Steven P Dandaneau
Biographic Data
| ID | 80580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven P Dandaneau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dandaneau |
| SIGNATURE | DANDANEAU S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Power Elite at 50: C. Wrights Mills' Political Sociology in Midlife Crisis
Role‐Taking
Role‐taking refers to social interaction in which people adopt and act out a particular social role. If, adapting Shakespeare, society is a stage, then people may be thought of as social actors performing roles, each the other's fellow player. Rendered more clinically, and following Ralph H. Turner, role‐taking is a process of anticipating and viewing behavior as motivated by an imputed social role. From the child playing at being “a mother” to t…
Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979)
Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher and social theorist who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, becoming a naturalized US citizen in 1940. Marcuse is credited with having formulated a distinctive critical theory of society that combined a Hegelian reading of Marx with insights drawn from his masterful studies of modern and twentieth‐century philosophy and social theory. As the only member of the famed Frankfurt School…
Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism's Triumph over Democracy
Mills, C. Wright (1916–1962)
C. Wright Mills is perhaps the most recognized figure in the history of American sociology. Mills is to American sociology as Margaret Mead is to American anthropology. Mills was prolific, provocative, and prescient. The author of, not one, but three of American sociology's most influential and debated books – White Collar (1951), The Power Elite (1956), and The Sociological Imagination (1959) – Mills's scholarly oeuvre is a veritable microcosm o…
Social Order
Social order is synonymous with both society and social science. People do not regularly live in chaos, even when they are the denizens of postmodern societies that characteristically exacerbate the already chaotic tempo bequeathed by modernity. Regardless of whether it is edifying to accept, ritual and routine, not rebellion and revolution, absorb the lion's share of everyday energies. Likewise, apart from whether society is conceived theoretica…
The Sociology of Birth and Death: An Interview with Maurice R. Stein
Over six decades of teaching sociology, Maurice R. Stein (since 2002 retired from Brandeis University), pioneered and developed an experimental “Sociology of Birth and Death.” The course emphasized peer education, active learning, and transformative education in the liberal arts informed by the classic tradition of sociology. In order to document and elaborate on the nature of the course for the benefit of today's instructors of sociology, Dandan…
Listening to Sociological Elders: An Interview with Maurice R. Stein
Sisyphus had it Easy: Reflections of Two Decades of Teaching the Sociological Imagination
The Sociological Imagination is among the most recognized books in the history of American Sociology. Yet, the sociological imagination as such, a radical form of self-consciousness, is not commonly well understood nor easily acquired. This essay examines the challenges thus faced by instructors who seek to accurately impart what Mills meant by his famous neologism and the even stiffer challenge for those struggling to instill the sociological im…
Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe
The sociological theory of C. Wright Mills: Toward a critique of postmodernity
The “theory” in the distinctive sociological theory of C. Wright Mills is this: American society was increasingly “postmodern,” by which he meant a society devoid of reason and freedom as practical features of everyday life and thus a societal formation fundamentally severed from the aims and optimism of The Enlightenment (Mills, 1959b, p. 13, p. 166, also 1959a). With Max Weber and John Dewey principally in mind, but also upon the benefit of his…
A consuming passion: An interview with George Ritzer
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ritzer was co‐founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture with Don Slater. In addition to his considerable work in the area of the sociology of consumption, Ritzer is especially known for Metatheorizing in sociology (1991), The McDonaldization of society (1993 Ritzer, G. 1991. Metatheorizing in sociology, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books. [Google…
Social Order
Social order is synonymous with both society and social science. People do not regularly live in chaos, even when they are the denizens of postmodern societies that characteristically exacerbate the already chaotic tempo bequeathed by modernity. Regardless of whether it is edifying to accept, ritual and routine, not rebellion and revolution, absorb the lion's share of everyday energies. Likewise, apart from whether society is conceived theoretica…
Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979)
Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher and social theorist who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi persecution, becoming a naturalized US citizen in 1940. Marcuse is credited with having formulated a distinctive critical theory of society that combined a Hegelian reading of Marx with insights drawn from his masterful studies of modern and twentieth‐century philosophy and social theory. As the only member of the famed Frankfurt School's inner ci…
