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Marxist Sociology
by Tom Bottomore. 60 pgs.

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Marxist Sociology

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1. Introduction

2. Marxism as Sociology

3. Marxism Against Sociology

4. Theory and Practice

5. Sociology: Marxist and Other

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Recapturing Marxism: An Appraisal of Recent Trends in Sociological Theory
by Rhonda F. Levine, Jerry Lembcke. 255 pgs.

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Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and American Sociology by Rhonda F. Levine and Jerry Lembcke Crisis and Vitalization: An Interpretive Essay on Marxist Theory by Albert Szymanski New Classes and Old Theories: The Impasse of Contemporary Class Analysis by Peter Meiksins Class and Class Capacities: A Problem of Organizational Efficacy by Jerry Lembcke Bringing Classes Back In: State Theory and Theories of the State by Rhonda F. Levine The Limits of the World-System Perspective by Alex Dupuy and Barry Truchil Race, Ethnicity and Class by James A. Geschwender Recent Ideological Tendencies in Urban and Regional Research: Neo-Liberalism and Social Democracy by Richard Peet Behind the Veil of Neutrality: Hegemony in the Academic Marketplace by Peter Seybold Feminism: A Marxist Critique by Albert Szymanski Thinking About Social Class: Structure, Organization, and Consciousness by Scott G. McNall List of Contributors

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and U.S. Sociology

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1: Crisis and Vitalization: an Interpretive Essay on Marxist Theory

Notes

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2: New Classes and Old Theories: the Impasse of Contemporary Class Analysis

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3: Class and Class Capacities: a Problem of Organizational Efficacy

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4: Bringing Classes Back In: State Theory and Theories of the State

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5: The Limits of the World-System Perspective

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6: Race, Ethnicity, and Class

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7: Recent Ideological Tendencies in Urban and Regional Research: Neo-Liberalism and Social Democracy

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8: Behind the Veil of Neutrality: Hegemony in the Academic Marketplace

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9: Feminism: a Marxist Critique

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10: Thinking About Social Class: Structure, Organization, and Consciousness

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Selected Bibliography

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List of Contributors
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Marxism and the City
by Ira Katznelson. 324 pgs.

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Defeated in the East and discredited in the West, Marxism has broken down as an ideology as well as a guide to governance. For all its profound and infirming flaws as a total ensemble of understanding and rule, Marxism remains an important tool for comprehending and questioning key aspects of modernity. In this work, Katznelson critically analyzes the development of Marxist scholarship on cities in the last quarter century. He not only demonstrates how some of the most important weaknesses in Marxism as a social theory can be remedied by forcing it to seriously engage with cities and spatial concerns, but explains the significant shortcomings even of this "improved" Marxism. Katznelson explores how a Marxism that is open to engagement with other social-theoretical traditions can help illuminate our understanding of cities and the patterns of class and group formation that have characterized urban life in the West. Clearly written, this book will interest not only students and scholars of social and political theory, but those involved with sociology, geography and political science as well as anyone concerned with urban studies.

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1: Marxism and the City?

2: Themes in Marxist Social Theory

3: Towards a Respatialized Marxism: Lefebvre, Harvey, and Castells

4: Capitalism, City Space, and Class Formation: A Journey Organized by Friedrich Engels

5: From Feudalism to Capitalism: The Place of the City

6: Working Classes Map the City

7: Remapping the City

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The Concept of Social Structure (Chap. 7 "The Durkheimian and Marxian Conceptions of Social Structure" and Chap. 8 "Carrying the Marxian Conception of Social Structure beyond Marx")
by Douglas V. Porpora. 159 pgs.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Structural Sociology and the Durkheimian Conception of Social Structure On the Prospects for a Nomothetic Theory of Social Structure The Concept of Purposive Action Purposive versus Mechanistic Explanations of Action Narrative and the Realist Philosophy of Science: Toward a New Model of Explanation The Durkheimian and Marxian Conceptions of Social Structure Carrying the Marxian Concept of Social Structure Beyond Marx Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Structural Sociology and the Durkheimian Conception of Social Structure

3: On the Prospects for a Nomothetic Theory of Social Structure

4: The Concept of Purposive Action

5: Purposive versus Mechanistic Explanations of Action

6: Narrative and the Realist Philosophy of Science: Toward a New Model of Explanation

7: The Durkheimian and Marxian Conceptions of Social Structure

8: Carrying the Marxian Conception of Social Structure beyond Marx

9: Conclusion

Notes

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Beyond Ethnocentrism: A Reconstruction of Marx's Concept of Science
by Charles McKelvey. 224 pgs.

