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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Keen, Mike Forrest. Stalking the sociological imagination. Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1999 (OCoLC)654474922 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mike Forrest Keen |
| ISBN: | 0313298130 9780313298134 |
| OCLC Number: | 40159036 |
| Description: | x, 235 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- W.E.B. Du Bois: Sociologist beyond the veil -- Ernest W. Burgess: Security Matter-C -- William Fielding Ogburn: Scientist, statistician, schizophrene -- Robert and Helen Lynd: From Middletown to Moronia -- E. Franklin Frazier: Enfant Terrible -- Pitirim A. Sorokin: Sociological prophet in a priestly land -- No one above suspicion: Talcott Parsons under surveillance -- Testing a concept: Herbert Blumer's loyalty -- Samuel Stouffer: Patriot and practitioner -- Our man in Havana: C. Wright Mills talks, Yankee listens -- The crimefighter and the criminologist: The case of Edwin H. Sutherland and J. Edgar Hoover -- Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in sociology, no. 126. |
| Responsibility: | Mike Forrest Keen. |
Abstract:
An account of the FBI's investigation of prominent American sociologists, based on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. It suggests that the FBI marginalized critical sociologists and suppressed the development of a Marxist tradition in American sociology.
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?Keen raises important questions about academic freedom and whether the fear of "subversive" ideas shaped the direction of American sociology, leading to the marginalization of Marxism and to the hegemony of quantitative and statistical analyses.?-Choice Read more...
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