Charles Camic
Biographic Data
| ID | 91179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Camic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Camic |
| SIGNATURE | CAMIC C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9848-9657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 829 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Field Meets Context
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Veblen’s quadripartite response to the First World War
Prior to the First World War, Thorstein Veblen wrote extensively about economic theory, formulating the tenets of an evolutionary and institutional economics, and criticizing the static and atomistic premises of classical and marginalist economics, particularly the marginalist theory of distribution, which, in his view, wrongly saw wealth as a reward for productive human labor, rather than a result of the unproductive conduct of parasitic elites.…
Robert Bellah: Free-floating Intellectual Redux”
From the Peaceable to the Barbaric: Thorstein Veblen and the Charro Cowboy
Veblen, Thorstein (1857–1929)
Dissenting from classical and marginalist economics, Thorstein Veblen formulated a theory that centered not on the wealth‐getting, utility‐maximizing actions of separate individuals, but on the interplay of institutions of production and consumption and on how those institutions vary in different times and locations. This theory conceptualized consumption practices in terms of an evolving set of social institutions that engender “invidious” inter…
Changing “Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century”: Historical Text and Historical Context
Historical multitasking
A brilliant contribution to the field of the history of sociology, Aldon Morris's The Scholar Denied accomplishes four major tasks at once. First, it recovers the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois, convincingly demonstrating Du Bois's pioneering contributions both to the development of empirically based sociological research and to overturning 'scientific racism' through the formulation of a sociological theory of racial inequality. Second, it embeds Du Bo…
Habit: History of the Concept
Max Weber in America
Bourdieu’s Cleft Sociology of Science
Social Knowledge in the Making
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social…
Veblen's Apprenticeship: On the Translation of Gustav Cohn'sSystem der Finanzwissenschaft
This article considers the early intellectual career of Thorstein Veblen through the lens of his hitherto neglected 1895 English translation of System der Finanzwissenschaft (1889), an eight-hundred-page treatise on public finance by Gustav Cohn, a German historical economist of high reputation among his contemporaries. The article examines the academic circumstances that led Veblen to undertake the translation; the direct pertinence of a volume …
The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Classics in What Sense
Max Weber's Economy and Society: A Critical Companion
Max Weber's Economy and Society is widely considered the most important single work in sociology and among the most important in the history of the social sciences. This volume provides a critical and up-to-date introduction to Weber's magnum opus. While much has been published about the various parts of Economy and Society, this is the first book to cover all of its major sections and themes, as well as to discuss the methodological vision that …
Authors and Reviewers: In Appreciation
Notes historiques sur l'apport de Parsons
Cet article réévalue l'opinion fort répandue selon laquelle The Structure of Social Action a représenté une orientation révolutionnaire par rapport aux tendances qui prévalaient en sciences sociales aux États-Unis dans les années 1920 et 1930. Cette époque est censée marquer l'apogée de la méthode scientifique positivo-empiriste, de l'approche behavioriste et d'une vision utilitaire de l'ordre social. Une analyse du contexte intellectuel de cette…
Alvin Gouldner and the Sociology of Ideas: Lessons from Enter Plato
Alvin Gouldner's 1965 book Enter Plato is one of the most important contributions ever made to the sociology of ideas. Overshadowed soon after its publication, however, by Gouldner's more controversial work, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, the earlier book has suffered neglect. In an effort to correct this situation, we situate Enter Plato against the backdrop of other mid-twentieth-century works in the sociology of knowledge and related …
A Dialogue about ASR: The Editorial Team Talks
A Short Note on “Long” Papers
Editors' Comment: Asr 2000 To 2002
Contemporary Developments in Sociological Theory: Current Projects and Conditions of Possibility
This paper characterizes the field of sociological theory since the mid-1980s as the site of eight active and diverse intellectual projects. These projects are (I) to construct general analytical tools for use in empirical social research, (II) to synthesize multiple theoretical approaches; (III) to refine existing theoretical research programs; (IV) to stimulate dialogue among different theoretical perspectives; (V) to enlarge and reconstruct cu…
Reconstructing the Theory of Action
L'A. examine de facon critique l'ouvrage d'Hans Joas : The Creativity of Action. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere l'influence de Talcott Parsons sur la perspective proposee dans ce livre. Il montre de quelle maniere ce dernier envisage la notion de creativite. Il estime que Parsons et Joas defendent une vision volontariste de la creativite. Il analyse l'influence du modele teleologique de l'action chez les deux auteurs. Il regrette que Joas ne p…
The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences
Alexander's Antisociology
L'A. s'efforce de repondre a J. C. Alexander et a G. Sciortino. Ces derniers avaient critique son approche et sa lecture de l'oeuvre de T. Parsons. Il s'efforce de montrer que l'œuvre de Parsons s'est elaboree alors que la sociologie americaine etait dominee par l'utilitarisme et le positivisme. Il souligne que la perspective de Parsons tranchait dans ce cadre et mettait en valeur la sociologie europeenne. Il affirme qu'Alexander et Sciortino n'o…
Social Knowledge in the Making
