The scholar denied Morris, Aldon
2015., 20150827, 2015, 2015-08-27
eBook
In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris's ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois's work in the founding of the ...discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, Morris, a major scholar of social movements, probes the way in which the history of the discipline has traditionally given credit to Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago, who worked with the conservative black leader Booker T. Washington to render Du Bois invisible. Morris uncovers the seminal theoretical work of Du Bois in developing a "scientific" sociology through a variety of methodologies and examines how the leading scholars of the day disparaged and ignored Du Bois's work.The Scholar Deniedis based on extensive, rigorous primary source research; the book is the result of a decade of research, writing, and revision. In exposing the economic and political factors that marginalized the contributions of Du Bois and enabled Park and his colleagues to be recognized as the "fathers" of the discipline, Morris delivers a wholly new narrative of American intellectual and social history that places one of America's key intellectuals, W. E. B. Du Bois, at its center.The Scholar Deniedis a must-read for anyone interested in American history, racial inequality, and the academy. In challenging our understanding of the past, the book promises to engender debate and discussion.
In the late 1990s an upstart and insurgent push arose in the discipline of sociology to expand the literature on the contributions of William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois beyond cursory ...acknowledgments of his 1899 book Philadelphia Negro and his theories including “double consciousness” and the talented tenth. This new season of scholarship on Du Bois extends beyond these topical areas to provide exhaustive analyses of the momentous role he played in establishing scientific sociology in the United States. Significantly, Du Bois was a primary architect in the development of many empirical methodologies and theories, some of which would...
The State of Sociology Morris, Aldon D.
Social problems (Berkeley, Calif.),
05/2017, Letnik:
64, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
A town hall meeting that discussed the state of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and sociology more generally was held during the 2016 ASA meetings in Seattle, Washington. In my remarks, I ...discussed a number of troubling issues confronting the Association and sociology. I argued that sociology is likely to decrease its relevancy in the coming years because of five interrelated biases: restricted leadership, elitism, internal arrogance, restricted view of human agency, and value neutrality. Below I expand upon these remarks in the hope that a more inclusive ASA can be constructed along with a renewed and more powerful sociological imagination.
Sociologists study social inequality in all aspects of life, both locally and across the globe. Yet, they seldom examine their own house. The time has come for sociologists to take a hard look in the ...mirror, to be reflexive about how social inequality operates within our departments, within our professional organizations, and within our discipline. Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, for example, matter in society as well as in our discipline. It could not be otherwise, as we, sociologists, carry the imprint of the social. Consciously and unconsciously, through our actions and inactions, we reproduce social inequalities in sociology despite our collective support for diversity and inclusion. This special section follows the town hall plenary at the 2016 American Sociological Association meetings in Seattle, Washington, calling for extended discussion and debate regarding the multiple ways in which social cleavages are reproduced in sociology. The contributors offer their thoughts on the most important issues currently facing sociology and what needs to happen moving forward.
Los sociólogos estudian la desigualdad social en todos los aspectos de vida, tanto localmente como a nivel mundial. A pesar de todo, raramente examinan su casa propia. Ha llegado el momento para sociólogos de mirarse en el espejo, ser reflexivo sobre la desigualdad dentro de nuestros departamentos, dentro de nuestras organizaciones profesionales, y dentro de nuestra disciplina. Raza, género, clase y orientación sexual, por ejemplo, son un problema en la sociedad así como en nuestra disciplina. No podría ser de otra manera ya que nosotros, sociólogos, llevamos la huella social. Consciente e inconscientemente, a través de nuestras acciones e inacciones, reproducimos desigualdades sociales en sociología a pesar de nuestro respaldo colectivo a la diversidad y a la inclusión. Este caso específico sigue el plenario de reuniones en la 2016 Asociación Americana de Sociológica en Seattle, WA, que pide o convoca a debatir y discutir sobre las múltiples formas en que se reproducen las divisiones sociales en sociología. Los colaboradores (ponentes) ofrecen sus reflexiones sobre los asuntos más importantes que está afrontando actualmente la sociología y lo que debe suceder en el futuro.
Sociologists study social inequality in all aspects of life, both locally and across the globe. Yet, they seldom examine their own house. The time has come for sociologists to take a hard look in the ...mirror, to be reflexive about how social inequality operates within our departments, within our professional organizations, and within our discipline. Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, for example, matter in society as well as in our discipline. It could not be otherwise, as we, sociologists, carry the imprint of the social. Consciously and unconsciously, through our actions and inactions, we reproduce social inequalities in sociology despite our collective support for diversity and inclusion. This special section follows the town hall plenary at the 2016 American Sociological Association meetings in Seattle, Washington, calling for extended discussion and debate regarding the multiple ways in which social cleavages are reproduced in sociology. The contributors offer their thoughts on the most important issues currently facing sociology and what needs to happen moving forward.
This review provides an analysis of the political and intellectual contributions made by the modern civil rights movement. It argues that the civil rights movement was able to overthrow the Southern ...Jim Crow regime because of its successful use of mass nonviolent direct action. Because of its effectiveness and visibility, it served as a model that has been utilized by other movements both domestically and internationally. Prior to the civil rights movement social movement scholars formulated collective behavior and related theories to explain social movement phenomena. These theories argued that movements were spontaneous, non-rational, and unstructured. Resource mobilization and political process theories reconceptualized movements stressing their organized, rational, institutional and political features. The civil rights movement played a key role in generating this paradigmatic shift because of its rich empirical base that led scholars to rethink social movement phenomena.
Recent studies of the nonviolent civil rights movement maintain that the 1963 confrontation in Birmingham, Alabama succeeded because the movement's leaders deliberately provoked violence by whites. ...The violence forced the federal government to intervene, bringing victory for the movement. I challenge this thesis by examining the tactics and mobilization tools of the Birmingham movement. Evidence indicates that the local movement, because of its capacity for mobilization and its use of multiple tactics, generated the power that led to victory. A general discussion of social movement tactics derives from this case study. A social movement's internal organization, mobilization capacity, and tactical effectiveness are crucial to its failure or success.
Introduction Morris, Aldon
The Scholar Denied,
08/2015
Book Chapter
There is an intriguing, well-kept secret regarding the founding of scientific sociology in America. The first school of scientific sociology in the United States was founded by a black professor ...located in a historically black university in the South. This reality flatly contradicts the accepted wisdom.
A broad consensus exists among sociologists that the Chicago school, which emerged in the second decade of the twentieth century, was the first school of American empirical sociology.¹ This hegemonic narrative maintains that the school’s primary leader was the premier second-generation University of Chicago sociologist Robert Ezra Park. The Chicago school of sociology, which
As this book demonstrates, Du Bois laid the intellectual foundations of his school of scientific sociology by publishing pathbreaking studies incorporating a novel theoretical frame and using a ...multimethod approach. We have also seen how Du Bois attracted other scholars to his school, including Monroe Work, Richard R. Wright Jr., Edmund Haynes, and Mary Ovington. Yet these pioneering members of Du Bois’s school have been forgotten, erased from the collective memory of sociology and social science. A goal of this work has been to make this distinctive school more widely known and to restore its intellectual contributors to their rightful
