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Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems
Contents: Foreword, Randy Stoecker Introduction: what is service sociology?, A. Javier Trevino an... more Contents: Foreword, Randy Stoecker Introduction: what is service sociology?, A. Javier Trevino and Karen M. McCormack. Part I Contextualizing Service Sociology: History and Policy: Debating service sociology: the settlements, the academy and the social work profession, 1890-1930, Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge Jane Addams on creativity and power in social service, Erik Schneiderhan Ideology, policy, and engagement: what role can service learning play in a changing democracy?, Dave Harker. Part II Bridging Classroom and Community: The impact of action and engagement on sociology in and out of the classroom, Kathleen Odell Korgen The power of place: community partnerships and student experiences, Zoann K. Snyder and Jean C. Karlen Exploring the impact of service learning in students' mastery of sociology and social work learning outcomes, Marie Opatrny and Anne Statham A bridge is not just a metaphor: building sustainable community-university partnerships through service learning projects, Charlotte Ryan. Part III Service Sociology in the Community: Toward a participatory imagination: lessons on engagement from popular and participatory action research, Chris Baker, Donald Edward Davis, and Corey Dolgon The role of community building practices in rural regions: a study in service sociology, Debarashmi Mitra Public teaching as service sociology, Christopher J. Schneider, Ariane Hanemaayer, and Kyle Nolan Developing critical consciousness through community action research: localizing the structures of homelessness, Christina D. Weber. Part IV Sociology for Whom?: Why sociology textbooks do a disservice, Steven E. Barkan Tackling social problems: sociology, service, and social activism, Chris Dale Service sociology: what's in a name?, Shelley K. White. Index.
The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies
Foundational Works on Law and Society
The Sociology of Law, 2017
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 2019
On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law
Classic Writings in Law and Society
Page 108. On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law A. Javier Treviño This republication of Ros... more Page 108. On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law A. Javier Treviño This republication of Roscoe Pound's Social Control through Law will no doubt be enthusiastically greeted by a new generation of jurists, legal theorists, and sociologists. ...
Review Essay: The Symbol and Substance of C. Wright Mills: Daniel Geary Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009, 20.95 cloth (ISBN: 9780520258365), 277 pp. Tom Hayden Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times ...
Sociology, 2010
The Sociological Movement in Law
The Sociology of Law, 2017
Thank you very much for downloading the sociological movement in law. Maybe you have knowledge th... more Thank you very much for downloading the sociological movement in law. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their favorite books like this the sociological movement in law, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some malicious bugs inside their desktop computer. the sociological movement in law is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our books collection hosts in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the the sociological movement in law is universally compatible with any devices to read.
Humanity & Society, 1997
There is perhaps no portrayal more penetrating, more personally condemning, of the welfare system... more There is perhaps no portrayal more penetrating, more personally condemning, of the welfare system than that depicted by Theresa Funiciello in Tyranny of Kindness. Her goals in this book are essentially two: (1) to reframe the public debate on poverty by bringing to it the voice and perspective of the poor and, (2) to begin the dismantling--indeed, the complete and total destruction--of what she derisively calls "the welfare," that crude and cruel, irrational and capricious, system of income distribution. Whatever else Funiciello may accomplish in her pursuit of these two interrelated goals, she does one thing exceptionally well: she exposes the welfare system and its advocates and distributors--the do-gooders and "poverty pimps," as she delights in calling them--for what they are: brutal, corrupt, sadistic, wasteful, and abusive. Funiciello's war on welfare and its poverty pimps is not just scholastic, it is downright personal. And she names names with a hit list ranging from powerful politicians at the highest levels of federal, state, and municipal government, to petty bureaucrats and self-promoting directors of various poverty programs. Funiciello doggedly pursues her attempt to transform the welfare system from top to bottom with the same zeal and determinism that she previously exhibited for religion (first Catholicism and later Islam) and that now fuels her feminism and activism on behalf of welfare mothers. A single mother who was herself on welfare, Funiciello argues that poverty is uniquely a "women's problem," since single mothers and children constitute the vast majority of the entire population receiving AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and, relative to men, women are disproportionately ghettoized into low-wage jobs. In addition to being a welfare recipient, Funiciello was also an establishment insider who worked in various positions within the welfare establishment, including serving as a special assistant to the commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services and its Homeless Housing Assistance Program--a job from which she was fired for being a troublemaker, a whistle blower. As an insider Funiciello had a unique view of the workings of the system and was continually "appalled" at the greed, incompetence, and opportunism that spawned a perverse welfare bureaucracy governed by extremist policies. Funiciello's introduction to the politics of social welfare began when she joined the Downtown Welfare Advocate Center (DWAC), a volunteer organization of mostly single mothers that had the reputation of being the most active welfare rights organization in New York state. Working at DWAC for over a decade, eventually becoming the organization's de facto leader, taught Funiciello that what
