Sociology in America: A History

by Craig Calhoun. (2007) University of Chicago Press.

Preface [pdf: 4 pages, 250kb]
Chapter 1 | Sociology in America: An Introduction [pdf: 20 pages, 1.6Mb]
by Craig Calhoun
Chapter 2 | The American Spencerians: Theorizing a New Science
by Daniel Breslau
Chapter 3 | Thrice told: Narratives of sociology's relation to social work
by Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
Chapter 4 | A life in the first half-century of sociology: Charles Ellwood and the
division of sociology
by Stephen Turner
Chapter 5 | Knowledge from the field
by Marjorie DeVault
Chapter 6 | Pragmatism, phenomenology, and twentieth-century American sociology
by Charles Camic
Chapter 7 | On edge: Sociology during the Great Depression and the New Deal
by Charles Camic
Chapter 8 | Hot war, cold war: The structures of sociological action, 1940-1955
by Andrew Abbott and James T. Sparrow
Chapter 9 | American sociology before and after World War II:
The (temporary) settling of a disciplinary field
by George Steinmetz
Chapter 10 | Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, hierarchy: "Mainstream" sociology
and its challenges
by Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Chapter 11 | From relevance to irrelevance: The curious impact of the sixties on
public sociology
by Doug McAdam
Chapter 12 | The culture of sociology in disarray: The impact of 1968 on US sociologists
by Immanueal Wallerstein
Chapter 13 | Assessing the feminist revolution: The presence and absence of gender
in theory and practice
by Myra Marx Ferree, Shamus Rahman Khan, and Shauna A. Morimoto
Chapter 14 | Feminist sociology in the twentieth-century United States:
Life stories in historical context
by Barbara Laslett
Chapter 15 | Sociology of race and W.E.B. DuBois: The path not taken
by Aldon T. Morris
Chapter 16 | The dark side of the force: One hundred years of the sociology of race
by Howard Winant
Chapter 17 | Pushing the boundaries of business as usual?
Race, class and gender studies and sociological inquiry
by Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 18 | Criminology, criminologists, and the sociological enterprise
by James F. Short, Jr. with Lorine A. Hughes
Chapter 19 | Betwixt and between discipline and profession:
A history of the sociology of education
by Pamela Barnhouse Walters

Chapter 20

by Michael D. Kennedy and Miguel A. Centeno

Chapter 21 | Defining disciplinary identity: The historiography of US Sociology
by Alan Sica
Appendix | Histories of American sociology: Readings and resources
by Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Alton Phillips