Donald Mcquarie
Biographic Data
| ID | 278013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Mcquarie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcquarie |
| SIGNATURE | MCQUARIE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Labor Process Among Temporary Workers in the São Paulo Sugar Industry
The role of circular labor migration in the São Paulo sugar industry's labor process is documented using origin and destination level data. Examination of origin-level data from the Jequitinhonha Valley of Minas Gerais and a review of the historical development of the São Paulo sugar industry demonstrate the special conditions that contribute to this seasonal and highly repetitive flow of manpower. These data also help explain the prevalence of p…
From the Left Bank to the Mainstream: Historical Debates and Contemporary Research in Marxist Sociology
Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
In recent years, the study of class has shaped and been shaped by the flurry of post-structuralist, post-Marxist and state-centred approaches that have emerged in historical and sociological scholarship. Yet class analysis has sustained itself as a powerful, refined working tool in helping scholars to understand the complexities of social and historical processes. This volume of original essays provides a cross-section of the body of social theor…
The sociological imagination: Reclaiming a vision
The Concept of Power in Marxist Theory: A Critique and Reformulation
The dominant model of power in Marxist theory contains a number of problematic assumptions. These include: (1) the assumption of objective class interests; (2) the assumption that classes are collective social actors; (3) the assumption that classes have a political 'consciousness;' and (4) the assumption that the state is the locus of class power. The central error which underlies these four assumptions of the dominant model is a confusion of th…
The "Plain Marxism" of C. Wright Mills
Reply to Young
I am pleased to be able to respond to the comment by T. R. Young. I believe that his intervention in the discussion between Marc Wardell and myself is useful, and I find myself in agreement with much of the general tone of his comments. There are specific points in his paper, however, with which I strongly disagree. I will respond to these points with a few brief comments. Young tells us that starts with a Now I am aware of no place where Marx ma…
Utopia and Transcendence: An Analysis of Their Decline in Contemporary Science Fiction
Reply to Wardell
Professor Wardell is unconvinced by my account of Marx's use of method of successive approximations. My argument, he says, is flawed by misrepresentation and misquotation. In particular, he objects to my emphasis upon scientific character of Marx's later work, a view, as he correctly notes, which has been developed by Louis Althusser and a number of other European scholars. (It is one thing to be accused of holding a scientistic view of Marx's wo…
Marx and the Method of Successive Approximations
Karl Marx's sociology has been interpreted incorrectly as the consequence of the application of a “dialectical” method to social phenomenon. In this paper, I discuss his actual method of theory construction (a rather more complicated phenomenon than the simple reversal of the Hegelian dialectic), the Ricardian method of successive approximations. This method involves three steps or stages—observation, model formation, and model testing and revisi…
A Further Comment on Karl Popper and Marxian Laws
Marx and the Method of Successive Approximations
Karl Marx's sociology has been interpreted incorrectly as the consequence of the application of a “dialectical” method to social phenomenon. In this paper, I discuss his actual method of theory construction (a rather more complicated phenomenon than the simple reversal of the Hegelian dialectic), the Ricardian method of successive approximations. This method involves three steps or stages—observation, model formation, and model testing and revisi…
The "Plain Marxism" of C. Wright Mills
The sociological imagination: Reclaiming a vision
Utopia and Transcendence: An Analysis of Their Decline in Contemporary Science Fiction
Reply to Wardell
Professor Wardell is unconvinced by my account of Marx's use of method of successive approximations. My argument, he says, is flawed by misrepresentation and misquotation. In particular, he objects to my emphasis upon scientific character of Marx's later work, a view, as he correctly notes, which has been developed by Louis Althusser and a number of other European scholars. (It is one thing to be accused of holding a scientistic view of Marx's wo…
A Further Comment on Karl Popper and Marxian Laws
Marx and the Method of Successive Approximations
Karl Marx's sociology has been interpreted incorrectly as the consequence of the application of a “dialectical” method to social phenomenon. In this paper, I discuss his actual method of theory construction (a rather more complicated phenomenon than the simple reversal of the Hegelian dialectic), the Ricardian method of successive approximations. This method involves three steps or stages—observation, model formation, and model testing and revisi…
Reply to Wardell
Professor Wardell is unconvinced by my account of Marx's use of method of successive approximations. My argument, he says, is flawed by misrepresentation and misquotation. In particular, he objects to my emphasis upon scientific character of Marx's later work, a view, as he correctly notes, which has been developed by Louis Althusser and a number of other European scholars. (It is one thing to be accused of holding a scientistic view of Marx's wo…
Reply to Young
I am pleased to be able to respond to the comment by T. R. Young. I believe that his intervention in the discussion between Marc Wardell and myself is useful, and I find myself in agreement with much of the general tone of his comments. There are specific points in his paper, however, with which I strongly disagree. I will respond to these points with a few brief comments. Young tells us that starts with a Now I am aware of no place where Marx ma…
Utopia and Transcendence: An Analysis of Their Decline in Contemporary Science Fiction
The "Plain Marxism" of C. Wright Mills
The sociological imagination: Reclaiming a vision
The Concept of Power in Marxist Theory: A Critique and Reformulation
The dominant model of power in Marxist theory contains a number of problematic assumptions. These include: (1) the assumption of objective class interests; (2) the assumption that classes are collective social actors; (3) the assumption that classes have a political 'consciousness;' and (4) the assumption that the state is the locus of class power. The central error which underlies these four assumptions of the dominant model is a confusion of th…
Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
In recent years, the study of class has shaped and been shaped by the flurry of post-structuralist, post-Marxist and state-centred approaches that have emerged in historical and sociological scholarship. Yet class analysis has sustained itself as a powerful, refined working tool in helping scholars to understand the complexities of social and historical processes. This volume of original essays provides a cross-section of the body of social theor…
From the Left Bank to the Mainstream: Historical Debates and Contemporary Research in Marxist Sociology
The Labor Process Among Temporary Workers in the São Paulo Sugar Industry
The role of circular labor migration in the São Paulo sugar industry's labor process is documented using origin and destination level data. Examination of origin-level data from the Jequitinhonha Valley of Minas Gerais and a review of the historical development of the São Paulo sugar industry demonstrate the special conditions that contribute to this seasonal and highly repetitive flow of manpower. These data also help explain the prevalence of p…
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