Max Weber’s famous text The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) is surely one of the most misunderstood of all the canonical works regularly taught, mangled, and revered in ...

The Sociology of Freedom is the fascinating third volume of a five-volume work titled The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization. The general aim of the two earlier volumes was to clarify what power ...

Contemporary Sociology (CS) publishes reviews and critical discussions of recent works in sociology and in related disciplines which merit the attention of sociologists. Since not all sociological ...

This article argues that public policy formation cannot be understood without a consistent theory of the capitalist state and politics. This is particularly true with respect to education policies.

Adam Hanieh will join us to discuss his newly-released book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books, 2024). This expansive history traces the hidden ...

I received a B.A. and an M.A. from the Department of Religion at Florida State University, where I looked at the social and economic history of Christianity and Islam, as well as the relationship ...

The American Sociological Association, like academic bodies from psychology and anthropology before it, is using a publication to urge world leaders to consider the social sciences—and not just the ...