Чад Алан Голдберг
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Чад Алан Голдберг |
| GIVEN NAMES | Чад Алан |
| FAMILY NAME | Голдберг |
| SIGNATURE | ГОЛДБЕРГ Ч А |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: Patterns, Trends, and Solutions
At the 120th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago, August 2025, three prominent antisemitism scholars discussed the timing, causes, and forms of resurgent antisemitism in the twenty-first century; its relationship to populism, to antizionism, and to other types of hatred; and practical steps to reduce antisemitism.
The New Class and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Wisconsin
While previous scholarship highlights the importance of cross-class alliances between intellectuals and workers in past social-democratic and labor movements, the growth of right-wing populism may signal the breakdown of this political alignment today. We investigate the extent to which intellectuals and workers remain politically aligned through a case study of political developments in the state of Wisconsin, which pioneered social-democratic r…
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America
The Sociologist as Civil Theologian
Eros and Trumpism: A Marcusean Interpretation
An explanation for Donald Trump’s political appeal is developed, drawing mainly on Herbert Marcuse’s study Eros and Civilization. Trump does not represent the authority of a strong father-leader so much as filial rebellion. His rebellion against the father-rule, now transmuted into an impersonal “rigged system,” permits and even encourages the explosive release of suppressed sexual and aggressive drives. However, this release does not constitute …
Learning One's Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America
Introduction to the symposium
Sociological insight through the history of social thought: A dialogue about Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
This essay is part of a symposium on Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and responds to comments on the book by Angel Adams Parham, Joseph Gerteis, Peter Kivisto, and Fuyuki Kurasawa. As all these commentators recognize, the history of social theory at its best involves more than conserving, inculcating, and consecrating the sociological canon or even remaking the canon through the addition of pre…
Pogroms
A pogrom (literally meaning destruction in Russian) historically referred to popular violence against Jews in the Russian Empire. Pogroms involved destruction and looting of property, mutilation, rape, and murder, often with the neutrality or complicity of authorities. The term was first used in the English press in 1882 and has subsequently been extended to similar attacks upon Jews or other groups of people elsewhere in the world. Sociologists …
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
The two Marxes: From Jewish domination to supersession of the Jews
This article identifies two different patterns in how Karl Marx, in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, portrayed the relationship between the Jews and modern capitalism. The early Marx described modern economic life as domination by a Jewish spirit that is internalized by non-Jews and objectified in economic institutions. The Jews did not drop out of Marx's mature work, as is sometimes supposed, but there was a major shift in how he linked Euro…
Three Worlds of Relief
Struggle and solidarity: Civic republican elements in Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology
Chants Democratic in Wisconsin
When I moved to Madison in 2001 to take a job as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, I knew embarrassingly little about my newly adopted state's historical significance. Judging from their wisecracks about the sociology of cows, neither did my friends in New York. I soon learned about Wisconsin's prominent role in many of America's social advances, from “Fighting Bob” LaFollette's opposition to powerful railroad trusts, to pion…
The Jews, the Revolution, and the Old Regime in French Anti-Semitism and Durkheim's Sociology
The relationship between European sociology and European anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is investigated through a case study of one sociologist, Émile Durkheim, in a single country, France. Reactionary and radical forms of anti-Semitism are distinguished and contrasted to Durkheim's sociological perspective. Durkheim's remarks about the Jews directly addressed anti-Semitic claims about them, their role in French soc…
Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare
In Citizens and Paupers, Chad Alan Goldberg examines social welfare policies as “pre-eminent sites for political struggles over the meaning and boundaries of citizenship in the United States” (p. 1). For him, citizenship is not simply a status describing national belonging, it is also “an instrument of social closure” that stratifies groups, thereby abridging their access to resources and rights (ibid.). A work of historical sociology, Citizens a…
Introduction to Emile Durkheim's 'Anti-Semitism and Social Crisis
Emile Durkheim's 'Antisémitisme et crise sociale,' written in 1899 during the Dreyfus Affair in France, is introduced. The introduction summarizes the principal contributions that 'Antisémitisme et crise sociale' makes to the sociology of anti-Semitism, relates those contributions to Durkheim's broader theoretical assumptions and concerns, situates his analysis of anti-Semitism in its social and historical context, contrasts it to other analyses …
Reflections on Jeffrey C. Alexander's The Civil Sphere
For a critical appraisal of Bourdieu, see Alexander (1995) Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1995. "The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu." Pp. 128–217 in Fin de Siècle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason. New York: Verso. [Google Scholar].2 Habermas ([1981] 1984 Habermas, Jürgen. [1981] 1984. Reason and the Rationalization of Society, vol. 1, Theory of Communicative Action. Translated by Thomas McCarth…
Contesting the Status of Relief Workers during the New Deal: The Workers Alliance of America and the Works Progress Administration, 1935–1941
Drawing on feminist and historical institutionalist studies of the welfare state as well as the concept of classification struggles developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this article examines how the creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) influenced the subsequent political mobilization of the unemployed in the United States. The WPA combined features of both the liberal, nationally administered social insurance tier and t…
