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Papers by Marc Garcelon
Contemporary Sociology, 2006
... Still, even this tenuous hope seems beyond reach given the radical evil of twentieth-centuryt... more ... Still, even this tenuous hope seems beyond reach given the radical evil of twentieth-centurytotalitarianism that caused millions of people, as ... Biro concludes by tentatively suggesting urban ecology as a model. ... We get none for AH, though politics is treated at great length there. ...
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, Apr 26, 2010
This was a course syllabus, not a substantive article or review of another book or paper.
American Journal of Sociology, 1997
Sociological Theory, Sep 1, 2006
Convergence, Feb 1, 2006
The history of the Indymedia network - a group of open-domain web sites around the world, which g... more The history of the Indymedia network - a group of open-domain web sites around the world, which grew rapidly from its inception in late November 1999 to more than 140 sites by May 2004 - embodies opposition to strategies of propertarian information control by agents of a radical ‘anarchic’ perspective hostile to ‘corporatism’. This binary tension, however, fails to capture the range of implications of ‘peer to peer’ - p2p - web exchange that Indymedia embodies. By weaving together a theoretical framing showing the inadequacy of conceiving p2p exchange in terms of ‘corporate-anarchist’ binaries, on the one hand, with empirical analysis of interviews with key figures from three continents who helped create Indymedia, on the other, the history of Indymedia developed here clarifies how to map struggles over control of the Internet as a communication technology. Such issues speak not only of understanding contested models of access to new communication technologies - exemplified by the tension between the p2p model and older sender-receiver broadcast models - but also to ways that the institutional framework, through which such technologies are deployed, shapes social movements and public will formation.
Sociological Theory, Sep 1, 2010
... Arkadii Beliavev, Ivaylo Petev, Roman Arkhangelskii, and Shana Hansell served as exemplary re... more ... Arkadii Beliavev, Ivaylo Petev, Roman Arkhangelskii, and Shana Hansell served as exemplary research assistants at various stages of this project's realization. ... into the breach opened at the very heart of the Soviet party-state by the reform leadership's gamble in tolerating ...
Princeton University Press eBooks, Jul 5, 2018
New Media & Society, Nov 24, 2009
The website Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an ‘intellect... more The website Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an ‘intellectual property’ conception of copyright in American law dominant since the 1970s. This conception equates creative work with property per se, eclipsing the previously dominant American framework of copyright as a monopoly limited in duration. This legal shift in turn ties in with a concentration in the American media and fear among media corporations that the internet will undermine their dominant market position. Yet this very media concentration removes such issues from broadcast debates, a fact that combines with the complex technical nature of Creative Commons’ arguments to undermine public understanding of their position. By presenting a social history of the site and an overview of how it operates, the relation of the site’s work to media concentration and the future of representative democracy is clarified.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Dec 1, 1997
Slavic Review, 2006
Georgi M. Derluguian is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the International ... more Georgi M. Derluguian is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the International Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is coeditor of Questioning Geopolitics. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2005 ...
American Journal of Sociology, Jul 1, 2007
Page 1. Hearing the Other Side Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy DIANA C.MUTZ u&... more Page 1. Hearing the Other Side Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy DIANA C.MUTZ u&h.. / Page 2. ... In relationships of this kind, most of 1 Page 3. 2 Hearing the Other Side us understandably find it easier to talk about things other than politics, to seek safer ground. ...
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2014
Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a parad... more Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a paradigmatic reassessment of concepts used to map human societies comparatively. By differentiating “social analytics” from “explanatory narratives,” we can distinguish concept and generic model development from causal analyses of actual empirical phenomena. In so doing, we show how five heuristic models of “modes of social practices” enable such paradigmatic formation in sociology. This reinforces Max Weber’s emphasis on the irreducible historicity of explanations in the social sciences. Methodology Explanatory narrative. Findings A paradigmatic consolidation of generalizing concepts, modes of social practices, ideal-type concepts, and generic models presents a range of “theoretical tools” capable of facilitating empirical analysis as flexibly as possible, rather than cramping their range with overly narrow conceptual strictures. Research implications To render social theory as flexible for practical field research as possible. Originality/value Develops a way of synthesizing diverse theoretical and methodological approaches in a highly pragmatic fashion.
