From the Left Bank to the Mainstream: Historical Debates and Contemporary Research in Marxist Sociology

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Patrick McGuire, Donald McQuarie
Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 - 306 pages
Chapter 1 Introduction: U.S. Sociology, the American Dream, and the Specter of Karl Marx
Part 2 Part I: Social Structure and Processes
Chapter 3 Class Structure: Class, Not Strata: It's Not Just Where You Stand, But What You Stand For
Chapter 4 Social Movements: An Argument for Understanding Social Movements as Class Movements
Chapter 5 Gender: Marxist Theory and the Oppression of Women
Chapter 6 Race: Classical and Recent Theoretical Developments in the Marxist Analysis of Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 7 Social Change and Development: "A World After Its Own Image" The Marxist Paradigm and Theories of Capitalist Development on a World Scale
Chapter 8 Labor: Labor's Crisis and the Crisis of Labor Studies: Toward a Retheorized Sociology of Labor
Chapter 9 State and Politics: From the King of Prussia to the New World Order: Marxist Theories of State and Power
Chapter 10 Corporations and the Economy: Marxist Scholarship and the Corporate Economy
Chapter 11 Education and Knowledge: Reading Class: Marxist Theories of Education
Chapter 12 Medicine and Public Health: The Study of the Health Care System: The Marxist Critique of a Dominant Paradigm
Chapter 13 Religion: Marxist-Christian Dialogues: The Liberation of Theology
Chapter 14 Crime and Law: Rediscovering Criminology: Lessons from the Marxist Tradition
Chapter 15 Urban and Regional Development: Views of the City: Urban and Regional Sociology

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