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social…
The Matter of Habit
This article is a historical investigation of the concept of habit in sociology. Beginning with the claim that historians of sociology need to look beyond the now-famous ideas that appear in the foreground of the works of the sociological masters, the article examines the neglected idea of habit to document that this concept was long a staple term in the conceptual vocabulary of Western social theorists and that it continued to function as a majo…
Reputation and Predecessor Selection: Parsons and the Institutionalists
Previous research contends that when Talcott Parsons developed the substantive argument of The Structure of Social Action, he turned away from the theoretical emptiness of American social science and drew on the ideas offour European social thinkersWeber, Durkheim, Pareto, and Marshall. Such research exemplifies the content-fit model of predecessor selection, which assumes that intellectual predecessors are chosen on the basis of a fit between th…
Structure After 50 Years: The Anatomy of a Charter
In the half century since its publication, The Structure of Social Action has emerged as one of the classics of the sociological tradition. At the present time, however, there is scarcely any agreement about the status of the book's argument among all those who still appeal to the volume. After 50 years, the vast scholarship generated by Structure is in disarray, with separate literatures existing for different aspects of the book and controversi…
The Statistical Turn in American Social Science: Columbia University, 1890 to 1915
The Making of a Method: A Historical Reinterpretation of the Early Parsons
ion. 5. Positivism/non-(post-, anti-) positivism. A breach with positivism was no more required. is thus not unusual to find early Parsons embracing analytical theory and upholding, simultaneously, methodological model of natural sciences and, with it, search for uniform laws. The interpretive literature runs to opposite extremes on question of Parsons's positivism because it takes now analytical theory, now natural-scientific model as main focus…
The Utilitarians Revisited
For generations sociologists have attacked utilitarian social theory as inadequate theoretically. At the same time, their presentist orientation toward sociology's past has prevented a direct examination of the utilitarians in their own right. This paper rejects that orientation and investigates the social theory of the major utilitarians. David Hume, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill. No alleged characteristic of utilitarianism-fr…
Charisma: Its Varieties, Preconditions, and Consequences
This paper explores the preconditions for, the nature of, and the consequences of charisma-actors that must be understood for charisma to he a useful empirical and theoretical concept. Unfortunately, as the first section of this essay demonstrates, due primarily to the influence of certain of Max Weber's discussions of charisma, sociological progress in these areas has been limited. However, drawing on two neglected hints by Weber-that the precon…
Contemporary Developments in Sociological Theory: Current Projects and Conditions of Possibility
This paper characterizes the field of sociological theory since the mid-1980s as the site of eight active and diverse intellectual projects. These projects are (I) to construct general analytical tools for use in empirical social research, (II) to synthesize multiple theoretical approaches; (III) to refine existing theoretical research programs; (IV) to stimulate dialogue among different theoretical perspectives; (V) to enlarge and reconstruct cu…
Developments in American Sociological Theory, 1915-1950
Bourdieu’s Cleft Sociology of Science
Presbyteries and Profits: Calvinism and the Development of Capitalism in Scotland, 1560-1707
Part 1 Max Weber on the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: introduction the grounds for the study, the controversial Max Weber, an outline of the study, Weber and Scotland Weber's protestant ethic theses, previous commentaries on Scotland and the Weber thesis, conclusion. Part 2 The Scots Calvinist ethic: sixteenth-century Scottish Calvinism introduction, a brief outline of Calvinism in Scotland, formal doctrine, commentaries and expo…
Alvin Gouldner and the Sociology of Ideas: Lessons from Enter Plato
Alvin Gouldner's 1965 book Enter Plato is one of the most important contributions ever made to the sociology of ideas. Overshadowed soon after its publication, however, by Gouldner's more controversial work, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, the earlier book has suffered neglect. In an effort to correct this situation, we situate Enter Plato against the backdrop of other mid-twentieth-century works in the sociology of knowledge and related …
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging oeuvre is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work …
Reshaping the history of American sociology
1994). Reshaping the history of American sociology. Social Epistemology: Vol. 8, The Social Epistemology of Sociology, pp. 9-18
On the Methodology of the History of Sociology: A Reply to Jones
Reconstructing the Theory of Action
L'A. examine de facon critique l'ouvrage d'Hans Joas : The Creativity of Action. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere l'influence de Talcott Parsons sur la perspective proposee dans ce livre. Il montre de quelle maniere ce dernier envisage la notion de creativite. Il estime que Parsons et Joas defendent une vision volontariste de la creativite. Il analyse l'influence du modele teleologique de l'action chez les deux auteurs. Il regrette que Joas ne p…
An Historical Prologue
Alexander's Antisociology
L'A. s'efforce de repondre a J. C. Alexander et a G. Sciortino. Ces derniers avaient critique son approche et sa lecture de l'oeuvre de T. Parsons. Il s'efforce de montrer que l'œuvre de Parsons s'est elaboree alors que la sociologie americaine etait dominee par l'utilitarisme et le positivisme. Il souligne que la perspective de Parsons tranchait dans ce cadre et mettait en valeur la sociologie europeenne. Il affirme qu'Alexander et Sciortino n'o…
Robert Bellah: Free-floating Intellectual Redux”
Multi-Dimensional Sociology