Contemporary Sociology, 1999
proposes a policy agenda for citizens to work for the common good. First, he endeavors to bring t... more proposes a policy agenda for citizens to work for the common good. First, he endeavors to bring together the diverse strands of communitarian ideas developed by various thinkers in Europe and America, and, then, through a synthesis of these ideas, attempts to formulate a critical theory of social and political reforms necessary for building inclusive communities. Reading more like a manifesto than an academic treatise, the book makes a plausible argument for reconstituting some of the major institutions of democratic societies. Tam begins by proposing that the communitarian agenda for realizing an inclusive community-a space where common interests are developed (and pursued) with the participation of alI citizens as equals-consider three factors: (I) the principles of cooperative inquiry, mutual responsibility, and citizen participation; (2) an application of these principles to matters concerning the education, work opportunities, and protection of alI citizens; and (3) what colIective actions those involved with the state sector, the business sector, and the third sector of voluntary and community groups can take in order to bring about the necessary reforms. The principles of cooperative inquiry, mutual responsibility, and citizen participation, Tam posits, have been formulated on the basis of communitarian thinking that has evolved through the ages. Unfortunately, he does not say which sources he surveyed in inventorying these principles. Nor does Tam mention how he arrived at their formulation. Through logical deduction? Through empirical investigation of objective data? And aside from some passing references to Plato, John Stuart Mill, and a few others, it is difficult to get a sense for exactly which communitarian thinkers and what ages Tam has in mind. As a method for resolving social and political differences, the principle of cooperative inquiry requires that any knowledge-claim about the kinds of common values needed to build inclusive communities be judged as valid only if informed citizens deliberating together in open communication accept that claim. The second communitarian principle, that of mutual responsibility, requires alI members ofa community to take responsibility for helping each other pursue those common values that have stood the test of time across diverse cultures. According to Tam, these include the values of love, wisdom, justice, and selffulfillment. Again, Tam does not say how he arrived at these particular values. Few would deny that love, wisdom, and justice are universals that have been prized in most civil societies throughout human history, but so also have been the notions of civility, sacrifice, and faith, to name just a few others. And as for Tam's value of self-fulfillment, which is rights-based not duty-based, it can hardly be said to
On Richard Quinney, The Social Reality of Crime
... For Quinney, acts of conscience such as the demonstrations outside the Democratic National C... more ... For Quinney, acts of conscience such as the demonstrations outside the Democratic National Con-vention that took place in Chicago in 1968, and the so-called Spock case in which several men (including the famous pediatrician, Ben-jamin Spock), who opposed the ...
Introduction: What is Service Sociology?
Goffman's legacy
Rowman & Littlefield eBooks, 2003
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Erving Goffman and the Interaction Order Chapter 3 1 T... more Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Erving Goffman and the Interaction Order Chapter 3 1 The Goffman Legacy: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Social Science Chapter 4 2 The Personal Is Dramaturgical (and Political): The Legacy of Erving Chapter 5 3 Interaction and Hierarchy in Everyday Life: Goffman and Beyond Chapter 6 4 "Much Ado About Goffman" Chapter 7 5 Of Kindred Spirit: Erving Goffman's Oeuvre and Its Relationship to Georg Simmel Chapter 8 6 Blumer, Goffman, and Psychoanalysis Chapter 9 7 Goffman as Microfunctionalist Chapter 10 8 Framing and Cognition Chapter 11 9 Orders of Interaction and Intelligibility: Intersections Between Goffman and Garfinkel by Way of Durkheim Chapter 12 10 Ethnomethodological Readings of Goffman
Talcott Parsons on building personality system theory via psychoanalysis
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, Apr 29, 2023
This article examines Talcott Parsons's efforts at building the theory of personality system ... more This article examines Talcott Parsons's efforts at building the theory of personality system as a special case of his general theory of action and places those efforts in historical context. I demonstrate how, during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Parsons employed elements of classic Freudian thought to advance a new appreciation of the personality system and its relations to other action systems. I begin with an overview of the reception of psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Harvard Department of Social Relations, showing how Parsons's thinking on the personality system cannot be understood apart from his association with these three institutions. I then turn to how Parsons endeavored to integrate his particular brand of sociology with his own interpretation of Freud's writings to explain how the personality system functions and develops. I conclude by showing that while Parsons's involvements with psychoanalysis became more intermittent after the mid‐1950s, to the end of his life he remained steadfast in his enthusiasm for Freud's theory of personality. In short, Parsons always believed that for sociological theory to progress, it needed to engage with psychoanalysis.
