Offers a detailed account of the FBI's investigation of prominent American sociologists, based on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Stalking the Sociological Imagination W.E.B. Du Bois: Sociologist beyond the Veil Ernest W. Burgess: Security Matter-C William Fielding Ogburn: Scientist, Statistician, Schizophrene Robert and Helen Lynd: From Middletown to Moronia E. Franklin Frazier: Enfant Terrible Pitirim A. Sorokin: Sociological Prophet in a Priestly Land No One above Suspicion: Talcott Parsons under Surveillance Testing a Concept: Herbert Blumer's Loyalty Samuel Stouffer: Patriot and Practitioner Our Man in Havana: C. Wright Mills Talks, Yankee Listens The Crimefighter and the Criminologist: The Case of Edwin H. Sutherland and J. Edgar Hoover Conclusion Bibliography Index
MIKE FORREST KEEN is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology at Indiana University South Bend. He teaches classical and contemporary social theory, sociology of science, and environment and society. His previous work includes numerous scholarly articles and Eastern Europe in Transformation: The Impact on Sociology (Greenwood, 1994) edited with Janusz L. Mucha.
"Based on research of FBI files on some of America's most eminent
sociologists, Mike Keen's Stalking the Sociological Imagination
extends our understanding of the politics of FBI surveillance, the
social costs of Cold War anti-communism, and the origins of
McCarthyism."-Athan Theoharis Professor of History Marquette
University
"Mike Keen has published a stimulating book that adds new grist to
the mill of sociological theory and history of American
sociology....[H]e has produced a book that is of interest to
students of social theory and the experts who teach them. Students
will find his clear and comprehensive discussion informative and
engagingly written, and professors will glean new insights into
topics and theorists that they know well....Because of the novelty
of the information and the quality of prose, this book will have
wide appeal."-Barry V. Johnston Professor Department of Sociology
Indiana University Northwest
"This ground-breaking book documents in meticulous detail decades
of harassment and surveillance of major American sociologists by
the FBI. This misuse of power, public funds, and national trust
will outrage all Americans and raise significant professional
issues within the social sciences."-Mary Jo Deegan Professor of
Sociology University of Nebraska
?Keen raises important questions about academic freedom and whether
the fear of "subversive" ideas shaped the direction of American
sociology, leading to the marginalization of Marxism and to the
hegemony of quantitative and statistical analyses.?-Choice
"Keen raises important questions about academic freedom and whether
the fear of "subversive" ideas shaped the direction of American
sociology, leading to the marginalization of Marxism and to the
hegemony of quantitative and statistical analyses."-Choice
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