-diary reports from Americans' Use of Time, 1985, shows that both husbands and wives overreport their hou…
The Space of OpinionMedia Intellectuals and the Public Sphere: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere
Opinion is increasingly central in American news media, but there has been little systematic attention paid to the institutional spaces of media opinion, or to the role of media commentary in contemporary civil society. The Space of Opinion fills this gap, offering an insightful and authoritative account of the newspaper op-ed pages, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable news television lineup. In this major…
On Irony: An Invitation to Neoclassical Sociology
This article proffers an invitation to neoclassical sociology. This is understood as a Habermasian reconstruction of the fundamental vision of the discipline as conceptualized by classical theorists, particularly Weber. Taking the cases of Eastern and Central Europe as a laboratory, we argue against the idea of a single, homogenizing globalizing logic. Currently and historically what we see instead is a remarkable diversity of capitalist forms an…
The Sixties' Trope
Combining insights from narrative analysis in sociology and trope theory in anthropology, this article develops a theory of tropes that emphasizes their historical production and political effects. Tropes function politically to enable some narratives, identities and resolutions while foreclosing others. As a powerful tool for socio-historical analysis, a consideration of tropes is crucial for deconstructing the taken-for-granted predicates and t…
The public intellectual trope in the United States
The Hermeneutics of Hannity: Format Innovation in the Space of Opinion after September 11
This article explores changes in media and political culture in the US since 11 September 2001. Our specific focus is opinion media on cable television, in particular Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes program. We argue that the events of September 11 provided an opportunity for conservative pundits to respond to some of the cultural limitations that had been associated with the cable talk format, creating a new cultural environment for mediated…
The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology
Michael Burawoy offers three thought-provoking criticisms of our book, Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe: (1) that we abandon class analysis, (2) that we do not suggest an alternative to the present capitalist order, and, therefore, (3) that our “neoclassical sociology” abandons the critical vision of classical sociology. At this abstract level, we plead not guilty to all t…
The Social Construction of Social Facts: Using the U.S. Census to Examine Race as a Scientific and Moral Category
This article describes an exercise that explores how race categories and classifications are socially constructed scientifically. In an introductory sociology setting, students compare their perceptions of the size of minority populations with counts from the U.S. Census. In a series of debriefing sessions, students analyze both their perceptions and Census counts as social constructions of the moral phenomena we call race. In the process, studen…
The social composition of the Communist nomenklatura: A comparison of Russia, Poland, and Hungary
Science, Expertise and Profession in the Post–Normal Discipline
Contexts of Cultural Diffusion: A Case Study of “Public Intellectual” Debates in English Canada
La controverse sur le “déclin” et le “décès” de l'intellectuel publique est venue au Canada en réponse à l'ouvrage The Last Intellectuals de Russell Jacoby en 1987. Cette recherche examine la diffusion des débats sur les intellectuels publiques au Canada dans une étude de cas détaillé de toutes les mentions du terme “intellectuel publique” dans 25 journaux anglophones de 1987 à 2005. Dans une analyse profonde des dynamiques de l'attribution de l'…
The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind in and Around Academy
Making Capitalism without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
A history of intellectuals and the demise of the new class: Academics and the U.S. government in the 1960s
On the Communicative Geography of Global Sociology
This article analyzes the two distinct communicative logics that inform the institutional geography and normative understanding of global sociology. The globalizing logic imagines a unitary global space that organizes sociological debate; the transnational logic envisions a series of overlapping sociological debates, often organized within a national context that is in the process of cosmopolitan, global, and transnational transformation. We argu…
Ironie als Methode: Ansätze und Fragestellungen einer neoklassischen Soziologie
Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time
Neighborhood Politics: Residential Community Associations in American Governance.Robert Jay Dilger
The social composition of the Communist nomenklatura: A comparison of Russia, Poland, and Hungary
The Theory of Post-Communist Managerialism
The most distinctive characteristic of post-communist social structure in East Central Europe is the absence of a capitalist class. Private property rights are in place, markets in labour and capital exist, these economies are open to world markets, and they have strong relationships with international financial institutions. However
Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time
Wives' and Husbands' Housework Reporting: Gender, Class, and Social Desirability
This investigation places recent research about changes in wives' and husbands' domestic labor in the context of well-known reporting differences between different kinds of housework surveys. An analysis of the 'reporting gap' between direct-question reports of housework hours from the National Survey of Families and Households (1988) and time-diary reports from Americans' Use of Time, 1985, shows that both husbands and wives overreport their hou…
