Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221136973
B. Turner
This article describes how the monarchy has enjoyed historical continuity in a society that has not been invaded since 1066 and had no revolutionary experience unlike other European nations. The other peculiarity includes the confusion about ‘the British Isles’, ‘Great Britain’ and ‘England’. Britain is best understood as a fragmented archipelago of societies. Queen Elizabeth II managed to survive the peculiarities and two major crises: the dismissal of the Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the death of Lady Diana.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221138109
P. Kivisto
Using two classic accounts of Elizabeth II’s Coronation, this article explores the potential meanings of the monarchy in the 21st century.
本文通过对伊丽莎白二世加冕典礼的两个经典描述，探讨了君主制在21世纪的潜在意义。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1177/1468795x221137688
S. Turner
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Pub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221127246
C. Crouch
In a number of recent contributions Wolfgang Streeck has provided some of the most penetrating analyses of contemporary capitalism. Particularly noticeable has been his distinction (2013) between Staatsvolk (the people constituting the democratically entitled citizenry of a nation) and Marktvolk (the global holders of finance capital, whose power is exercised over governments through means that bypass and over-run national democracy). In this new work he goes beyond these earlier analyses to provide an account of what he sees as the mutual incompatibility of democracy and a globalized economy. In doing so he reintroduces and updates the contributions to understanding capitalism of those two giants of mid-20th century analysis, John Maynard Keynes and Karl Polanyi. There is also considerable use of data and various research findings, but also of such surprising authors as Edward Gibbon. A core argument of the book is that globalization has shifted power away from the nation state, which has been the primary level at which democracy has flourished, passing it to networks of global corporations. Whereas many of the advocates of globalization depict it as replacing hierarchical state action by free markets in which consumers are dominant, Streeck points out that the architecture of the new global governance is itself highly vertical. Power is drawn out of the various levels of democratic action and lodged in a few international banks and other giant firms. The doctrine of shareholder value maximization has displaced any other responsibilities (to workers, customers, the environment) that firms possessed when they could be regulated at national levels. By erecting global supply chains, corporations have been able to source parts of their products from wherever labor is cheapest and possesses fewest rights, where environmental and other protective regulation is very weak, where taxation is lowest. As a result, much global trading that looks as though it operates through markets really takes place within the structures of individual giant firms, enabling them for example, to use book-keeping techniques to allocate their costs to wherever they choose, irrespective of what is really happening. One might add, though Streeck himself does not make this point, that the accountancy and audit process of contemporary capitalism are as fictive as the “posttruth” of much current political and governmental discourse. The global economy is not really a market economy, but one dominated by giant corporations—and, one might add, their political allies. 1127246 JCS0010.1177/1468795X221127246Journal of Classical SociologyBook Review book-review2022
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Pub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1177/1468795x221126330
J. Balon, J. Holmwood
Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875–1951) is a neglected figure within North American sociology, yet he made a distinctive contribution to the sociology and politics of race relations. He was one of the first sociological critics of eugenics and developed a distinctive approach to race relations and the position of subject minorities derived from a critical analysis of European empires. His approach was complementary to that of Du Bois with whom he had a close relationship. In this article, we trace Miller’s critique of eugenics and the idea of ‘Americanisation’ as a policy of immigrant assimilation, showing the distinctiveness of his approach within North American sociology, including the milieu of Chicago sociology with which he was associated. We also examine the connection between his sociology of race and Park’s position on race relations as being a process of gradual assimilation. We conclude with discussion of the Chicago school influence over Gunnar Myrdal’s The American Dilemma and the alternative approach to race relations that both Du Bois and Miller had already outlined in the 1920s.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221113051
Karida L Brown
This review of Bhambra and Holmwood’s Colonialism and Modern Social Theory engages Chapter Six of the text, “Du Bois: Addressing the Colour Line,” as a site to contemplate broader questions about the cost of the pervasive historical erasure of the realities of colonialism and racism from the classical sociological cannon. Beyond historical description, the author thinks with the text to imagine a usable sociology toward the aim of alchemy and repair. Specifically, the author addresses the role “the classics” might play in teaching sociology in this context of such intentional redress.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221111766
Zophia Edwards
A number of recent works in sociology call for the decolonization of the discipline. Colonialism and Modern Social Theory adds a critical intervention to this recent body of work by deconstructing the theories that have been canonized in North American and European social theory, and meticulously laying out the systematic erasure of colonialism and imperialism from their concepts and analytical categories. This review focuses on the introductory chapter and overall scope of the book, and draws attention to several potential areas for fruitful future engagement that this text inspires.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221105967
Jennie C. Ikuta
This piece makes two points about “Tocqueville: From America to Algeria.” First, while Bhambra and Holmwood rightly criticize the editorial practice of omitting the “Three Races” chapter from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, this critique does not go far enough. Even in its unabridged form, Democracy in America is structured to include an extension discussion on race and colonialism while also obscuring its significance. Second, the authors’ critique of Tocqueville’s inability to imagine how Black Americans as free and equal could be included into a system of racialized possession as equals is misplaced.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.1177/1468795X221107226
Sara R. Farris
Colonialism figures in the work of Max Weber in multiple forms. While in his professorial address he supported internal colonialism as the antidote against the threat represented by the immigration of foreigners, in the writings on world religions colonialism appears as displacement, amnesia and Freudian slip. Colonial subjects in particular are portrayed as personalities unable to develop the mentality that would help them to free themselves from what Weber regarded as the chains of a communitarian, gregarious and subaltern life. In the end, I argue that Weber’s work contributed, albeit contradictorily and not always explicitly, to spread an idea of colonial violence as a force of progress and a racist idea of colonial others as backward.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1177/1468795x221105594
N. Meer
How might we move the current discussion of W.E.B Du Bois from a concern with omission to re-construction within modern social theory? Bhambra and Holmwood offer a novel means to do this through revisiting three texts: The Philadelphia Negro (1899), Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction (1935). The following account explores the benefits of this approach, what it highlights for students and teachers, and discusses where other emphases might also lead a contemporary understanding of Du Bois.
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