There is always a reason to welcome a new book on William James. Following the literature, one ge... more There is always a reason to welcome a new book on William James. Following the literature, one gets the impression that Jamesʼs life and work are an inexhaustible source for new insights and reappraisals. Within this context, two central questions immediately arise for the reviewer of any new book on James: What is new, and to what extent does the book contribute to a better understanding of Jamesʼs life and work? Paul Croceʼs Young William James Thinking offers positive answers for both questions. Pursuing what he calls a "developmental biography," Croceʼs main goal is to "connect the young and mature James to show relations between the less refined expressions of early thought and his more famous theorizing" (p. 21). There is, however, another connection, no less important for an adequate apprehension of Croceʼs goal, but which can be easily overlooked: the continuity between his previous book on James (Croce, 1995) and this new one. As the author sees it, "this is a companion to the earlier book" (p. 7), in the sense that the earlier book offers the context and general background for the specific episodes presented in the new one. It is not that it cannot be read independently, but rather that, read together with the previous book, it gives the reader new horizons of understanding. The book is divided into four chapters, which reflect Croceʼs methodological choices. Instead of following Jamesʼs early ideas in chronological sequence, he opts for a thematic focus "in the service of theoretical illumination" (p. 24). So, each chapter deals with one of these topics: scientific training, engagement with medicine, influence of ancient thought, and personal troubles. Dealing with Jamesʼs first embrace of science in the early 1860s, the initial chapter describes his attitudes toward the American Civil War, the influence of his fatherʼs beliefs about science and religion, as well as his response to positivism and scientific naturalism. Here we see James "moving among many sciences in search of a field for his own work" (p. 39). Also important at this point was Jamesʼs fascination with natural history, which took him to join the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz on his expedition to Brazil from March 1865 to January 1866. According to Croce, "he hoped to lay the groundwork for a career of teaching and research in the biological sciences" (p. 53). After returning from Brazil, he envisioned a program for a future science, which would include endorsement of naturalism without reduction to materialism. Chapter 2 analyzes Jamesʼs double engagement with medicine. He both formally trained in scientific medicine at Harvard, and investigated alternative medical practices, such as hydropathy, while using them himself. For Croce, this ambivalence reflects Jamesʼs more general ambivalence between science and religion. This is further illustrated by Jamesʼs plans for studying physiology in Germany in 1867-1868, in which period his personal troubles interfered with his scientific goals. As a result, he failed to work with Helmholtz or Wundt, an episode that a historian of psychology has called "the Heidelberg fiasco" (Gundlach, 2018). According to Croce, "poor health and his own ambivalent lack of confidence kept him from their laboratories" (p. 96). In the third chapter, Croce portrays Jamesʼs fascination with the ancient world, which helped him think about the relation between science and religion. As Croce sees it, "the ancients served James as models for comprehending nature as all that can be experienced, and for understanding how those spheres exist in relation, not even needing compromise once separate (p. 134). Croce pays special attention to the role stoicism-particularly
Durkheim, Emile
Studies in the history of law and justice, 2023
Law as Social Control
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Jan 11, 2019
Understanding Crime: A Multidisciplinary Approach
1. Introduction: A Multidisciplined Approach to Crime 2. Sociological Perspectives on Crime 3. Ec... more 1. Introduction: A Multidisciplined Approach to Crime 2. Sociological Perspectives on Crime 3. Economics and Crime 4. Psychological Perspectives on Crime 5. Biological Perspectives on Crime 6. Philosophy and Crime 7. Religious Studies and Crime 8. Conclusion: Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Crime
Mills, C. W. (1916-62) on Ethnicity and Puerto Ricans
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, 2015
On Nicholas S. Timasheff, An Introduction to the Sociology of Law
A Typology of Criminal Behavior Systems
Clinard and Quinney’s Criminal Behavior Systems, 2019
Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems
Contents: Foreword, Randy Stoecker Introduction: what is service sociology?, A. Javier Trevino an... more Contents: Foreword, Randy Stoecker Introduction: what is service sociology?, A. Javier Trevino and Karen M. McCormack. Part I Contextualizing Service Sociology: History and Policy: Debating service sociology: the settlements, the academy and the social work profession, 1890-1930, Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge Jane Addams on creativity and power in social service, Erik Schneiderhan Ideology, policy, and engagement: what role can service learning play in a changing democracy?, Dave Harker. Part II Bridging Classroom and Community: The impact of action and engagement on sociology in and out of the classroom, Kathleen Odell Korgen The power of place: community partnerships and student experiences, Zoann K. Snyder and Jean C. Karlen Exploring the impact