Planetary Sociology
Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure
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In Planetary Sociology: Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure, Harry F. Dahms gathers a team of interdisciplinary junior social scientists who examine their individual identity as being shaped by specific social contexts such as nationality, class, and race, to scrutinize how their interests as social scientists are responses to such contexts and culturally specific circumstances (Part II). Acknowledging the limits of economic, organizational, and technological modernization at the national level, planetary sociology delineates the type of critical social, political, cultural, and environmental reflexivity required for "progress," "health," and "development" to be meaningful categories.
Including contributions from senior scholars in the field who do not rely on the paradigm of planetary Sociology (Part III), this volume of Current Perspectives in Social Theory illustrates the importance of scrutinizing links between individual identity and social structure, without employing the paradigm of planetary sociology. Taken together, the chapters in this volume are essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students eager to understand a rigorous social-research mindset, along with professionalization, methodology, and theoretical orientation, and related applications. Presenting an opportunity for social theorists and social scientists to learn about the challenges faced by younger sociologists, the examples of "applied theory" included here emphasize the importance of critical self-reflexivity in and for the 21st century, and the challenges it represents to social scientists, theorists, researchers, and teachers.
Part I. Introducing Planetary Sociology
- Introduction: Navigating the Tensions between Self and Society; Harry F. Dahms
- Chapter 1. Planetary Sociology as a New Paradigm: Disentangling Identity Structure and Social Structure (or, Toward a More Resolute Enlightenment); Harry F. Dahms
- Part II. Planetary Sociology: Contrubtions and Applications
- Chapter 2. Critical Socioanalysis and the Critique of Religion, or, Why I Read Theory: Gloria Anzaldúa, Jacques Lacan, and Memories of Latin America; Joel M. Crombez
- Chapter 3. “Dirty Mourning”: Appalachia, Identity, and Planetary Sociology; Bethany Nelson
- Chapter 4. The Authoritarian Personality in White Middle-Class Suburbia: A Planetary Sociology of Trumpism and Me; Stelios Alfonso Panageotou
- Chapter 5. The Futility of Human Capital? Contradictions of “Neoliberal Ethics,” Heteronomy, and Automation; Anthony J. Knowles
- Chapter 6. Between Habit and Innovation: Social Construction of the Self and Systems for a Planetary Sociology; Emily M. Landry
- Chapter 7. A Planetary Political Ecology for Relict Species: The Abandonment of Societies and Environments; Thomas F. Bechtold
- Chapter 8. Opposing the Binary: Blurring the Lines of Gender and Sexual Identity for Planetary Sociology; Rachel A. Ponder
- Chapter 9. Working through the Past: Punishment, Accountability, and Transformation within Self and Structure; Vivian Swayne
- Chapter 10. "In the sweet by and by": Living in the Space between as an Insider/Outsider of Evangelical Christianity; Della Winters
- Part III. Intersections of Identity Structure and Social Structure
- Chapter 11. The Missing Factor in Critical Global Studies: Indigenous Knowledge; Asafa Jalata
- Chapter 12. Allegory, Discourse, and Truth: The Ontological Grounding of Social Being; Reha Kadakal
- Chapter 13. A Theory of Despair among U.S. College Students; Joseph C. Hermanowicz
- Chapter 14. Adorno, Luhmann and the Critique of Identity: Some Internal Connections; Laurindo Dias Minhoto and Lucas Fucci Amato
Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, co-director at the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and co-chair, Committee on Social Theory. He is the author of The Vitality of Critical Theory (2011), has edited and co-edited numerous other books and special issues of journals, and has published in Sociological Theory, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Comparative Sociology, Critical Sociology, Fast Capitalism, disclosure, Soundings, and other journals.