The Relation of Social Theory to Public Policy

Giddings, Franklin H.

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“…Giddings further noted that ‘one question that overshadows all others’ and with which sociologists should grapple did not have to do with immigration but ‘Is it War or Peace?’ (1911: 581). His concern here was the ‘militarization’ of societies and potential war between them.…”

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“…This would affirm the metrocentric view. But Giddings in fact pointed to global and imperial issues alongside his references to domestic matters: To speak for the moment of our own nation, the questions that vex us are of bewildering variety and complexity: questions of territorial expansion and of rule over alien peoples; questions arising out of race conflict within our older continental domain; questions of the restriction of immigration, of the centralization or the distribution of administrative authority, and the concentration or the diffusion of economic power.(1911: 580–581)…”

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Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

2013

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Existing accounts of American sociology’s founding years during the early twentieth century assume that the discipline was ‘metrocentric.’ They assume that it was only interested in processes occurring within the United States; that American sociologists fell prey to state-centrist thought; and that, therefore, contextualizing America sociology’s emergence necessitates understanding relations, events, and processes within the confines of US territorial boundaries. By contrast, this paper shows the imperial and hence global aspects of early American sociological thought. Early American sociologists were interested in imperialism and, therefore, in cross-societal, transnational, and global processes and relations. Implicitly or explicitly they approached imperialism as a process by which social groups, not least ‘races,’ interacted and conflicted. They also saw it as a route towards new global forms. Early American sociology thus articulated a sociological imagination that looked beyond American society and to the wider world.

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Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

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Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

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Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

2013

Journal of Classical Sociology

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“…Franklin Giddings at Columbia explicitly stated that the imperial world and its associated dynamics should be an object of sociological interest. In Giddings’ (1911, 580–1) presidential address to the American Sociological Society (later the American Sociological Association), he claimed that among the key ‘questions that vex us’ and which sociology should address were ‘questions of territorial expansion and of rule over alien peoples’. Giddings in turn wrote works on imperialism and gave lectures providing typologies of imperial forms (Giddings 1898, 1900).…”

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The ‘New’ Sociology of Empire and Colonialism

2009

Sociology Compass

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This study reviews recent sociological scholarship on empire and colonialism. The new ‘imperial–colonial studies’ in sociology is not a fully fledged subfield but an emerging space of inquiry that examines social forms, processes, and relations associated with imperialism and colonialism. This study sketches the main features of the new scholarship. It also situates the new sociological studies within a larger history of sociological inquiry and interdisciplinary context. Finally, it suggests that the future of sociology’s new imperial–colonial studies lies not in ‘sociologizing’ the study of empire and colonialism but in deploying analyses of empire and colonialism to help critically reorient some of traditional sociology’s limiting lenses and assumptions.

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“…1 His thinking on race relations was inspired largely by his sociological training under Franklin Giddings, the first sociology department chair at Columbia University and president of the American Sociological Society (Go 2017:3). Giddings (1911) argued that sociology should be concerned with “territorial expansion and . .…”

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U.S. Empire and the “Adaptive Education” Model: The Global Production of Race

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2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Following World War I, the U.S. Department of Labor worked with a large-scale commercial philanthropic endeavor called the Phelps Stokes Fund to transfer educational policies designed for African Americans to West Africa and South Africa. They specifically promoted the “adaptive education” model used at Tuskegee and the Hampton institutes for African American education. This model emphasized manual labor, Christian character formation, and political passivity as a form of racial uplift. They relied upon the sociologist and educational director of the Phelps Stokes Fund, Thomas Jesse Jones, to advocate for the transnational development of the model. Juxtaposing Jones’s advocacy for the adaptive education model in Education in Africa and W.E.B. Du Bois’s critique of the model in The Crisis and Darkwater, the author finds that two different conceptions of the U.S. racial state emerge. According to Jones and Du Bois, why did the U.S. racial state decide to link African Americans and Africans as similar objects of political intervention? Furthermore, can this dynamic be conceptualized within a theory of race that conceptualizes the U.S. racial state as a nation-state?

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The Relation of Social Theory to Public Policy

Cited by 29 publications

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Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

The ‘New’ Sociology of Empire and Colonialism

U.S. Empire and the “Adaptive Education” Model: The Global Production of Race

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