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In this time of great change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Karl Marx's relevance to modern social science may seem remote. However, this important study by Charles McKelvey shows just the opposite: Marx's concept of science can help social scientists gain a greater understanding of today's world society. Western ethnocentrism has, McKelvey argues, isolated the Euro-American sociologist from a true picture of the Third World. Modern sociology must rethink itself, McKelvey maintains, in light of Marxian concepts, Immanuel Wallerstein's "world systems perspective," and the cognitional theory of philosopher Bernard Lonergan.

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Recent Titles In Contributions in Sociology

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Preface

1 The Problem Of Knowledge

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2 Critical Marxism

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3 Science And Economic Development

Summary

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4 The Proletarian Point of View

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5 Marx's Intellectual Development

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6 The Cognitional Theory of Bernard Lonergan

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7 A Reconstruction Of Marx's Concept Of Science

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8 Marx and the Third World

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Class in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: An Analysis of Theories and Measurement Strategies (Chap. 7 "Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Class Inequality")
by Michael D. Grimes. 234 pgs.

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Grimes provides an overview and critique of the major theories, conceptualizations, and measurements of class inequality, drawing exclusively on scholarly literature published by American social scientists in the 20th century. The volume proposes a framework for interpreting and understanding the theories and methodologies used by scholars to study class inequality, posits two "schools" of sociological theory-order and conflict, and concludes that there is evidence of a "convergence" among contemporary perspectives on class inequality.

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Preface

1Introduction

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I: The Study of Class in American Sociology

2: The Analysis of Class Inequality in Early American Sociology

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II: The Emergence of Functionalist Theories of Class Inequality

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3: Early Functionalism: Social Anthropological Analyses of Class Inequality in American Community Life

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4: The Functionalist Perspective on Class Inequality

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5: Applying The Functionalist Perspective on Class Inequality in Social Science Research

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III: The Emergence of Conflict Theories of Class Inequality

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6: Neo-Weberian Theories of Class Inequality

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7: Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Class Inequality

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IV: Summary and Conclusions

8: Summary and Conclusions

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American and Soviet Society: A Reader in Comparative Sociology and Perception (1969) ("On Soviet Sociology: The Soviet View" begins on p. 511)
by Paul Hollander. 590 pgs.

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Authors

Dedication

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Introduction

I: Social Values, Beliefs, and Ideologies

Values, Beliefs, and Ideologies in the U.S.:: The Soviet VIew

Values, Beliefs, and Ideologies in the U.S.S.R.:: The Soviet VIew

Values, Beliefs, and Ideologies in the U.S.S.R.: the American View

II: The Polity

The Political Directorate the Theory of Balance

The Polity in the U.S.:: The Soviet VIew

The Polity in the U.S.S.R.:: The Soviet VIew

The Educative Role of the Soviet State

Party Work in Institutions of Higher Education

The Polity in the U.S.S.R.:: The American VIew

The Administered Society: Totalitarianism Without Terror

III: Social Stratification

Stratification in the U.S.:: The American VIew

Stratification in the U.S.:: The Soviet VIew

The Social Structure of the Soviet Working Class

Stratification in the Soviet Union:: The American VIew

IV: The Family: Marital and Sexual Relations

The American Family:: The American VIew

The American Family:: The Soviet VIew

The Crisis of Bourgeois Individualism and Personality

The Old in the New

Once More on the Family

Delicate Topic

A Difficult Subject

Izvestia in the Family Circle: Argument with A He-Man

The Soviet Family Kent Geiger

V: Social Problems

Crime and Juvenile Delinquency

Crime in the American Social Structure

Crime in the U.S.:: The Soviet VIew

Crime in the U.S.S.R.:: The Soviet VIew

Some Causes of Juvenile Delinquency in the U.S.S.R. and Measures to Prevent It

Study of the Criminal Personality from the Materials of Criminological Research

Crime in the U.S.S.R.:: The American VIew

Discrimination-- Ethnic Minorities

Minorities in the U.S.:: The Soviet VIew

Minorities in the U.S.S.R.:: The American VIew

The Forces of Nationalism Richard Pipes

On Citizens of Tatar Nationality Who Resided in the Crimea

Leisure

Some Issues in the Future of Leisure

The Psychology of "Escapism" and "Fun Morality"

