Social Science Research Council

2010

• “The Public Sphere in the Field of Power.” Social Science History vol. 34 (2010) #3: 301-36 [PDF: 25 pages, 216KB]
• “Rethinking Secularism.” The Hedgehog Review (Fall 2010) [PDF: 21 pages, 204KB]
• “Social Science Research and Military Agendas: Safe Distance or Bridging a Troubling Divide?” Perspectives on Politics (September 2010) [PDF: 10 pages, 128KB]
• “Beck, Asia and second modernity,” in British Journal of Sociology Volume 61 Issue 3 (2010): 598-620 [PDF: 23 pages, 172KB]

2009

• “Free Inquiry and Public Mission in the Research University,” Social Research Volume 73, Number 3 (Fall 2009): 901-932 [PDF 33 pages, 2.5mb]
• “Charles Tilly’s Interdisciplinary Influence,” in Swiss Political Science Review Volume 15, Number 2 (2009): 333–339. [PDF: 8 pages, 212kb]
• “Academic Freedom: Public Knowledge and the Structural Transformation of the University,” in Social Research Volume 76, Number 2 (Summer 2009): 561–598. [PDF: 38 pages, 164kb]
• “Les sciences social pour un savoir publique” and “Fausses divisions,” in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales Numéro 176-177 (March 2009): 139–140. [PDF: 3 pages, 244kb]

2008

• “Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Social Imaginary,” in Daedalus 137.3 (Summer 2008): 105-114. [PDF: 10 pages, 612kb]
• “The Imperative to Reduce Suffering: Charity, Progress, and Emergencies in the Field of Humanitarian Action,” in Thomas G. Weiss and Michael Barnett, eds.: Humanitarianism in Question: Power, Politics, Ethics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• “Religion, Secularism, and Public Reason,” in Bodil Kjelstrup, ed., Jurgen Habermas on Religion and the Public Sphere, Bergen: University of Bergen Press.
• “Media, Power, and Protest in China: From Cultural Revolution to the Internet,” (with Guobin Yang) Harvard Asia Pacific Review.

2007

• “Media, Civil Society and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China” (with Guobin Yang), China Information.
• “Nationalism and the Cultures of Democracy,” Public Culture, Vol. 19:1.

2006

• “Is the University in Crisis?“  Society (Transaction Publishers) May/June issue.
• “Pierre Bourdieu and Social Transformation: Lessons from Algeria,” Development and Change, vol. 37:6.

2005

• “The Privatization of Risk.” Public Culture 18(2).
• “The Visions and Divisions of Sociology.” (with Troy Duster), The Chronicle of Higher Education 51(49):B7.
• “The University and the Public Good.” Thesis Eleven 82(1).
• “The Promise of Public Sociology.” The British Journal of Sociology

2004

• “Gerhard Lenski, Some False Oppositions, and The Religious Factor.“ Sociological Theory 22(2): 194-203.
• “Peter Michael Blau: February 7, 1918–March 12, 2002.” Biographical Memoirs
• “Må overvinne motsetninger i forskningen.”Forskning 12(3): 9. (Interview)
• “A World of Emergencies: Fear, Intervention, and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Order,” the 35th Annual Sorokin Lecture given at the University of Saskatchewan on March 4, 2004.

2003

• “The Elusive Ideal of Cosmopolitan Democracy.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 47: 3-26.
  Reprinted, slightly revised, in Modernity and Morality. Ed. T. Wallgren.
• “Variability in Belonging: A Response to Brubaker.” Ethnicities
• “‘Belonging’ in the cosmopolitan imaginary.” Ethnicities 3(4): 531-568.
• “European Studies: always already there and still in formation.“ Comparative European Politics 1(1).
• “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101(4): 869-97.
  Reprinted in Daniele Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics. London:
  Verso, 2003.
  Reprinted in Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen, eds. Conceiving Cosmopolitanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  Reprinted in Umut Ozkirimli, ed. Rethinking Nationalism. London: Palgrave, 2003.

