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Stalking sociologists : J. Edgar Hoover's FBI surveillance of American sociology

Title: Stalking sociologists : J. Edgar Hoover's FBI surveillance of American sociology / Mike Forrest Keen ; with a new introduction by the author.
Author: Keen, Mike Forrest.
Publication: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

Keen, Mike Forrest.

Description

xxxiv, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This history uses documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Keen argues that Hoover and the FBI marginalized sociologists such as W.E.B. Du Bois and C. Wright Mills tried to suppress the development of a Marxist tradition in American sociology, and likely pushed the mainstream of the discipline away from a critique of American society and towards a more quantitative and scientific direction. He documents thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars dedicated to this project. Faculty members of various departments of sociology were recruited to inform on the activities of their colleagues and the American Sociological Association was a target of FBI surveillance, Keen turns sociology back upon the FBI, using the writings and ideas of the very sociologists Hoover investigated to examine and explain the excesses of the Bureau and its boss. The result is a significant contribution to the collective memory of American society as well as the accurate history of the sociological discipline."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Contributions in sociology ; 109.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Rev. ed. of: Stalking the sociological imagination. 1999.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. W. E. B. Du Bois: Sociologist beyond the Veil -- 3. Ernest W. Burgess: Security Matter-C -- 4. William Fielding Ogburn: Scientist, Statistician, Schizophrene -- 5. Robert and Helen Lynd: From Middletown to Moronia -- 6. E. Franklin Frazier: Enfant Terrible -- 7. Pitirim A. Sorokin: Sociological Prophet in a Priestly Land -- 8. No One above Suspicion: Talcott Parsons under Surveillance -- 9. Testing a Concept: Herbert Blumer's Loyalty -- 10. Samuel Stouffer: Patriot and Practitioner -- 11. Our Man in Havana: C. Wright Mills Talks, Yankee Listens -- 12. Crimefighter and the Criminologist: The Case of Edwin H. Sutherland and J. Edgar Hoover -- 13. Conclusion.

ISBN

0765805634
9780765805638

LCCN

2003065011

OCLC

ocm52739297
52739297
SCSB-8795614

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library