of service learning in students' mastery of sociology and social work learning outcomes, Marie Opatrny and Anne Statham A bridge is not just a metaphor: building sustainable community-university partnerships through service learning projects, Charlotte Ryan. Part III Service Sociology in the Community: Toward a participatory imagination: lessons on engagement from popular and participatory action research, Chris Baker, Donald Edward Davis, and Corey Dolgon The role of community building practices in rural regions: a study in service sociology, Debarashmi Mitra Public teaching as service sociology, Christopher J. Schneider, Ariane Hanemaayer, and Kyle Nolan Developing critical consciousness through community action research: localizing the structures of homelessness, Christina D. Weber. Part IV Sociology for Whom?: Why sociology textbooks do a disservice, Steven E. Barkan Tackling social problems: sociology, service, and social activism, Chris Dale Service sociology: what's in a name?, Shelley K. White. Index.
The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies
Foundational Works on Law and Society
The Sociology of Law, 2017
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 2019
On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law
Classic Writings in Law and Society
Page 108. On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law A. Javier Treviño This republication of Ros... more Page 108. On Roscoe Pound, Social Control through Law A. Javier Treviño This republication of Roscoe Pound's Social Control through Law will no doubt be enthusiastically greeted by a new generation of jurists, legal theorists, and sociologists. ...
Review Essay: The Symbol and Substance of C. Wright Mills: Daniel Geary Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009, 20.95 cloth (ISBN: 9780520258365), 277 pp. Tom Hayden Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times ...
Sociology, 2010
The Sociological Movement in Law
The Sociology of Law, 2017
Thank you very much for downloading the sociological movement in law. Maybe you have knowledge th... more Thank you very much for downloading the sociological movement in law. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their favorite books like this the sociological movement in law, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some malicious bugs inside their desktop computer. the sociological movement in law is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our books collection hosts in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the the sociological movement in law is universally compatible with any devices to read.
Humanity & Society, 1997
There is perhaps no portrayal more penetrating, more personally condemning, of the welfare system... more There is perhaps no portrayal more penetrating, more personally condemning, of the welfare system than that depicted by Theresa Funiciello in Tyranny of Kindness. Her goals in this book are essentially two: (1) to reframe the public debate on poverty by bringing to it the voice and perspective of the poor and, (2) to begin the dismantling--indeed, the complete and total destruction--of what she derisively calls "the welfare," that crude and cruel, irrational and capricious, system of income distribution. Whatever else Funiciello may accomplish in her pursuit of these two interrelated goals, she does one thing exceptionally well: she exposes the welfare system and its advocates and distributors--the do-gooders and "poverty pimps," as she delights in calling them--for what they are: brutal, corrupt, sadistic, wasteful, and abusive. Funiciello's war on welfare and its poverty pimps is not just scholastic, it is downright personal. And she names names with a hit list ranging from powerful politicians at the highest levels of federal, state, and municipal government, to petty bureaucrats and self-promoting directors of various poverty programs. Funiciello doggedly pursues her attempt to transform the welfare system from top to bottom with the same zeal and determinism that she previously exhibited for religion (first Catholicism and later Islam) and that now fuels her feminism and activism on behalf of welfare mothers. A single mother who was herself on welfare, Funiciello argues that poverty is uniquely a "women's problem," since single mothers and children constitute the vast majority of the entire population receiving AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and, relative to men, women are disproportionately ghettoized into low-wage jobs. In addition to being a welfare recipient, Funiciello was also an establishment insider who worked in various positions within the welfare establishment, including serving as a special assistant to the commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services and its Homeless Housing Assistance Program--a job from which she was fired for being a troublemaker, a whistle blower. As an insider Funiciello had a unique view of the workings of the system and was continually "appalled" at the greed, incompetence, and opportunism that spawned a perverse welfare bureaucracy governed by extremist policies. Funiciello's introduction to the politics of social welfare began when she joined the Downtown Welfare Advocate Center (DWAC), a volunteer organization of mostly single mothers that had the reputation of being the most active welfare rights organization in New York state. Working at DWAC for over a decade, eventually becoming the organization's de facto leader, taught Funiciello that what
Contemporary Sociology, 1999
