Description: This book highlights the continuing relevance of classical sociological theories and concepts in making sense of the contemporary globalized world. Covering a very wide historical and geographical range and topics that include: classical sociological theory, genocide, resistan...
Brief description: Michael Zeitlin is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the editor of Misrecognition, Race, and the Real in Faulkner's Fiction (2004) and former co-editor of The Faulkner Journal.
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"A stellar cast of authors, writing on central domestic and international topics of our time, oriented to the work of one of sociology's truly great authors: what more could one ask for? Read this book and get your students to read it. Sociology comes alive in its pagessss" --Peter Baehr, Lingnan University
"This fine collection of essays in honor of Irving Zeitlin's many contributions to Sociology-theoretical, empirical, historical-is a fitting tribute. It is a cornucopia of insights and perspectives that will appeal to a broad range of sociological readers." --Toby E. Huff, Chancellor Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth and research associate in the Department of Astronomy "If significance is measured in terms of the number of interesting and influential students, Irving Zeitlin easily ranks number one among Canadian sociologists. This book is the first to take the full measure of Zeitlin's academic career, the daring and diversity of which has never been properly appreciated. Zeitlin came of age in the late 1960s when sociologists were trying to reach a theoretical rapprochement between Marx and Weber. Two of Zeitlin's most distinguished contemporaries in this project, Anthony Giddens and Randall Collins, are among those who pay tribute to Zeitlin's efforts in these pages. The other chapters are penned by former students, colleagues, and relatives. In reading these arresting reassessments of, say, democracy's exportability, Islamic extremism, Chinese nationalism, Anti-Semitism, the American street ethic, and the economic preconditions of imperialist and revolutionary politics - all bearing the mark of Zeitlin's influence - it becomes clear that his has been a truly cosmopolitan vision of sociology that is rarely found in today's practitioners." --Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, author of Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era "A stellar cast of authors, writing on central domestic and international topics of our time, oriented to the work of one of sociology's truly great authors: what more could one ask for? Read this book and get your students to read it. Sociology comes alive in its pages" --Peter Baehr, Lingnan University