Veblen's Apprenticeship: On the Translation of Gustav Cohn'sSystem der Finanzwissenschaft
This article considers the early intellectual career of Thorstein Veblen through the lens of his hitherto neglected 1895 English translation of System der Finanzwissenschaft (1889), an eight-hundred-page treatise on public finance by Gustav Cohn, a German historical economist of high reputation among his contemporaries. The article examines the academic circumstances that led Veblen to undertake the translation; the direct pertinence of a volume …
Classics in What Sense
A Dialogue about ASR: The Editorial Team Talks
The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences
The Utilitarians Revisited
For generations sociologists have attacked utilitarian social theory as inadequate theoretically. At the same time, their presentist orientation toward sociology's past has prevented a direct examination of the utilitarians in their own right. This paper rejects that orientation and investigates the social theory of the major utilitarians. David Hume, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill. No alleged characteristic of utilitarianism-fr…
Charisma: Its Varieties, Preconditions, and Consequences
This paper explores the preconditions for, the nature of, and the consequences of charisma-actors that must be understood for charisma to he a useful empirical and theoretical concept. Unfortunately, as the first section of this essay demonstrates, due primarily to the influence of certain of Max Weber's discussions of charisma, sociological progress in these areas has been limited. However, drawing on two neglected hints by Weber-that the precon…
On the Methodology of the History of Sociology: A Reply to Jones
Multi-Dimensional Sociology
Presbyteries and Profits: Calvinism and the Development of Capitalism in Scotland, 1560-1707
Part 1 Max Weber on the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: introduction the grounds for the study, the controversial Max Weber, an outline of the study, Weber and Scotland Weber's protestant ethic theses, previous commentaries on Scotland and the Weber thesis, conclusion. Part 2 The Scots Calvinist ethic: sixteenth-century Scottish Calvinism introduction, a brief outline of Calvinism in Scotland, formal doctrine, commentaries and expo…
Experience and Ideas: Education for Universalism in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
The nature of the relationship between ideas and the social conditions in which they develop has long been among the central concerns of fields like the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of intellectuals, and the social history of ideas. For generations, scholars in these areas have hotly debated the proper way of characterizing the form of this relationship and how it should be conceptualized and studied. With few exceptions, however, there …
Explaining" the "Enlightenment
Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Journal Article Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, by Charles Camic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, x + 301 pp. $25.00 Get access Donald A. Nielsen Donald A. Nielsen State University of New York College at Oneonta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 4, Winter 1984, Pages 404–405, https://doi.org/10…
Weber and the Judaic Economic Ethic: A Comment on Fahey
Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory. Steven Seidman
The Return of the Functionalists
Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
The Matter of Habit
This article is a historical investigation of the concept of habit in sociology. Beginning with the claim that historians of sociology need to look beyond the now-famous ideas that appear in the foreground of the works of the sociological masters, the article examines the neglected idea of habit to document that this concept was long a staple term in the conceptual vocabulary of Western social theorists and that it continued to function as a majo…
The Making of a Method: A Historical Reinterpretation of the Early Parsons
ion. 5. Positivism/non-(post-, anti-) positivism. A breach with positivism was no more required. is thus not unusual to find early Parsons embracing analytical theory and upholding, simultaneously, methodological model of natural sciences and, with it, search for uniform laws. The interpretive literature runs to opposite extremes on question of Parsons's positivism because it takes now analytical theory, now natural-scientific model as main focus…
Reply to Baldwin
The Metronomic Society: Natural Rhythms and Human Timetables.Michael Young
Structure After 50 Years: The Anatomy of a Charter
In the half century since its publication, The Structure of Social Action has emerged as one of the classics of the sociological tradition. At the present time, however, there is scarcely any agreement about the status of the book's argument among all those who still appeal to the volume. After 50 years, the vast scholarship generated by Structure is in disarray, with separate literatures existing for different aspects of the book and controversi…
Interpreting the Structure of Social Action: A Note on Tiryakian
An Historical Prologue
The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology. Stephen Park Turner , Jonathan H. Turner
Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism. Robert Wuthnow
Talcott Parsons: The Early Essays
Reputation and Predecessor Selection: Parsons and the Institutionalists
Previous research contends that when Talcott Parsons developed the substantive argument of The Structure of Social Action, he turned away from the theoretical emptiness of American social science and drew on the ideas offour European social thinkersWeber, Durkheim, Pareto, and Marshall. Such research exemplifies the content-fit model of predecessor selection, which assumes that intellectual predecessors are chosen on the basis of a fit between th…
Talmudic exegesis or identification with the aggressor
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging oeuvre is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work …
Sociology (39 works) · Philosophy (24 works) · Epistemology (20 works) · Social science (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (12 works)