proposes a policy agenda for citizens to work for the common good. First, he endeavors to bring t... more proposes a policy agenda for citizens to work for the common good. First, he endeavors to bring together the diverse strands of communitarian ideas developed by various thinkers in Europe and America, and, then, through a synthesis of these ideas, attempts to formulate a critical theory of social and political reforms necessary for building inclusive communities. Reading more like a manifesto than an academic treatise, the book makes a plausible argument for reconstituting some of the major institutions of democratic societies. Tam begins by proposing that the communitarian agenda for realizing an inclusive community-a space where common interests are developed (and pursued) with the participation of alI citizens as equals-consider three factors: (I) the principles of cooperative inquiry, mutual responsibility, and citizen participation; (2) an application of these principles to matters concerning the education, work opportunities, and protection of alI citizens; and (3) what colIective actions those involved with the state sector, the business sector, and the third sector of voluntary and community groups can take in order to bring about the necessary reforms. The principles of cooperative inquiry, mutual responsibility, and citizen participation, Tam posits, have been formulated on the basis of communitarian thinking that has evolved through the ages. Unfortunately, he does not say which sources he surveyed in inventorying these principles. Nor does Tam mention how he arrived at their formulation. Through logical deduction? Through empirical investigation of objective data? And aside from some passing references to Plato, John Stuart Mill, and a few others, it is difficult to get a sense for exactly which communitarian thinkers and what ages Tam has in mind. As a method for resolving social and political differences, the principle of cooperative inquiry requires that any knowledge-claim about the kinds of common values needed to build inclusive communities be judged as valid only if informed citizens deliberating together in open communication accept that claim. The second communitarian principle, that of mutual responsibility, requires alI members ofa community to take responsibility for helping each other pursue those common values that have stood the test of time across diverse cultures. According to Tam, these include the values of love, wisdom, justice, and selffulfillment. Again, Tam does not say how he arrived at these particular values. Few would deny that love, wisdom, and justice are universals that have been prized in most civil societies throughout human history, but so also have been the notions of civility, sacrifice, and faith, to name just a few others. And as for Tam's value of self-fulfillment, which is rights-based not duty-based, it can hardly be said to
On Richard Quinney, The Social Reality of Crime
... For Quinney, acts of conscience such as the demonstrations outside the Democratic National C... more ... For Quinney, acts of conscience such as the demonstrations outside the Democratic National Con-vention that took place in Chicago in 1968, and the so-called Spock case in which several men (including the famous pediatrician, Ben-jamin Spock), who opposed the ...
Introduction: What is Service Sociology?
Goffman's legacy
Rowman & Littlefield eBooks, 2003
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Erving Goffman and the Interaction Order Chapter 3 1 T... more Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Erving Goffman and the Interaction Order Chapter 3 1 The Goffman Legacy: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Social Science Chapter 4 2 The Personal Is Dramaturgical (and Political): The Legacy of Erving Chapter 5 3 Interaction and Hierarchy in Everyday Life: Goffman and Beyond Chapter 6 4 "Much Ado About Goffman" Chapter 7 5 Of Kindred Spirit: Erving Goffman's Oeuvre and Its Relationship to Georg Simmel Chapter 8 6 Blumer, Goffman, and Psychoanalysis Chapter 9 7 Goffman as Microfunctionalist Chapter 10 8 Framing and Cognition Chapter 11 9 Orders of Interaction and Intelligibility: Intersections Between Goffman and Garfinkel by Way of Durkheim Chapter 12 10 Ethnomethodological Readings of Goffman
Talcott Parsons on building personality system theory via psychoanalysis
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, Apr 29, 2023
This article examines Talcott Parsons's efforts at building the theory of personality system ... more This article examines Talcott Parsons's efforts at building the theory of personality system as a special case of his general theory of action and places those efforts in historical context. I demonstrate how, during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Parsons employed elements of classic Freudian thought to advance a new appreciation of the personality system and its relations to other action systems. I begin with an overview of the reception of psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Harvard Department of Social Relations, showing how Parsons's thinking on the personality system cannot be understood apart from his association with these three institutions. I then turn to how Parsons endeavored to integrate his particular brand of sociology with his own interpretation of Freud's writings to explain how the personality system functions and develops. I conclude by showing that while Parsons's involvements with psychoanalysis became more intermittent after the mid‐1950s, to the end of his life he remained steadfast in his enthusiasm for Freud's theory of personality. In short, Parsons always believed that for sociological theory to progress, it needed to engage with psychoanalysis.
