Title: "The New Sociology: Essays in Social Science and Social Theory in Honor of C. Wright Mills"
Abstract: Abstract "One can hardly doubt that the school dominant in American sociology over the past two decades (1940-1960) has brought that discipline to a dead end," writes the editor of the book under review, Irving Louis Horowitz, in his introduction (p. 3). The dominance of petty empiricism, descriptiveness, the separation of sociological theory from the most important social problems - all this induces alarm and disillusionment among the best American sociologists. In an effort to escape this situation they naturally turn to the progressive tradition in American sociology, whose most vivid spokesman was C. Wright Mills. His works contained a profound and striking critique of social and political life in the United States and of the present state of capitalist sociology. Among the American intelligentsia, the name of Mills became a sort of symbol of intellectual independence and boldness. But in conservative academic circles his writings were subjected to hysterical criticism, which did not cease even after his death. The book under review, put together by Horowitz, a like-minded person who was also a friend of Mills, has the purpose not only of honoring the late scholar but of reviving his intellectual tradition of "sociological criticism."
Publication Year: 1965
Publication Date: 1965-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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