The Epigone's Embrace: Irving Louis Horowitz on C. Wright Mills

Summers, John

doi:10.1215/00265667-2007-68-107

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“…A relação com Mills era um capítulo de uma história mais ampla de interlocução com a sociologia norte-americana, que iria frutificar nos anos seguintes, em especial com o cientista social Irving Horowitz (1929Horowitz ( -2012, um dos autoproclamados herdeiros da tradição crítica encetada por Mills (Summers, 2007). Tendo se doutorado em sociologia na Universidade de Buenos Aires (embora pouco se saiba sobre essa tese e sobre a própria atuação de seu autor como professor assistente na uba no final da década de 1950), Horowitz fundaria a revista Transaction em 1962, logo convertida num complexo editorial de ciências sociais.…”

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Costa Pinto em dois tempos: os efeitos periféricos na circulação de ideias

Maia

2019

Tempo Soc.

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Este artigo propõe uma abordagem sociológica para analisar como a relação entre centro e periferia afeta a produção e a circulação de ideias. Por meio do conceito de “efeitos periféricos”, procuro examinar empiricamente como essa relação afeta a construção de textos sociológicos. O objeto empírico do artigo é o texto “Sociologia e mudança social”, do brasileiro Luiz de Aguiar Costa Pinto, publicado originalmente em 1947 e republicado em 1961. O artigo compara as duas versões e demonstra como as diferentes posições do seu autor nos circuitos periféricos explicam mudanças conceituais e textuais.

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Costa Pinto em dois tempos: os efeitos periféricos na circulação de ideias

Maia

2019

Tempo Soc.

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“…A few years later, he famously articulated his misgivings on the post-war professionalizing project that threatened to tame and disembowel the critical legacies of the classical tradition in the now classic The Sociological Imagination ( Mills, 2000a [1959]). His strident but by no means unfair critique of professionalization that for him threatened to decouple ‘scientific’ sociology from making sense of the vicissitudes of actual societies are too well known to recapitulate here ( Aronowitz, 2012 ; Geary, 2009 ; Hayden, 2006 ; Summers, 2006 , 2007 , 2008 ). His goal in The Sociological Imagination was not simply to offer a critique of the rigid, stultifying paths that were then being paved for the putatively ‘professional’ and ‘scientific’ sociology by its gatekeepers.…”

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“…. a sadly flawed individual’ who ‘could no longer really be properly defined as being within the field of sociology’ ( Summers, 2007 : 116).…”

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‘The Catastrophic World’: Capitalism, Climate Crisis, COVID-19, and C. Wright Mills

Baber

2022

Critical Sociology

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I have tried to be objective. I do not claim to be detached . . . you must not expect me to provide 'A Balanced View'. I am not a sociological book-keeper. C. Wright MillsAfter trying his hand at 'professional' sociology for a research project directed by the relentless 'professionalizer' Paul Lazarsfeld, at Columbia University, C. Wright Mills eventually saw through the pointlessness of it all. Given the turbulent post-war heating up of the cold war in Southeast Asia, the politically passionate and engaged C. Wright Mills struggled and eventually refused to be contained and constrained by the vacuous, arid methodological and theoretical straightjackets that had resulted from the professionalization of Sociology project. In a 1951 letter to his editor at Knopf, Mills expressed deep dissatisfaction with the directions in which sociology was being pushed by its self-appointed gatekeepers. Without actually naming Paul Lazarsfeld and Talcott Parsons whose work he later trenchantly criticized, Mills wrote, sociology 'is now split into statistical stuff and heavy-duty theoretical bullshit. In both cases, there's no writing but only turgid polysyllabic slabs of stuff' (Mills and Mills, 2000: 154-155).A few years later, he famously articulated his misgivings on the post-war professionalizing project that threatened to tame and disembowel the critical legacies of the classical tradition in the now classic The Sociological Imagination (Mills, 2000a(Mills, [1959). His strident but by no means unfair critique of professionalization that for him threatened to decouple 'scientific' sociology from making sense of the vicissitudes of actual societies are too well known to recapitulate here (

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“… 1. For part of the story of the various abominations, scholarly and ethical, committed by Horowitz on Mills’s literary remains, see Summers (2007). …”

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“…With the notable exception of the pioneering work of Richard Gillam (1971, 1975, 1977/1978, 1981), serious scholarship on Mills is a recent development. See especially Brewer (2004, 2005), Geary (2009), Sawchuk (2001), and Summers (2006, 2007, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c). A.…”

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