There is always a reason to welcome a new book on William James. Following the literature, one ge... more There is always a reason to welcome a new book on William James. Following the literature, one gets the impression that Jamesʼs life and work are an inexhaustible source for new insights and reappraisals. Within this context, two central questions immediately arise for the reviewer of any new book on James: What is new, and to what extent does the book contribute to a better understanding of Jamesʼs life and work? Paul Croceʼs Young William James Thinking offers positive answers for both questions. Pursuing what he calls a "developmental biography," Croceʼs main goal is to "connect the young and mature James to show relations between the less refined expressions of early thought and his more famous theorizing" (p. 21). There is, however, another connection, no less important for an adequate apprehension of Croceʼs goal, but which can be easily overlooked: the continuity between his previous book on James (Croce, 1995) and this new one. As the author sees it, "this is a companion to the earlier book" (p. 7), in the sense that the earlier book offers the context and general background for the specific episodes presented in the new one. It is not that it cannot be read independently, but rather that, read together with the previous book, it gives the reader new horizons of understanding. The book is divided into four chapters, which reflect Croceʼs methodological choices. Instead of following Jamesʼs early ideas in chronological sequence, he opts for a thematic focus "in the service of theoretical illumination" (p. 24). So, each chapter deals with one of these topics: scientific training, engagement with medicine, influence of ancient thought, and personal troubles. Dealing with Jamesʼs first embrace of science in the early 1860s, the initial chapter describes his attitudes toward the American Civil War, the influence of his fatherʼs beliefs about science and religion, as well as his response to positivism and scientific naturalism. Here we see James "moving among many sciences in search of a field for his own work" (p. 39). Also important at this point was Jamesʼs fascination with natural history, which took him to join the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz on his expedition to Brazil from March 1865 to January 1866. According to Croce, "he hoped to lay the groundwork for a career of teaching and research in the biological sciences" (p. 53). After returning from Brazil, he envisioned a program for a future science, which would include endorsement of naturalism without reduction to materialism. Chapter 2 analyzes Jamesʼs double engagement with medicine. He both formally trained in scientific medicine at Harvard, and investigated alternative medical practices, such as hydropathy, while using them himself. For Croce, this ambivalence reflects Jamesʼs more general ambivalence between science and religion. This is further illustrated by Jamesʼs plans for studying physiology in Germany in 1867-1868, in which period his personal troubles interfered with his scientific goals. As a result, he failed to work with Helmholtz or Wundt, an episode that a historian of psychology has called "the Heidelberg fiasco" (Gundlach, 2018). According to Croce, "poor health and his own ambivalent lack of confidence kept him from their laboratories" (p. 96). In the third chapter, Croce portrays Jamesʼs fascination with the ancient world, which helped him think about the relation between science and religion. As Croce sees it, "the ancients served James as models for comprehending nature as all that can be experienced, and for understanding how those spheres exist in relation, not even needing compromise once separate (p. 134). Croce pays special attention to the role stoicism-particularly
Durkheim, Emile
Studies in the history of law and justice, 2023
Law as Social Control
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Jan 11, 2019
Understanding Crime: A Multidisciplinary Approach
1. Introduction: A Multidisciplined Approach to Crime 2. Sociological Perspectives on Crime 3. Ec... more 1. Introduction: A Multidisciplined Approach to Crime 2. Sociological Perspectives on Crime 3. Economics and Crime 4. Psychological Perspectives on Crime 5. Biological Perspectives on Crime 6. Philosophy and Crime 7. Religious Studies and Crime 8. Conclusion: Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Crime
Mills, C. W. (1916-62) on Ethnicity and Puerto Ricans
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, 2015
On Nicholas S. Timasheff, An Introduction to the Sociology of Law
A Typology of Criminal Behavior Systems
Clinard and Quinney’s Criminal Behavior Systems, 2019