Leisure in the U.S.S.R.:: The Soviet VIew

Boredom and Free Time

The Uses of Leisure Paul Hollander

The Effects of Alcohol

Harmful Indulgence

Such A Law Is Needed

Mass Culture

See the Chief Goal

What the Contemporary Hero Is LIke

Youth

Youth Enters LIfe

Rear Young People in the Spirit of Revolutionary Ideals

Initiation into LIfe R. Nishanov

Old Age

Old Age in the U.S.:: The American VIew

Rural Areas

Rural Areas in the U.S.S.R.:: The Soviet VIew

Thoughts and Concerns of VIllage Youth

Urban Areas

Urban Areas in the U.S.:: The American VIew

Population Movements and Imbalances

Selected Population Problems in the U.S.

Concerning Demographic Ignorance and the Problem of the Birth Rate

Religion: Decline and Survival

On Measures for Intensifying the Atheistic Indoctrination of the Population

Vi Appraisals of Sociology

Strategy in Social Science

Certain Characteristics and Features of Bourgeois Sociology in the Twentieth Century

On Soviet Sociology:: The Soviet VIew

Sociology: Discoveries and Possibilities A. Zdravomyslov

On A Scientific Basis: Apply Social Research to Party Work

Sociology and Sociologists

On Soviet Sociology:: The American VIew

VII: Are the Two Societies Becoming Alike?

Russia and the U.S.A.: A Problem in Comparative Sociology

The Impact of Industry

Communism and the West:: The Sociology of the Conflict

Are the Two Societies Becoming Alike?

Admissions and Distortions
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Class Structure in the Social Consciousness (Chap. 5 "The Marxian Synthesis")
by Stanislaw Ossowski, Sheila Patterson. 206 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter I

Part I: From Biblical Legends to Contemporary Sociology

Chapter II: Dichotomic Conceptions of Class Structure-One Group Set Over Another

Chapter III: The Scheme of Gradation

Chapter IV: Functional Conceptions

Chapter V: The Marxian Synthesis

Chapter VI: The Class-Hierarchy and the Social-Status Continuum

Chapter VII: Non-Egalitarian Classlessness- Similarities in Interpreting Mutually Opposed Systems

Part II: Conceptual Constructs and Social Reality

Chapter VIII: The Threefold Denotation of the Term 'social Class'

Chapter IX: The Concept of Social Class: a Common Model and Discrepant Definitions

Chapter X: Types of Interpretation of the Social Structure -- an Attempt at Classification

Chapter XI: Semantic Conventions Considered as Social Facts

Chapter XII: Interpretations of Class Structure in Historical Perspective

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A Marxist Consideration of Durkheim, in Social Forces
by Everett K. Wilson. 16 pgs.

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The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought (Chap. 1 "Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity")
by Kian Tajbakhsh. 229 pgs.

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"The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm.
Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity

Chapter 2: Beyond the Functionalist Bias in Urban Theory

Chapter 3: Toward the Historicity and Contingency of Identity

Chapter 4: Difference, Democracy, and the City

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Why the Anti-Marxists Are Wrong, in Monthly Review
by Milton Fisk. 11 pgs.

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Walter Benjamin and Marxism, in Monthly Review
by Michael Lowy. 9 pgs.

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Heuristic Models in Marxian Theory, in Social Forces
by Loic J. D. Wacquant. 29 pgs.

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History and Social Theory: Notes on the Contribution of British Marxist Historiography to Our Understanding of Class, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
by Harvey J. Kaye. 26 pgs.

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