Journal

Critical Sociology


Brill Book Series

Studies in Critical Social Sciences


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Association for Critical Sociology

"Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

The foundation of capitalism is appropriation of the social surplus by the few who control the means of production and of subsistence. The consequence is chronic and environmentally unsustainable dynamism, periods of boom alternating with bust, longer and deeper crises which inflict ever deeper pain on an ever growing segment of our world's population.  The Association for Critical Sociology is committed to providing a space for critical analysis and discussion of both the consequences of capitalist development and the potential for resistance.

Critical Sociology

Published by SAGE
For almost 40 years the journal has provided a space where scholars can share their ideas and publish their works challenging the dominant paradigms in Sociology.

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Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Published by BRILL and Haymarket Books
This series was launched as an outlet of progressive and critical scholarship in support of junior scholars and more accomplished academics seeking a receptive audience for their research.

Paperback editions are available from Haymarket Books, with student discounts for course adoption.

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Special Initiatives in
Critical Sociology

Latin American and Caribbean Research
Editor, R. A. Dello Buono

  • Solicit and review manuscripts in Spanish from critical scholars from the region who traditionally don’t publish in English language journals
  • Underwrite the translation costs of accepted articles to facilitate publication in the pages of our journal.

African Research
Editor Nikitah Imani

  • Seek out and encourage submissions to the journal by scholars from Africa or those writing from a non-Western intellectual tradition
  • Challenge conventional perspectives on analyzing the global political economy

The Insurgent Sociologist

Emerging out of the malaise of the 1950s and a growing awareness of social injustice, graduate students challenged functionalism as the dominant paradigm within Sociology.  An awareness that social science was being used in the "war on poverty" and inequality was the bi-product of a system promising greater prosperity led students into confrontations with both the academic and social forces of control. 

By the 1967 ASA annual meeting the conflict between left and right in sociology came to a head, and by the 1968 ASA meeting in Boston the Sociology Liberation Movement emerged.  It quickly became clear that there was interest in a competing analysis, and soon thereafter The Insurgent Sociologist, the forerunner to Critical Sociology, emerged to promote critical scholarship and engage in debates over the direction of the discipline. 

We offer our readers a glimpse of the artwork that graced the covers of these pioneering efforts to build a new paradigm of critical research.
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