What We Were, What We Are, and What We Should Be: The Racial Problem of American Sociology

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Keyword(s):  
American Sociology ◽  
Racial Problem

Capitalism and the State in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Torres ◽  
Carina Borrastero
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The State ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyzes how the research on the relation between capitalism and the state in Latin America has developed from the 1950s up to the present. It starts from the premise that knowledge of this relation in sociology and other social sciences in Latin America has been taking shape through the disputes that have opposed three intellectual standpoints: autonomist, denialist, and North-centric. It analyzes how these standpoints envision the relationship between economy and politics and how they conceptualize three regionally and globally growing trends: the concentration of power, social inequality, and environmental depletion. It concludes with a series of challenges aimed at restoring the theoretical and political potency of the autonomist program in Latin American sociology.

Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás M. Somma
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Vast Literature ◽  
Active Research

The study of social movements is currently one of the most active research fields in Latin American sociology. This article maps the vast literature on Latin American social movements (LASMs) from the late 1980s to the present. After briefly discussing how scholars have conceptualized LASMs, it presents seven influential approaches: structuralism, political economy, political context, organizational fields, “new social movements,” frames and emotions, and transnational activism. Then it discusses some works that zero in on the specificity of LASMs. It closes with a brief summary of the five coming chapters, each of which is devoted to a specific social movement “family”: labor, women’s, student, indigenous, and anti-globalization.

American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions

1986 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
J. David Hoeveler ◽  
Arthur J. Vidich ◽  
Stanford M. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
American Sociology

Founding Theory of American Sociology, 1881-1915

1981 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 472
Author(s):  
Jean B. Quandt ◽  
Roscoe C. Hinkle
Keyword(s):  
American Sociology

The race relations “Problematic” in American sociology: Revisiting Niemonen’s case study and critique

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Hartmann ◽  
Paul R. Croll ◽  
Katja Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
American Sociology

The South Italian Family: Literature and Observation

1959 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Moss ◽  
Walter Thomson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Family ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Italian Family ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
Sociological Literature

The Italian family has long served as a classic example of familial solidarity in the sociological literature. Actually, however, most citations in American sociology refer more often to the Italo-American family than to the Italian family in its original culture setting. With but few exceptions, these studies were completed before World War II and little has been added to the literature since those crucial years.

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