Confronting Gouldner: Sociology and Political Activism

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An important new appraisal of one of the 20th century's most important activist sociologists. Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980) was a leading sociologist of his era who provided ground breaking analyses in the areas of industrial sociology, critical sociological theory, ideology, reciprocity, and class analysis. In Confronting Gouldner James J. Chriss confronts the larger issue of the place of critical theory, and specifically Marxism, in framing the perspective of sociology as political activism. Show more