Role‐Taking
Role‐taking refers to social interaction in which people adopt and act out a particular social role. If, adapting Shakespeare, society is a stage, then people may be thought of as social actors performing roles, each the other's fellow player. Rendered more clinically, and following Ralph H. Turner, role‐taking is a process of anticipating and viewing behavior as motivated by an imputed social role. From the child playing at being “a mother” to t…
Norms
Norms are informal rules that guide social interaction. They are, as Cristina Bicchieri (2006) calls them, “the rules we live by.” As such, norms constitute a critical component in the makeup of human cultures and therefore play a highly significant role in determining what it means to be human. When codified, norms are rendered laws or other types of institutionalized regulatory strictures. When conceived without moral consequence, the term can …
Being (George Ritzer) and nothingness: An interview
Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
Taking it Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today's postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization
Journal Article A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization. By Steven P. Dandaneau. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xxviii, 259pp. Cloth, $59-50, ISBN 0-79142877-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-2878-8.) Get access Dale Hathaway Dale Hathaway Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March …
Sizing down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding and Survival
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan Confronts Deindustrialization
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
Sisyphus had it Easy: Reflections of Two Decades of Teaching the Sociological Imagination
The Sociological Imagination is among the most recognized books in the history of American Sociology. Yet, the sociological imagination as such, a radical form of self-consciousness, is not commonly well understood nor easily acquired. This essay examines the challenges thus faced by instructors who seek to accurately impart what Mills meant by his famous neologism and the even stiffer challenge for those struggling to instill the sociological im…
Taking it Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today's postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own
A consuming passion: An interview with George Ritzer
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ritzer was co‐founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture with Don Slater. In addition to his considerable work in the area of the sociology of consumption, Ritzer is especially known for Metatheorizing in sociology (1991), The McDonaldization of society (1993 Ritzer, G. 1991. Metatheorizing in sociology, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books. [Google…
Listening to Sociological Elders: An Interview with Maurice R. Stein
Being (George Ritzer) and nothingness: An interview
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization
Journal Article A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization. By Steven P. Dandaneau. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xxviii, 259pp. Cloth, $59-50, ISBN 0-79142877-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-2878-8.) Get access Dale Hathaway Dale Hathaway Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March …
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization
Journal Article A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization. By Steven P. Dandaneau. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xxviii, 259pp. Cloth, $59-50, ISBN 0-79142877-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-2878-8.) Get access Dale Hathaway Dale Hathaway Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March …
Sizing down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding and Survival
A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan Confronts Deindustrialization
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
Taking it Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
This book is intended as an accessible, current, and uncompromised introduction to what C Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. It explains and demonstrates the value of the sociological imagination vis-[gr]a-vis the demands of today's postmodern society, critically addresses the chief forces working against its development, and invites students to adopt this form of self-consciousness as their own
Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times
Being (George Ritzer) and nothingness: An interview
Social Order
Social order is synonymous with both society and social science. People do not regularly live in chaos, even when they are the denizens of postmodern societies that characteristically exacerbate the already chaotic tempo bequeathed by modernity. Regardless of whether it is edifying to accept, ritual and routine, not rebellion and revolution, absorb the lion's share of everyday energies. Likewise, apart from whether society is conceived theoretica…
Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979)
Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher and social theorist who immigrated to the US to escape Nazi persecution, becoming a naturalized US citizen in 1940. Marcuse is credited with having formulated a distinctive critical theory of society that combined a Hegelian reading of Marx with insights drawn from his masterful studies of modern and twentieth‐century philosophy and social theory. As the only member of the famed Frankfurt School's inner ci…
