Critical Sociology seeks to engage and promote critical thinking by publishing articles within the boundaries of critical or radical social science

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Join us at Critical Sociology for this agenda-setting mini-conference! August 9, 2024 — save the date!
🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS: How can social science and social theory be critical? Join us for the 2024 @CritSoc mini-con happening at McGill University Aug 9 at @ASAnews. THEME: Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises. Really exciting plenary speakers planned. Send us a submission!
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Congratulations to Pankil Goswami whose paper, “The Political Economy of Precarious Work in India: A Case of Languishing Social Policy?” won the @CritSoc Burawoy-Wright Distinguished Article Award. Great work by the committee!
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The journal that I help edit, @CritSoc, has made all of the articles Michael Burawoy wrote for us over the past 20 years open access. Thank you for all you did for Critical Sociology, Michael — may we carry your torch! journals.sagepub.com/page/cr…
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Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. @CritSoc journals.sagepub.com/page/cr…
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To honor the memory of Michael Burawoy, and his tremendous contributions to sociology and Marxist scholarship, @CritSoc is making every article he published there free in perpetuity. You can find them here: journals.sagepub.com/page/cr…
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From Critical Sociology, thank you Michael Burawoy!
The journal that I help edit, @CritSoc, has made all of the articles Michael Burawoy wrote for us over the past 20 years open access. Thank you for all you did for Critical Sociology, Michael — may we carry your torch! journals.sagepub.com/page/cr…
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There's a lot of confusion about how to relate class politics to PMC culture. Unfortunately, the real disagreements get moralized and personalized. With relatively minimal snark, @DanielTutt and I try explore the key divisions within Marxist class analysis. Link⬇️
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'Theory and Society' the 3rd volume in Zygmunt Bauman's Selected Writings (Edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzezinski) has been reviewed in @CritSoc Journal by David Beer 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… by Shaun Best 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… #bauman #sociologybooks #bookreview #SocialAnalysis
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A plea to critical social scientists and theorists to not only criticize modes of exploitation, domination, and extraction but to also construct emancipatory alternatives. Based on a plenary talk I gave at the @CritSoc conference: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…
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"Media Tropes and the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in Chile’s Constitutional Reform Process" by Marco Castillo & Carolina Bank Munoz at @CritSoc. Insightful new research on the causes of Chile's failed constitutional reform. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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For @NewLeftReview I theorized Trumpism as a product of cultural liberalism. To get there, I compared Tumpism and Japanese fascism and drew insights from Tosaka Jun's The Japanese Ideology (1935). newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
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Trending in #Sociology: ooir.org/index.php?field=Soc… 1) Criticism & Reconstruction in Sociology (@critsoc) 2) Black Sociology 3) Resource Shortages in Racialized Organizations (@ASR_Journal) 4) AI in primary care (@icsjournal) 5) The devaluation of migrant life (@race_class)
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My piece with @JoshSeim is out in the new issue of @CritSoc as part of a symposium in honor of Michael Burawoy. Check out the other essays as well: journals.sagepub.com/toc/CRS…
In honor of Michael Burawoy's retirement, @JoshSeim and I wrote this polemical defense of theory-driven ethnography for @CritSoc. Against those who deride this approach as heavy-handed deductivism, we argue that... journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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The FINAL program for our @CritSoc miniconference, Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises, August 9 at @mcgillu during @ASAnews is live! Registration is closed, but we welcome day of walk-ins. QR code:
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The critical sociology program is here! Coming to @ASAnews in Montreal? Join us to discuss our planet’s colliding crises. Plenary speakers: @KeeangaYamahtta @Prof_deLeon Greta Krippner @hiangelo Dylan Riley @its_mccarthy @CihanTugal @purser_gretchen drive.google.com/file/d/1J3T…
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Registration ⏰ for the our minicon -- EMANCIPATORY POLITICS IN TIMES OF CRISES. Please register by June 27. Keynote speakers include: @KeeangaYamahtta, @oikeios, Dylan Riley, Greta Krippner, @Prof_deLeon, Gretchen Purser, @CihanTugal. eventbrite.com/e/emancipator…
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This year the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award for 2024 goes to Spencer Louis Potiker for the article "Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government" Congratulations, Spencer!
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Replying to @atakancif
@atakancif ve Sena Bergfalk @CritSoc dergisinde üç güncel sendikalaşma vakasına (Bel Karper, Yemeksepeti, Termokar) odaklanan çok güzel bir makale yayınladı. Üç farklı sendika, üç farklı başarı düzeyi, verimli bir karşılaştırma. Tebrik eder çalışmalarının devamını dileriz
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Decisions have been made. In the end, we had nearly 100 submissions! Our panels cover: Palestine, race & capitalism, logistics/tech & labor, southern theory, welfare, Du Bois, class analysis, post-colonialism, climate, passive revolutions, abolition, public sociology and more!
Submit to the Critical Sociology minicon, “Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crisis” at McGill University, Aug 9 2024. Plenary panelists include: @KeeangaYamahtta, @oikeios, Dylan Riley, Greta Krippner, @Prof_deLeon, Gretchen Purser, @CihanTugal. Contact @its_mccarthy for qs.
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SAVE THE DATE
📅SAVE THE DATE 📅for the @CritSoc minicon! How should we do critical analysis in times of crisis like these? Plenary speakers: @KeeangaYamahtta, @oikeios, @CihanTugal, Greta Krippner, Dylan Riley, @Prof_deLeon, and Gretchen Purser
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