Michael K Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1773404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael K Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael K |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3521-3367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Racism, Colonialism, and Modernity: The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
Occupancy modeling and resampling overcomes low test sensitivity to produce accurate Sars-CoV-2 prevalence estimates
Occupancy modeling enables the use of rapid tests to provide accurate, affordable, real-time estimates of the prevalence of emerging infectious diseases like SARS-CoV-2
The Great Migration in Myth and Reality
The founders of professional sociology in the United States constructed a system of racial segregation that paralleled the Jim Crow system in the American South. Recent research has analyzed both the structure and dynamics of this systemic racism, as well as the resourceful resistance to this discrimination by African-American scholars housed in historically Black universities and colleges (HBCUs). This essay extends that work by discussing the w…
Academic apartheid and the poverty of theory: The impact of scholarly segregation on the development of sociology in the United States
Does the Center Hold? Reflections on a Sociological Core
Is there a distinct disciplinary core (or foundation of agreed on knowledge) in sociology? Should we define a core in our broad field to build consensus? If so, what should it look like? We address these questions by presenting three viewpoints that lean for and against identifying a core for department curricula, students, and the public face of sociology. First, “There really is not much, if any, core.” Second, sociology is “a habit of the mind…
Moral Economy, Structural Leverage, and Organizational Efficacy: Class Formation and the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936–1937
In this article we use the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike as a strategic case for examining the issue of movement success in seemingly disadvantageous structural conditions. Through an application and elaboration of social movement and organizational theory to the Flint sit-down strike we identify four key factors that help to explain the emergence of successful collective defiance by labor: (1) the violation of the autoworkers’ moral economy by Gen…
A Field-Experimental Study of Emergent Mobilization in Online Collective Action
We ask why most online signature campaigns attract only a handful of supporters while a few are backed by millions. Using a field-experimental design on the popular petitioning website Change.org, we investigate the role of emergent phenomena during the mobilization process in determining levels of collective action. We demonstrate the significance of these emergent processes while controlling the structural profiles, organizing strategies, and i…
Homosexuelle Im Nationalsozialismus: Neue Forschungsperspektiven Zu Lebenssituationen Von Lesbischen, Schwulen, Bi-, Trans- und Intersexuellen Menschen 1933 Bis 1945
A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy
Studies of the impact of social movements on government policy usually assume that the most effective strategy to win a reform is to directly pressure the elected politicians responsible for its legislation and implementation. We highlight an alternative, less intuitive way in which movements can exert political influence: by targeting the corporate and institutional adversaries of their proposed reforms. Such targeting can undermine their advers…
Can prefigurative politics prevail? The implications for movement strategy in John Holloway's Crack Capitalism
The desire to overcome the alienated labor of capitalism manifests itself in the daily actions of people everywhere. John Holloway argues that social movements must build upon this liberatory impulse, challenging not only the rate of exploitation but also workers' loss of control over the process of production and allocation (and, by implication, the loss of control in other arenas of life). Revolutionary change, in turn, will result from these m…
Product Review: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Refugees and expellees in the soviet zone of Germany: Political and social problems of their integration, 1945–50
Between 1945 and 1950 the integration of refugees into the Eastern part of post‐war Germany involved structural changes in the population, response to the enormous social needs of millions of impoverished people and reduced chances for a comprehensive social policy. It is often forgotten and became a taboo subject in the GDR itself that the communist state tried to pursue a special social‐integrative policy for ‘resettlers’, the ideological term …
Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Introduction: What Went Right? Why the Clinton Administration Did Not Alter The Trajectory in Federal Policy: Michael Schwartz (SUNY-Stony Brook). Part I: Welfare, Social Security, and the State of Austerity: 1. Welfare and the Transformation of American Politics: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY-Graduate Center). 2. The Democratic Party and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Ron Walters (University of Maryland). 3. Urban America: Crushed in the Growth Machi…
Blaming the Victim
The Politics of Scientific Racism
Leader-Member Conflict in Protest Organizations: The Case of the Southern Farmers' Alliance
We examine the conflict between leaders and members in protest organizations and challenge Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in such settings. An examination of protest organizations shows there is often conflict between the interests of membership, the needs of leadership and the requirements for organizational permanence. Our study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance shows that the leadership's purs…
Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890
Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890
Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a metic…
Does the Center Hold? Reflections on a Sociological Core
Is there a distinct disciplinary core (or foundation of agreed on knowledge) in sociology? Should we define a core in our broad field to build consensus? If so, what should it look like? We address these questions by presenting three viewpoints that lean for and against identifying a core for department curricula, students, and the public face of sociology. First, “There really is not much, if any, core.” Second, sociology is “a habit of the mind…
Leader-Member Conflict in Protest Organizations: The Case of the Southern Farmers' Alliance
We examine the conflict between leaders and members in protest organizations and challenge Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in such settings. An examination of protest organizations shows there is often conflict between the interests of membership, the needs of leadership and the requirements for organizational permanence. Our study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance shows that the leadership's purs…
Can prefigurative politics prevail? The implications for movement strategy in John Holloway's Crack Capitalism
