Craig J Calhoun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig J Calhoun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig J |
| FAMILY NAME | Calhoun |
| SIGNATURE | CALHOUN C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 864 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Business as Usual
This book situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. The book establishes w…
Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere
Anthropological Study of Education
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton's reach can be felt in the study of social structure, social psychology, deviance, professions, organizations, culture, and science. Yet for all his fame, Merton is only partially understood. He is treated by scholars as a functional analyst, when i…
Practicing Culture
Nations Matter
"Craig Calhoun re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century. Nations Matter argues that pursuing a purely postnational politics is premature at best and possibly dangerous. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, history, political theory and all subjects concerned with nationalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism."-…
Sociology in America
Though the word was coined Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that situation-and to celebrate the centennial of the American Sociological Association-Craig Calhoun assembled a team of leading sociologists to produce Sociology in America. Rather than a story of great sociologists or departments,…
Classical Sociological Theory
Contributors. Introduction.Part I: The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:.Introduction.1. Alienation and Historical Materialism.Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law: Karl Marx.Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: Karl Marx.2. Capitalism and Commodities.Commodities: Karl Marx.The General Formula for Capital: Karl Marx.Division of Labour and Manufacture: Karl Marx.The So-Called Primitive Accumulatio…
Critical social theory
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
The Dictionary of the Social Sciences is a comprehensive reference work with over 1700 entries ranging from fifty to five hundred words covering topics such as anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, human and cultural geography, and Marxism. The Dictionary is aimed at students and scholars who need ready access to defined terms in a social science outside of their immediate area of expertise, for example an econo…
Foreign trade in moral visions
Foreign Trade in Moral Visions Craig Calhoun (bio) China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry. By Richard Madsen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995. 262 pages. $27.50. China’s Tiananmen Square massacre, Richard Madsen argues, “troubled Americans far out of proportion to its direct cost in human suffering. . . . The tragedy in China was so upsetting for many Americans because it contradicted widely cherished American unders…
Neither Gods nor Emperors
Social theory and the politics of identity
Preface. 1. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity: Craig Calhoun (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 2. Reclaiming the Epistemological a Othera : Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity: Margaret R. Somers and Gloria D. Gibson (University of Michigan). 3. Dark Thoughts about the Self: Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University). 4. The Politics of Identity in American History: Norbert Wiley (University of Illinois). 5. From Uni…
Bourdieu
Habermas and the public sphere
"The relationship between civil society and public life has become a major topic of discussion in many disciplines, and no single scholarly voice informs this discussion more that that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic politics. In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, 'The struct…
Civil Society and Political Life
Reviewed work: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. by Jurgen Habermas; Thomas Burger; Frederick Lawrence
The question of class struggle
Protest and Participation
The Army and the Crowd in Mid-Georgian England.Tony Hayter
The Microcomputer Revolution
The technology on which microcomputers and allied developments are based is rapidly progressing, but the extent and directions in which development continues will be determined largely by social, not autonomously technical, factors. This technology can, within the next decade or two, advance to the point where an enormous range of new applications will be economically practicable. A wide variety of microcomputer applications are already underway …
Social theory and the politics of identity
Preface. 1. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity: Craig Calhoun (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 2. Reclaiming the Epistemological a Othera : Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity: Margaret R. Somers and Gloria D. Gibson (University of Michigan). 3. Dark Thoughts about the Self: Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University). 4. The Politics of Identity in American History: Norbert Wiley (University of Illinois). 5. From Uni…
Habermas and the public sphere
"The relationship between civil society and public life has become a major topic of discussion in many disciplines, and no single scholarly voice informs this discussion more that that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic politics. In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, 'The struct…
Bourdieu
The Microcomputer Revolution
The technology on which microcomputers and allied developments are based is rapidly progressing, but the extent and directions in which development continues will be determined largely by social, not autonomously technical, factors. This technology can, within the next decade or two, advance to the point where an enormous range of new applications will be economically practicable. A wide variety of microcomputer applications are already underway …
The Army and the Crowd in Mid-Georgian England.Tony Hayter
The Microcomputer Revolution
The technology on which microcomputers and allied developments are based is rapidly progressing, but the extent and directions in which development continues will be determined largely by social, not autonomously technical, factors. This technology can, within the next decade or two, advance to the point where an enormous range of new applications will be economically practicable. A wide variety of microcomputer applications are already underway …
The question of class struggle
Protest and Participation
The Army and the Crowd in Mid-Georgian England.Tony Hayter
Civil Society and Political Life
Reviewed work: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. by Jurgen Habermas; Thomas Burger; Frederick Lawrence
Habermas and the public sphere
"The relationship between civil society and public life has become a major topic of discussion in many disciplines, and no single scholarly voice informs this discussion more that that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic politics. In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, 'The struct…
Bourdieu
Neither Gods nor Emperors
Social theory and the politics of identity
Preface. 1. Social Theory and the Politics of Identity: Craig Calhoun (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 2. Reclaiming the Epistemological a Othera : Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity: Margaret R. Somers and Gloria D. Gibson (University of Michigan). 3. Dark Thoughts about the Self: Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University). 4. The Politics of Identity in American History: Norbert Wiley (University of Illinois). 5. From Uni…
Foreign trade in moral visions
Foreign Trade in Moral Visions Craig Calhoun (bio) China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry. By Richard Madsen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995. 262 pages. $27.50. China’s Tiananmen Square massacre, Richard Madsen argues, “troubled Americans far out of proportion to its direct cost in human suffering. . . . The tragedy in China was so upsetting for many Americans because it contradicted widely cherished American unders…
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
The Dictionary of the Social Sciences is a comprehensive reference work with over 1700 entries ranging from fifty to five hundred words covering topics such as anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, human and cultural geography, and Marxism. The Dictionary is aimed at students and scholars who need ready access to defined terms in a social science outside of their immediate area of expertise, for example an econo…
Critical social theory
Practicing Culture
Nations Matter
"Craig Calhoun re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century. Nations Matter argues that pursuing a purely postnational politics is premature at best and possibly dangerous. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, history, political theory and all subjects concerned with nationalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism."-…
Sociology in America
Though the word was coined Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that situation-and to celebrate the centennial of the American Sociological Association-Craig Calhoun assembled a team of leading sociologists to produce Sociology in America. Rather than a story of great sociologists or departments,…
Classical Sociological Theory
Contributors. Introduction.Part I: The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:.Introduction.1. Alienation and Historical Materialism.Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law: Karl Marx.Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: Karl Marx.2. Capitalism and Commodities.Commodities: Karl Marx.The General Formula for Capital: Karl Marx.Division of Labour and Manufacture: Karl Marx.The So-Called Primitive Accumulatio…
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton's reach can be felt in the study of social structure, social psychology, deviance, professions, organizations, culture, and science. Yet for all his fame, Merton is only partially understood. He is treated by scholars as a functional analyst, when i…
Anthropological Study of Education
Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere
Business as Usual
This book situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. The book establishes w…
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