A prominent sociological scholar a continent away embraced Du Bois’s scholarship and declared him to be one of the greatest sociologists in America. Not only did the famous German sociologist Max ...Weber, who became world renowned several decades later, include Du Bois in the sociology fraternity; he absorbed Du Bois’s sociological insights, using them to significantly enrich his own sociological imagination. Weber’s and Du Bois’s intellectual paths crossed on several occasions. The first occurred when Du Bois studied in Germany from 1892 to 1894 and attended lectures delivered by Weber. It is true that Weber and Du Bois shared an
American sociology began in the last decade of the nineteenth century, less than a generation after the emancipation of American slaves. The fate of emancipated blacks, who desired rights and ...privileges accorded free citizens of a democracy, was a divisive issue. The majority of whites, both North and South, were squeamish about granting citizenship to blacks, whom they viewed as an inferior race. Beyond ideology lay naked economic and political interests because southern white elites needed cheap labor akin to that provided by slaves if they were to remain a ruling aristocracy. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
This study is a qualitative investigation of the professional identity structure of teachers in Barbados, a small post-colonial Caribbean territory. The aim was to determine whether Barbadian ...teachers regard themselves as professionals and to what extent their occupational/professional identity structure could be described by a pre-conceptualized set of categories. Data was collected from a focus group made up of teachers of both genders from primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in the country. Teachers in the study claim to be professionals despite acknowledging that teaching in Barbados is not recognized as a profession. This seemingly paradoxical claim is explained by the fact that teachers regard being a professional as an individual determination characterized by a different set of criteria from those that define a profession. By making this claim, Barbadian teachers appear to have mitigated the potential threat to the coherence of their professional self-concept brought about by the perceived discrepancy between the importance of their role as teachers and the non-recognition of teaching as a profession. The empirical data supports the four pre-conceptualized identity categories but four additional categories were uncovered. Overall, the findings support the contention that professional identity is an aspect of the self-concept; consequently, it is subject to the principle of self-concept maintenance.
This study is a qualitative investigation of the professional identity structure of teachers in Barbados, a small post-colonial Caribbean territory. The aim was to determine whether Barbadian ...teachers regard themselves as professionals and to what extent their occupational/professional identity structure could be described by a pre-conceptualized set of categories. Data was collected from a focus group made up of teachers of both genders from primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in the country. Teachers in the study claim to be professionals despite acknowledging that teaching in Barbados is not recognized as a profession. This seemingly paradoxical claim is explained by the fact that teachers regard being a professional as an individual determination characterized by a different set of criteria from those that define a profession. By making this claim, Barbadian teachers appear to have mitigated the potential threat to the coherence of their professional self-concept brought about by the perceived discrepancy between the importance of their role as teachers and the non-recognition of teaching as a profession. The empirical data supports the four pre-conceptualized identity categories but four additional categories were uncovered. Overall, the findings support the contention that professional identity is an aspect of the self-concept; consequently, it is subject to the principle of self-concept maintenance.
Dr Denny gives an excellent short overview of the current ideas on how Ralstonia solanacearum interacts with its host. However, he suggests that a diffusible molecule could be responsible for the ...strong induction of the hrpB regulatory gene, in contrast to our proposition that the inducer is associated with the plant cell wall. Denny points out that a few clumps of the fluorescent bacteria are also found unattached to plant cells, an observation that might arise if hrpB were induced by a diffusible signal released from plant cell walls by degradative enzymes secreted by the pathogen. Two arguments, however, led us to reject this hypothesis: first, the use of a medium conditioned by co-cultivation of plant cells and bacteria does not increase the level of hrpB gene transcription compared with a medium conditioned only by plant cells (D. Aldon, unpublished). Second, in the model proposed by Denny, after a long period of co-cultivation the action of pathogen-secreted polygalacturonases or endoglucanases should make this plant signal freely diffusible, thereby leading to the induction of hrpB in the majority of bacteria in the medium. However, even after 16 h of co-cultivation, we still observe two distinct bacterial populations: one attached to plant cell surfaces and displaying strong hrpB gene expression, and the other non-attached and remaining mostly uninduced.
Robert Park’s sociology portrayed African Americans as an inferior race. Indeed, the image of blacks emerging from Park’s sociology is one of a population handicapped by a double heritage of ...biological and cultural inferiority. Moreover, even after considering the cultural formulations of the anthropologist Franz Boas, who argued that racial outcomes were determined by historical and social factors, Park conceded only that “so far as this is true we are perhaps warranted in regarding them black racial characteristics as modifications of transmitted tradition due to innate traits of the people who have produced them.”¹ For Park, “The difference between one
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural ...approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides—as well as the efforts to bridge them—closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for sociology as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency.
