Dan Krier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Krier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Krier |
| SIGNATURE | KRIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3174-7310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racialized and Geopolitically Charged Contexts of Reception in New Immigrant Destinations
We conceptualize racialized and geopolitical contexts of reception as a comprehensive framework for understanding the incorporation of recent immigrants in new destinations. Racialization is the fluid assignment of racial meanings to physical characteristics, religion, cultural presentation, and language. Geopolitics encompasses national boundaries, border security, regulation of border crossers, and populist-nativist anxieties about identity. We…
Atopia Awaits! A Critical Sociological Analysis of Marx's Political Imaginary
Marx's (1844) estranged labor manuscript maps processes that stultify spontaneous human relations under the division of labor in the regime of capital accumulation. For Marx, negating absolutes would put 'Man' back on its natural trajectory toward positive freedom. Such evacuation of mediating 'substances' results in either frivolity or pragmatic barbarism rather than positive freedom. Marx's political imaginary rejected philosophical mysticism b…
Social Ontology of Capitalism
This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the power of the sacred, the nature of authority, the problem of representation, reification, alienation, utopia, and collective resistance. Historical ma…
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretica…
Speculative Profit Fetishism in the Age of Finance Capital
This article tracks the rise of a new speculative form of 'profit fetishism' in the American stock market in the late 20th century as the control of American corporations shifted decisively from production-oriented managers to earning-oriented stockholders. During these years, speculative capitalists made the trading price of corporate stock the primary focus of corporate management. The heightened focus upon stock price coincided with a converge…
Finance Capital, Neo-Liberalism and Critical Institutionalism
Classical critical institutionalism is compared to recent 'neo-instititutionalism' in economics, sociology and organizational studies. Both approaches developed during a regime change within capitalism, crisis periods of economic change and destabilized relationships between capitalist sectors and social institutions. Unlike mainstream economics, institutional approaches map these changing connections between capitalist sectors (finance and indus…
Assessing the New Synthesis of Economics and Sociology
In this essay, the emergence of the "New Synthesis" of economics and sociology is explored and analyzed in the context of the classical writings in economic sociology ("Old Synthesis"). The aim is not to provide an exhaustive survey, but rather a selective assessment that introduces readers to the most important questions, answers, and contributions of this emerging and important specialized literature. The essay seeks to i) translate faithfully …
Seen but unseen
Atopia Awaits! A Critical Sociological Analysis of Marx's Political Imaginary
Marx's (1844) estranged labor manuscript maps processes that stultify spontaneous human relations under the division of labor in the regime of capital accumulation. For Marx, negating absolutes would put 'Man' back on its natural trajectory toward positive freedom. Such evacuation of mediating 'substances' results in either frivolity or pragmatic barbarism rather than positive freedom. Marx's political imaginary rejected philosophical mysticism b…
Finance Capital, Neo-Liberalism and Critical Institutionalism
Classical critical institutionalism is compared to recent 'neo-instititutionalism' in economics, sociology and organizational studies. Both approaches developed during a regime change within capitalism, crisis periods of economic change and destabilized relationships between capitalist sectors and social institutions. Unlike mainstream economics, institutional approaches map these changing connections between capitalist sectors (finance and indus…
Speculative Profit Fetishism in the Age of Finance Capital
This article tracks the rise of a new speculative form of 'profit fetishism' in the American stock market in the late 20th century as the control of American corporations shifted decisively from production-oriented managers to earning-oriented stockholders. During these years, speculative capitalists made the trading price of corporate stock the primary focus of corporate management. The heightened focus upon stock price coincided with a converge…
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretica…
Assessing the New Synthesis of Economics and Sociology
In this essay, the emergence of the "New Synthesis" of economics and sociology is explored and analyzed in the context of the classical writings in economic sociology ("Old Synthesis"). The aim is not to provide an exhaustive survey, but rather a selective assessment that introduces readers to the most important questions, answers, and contributions of this emerging and important specialized literature. The essay seeks to i) translate faithfully …
Seen but unseen
Assessing the New Synthesis of Economics and Sociology
In this essay, the emergence of the "New Synthesis" of economics and sociology is explored and analyzed in the context of the classical writings in economic sociology ("Old Synthesis"). The aim is not to provide an exhaustive survey, but rather a selective assessment that introduces readers to the most important questions, answers, and contributions of this emerging and important specialized literature. The essay seeks to i) translate faithfully …
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretica…
Speculative Profit Fetishism in the Age of Finance Capital
This article tracks the rise of a new speculative form of 'profit fetishism' in the American stock market in the late 20th century as the control of American corporations shifted decisively from production-oriented managers to earning-oriented stockholders. During these years, speculative capitalists made the trading price of corporate stock the primary focus of corporate management. The heightened focus upon stock price coincided with a converge…
Finance Capital, Neo-Liberalism and Critical Institutionalism
Classical critical institutionalism is compared to recent 'neo-instititutionalism' in economics, sociology and organizational studies. Both approaches developed during a regime change within capitalism, crisis periods of economic change and destabilized relationships between capitalist sectors and social institutions. Unlike mainstream economics, institutional approaches map these changing connections between capitalist sectors (finance and indus…
Social Ontology of Capitalism
This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as the nature of the social, the power of the sacred, the nature of authority, the problem of representation, reification, alienation, utopia, and collective resistance. Historical ma…
Atopia Awaits! A Critical Sociological Analysis of Marx's Political Imaginary
Marx's (1844) estranged labor manuscript maps processes that stultify spontaneous human relations under the division of labor in the regime of capital accumulation. For Marx, negating absolutes would put 'Man' back on its natural trajectory toward positive freedom. Such evacuation of mediating 'substances' results in either frivolity or pragmatic barbarism rather than positive freedom. Marx's political imaginary rejected philosophical mysticism b…
Racialized and Geopolitically Charged Contexts of Reception in New Immigrant Destinations
We conceptualize racialized and geopolitical contexts of reception as a comprehensive framework for understanding the incorporation of recent immigrants in new destinations. Racialization is the fluid assignment of racial meanings to physical characteristics, religion, cultural presentation, and language. Geopolitics encompasses national boundaries, border security, regulation of border crossers, and populist-nativist anxieties about identity. We…
Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Neoclassical economics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)