Introduction

Abrutyn, Seth; Ližardo, Omar

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“…TRC is cited to bridge sociological subfields like cognitive sociology and sociology of race (Brekhus et al 2010), critical race methodology and algorithmic fairness (Hanna et al 2019), organizational theory and sociology of race (Ray 2019b), and economic sociology and sociology of race (Hirschman and Garbes 2021). Increased citational dispersion of TRC in the second wave is also observed in recent handbooks of different subfields of sociology, including Religion in Sociological Perspective (Roberts and Yamane 2011), the Handbook of Sociology for Human Rights (Brunsma, Lyall Smith, and Gran [2015] 2019), the Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations (Batur and Feagin 2018), the New Handbook of Political Sociology (Janoskiet al 2020), and the Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory (Abrutyn and Lizardo 2021). It remains to be seen whether a TRC third wave will push the text even further into new case studies, subfields, and, most importantly, programmatic agendas to keep the study of race analytically sharp and responsive to the needs of the world.…”

Section: The Life History Of Trc In Sociology: a Second Wave (2010–pr...mentioning

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Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology

Maghbouleh

2022

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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How have sociologists engaged the late philosopher Charles Mills’ landmark The Racial Contract (1997) in the twenty-five years since its publication? I first synthesize and periodize the corpus of sociological research citing The Racial Contract into two chronological and epistemological waves. The first wave (1997-2009) is distinguished by the scholarship of a vanguard who drew on the text, and direct engagement with Mills himself, in a paradigmatic shift away from the sociological study of race relations to the study of racism. The second wave (2010-present) is characterized by a fivefold increase in the text’s citation, tied to a resurgence of Du Boisian sociology and the early-career projects of a new generation of sociologists, as the text diffused from the sociology of race into other subfields of the discipline. I then go on to describe the influence of The Racial Contract on theory, data, and method in my own scholarship on racialization, first during my graduate studies in the United States, and later, as Sociology faculty in Canada at the University of Toronto, Mills’ alma mater. I end the essay with proposals for how a third wave of sociological engagement with The Racial Contract can more rigorously engage the text’s originating relationship to feminist political theory, as well as more actively be in dialogue with a new generation of critical philosophers who are already speaking back to us by centrally drawing on the work of sociologists.

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Section: The Life History Of Trc In Sociology: a Second Wave (2010–pr...mentioning

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Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology

Maghbouleh

2022

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…The genealogy of the ghetto outlines the foundational aspects of the CS and its legacies. The research agenda’s fixation with the ‘Other’ is still part of how communities of colour are understood (Deconteau, 2021; Montalva Barba, forthcoming). Focusing the discipline on a minimal sector of the population (Small, 2008; Wacquant, 2002; Young, 2008; Zuberi and Bonilla-Silva, 2008) exoticises and creates a false sense of the on-the-ground experience, leading to ‘ Jungle Book tropes’ (Rios, 2013, 2015), hero ethnographers (Venkatesh, 2008; Wacquant, 2002), ethnography devoid of theory (Wacquant, 2002) and pathologising of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) while reaffirming an innocent White character.…”

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To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies

Barba

2022

Urban Studies

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The concretisation of the Chicago School solidified and inscribed in the city their obsession with the ‘Negro Problem’, race, race relations and (im)migration. Their fixation not only framed modern sociology with an emphasis on the ‘Other’ but cemented a taken-for-granted undergirding of Whiteness at its base. As a discipline, until we can name, point out, understand and highlight that form of violence, urban sociology will be deficient in understanding the city, particularly, but not limited to the US. As an alternative, I offer Du Boisian sociology, critical race theory, and global critical race and racism to aid in moving away from an unstated Whiteness. This article shows how Whiteness is at the base of the urban question and its consequences via the trajectory of the first sociologists of colour trained at the Chicago School, the work on the ghetto, underclass and the effects of such work.

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“…Others have taken more forceful stances. In their introduction of the Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory , Abrutyn and Lizardo (2021) argue that it is time “to begin the painful process of shedding the ‘great man,’ the history of social thought approach.” 1 We find nothing inherently objectionable in this aim. However, we believe that today’s sociology majors would be ill-served if they completed their social theory coursework without being able to recognize and elaborate the central contributions of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and now Du Bois, which are so often referenced in more contemporary sociological works.…”

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“…With Go, we continue to conceive of theory pedagogy as centering on the close reading of primary texts but recognize that such an approach may come at the expense of developing a unified sociological theory pedagogy and practice on the model of some natural sciences. Abrutyn and Lizardo’s (2021) Handbook charts this alternative path in impressive detail. If this alternative were to become the dominant model of theory in the discipline, it would inspire different sorts of pedagogical reflections and concerns than we elaborate here.…”

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So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What?

Scoville

Mooney

2022

Teach Sociol

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Sociologists are engaging in a long-overdue reckoning about the place of the traditional canon in social theory courses and pedagogy. Instructors are revising their syllabi to include a more diverse set of authors while “provincializing” classics that have long been taught as universal. We confront the question of how to teach contested canonical works after an instructor has committed to this work. We argue that progressive reforms to theory syllabi can raise new problems associated with teaching “canonical” works and propose one way to address them with a flexible recipe designed to resolve tensions between pedagogical imperatives. An extended example from our experience teaching Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is employed to illustrate our proposal. Our aim is to contribute to an ongoing disciplinary dialogue that will maintain theory’s central place in sociology’s identity while constantly asking what, and whom, it is for.

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Introduction

Cited by 6 publications

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Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology

Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology

To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies

So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What?

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