An InformationCcommons? Creative Commons and Public Access to Cultural Creations, 2009
The web site Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an “intellec... more The web site Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an “intellectual property” conception of copyright in American law dominant since the 1970s. This conception equates creative work with property per se, eclipsing the previously dominant American framework of copyright as a monopoly limited in duration. This legal shift in turn ties to concentration in the American media and fear among media corporations that the Internet will undermine their dominant market position. Yet this very media concentration removes such issues from broadcast debates, a fact that combines with the complex technical nature of Creative Commons’ arguments to undermine public understanding of their position. By presenting a social history of the site and an overview of how it operates, the relation of the site’s work to media concentration and the future of representative democracy is clarified.
Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia 1985-2000, Jun 9, 2005
Numerous accounts of pro-democracy rebellion in perestroika-era Russia explain democratization as... more Numerous accounts of pro-democracy rebellion in perestroika-era Russia explain democratization as an effect of the formation of a Russian "middle class." While survey, interview and archival data on the Moscow branch of Russia's united democratic opposition in 1990-91 (Democratic Russia or DR) identifies intellectuals and professional as DR's primary base, the study emphasizes the reproduction of Soviet-style political authoritarianism within DR. By developing an institutional profile of Soviet specialists as a state-dependent social estate that distinguishes Soviet specialists from Western middle classes, the study provides an alternative account of democratic sentiments among Russian specialists framed in terms of the disintegration of the Communist Party's organizational capacities and the demonstration effect of relative Western prosperity. The assumption that the mere numerical increase of Russian specialists explains democratization is thus refuted.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2013
Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a parad... more Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a paradigmatic reassessment of concepts used to map human societies comparatively. By differentiating “social analytics” from “explanatory narratives,” we can distinguish concept and generic model development from causal analyses of actual empirical phenomena. In so doing, we show how five heuristic models of “modes of social practices” enable such paradigmatic formation in sociology. This reinforces Max Weber’s emphasis on the irreducible historicity of explanations in the social sciences. Methodology Explanatory narrative. Findings A paradigmatic consolidation of generalizing concepts, modes of social practices, ideal-type concepts, and generic models presents a range of “theoretical tools” capable of facilitating empirical analysis as flexibly as possible, rather than cramping their range with overly narrow conceptual strictures. Research implications To render social theory as flexible for practical field research as possible. Originality/value Develops a way of synthesizing diverse theoretical and methodological approaches in a highly pragmatic fashion.
Documenting Individual Identity, 2001
Contemporary Sociology, 2006
... Still, even this tenuous hope seems beyond reach given the radical evil of twentieth-centuryt... more ... Still, even this tenuous hope seems beyond reach given the radical evil of twentieth-centurytotalitarianism that caused millions of people, as ... Biro concludes by tentatively suggesting urban ecology as a model. ... We get none for AH, though politics is treated at great length there. ...
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, Apr 26, 2010
This was a course syllabus, not a substantive article or review of another book or paper.
American Journal of Sociology, 1997
Sociological Theory, Sep 1, 2006
Convergence, Feb 1, 2006
The history of the Indymedia network - a group of open-domain web sites around the world, which g... more The history of the Indymedia network - a group of open-domain web sites around the world, which grew rapidly from its inception in late November 1999 to more than 140 sites by May 2004 - embodies opposition to strategies of propertarian information control by agents of a radical ‘anarchic’ perspective hostile to ‘corporatism’. This binary tension, however, fails to capture the range of implications of ‘peer to peer’ - p2p - web exchange that Indymedia embodies. By weaving together a theoretical framing showing the inadequacy of conceiving p2p exchange in terms of ‘corporate-anarchist’ binaries, on the one hand, with empirical analysis of interviews with key figures from three continents who helped create Indymedia, on the other, the history of Indymedia developed here clarifies how to map struggles over control of the Internet as a communication technology. Such issues speak not only of understanding contested models of access to new communication technologies - exemplified by the tension between the p2p model and older sender-receiver broadcast models - but also to ways that the institutional framework, through which such technologies are deployed, shapes social movements and public will formation.
Sociological Theory, Sep 1, 2010
... Arkadii Beliavev, Ivaylo Petev, Roman Arkhangelskii, and Shana Hansell served as exemplary re... more ... Arkadii Beliavev, Ivaylo Petev, Roman Arkhangelskii, and Shana Hansell served as exemplary research assistants at various stages of this project's realization. ... into the breach opened at the very heart of the Soviet party-state by the reform leadership's gamble in tolerating ...