Role‐Taking
Role‐taking refers to social interaction in which people adopt and act out a particular social role. If, adapting Shakespeare, society is a stage, then people may be thought of as social actors performing roles, each the other's fellow player. Rendered more clinically, and following Ralph H. Turner, role‐taking is a process of anticipating and viewing behavior as motivated by an imputed social role. From the child playing at being “a mother” to t…
Norms
Norms are informal rules that guide social interaction. They are, as Cristina Bicchieri (2006) calls them, “the rules we live by.” As such, norms constitute a critical component in the makeup of human cultures and therefore play a highly significant role in determining what it means to be human. When codified, norms are rendered laws or other types of institutionalized regulatory strictures. When conceived without moral consequence, the term can …
The sociological theory of C. Wright Mills: Toward a critique of postmodernity
The “theory” in the distinctive sociological theory of C. Wright Mills is this: American society was increasingly “postmodern,” by which he meant a society devoid of reason and freedom as practical features of everyday life and thus a societal formation fundamentally severed from the aims and optimism of The Enlightenment (Mills, 1959b, p. 13, p. 166, also 1959a). With Max Weber and John Dewey principally in mind, but also upon the benefit of his…
A consuming passion: An interview with George Ritzer
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ritzer was co‐founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture with Don Slater. In addition to his considerable work in the area of the sociology of consumption, Ritzer is especially known for Metatheorizing in sociology (1991), The McDonaldization of society (1993 Ritzer, G. 1991. Metatheorizing in sociology, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books. [Google…
Sisyphus had it Easy: Reflections of Two Decades of Teaching the Sociological Imagination
The Sociological Imagination is among the most recognized books in the history of American Sociology. Yet, the sociological imagination as such, a radical form of self-consciousness, is not commonly well understood nor easily acquired. This essay examines the challenges thus faced by instructors who seek to accurately impart what Mills meant by his famous neologism and the even stiffer challenge for those struggling to instill the sociological im…
Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe
The Sociology of Birth and Death: An Interview with Maurice R. Stein
Over six decades of teaching sociology, Maurice R. Stein (since 2002 retired from Brandeis University), pioneered and developed an experimental “Sociology of Birth and Death.” The course emphasized peer education, active learning, and transformative education in the liberal arts informed by the classic tradition of sociology. In order to document and elaborate on the nature of the course for the benefit of today's instructors of sociology, Dandan…
Listening to Sociological Elders: An Interview with Maurice R. Stein
Social Order
Social order is synonymous with both society and social science. People do not regularly live in chaos, even when they are the denizens of postmodern societies that characteristically exacerbate the already chaotic tempo bequeathed by modernity. Regardless of whether it is edifying to accept, ritual and routine, not rebellion and revolution, absorb the lion's share of everyday energies. Likewise, apart from whether society is conceived theoretica…
Mills, C. Wright (1916–1962)
C. Wright Mills is perhaps the most recognized figure in the history of American sociology. Mills is to American sociology as Margaret Mead is to American anthropology. Mills was prolific, provocative, and prescient. The author of, not one, but three of American sociology's most influential and debated books – White Collar (1951), The Power Elite (1956), and The Sociological Imagination (1959) – Mills's scholarly oeuvre is a veritable microcosm o…
Role‐Taking
Role‐taking refers to social interaction in which people adopt and act out a particular social role. If, adapting Shakespeare, society is a stage, then people may be thought of as social actors performing roles, each the other's fellow player. Rendered more clinically, and following Ralph H. Turner, role‐taking is a process of anticipating and viewing behavior as motivated by an imputed social role. From the child playing at being “a mother” to t…
Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979)
Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher and social theorist who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, becoming a naturalized US citizen in 1940. Marcuse is credited with having formulated a distinctive critical theory of society that combined a Hegelian reading of Marx with insights drawn from his masterful studies of modern and twentieth‐century philosophy and social theory. As the only member of the famed Frankfurt School…
Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism's Triumph over Democracy
The Power Elite at 50: C. Wrights Mills' Political Sociology in Midlife Crisis
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