Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How

Since the 1960s, radical sociology has had far more influence on mainstream sociology than many observers imagine. This book pairs seminal articles with new reflective essays written by the founders of progressive sociology, including Fred Block, Edna Bonacich, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Val Burris, G. William Domhoff, Richard Flacks, Harvey Molotch, Goran Therborn, and Erik Olin Wright. The book highlights the wider impact of radical sociology and shows how the work of these and other writers has continued to influence sociology's continuing interest in capitalism, class, race, gender, power, and progressive social change. It also describes future directions for a critical sociology relevant to a multicultural and global world.

Preface

ix

Introduction: Legacies of The Insurgent Sociologist

1

(12)

Rhonda F. Levine

I. Conceptualizing Sociology for Radicals

The Trajectory of a Radical Sociology: Reflections

13

(6)

Richard Flacks

Towards a Socialist Sociology: Some Proposals for Work in the Coming Period

19

(18)

Richard Flacks

II. Power and Class

The Ruling Class Thirty Years Later

37

(4)

Goran Therborn

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? Some Reflections on Different Approaches to the Study of Power in Society

41

(22)

Goran Therborn

State and Ruling Class in Corporate America: Reflections, Corrections, and New Directions

63

(10)

G. William Domhoff

State and Ruling Class in Corporate America

73

(14)

G. William Domhoff

Spilling Out (Again)

87

(4)

Harvey Molotch

Accidents, Scandals, and Routines: Resources for Insurgent Methodology

91

(16)

Harvey Molotch

Marilyn Lester

III. Class and Inequality

Comments on ``The Long Shadow of Work''

107

(6)

Samuel Bowles

Herbert Gintis

The Long Shadow of Work: Education, the Family, and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor

113

(20)

Samuel Bowles

Herbert Gintis

Peter Meyer

The Future of Class Analysis: Reflections on ``Class Structure and Political Ideology''

133

(6)

Val Burris

Class Structure and Political Ideology

139

(26)

Val Burris

Reflections on ``The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?''

165

(8)

Martha E. Gimenez

The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?

173

(18)

Martha E. Gimenez

IV. Race and Gender

Comments on ``Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race''

191

(4)

Edna Bonacich

Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race

195

(28)

Edna Bonacich

Reflections on ``Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism''

223

(2)

Zillah Eisenstein

Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism

225

(26)

Zillah Eisenstein

V. Capitalism and the World Economy

Introductory Comments to ``Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis''

251

(4)

Erik Olin Wright

Alternative Perspectives in Marxist Theory of Accumulation and Crisis

255

(28)

Erik Olin Wright

Introduction to ``Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System''

283

(8)

Fred Block

Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System

291

(18)

Fred Block

VI. The Future for a Critical Sociology

The Critical Turn to Public Sociology

309

(14)

Michael Burawoy

Notes on Contributors

323

(4)

Bibliography

327

(14)

Index

341

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Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline

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