2002

• “The Necessity and Limits of Cosmopolitanism.”Identity, Difference, and Globalization. Ed. E. Larretta. Rio de Janeiro: EDUCAM.
• “Constitutional Patriotism and the Public Sphere: Interests, Identity, and Solidarity in the Integration of Europe.”Global Ethics and Transnational Politics. Ed. Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 275-312
• “Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism and the Public Sphere.”Public Culture 14(1): 147-72.
• “In Memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu” (with Loïc Wacquant), Footnotes
  Danish translation as “‘Alt er socialt’: In memoriam Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002),” Dansk Sociologi, 13-1, Fall 2002, pp. 7-10. Chinese translation in Cultural Studies: West and China, Peking, Fall 2003.

2001

• “The Virtues of Inconsistency: Identity and Plurality in the Conceptualization of Europe”Constructing Europe’s Identity. Ed. Lars-Eric Cederman. Boulder, CO: Lynn Reiner. 35-56
• “The Critical Dimension in Sociological Theory.”Handbook of Sociological Theory. Ed. J. H. Turner. New York: Plenum. 85-112.
• “Putting Emotions in Their Place.” Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. Ed. J. Goodwin, J. Jasper and F. Poletta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 45-57.
• “Nationalism, Modernism, and their Multiplicities.” Identity, Culture, and Globalization. Ed. E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg. Leiden: Brill. 445-470.
  Farsi translation forthcoming, Tehran.
• “Information Technology and Integration.” Towards a New Era: Economic, Social, and Political Reforms. Ed. M.L. Sondhi. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications. 86-106.
• “Critical Theory.”Handbook of Sociological Theory. Ed. G. Ritzer and B. Smart. London: Sage. 179-200.
• “Identity and Plurality in the Conceptualization of Europe.” Constructing Europe’s Identity: The External Dimension. Ed. Lars-Eric Cederman. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner. 35-56.
• “Remembering Pierre Bourdieu.”Items and Issues 2(3-4): 16-19.

2000

• “Charles Taylor on Identity and the Social Imaginary.” Cahiers du PEQ (Programme d’études sur le Québec) 19 (June): 2-9.
• “The Specificity of American Higher Education.” Comparative Social Research 19: 47-81.
• “Pierre Bourdieu.”The Blackwell Companion to the Major Social Theorists. Ed. George Ritzer. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. 696-730.
  Revised edition, 2003, 274-309.

1999

• “Legacies of Radicalism: China’s Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989″ (with Jeffrey Wasserstrom). Thesis 11 57: 33-52.
  Chinese translation as “Wenhua da geming yu 1989 nian minzhu yundong zhijian de lishi guanxi,” in Xianggang shehui kexue xuebao [Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences] 11 (Spring 1998), 129-149.Reprinted as “The Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989: Complexities of Historical Connection,” 241-61 in Law, Kam-yee, ed.: The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond a Purge and a Holocaust (London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2003)
• “Nationalism, History, and Social Change.”Social Change and Historical Sociology. Ed. F. Engelstad and R. Kalleberg. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. 3-28.
• “Nationalism, Political Community, and the Representation of Society: Or, “Why Feeling at Home Is Not a Substitute for Public Space.”European Journal of Social Theory 2(2): 217-231.
• “Continuing Trends or Future Transformations?”The Social Worlds of Higher Education. Ed. Bernice A. Pescasolido and Ronald Aminzade. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Books. 548-562.
• “The Changing Character of College: Institutional Transformation in American Higher Education.”The Social Worlds of Higher Education. Ed. Bernice A. Pescasolido and Ronald Aminzade. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Books. 9-31.