Princeton University Press eBooks, Jul 5, 2018
New Media & Society, Nov 24, 2009
The website Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an ‘intellect... more The website Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an ‘intellectual property’ conception of copyright in American law dominant since the 1970s. This conception equates creative work with property per se, eclipsing the previously dominant American framework of copyright as a monopoly limited in duration. This legal shift in turn ties in with a concentration in the American media and fear among media corporations that the internet will undermine their dominant market position. Yet this very media concentration removes such issues from broadcast debates, a fact that combines with the complex technical nature of Creative Commons’ arguments to undermine public understanding of their position. By presenting a social history of the site and an overview of how it operates, the relation of the site’s work to media concentration and the future of representative democracy is clarified.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Dec 1, 1997
Slavic Review, 2006
Georgi M. Derluguian is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the International ... more Georgi M. Derluguian is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the International Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is coeditor of Questioning Geopolitics. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2005 ...
American Journal of Sociology, Jul 1, 2007
Page 1. Hearing the Other Side Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy DIANA C.MUTZ u&... more Page 1. Hearing the Other Side Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy DIANA C.MUTZ u&h.. / Page 2. ... In relationships of this kind, most of 1 Page 3. 2 Hearing the Other Side us understandably find it easier to talk about things other than politics, to seek safer ground. ...
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2014
Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a parad... more Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a paradigmatic reassessment of concepts used to map human societies comparatively. By differentiating “social analytics” from “explanatory narratives,” we can distinguish concept and generic model development from causal analyses of actual empirical phenomena. In so doing, we show how five heuristic models of “modes of social practices” enable such paradigmatic formation in sociology. This reinforces Max Weber’s emphasis on the irreducible historicity of explanations in the social sciences. Methodology Explanatory narrative. Findings A paradigmatic consolidation of generalizing concepts, modes of social practices, ideal-type concepts, and generic models presents a range of “theoretical tools” capable of facilitating empirical analysis as flexibly as possible, rather than cramping their range with overly narrow conceptual strictures. Research implications To render social theory as flexible for practical field research as possible. Originality/value Develops a way of synthesizing diverse theoretical and methodological approaches in a highly pragmatic fashion.
An InformationCcommons? Creative Commons and Public Access to Cultural Creations, 2009
The web site Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an “intellec... more The web site Creative Commons went online in December 2002 to counter shifts towards an “intellectual property” conception of copyright in American law dominant since the 1970s. This conception equates creative work with property per se, eclipsing the previously dominant American framework of copyright as a monopoly limited in duration. This legal shift in turn ties to concentration in the American media and fear among media corporations that the Internet will undermine their dominant market position. Yet this very media concentration removes such issues from broadcast debates, a fact that combines with the complex technical nature of Creative Commons’ arguments to undermine public understanding of their position. By presenting a social history of the site and an overview of how it operates, the relation of the site’s work to media concentration and the future of representative democracy is clarified.
Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia 1985-2000, Jun 9, 2005
Numerous accounts of pro-democracy rebellion in perestroika-era Russia explain democratization as... more Numerous accounts of pro-democracy rebellion in perestroika-era Russia explain democratization as an effect of the formation of a Russian "middle class." While survey, interview and archival data on the Moscow branch of Russia's united democratic opposition in 1990-91 (Democratic Russia or DR) identifies intellectuals and professional as DR's primary base, the study emphasizes the reproduction of Soviet-style political authoritarianism within DR. By developing an institutional profile of Soviet specialists as a state-dependent social estate that distinguishes Soviet specialists from Western middle classes, the study provides an alternative account of democratic sentiments among Russian specialists framed in terms of the disintegration of the Communist Party's organizational capacities and the demonstration effect of relative Western prosperity. The assumption that the mere numerical increase of Russian specialists explains democratization is thus refuted.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2013
Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a parad... more Abstract Purpose The diversity of social forms both regionally and historically calls for a paradigmatic reassessment of concepts used to map human societies comparatively. By differentiating “social analytics” from “explanatory narratives,” we can distinguish concept and generic model development from causal analyses of actual empirical phenomena. In so doing, we show how five heuristic models of “modes of social practices” enable such paradigmatic formation in sociology. This reinforces Max Weber’s emphasis on the irreducible historicity of explanations in the social sciences. Methodology Explanatory narrative. Findings A paradigmatic consolidation of generalizing concepts, modes of social practices, ideal-type concepts, and generic models presents a range of “theoretical tools” capable of facilitating empirical analysis as flexibly as possible, rather than cramping their range with overly narrow conceptual strictures. Research implications To render social theory as flexible for practical field research as possible. Originality/value Develops a way of synthesizing diverse theoretical and methodological approaches in a highly pragmatic fashion.
Documenting Individual Identity, 2001