The desire to overcome the alienated labor of capitalism manifests itself in the daily actions of people everywhere. John Holloway argues that social movements must build upon this liberatory impulse, challenging not only the rate of exploitation but also workers' loss of control over the process of production and allocation (and, by implication, the loss of control in other arenas of life). Revolutionary change, in turn, will result from these m…
A Field-Experimental Study of Emergent Mobilization in Online Collective Action
We ask why most online signature campaigns attract only a handful of supporters while a few are backed by millions. Using a field-experimental design on the popular petitioning website Change.org, we investigate the role of emergent phenomena during the mobilization process in determining levels of collective action. We demonstrate the significance of these emergent processes while controlling the structural profiles, organizing strategies, and i…
A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy
Studies of the impact of social movements on government policy usually assume that the most effective strategy to win a reform is to directly pressure the elected politicians responsible for its legislation and implementation. We highlight an alternative, less intuitive way in which movements can exert political influence: by targeting the corporate and institutional adversaries of their proposed reforms. Such targeting can undermine their advers…
Academic apartheid and the poverty of theory: The impact of scholarly segregation on the development of sociology in the United States
Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890
Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890
Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a metic…
Leader-Member Conflict in Protest Organizations: The Case of the Southern Farmers' Alliance
We examine the conflict between leaders and members in protest organizations and challenge Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in such settings. An examination of protest organizations shows there is often conflict between the interests of membership, the needs of leadership and the requirements for organizational permanence. Our study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance shows that the leadership's purs…
The Politics of Scientific Racism
Blaming the Victim
Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Introduction: What Went Right? Why the Clinton Administration Did Not Alter The Trajectory in Federal Policy: Michael Schwartz (SUNY-Stony Brook). Part I: Welfare, Social Security, and the State of Austerity: 1. Welfare and the Transformation of American Politics: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY-Graduate Center). 2. The Democratic Party and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Ron Walters (University of Maryland). 3. Urban America: Crushed in the Growth Machi…
Refugees and expellees in the soviet zone of Germany: Political and social problems of their integration, 1945–50
Between 1945 and 1950 the integration of refugees into the Eastern part of post‐war Germany involved structural changes in the population, response to the enormous social needs of millions of impoverished people and reduced chances for a comprehensive social policy. It is often forgotten and became a taboo subject in the GDR itself that the communist state tried to pursue a special social‐integrative policy for ‘resettlers’, the ideological term …
Product Review: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Can prefigurative politics prevail? The implications for movement strategy in John Holloway's Crack Capitalism
The desire to overcome the alienated labor of capitalism manifests itself in the daily actions of people everywhere. John Holloway argues that social movements must build upon this liberatory impulse, challenging not only the rate of exploitation but also workers' loss of control over the process of production and allocation (and, by implication, the loss of control in other arenas of life). Revolutionary change, in turn, will result from these m…
Homosexuelle Im Nationalsozialismus: Neue Forschungsperspektiven Zu Lebenssituationen Von Lesbischen, Schwulen, Bi-, Trans- und Intersexuellen Menschen 1933 Bis 1945
A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy
Studies of the impact of social movements on government policy usually assume that the most effective strategy to win a reform is to directly pressure the elected politicians responsible for its legislation and implementation. We highlight an alternative, less intuitive way in which movements can exert political influence: by targeting the corporate and institutional adversaries of their proposed reforms. Such targeting can undermine their advers…
Moral Economy, Structural Leverage, and Organizational Efficacy: Class Formation and the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936–1937
In this article we use the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike as a strategic case for examining the issue of movement success in seemingly disadvantageous structural conditions. Through an application and elaboration of social movement and organizational theory to the Flint sit-down strike we identify four key factors that help to explain the emergence of successful collective defiance by labor: (1) the violation of the autoworkers’ moral economy by Gen…
A Field-Experimental Study of Emergent Mobilization in Online Collective Action
We ask why most online signature campaigns attract only a handful of supporters while a few are backed by millions. Using a field-experimental design on the popular petitioning website Change.org, we investigate the role of emergent phenomena during the mobilization process in determining levels of collective action. We demonstrate the significance of these emergent processes while controlling the structural profiles, organizing strategies, and i…
Does the Center Hold? Reflections on a Sociological Core
Is there a distinct disciplinary core (or foundation of agreed on knowledge) in sociology? Should we define a core in our broad field to build consensus? If so, what should it look like? We address these questions by presenting three viewpoints that lean for and against identifying a core for department curricula, students, and the public face of sociology. First, “There really is not much, if any, core.” Second, sociology is “a habit of the mind…
Academic apartheid and the poverty of theory: The impact of scholarly segregation on the development of sociology in the United States
The Great Migration in Myth and Reality
The founders of professional sociology in the United States constructed a system of racial segregation that paralleled the Jim Crow system in the American South. Recent research has analyzed both the structure and dynamics of this systemic racism, as well as the resourceful resistance to this discrimination by African-American scholars housed in historically Black universities and colleges (HBCUs). This essay extends that work by discussing the w…
Racism, Colonialism, and Modernity: The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
Occupancy modeling and resampling overcomes low test sensitivity to produce accurate Sars-CoV-2 prevalence estimates
Occupancy modeling enables the use of rapid tests to provide accurate, affordable, real-time estimates of the prevalence of emerging infectious diseases like SARS-CoV-2
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