Politicide Revisited
Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and collective emotions in contentious politics
Haunted by the specter of communism: Collective identity and resource mobilization in the demise of the Workers Alliance of America
Social Citizenship and a Reconstructed Tocqueville
The implications of Alexis de Tocqueville's theory of democracy for current debates about social citizenship and the welfare state are explored. Systematizing accounts of Tocqueville's views on public relief have been one-sided and have facilitated efforts by the New Right to appropriate his legacy to justify New Right policies. A closer reading of Tocqueville, attentive to both his marginal and more central works, reveals good reasons for opposi…
Welfare Recipients or Workers? Contesting the Workfare State in New York City
This paper addresses how New York City's workfare program has structured opportunities for collective action by welfare recipients. As workfare blurs the distinction between wage workers and welfare recipients, it calls into question accepted understandings of the rights and obligations of welfare recipients and fosters new claims on the state. The concept of 'cultural opportunity structures' can help to explain the political mobilization of work…
Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and collective emotions in contentious politics
Social Citizenship and a Reconstructed Tocqueville
The implications of Alexis de Tocqueville's theory of democracy for current debates about social citizenship and the welfare state are explored. Systematizing accounts of Tocqueville's views on public relief have been one-sided and have facilitated efforts by the New Right to appropriate his legacy to justify New Right policies. A closer reading of Tocqueville, attentive to both his marginal and more central works, reveals good reasons for opposi…
Introduction to Emile Durkheim's 'Anti-Semitism and Social Crisis
Emile Durkheim's 'Antisémitisme et crise sociale,' written in 1899 during the Dreyfus Affair in France, is introduced. The introduction summarizes the principal contributions that 'Antisémitisme et crise sociale' makes to the sociology of anti-Semitism, relates those contributions to Durkheim's broader theoretical assumptions and concerns, situates his analysis of anti-Semitism in its social and historical context, contrasts it to other analyses …
Welfare Recipients or Workers? Contesting the Workfare State in New York City
This paper addresses how New York City's workfare program has structured opportunities for collective action by welfare recipients. As workfare blurs the distinction between wage workers and welfare recipients, it calls into question accepted understandings of the rights and obligations of welfare recipients and fosters new claims on the state. The concept of 'cultural opportunity structures' can help to explain the political mobilization of work…
Haunted by the specter of communism: Collective identity and resource mobilization in the demise of the Workers Alliance of America
Struggle and solidarity: Civic republican elements in Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology
Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare
In Citizens and Paupers, Chad Alan Goldberg examines social welfare policies as “pre-eminent sites for political struggles over the meaning and boundaries of citizenship in the United States” (p. 1). For him, citizenship is not simply a status describing national belonging, it is also “an instrument of social closure” that stratifies groups, thereby abridging their access to resources and rights (ibid.). A work of historical sociology, Citizens a…
Reflections on Jeffrey C. Alexander's The Civil Sphere
For a critical appraisal of Bourdieu, see Alexander (1995) Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1995. "The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu." Pp. 128–217 in Fin de Siècle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason. New York: Verso. [Google Scholar].2 Habermas ([1981] 1984 Habermas, Jürgen. [1981] 1984. Reason and the Rationalization of Society, vol. 1, Theory of Communicative Action. Translated by Thomas McCarth…
The Sociologist as Civil Theologian
Eros and Trumpism: A Marcusean Interpretation
An explanation for Donald Trump’s political appeal is developed, drawing mainly on Herbert Marcuse’s study Eros and Civilization. Trump does not represent the authority of a strong father-leader so much as filial rebellion. His rebellion against the father-rule, now transmuted into an impersonal “rigged system,” permits and even encourages the explosive release of suppressed sexual and aggressive drives. However, this release does not constitute …
Chants Democratic in Wisconsin
When I moved to Madison in 2001 to take a job as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, I knew embarrassingly little about my newly adopted state's historical significance. Judging from their wisecracks about the sociology of cows, neither did my friends in New York. I soon learned about Wisconsin's prominent role in many of America's social advances, from “Fighting Bob” LaFollette's opposition to powerful railroad trusts, to pion…
Social Citizenship and a Reconstructed Tocqueville
The implications of Alexis de Tocqueville's theory of democracy for current debates about social citizenship and the welfare state are explored. Systematizing accounts of Tocqueville's views on public relief have been one-sided and have facilitated efforts by the New Right to appropriate his legacy to justify New Right policies. A closer reading of Tocqueville, attentive to both his marginal and more central works, reveals good reasons for opposi…
Welfare Recipients or Workers? Contesting the Workfare State in New York City
This paper addresses how New York City's workfare program has structured opportunities for collective action by welfare recipients. As workfare blurs the distinction between wage workers and welfare recipients, it calls into question accepted understandings of the rights and obligations of welfare recipients and fosters new claims on the state. The concept of 'cultural opportunity structures' can help to explain the political mobilization of work…
Haunted by the specter of communism: Collective identity and resource mobilization in the demise of the Workers Alliance of America
Contesting the Status of Relief Workers during the New Deal: The Workers Alliance of America and the Works Progress Administration, 1935–1941
