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Marxist Sociology » Read Now
by Tom Bottomore. 60 pgs.

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Recapturing Marxism: An Appraisal of Recent Trends in Sociological Theory » Read Now
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...
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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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Marxism and the City » Read Now
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...
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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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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") » Read Now
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:...
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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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Beyond Ethnocentrism: A Reconstruction of Marx's Concept of Science » Read Now
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...
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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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Class in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: An Analysis of Theories and Measurement Strategies (Chap. 7 "Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Class Inequality") » Read Now
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...
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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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American and Soviet Society: A Reader in Comparative Sociology and Perception (1969) ("On Soviet Sociology: The Soviet View" begins on p. 511) » Read Now
by Paul Hollander. 590 pgs.

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...Politics: The New Sociology in the Soviet...FITCH: Dean of the Pacific School of Religion...Professor of Sociology affiliated...University of Denver School of...
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Class Structure in the Social Consciousness (Chap. 5 "The Marxian Synthesis") » Read Now
by Stanislaw Ossowski, Sheila Patterson. 206 pgs.

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

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...of social classes, and especially the working class, "brought him closer to Marxist sociology." 7 Overall, however, the influence of the Durkheimian school is well summed...
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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") » Read Now
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...
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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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Why the Anti-Marxists Are Wrong, in Monthly Review » Read Now
by Milton Fisk. 11 pgs.

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

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Heuristic Models in Marxian Theory, in Social Forces » Read Now
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 » Read Now
by Harvey J. Kaye. 26 pgs.

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