A history of intellectuals and the demise of the new class: Academics and the U.S. government in the 1960s
Making Capitalism without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
The Sixties' Trope
Combining insights from narrative analysis in sociology and trope theory in anthropology, this article develops a theory of tropes that emphasizes their historical production and political effects. Tropes function politically to enable some narratives, identities and resolutions while foreclosing others. As a powerful tool for socio-historical analysis, a consideration of tropes is crucial for deconstructing the taken-for-granted predicates and t…
The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology
Michael Burawoy offers three thought-provoking criticisms of our book, Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe: (1) that we abandon class analysis, (2) that we do not suggest an alternative to the present capitalist order, and, therefore, (3) that our “neoclassical sociology” abandons the critical vision of classical sociology. At this abstract level, we plead not guilty to all t…
Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe: Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. What Is to Be Explained and Why? 3. Professional Aspirations to Class Power: A Comment on Civil Society in a Centrally Planned Economy. 4. Professional Innovation and Information Gap. 5. Organizations and Social Construction of Expert Commodity. 6. Organizations and Social Processing of Information. 7. Professional Service and Public Benefit Status. 8. Toward a Partial Theory of the Origins of Social Proximity Organiz…
Ironie als Methode: Ansätze und Fragestellungen einer neoklassischen Soziologie
On Irony: An Invitation to Neoclassical Sociology
This article proffers an invitation to neoclassical sociology. This is understood as a Habermasian reconstruction of the fundamental vision of the discipline as conceptualized by classical theorists, particularly Weber. Taking the cases of Eastern and Central Europe as a laboratory, we argue against the idea of a single, homogenizing globalizing logic. Currently and historically what we see instead is a remarkable diversity of capitalist forms an…
The public intellectual trope in the United States
The Social Construction of Social Facts: Using the U.S. Census to Examine Race as a Scientific and Moral Category
This article describes an exercise that explores how race categories and classifications are socially constructed scientifically. In an introductory sociology setting, students compare their perceptions of the size of minority populations with counts from the U.S. Census. In a series of debriefing sessions, students analyze both their perceptions and Census counts as social constructions of the moral phenomena we call race. In the process, studen…
On the Communicative Geography of Global Sociology
This article analyzes the two distinct communicative logics that inform the institutional geography and normative understanding of global sociology. The globalizing logic imagines a unitary global space that organizes sociological debate; the transnational logic envisions a series of overlapping sociological debates, often organized within a national context that is in the process of cosmopolitan, global, and transnational transformation. We argu…
The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind in and Around Academy
Contexts of Cultural Diffusion: A Case Study of “Public Intellectual” Debates in English Canada
La controverse sur le “déclin” et le “décès” de l'intellectuel publique est venue au Canada en réponse à l'ouvrage The Last Intellectuals de Russell Jacoby en 1987. Cette recherche examine la diffusion des débats sur les intellectuels publiques au Canada dans une étude de cas détaillé de toutes les mentions du terme “intellectuel publique” dans 25 journaux anglophones de 1987 à 2005. Dans une analyse profonde des dynamiques de l'attribution de l'…
The Space of OpinionMedia Intellectuals and the Public Sphere: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere
Opinion is increasingly central in American news media, but there has been little systematic attention paid to the institutional spaces of media opinion, or to the role of media commentary in contemporary civil society. The Space of Opinion fills this gap, offering an insightful and authoritative account of the newspaper op-ed pages, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable news television lineup. In this major…
The Hermeneutics of Hannity: Format Innovation in the Space of Opinion after September 11
This article explores changes in media and political culture in the US since 11 September 2001. Our specific focus is opinion media on cable television, in particular Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes program. We argue that the events of September 11 provided an opportunity for conservative pundits to respond to some of the cultural limitations that had been associated with the cable talk format, creating a new cultural environment for mediated…
Science, Expertise and Profession in the Post–Normal Discipline
Media meta-commentary and the performance of expertise
This article examines the rise of meta-commentary in US media, and considers the consequences it has for the social construction and the performance of intellectual expertise. Media meta-commentary is defined as critical reflection about media practices and performances, in which the primary basis for criticism is the comparison of different media formats. Meta-commentary began to emerge with the differentiation of the aesthetic sphere and the de…
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