Drawing on feminist and historical institutionalist studies of the welfare state as well as the concept of classification struggles developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this article examines how the creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) influenced the subsequent political mobilization of the unemployed in the United States. The WPA combined features of both the liberal, nationally administered social insurance tier and t…
Politicide Revisited
Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and collective emotions in contentious politics
Reflections on Jeffrey C. Alexander's The Civil Sphere
For a critical appraisal of Bourdieu, see Alexander (1995) Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1995. "The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu." Pp. 128–217 in Fin de Siècle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason. New York: Verso. [Google Scholar].2 Habermas ([1981] 1984 Habermas, Jürgen. [1981] 1984. Reason and the Rationalization of Society, vol. 1, Theory of Communicative Action. Translated by Thomas McCarth…
Introduction to Emile Durkheim's 'Anti-Semitism and Social Crisis
Emile Durkheim's 'Antisémitisme et crise sociale,' written in 1899 during the Dreyfus Affair in France, is introduced. The introduction summarizes the principal contributions that 'Antisémitisme et crise sociale' makes to the sociology of anti-Semitism, relates those contributions to Durkheim's broader theoretical assumptions and concerns, situates his analysis of anti-Semitism in its social and historical context, contrasts it to other analyses …
Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare
In Citizens and Paupers, Chad Alan Goldberg examines social welfare policies as “pre-eminent sites for political struggles over the meaning and boundaries of citizenship in the United States” (p. 1). For him, citizenship is not simply a status describing national belonging, it is also “an instrument of social closure” that stratifies groups, thereby abridging their access to resources and rights (ibid.). A work of historical sociology, Citizens a…
Chants Democratic in Wisconsin
When I moved to Madison in 2001 to take a job as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, I knew embarrassingly little about my newly adopted state's historical significance. Judging from their wisecracks about the sociology of cows, neither did my friends in New York. I soon learned about Wisconsin's prominent role in many of America's social advances, from “Fighting Bob” LaFollette's opposition to powerful railroad trusts, to pion…
The Jews, the Revolution, and the Old Regime in French Anti-Semitism and Durkheim's Sociology
The relationship between European sociology and European anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is investigated through a case study of one sociologist, Émile Durkheim, in a single country, France. Reactionary and radical forms of anti-Semitism are distinguished and contrasted to Durkheim's sociological perspective. Durkheim's remarks about the Jews directly addressed anti-Semitic claims about them, their role in French soc…
Struggle and solidarity: Civic republican elements in Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology
Three Worlds of Relief
The two Marxes: From Jewish domination to supersession of the Jews
This article identifies two different patterns in how Karl Marx, in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, portrayed the relationship between the Jews and modern capitalism. The early Marx described modern economic life as domination by a Jewish spirit that is internalized by non-Jews and objectified in economic institutions. The Jews did not drop out of Marx's mature work, as is sometimes supposed, but there was a major shift in how he linked Euro…
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
Pogroms
A pogrom (literally meaning destruction in Russian) historically referred to popular violence against Jews in the Russian Empire. Pogroms involved destruction and looting of property, mutilation, rape, and murder, often with the neutrality or complicity of authorities. The term was first used in the English press in 1882 and has subsequently been extended to similar attacks upon Jews or other groups of people elsewhere in the world. Sociologists …
Introduction to the symposium
Sociological insight through the history of social thought: A dialogue about Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
This essay is part of a symposium on Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and responds to comments on the book by Angel Adams Parham, Joseph Gerteis, Peter Kivisto, and Fuyuki Kurasawa. As all these commentators recognize, the history of social theory at its best involves more than conserving, inculcating, and consecrating the sociological canon or even remaking the canon through the addition of pre…
Learning One's Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America
The Sociologist as Civil Theologian
Eros and Trumpism: A Marcusean Interpretation
An explanation for Donald Trump’s political appeal is developed, drawing mainly on Herbert Marcuse’s study Eros and Civilization. Trump does not represent the authority of a strong father-leader so much as filial rebellion. His rebellion against the father-rule, now transmuted into an impersonal “rigged system,” permits and even encourages the explosive release of suppressed sexual and aggressive drives. However, this release does not constitute …
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America
The New Class and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Wisconsin
While previous scholarship highlights the importance of cross-class alliances between intellectuals and workers in past social-democratic and labor movements, the growth of right-wing populism may signal the breakdown of this political alignment today. We investigate the extent to which intellectuals and workers remain politically aligned through a case study of political developments in the state of Wisconsin, which pioneered social-democratic r…
The Resurgence of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: Patterns, Trends, and Solutions
At the 120th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago, August 2025, three prominent antisemitism scholars discussed the timing, causes, and forms of resurgent antisemitism in the twenty-first century; its relationship to populism, to antizionism, and to other types of hatred; and practical steps to reduce antisemitism.
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