Stephen Adair
Biographic Data
| ID | 282883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Adair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Adair |
| SIGNATURE | ADAIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Connecticut State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What We Cannot See
Betty and Al Lee initiated the founding of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 75 years ago and the Association for Humanist Sociology 50 years ago. The political and conceptual changes in sociology and American society bracketed between 1951 and 1976 as well as the change in the direction of change with the advent and reformulations of neo-liberalism over the last 50 years allows us to appreciate the prescience of the Lees. Raymo…
The Activist Foundation of Sociology
The founding of the Association for Humanist Sociology in 1977 extended and redefined the values and practices that constituted the territory of sociology. The effort to redefine this territory grew out of a vision and understanding that was both crafted within and a consequence of new left social movements. Sixties social activism allowed people to come to see in new ways how dominant groups maintained control over consciousness, common sense an…
The Commodification of Information and Social Inequality
The commodification of information has contributed to the growth in social inequality over the last 30 years. An ideal type of an information commodity describes the features of a political, social, cultural, and legal apparatus that became institutionalized in the mid to late 1970s. This apparatus permitted the collection of rents, established a new mode of capital accumulation, and diminished the apparent importance of labor, especially abstrac…
Status and Solidarity
Previous scholars have charged that Durkheim provides an inadequate theory of inequality, that the concept of organic solidarity is not well supported, and that egoistic and anomic suicide cannot be adequately distinguished. Although these problems appear distinct, they each arise because Durkheim naturalized inequality and ignored social status. Introducing a concept of status permits a reconceptualization of the types of suicide and creates new…
The Politics of Selfhood
A Sociology of Human Rights
Immeasurable Differences
Overcoming a collective action frame in the remaking of an antinuclear opposition
Status and Solidarity
Previous scholars have charged that Durkheim provides an inadequate theory of inequality, that the concept of organic solidarity is not well supported, and that egoistic and anomic suicide cannot be adequately distinguished. Although these problems appear distinct, they each arise because Durkheim naturalized inequality and ignored social status. Introducing a concept of status permits a reconceptualization of the types of suicide and creates new…
Overcoming a collective action frame in the remaking of an antinuclear opposition
The Activist Foundation of Sociology
The founding of the Association for Humanist Sociology in 1977 extended and redefined the values and practices that constituted the territory of sociology. The effort to redefine this territory grew out of a vision and understanding that was both crafted within and a consequence of new left social movements. Sixties social activism allowed people to come to see in new ways how dominant groups maintained control over consciousness, common sense an…
Immeasurable Differences
The Commodification of Information and Social Inequality
The commodification of information has contributed to the growth in social inequality over the last 30 years. An ideal type of an information commodity describes the features of a political, social, cultural, and legal apparatus that became institutionalized in the mid to late 1970s. This apparatus permitted the collection of rents, established a new mode of capital accumulation, and diminished the apparent importance of labor, especially abstrac…
Overcoming a collective action frame in the remaking of an antinuclear opposition
Immeasurable Differences
A Sociology of Human Rights
The Politics of Selfhood
Status and Solidarity
Previous scholars have charged that Durkheim provides an inadequate theory of inequality, that the concept of organic solidarity is not well supported, and that egoistic and anomic suicide cannot be adequately distinguished. Although these problems appear distinct, they each arise because Durkheim naturalized inequality and ignored social status. Introducing a concept of status permits a reconceptualization of the types of suicide and creates new…
The Commodification of Information and Social Inequality
The commodification of information has contributed to the growth in social inequality over the last 30 years. An ideal type of an information commodity describes the features of a political, social, cultural, and legal apparatus that became institutionalized in the mid to late 1970s. This apparatus permitted the collection of rents, established a new mode of capital accumulation, and diminished the apparent importance of labor, especially abstrac…
The Activist Foundation of Sociology
The founding of the Association for Humanist Sociology in 1977 extended and redefined the values and practices that constituted the territory of sociology. The effort to redefine this territory grew out of a vision and understanding that was both crafted within and a consequence of new left social movements. Sixties social activism allowed people to come to see in new ways how dominant groups maintained control over consciousness, common sense an…
What We Cannot See
Betty and Al Lee initiated the founding of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 75 years ago and the Association for Humanist Sociology 50 years ago. The political and conceptual changes in sociology and American society bracketed between 1951 and 1976 as well as the change in the direction of change with the advent and reformulations of neo-liberalism over the last 50 years allows us to appreciate the prescience of the Lees. Raymo…
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