1998

• “Explanation in Historical Sociology: Narrative, General Theory, and Historically Specific Theory.”American Journal of Sociology
• “Nationalism and the Contradictions of Modernity.”Berkeley Journal of Sociology 42: 1-30.
• “The Public Good as a Social and Cultural Project.”Private Action for the Public Good. Ed. W. Powell and L. Clemens. New Haven: Yale UP.
• “Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere.”Sociological Inquiry 68(3). Italian translation in Mario de Benedittis, ed.: Comunita in rete. Milano: FrancoAngeli s.r.l., 2002
• “Multiculturalism and Nationalism.” Multiculturalism and Globalization. Ed. L. E. Soares. Rio de Janeiro: EDUCAM.

1997

• “Plurality, Promises, and Public Spaces.”Hannah Arendt and The Meaning of Politics. Ed. C. Calhoun and J. McGowan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 232-259.
• “Which Classics, Whose Reading? Interpretation and Cultural Difference in the Canonization of Sociological Theory.” Social Theory and Sociology. Ed. S. Turner. Oxford: Blackwell. 70-96.
• Public and Private in Thought and Practice. Ed. J. Weintraub and K. Kumar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 75-102.
• “The Rise and Domestication of Historical Sociology.”The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences: Essays on Transformations in the Disciplines. Ed. T. MacDonald. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 305-338.

1996

• “Rights after Liberation: A Report from Eritrea” (with Pamela DeLargy). Dissent (Summer): 129-133.
• “Social Theory and the Public SphereThe Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Ed. B. Turner. Oxford: Blackwell. 429-70.

1995

• “Nationalism and Social Change.”Understanding Social Change in the Nineties: Theoretical Approaches and Historiographical Perspectives. Ed. V. Vázquez de Prada and I. Olábarri. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate/Variorum. 389-420.
  Also in Proceedings of the V Conversaciones Internationale de Historia. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarre, 1992.

1994

• “National Traditions: Created or Primordial?” Nasjonal identitet—et kunstprodukt? Ed. O. Sorensen. Oslo: Norges forskningrad. 9-30.
• “Science, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity.”Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China. Ed. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry. Boulder: Westview Press. 93-124.
• “E.P. Thompson and the Discipline of Historical Context.”Social Research: 1-21.
• “Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.” Social Theory and the Politics of Identity. Ed. C. Calhoun. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. 9-36.

1993

• “‘New Social Movements’ of the Early 19th Century.” Social Science History 17(3): 385-427.
  Reprinted in: Repertoires and Cycles: Studies in the Transformation of Social Protest. Ed. M. Traugott. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
  Reprinted in: Democracy, Culture, and Power: Readings in Contemporary Political Sociology. Ed. K. Nash. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
  Norwegian translation in Sosiologi I Dag 24 (4): 23-45.
• “Nationalism and Civil Society: Democracy, Diversity and Self-Determination.”International Sociology 8(4): 387-411.Reprinted in J.H. Moore, ed.: Legacies of the Collapse of Communism. Arlington, VA: George Mason University Press, 1994.
  Reprinted in C. Calhoun, ed.: Social Theory and the Politics of Identity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994.
  Chinese translation in Zhang, Xiaojin, et al., eds.: Civil Society: A Research Framework for State/Society Relations. Beijing, 1995.Reprinted in J. Szacki, ed.: The Idea of Civil Society. Warsaw: Znak, 1995.
  Reprinted in W. Outhwaite and L. Martell, eds.: The Sociology of Politics. Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar, 1996.
• “Nationalism and Ethnicity.”Annual Review of Sociology 19: 211-39.
  Reprinted in J. Huthinson and A. Smith, eds.: Nationalism: Critical Concepts. London: Routledge, 2001.
  Hungarian translation in Zoltan Kantor, ed.: Theories of Nationalism. Budapest: Eotvos Lorand University Press, 2003.
• “Civil Society and Public Sphere.” Public Culture 5(2): 267-280.
  Chinese translation in Stephen C.K. Chen, ed.: Identity and Public Culture: Critical Essays in Cultural Studies. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997, 47-64.>
• “Habitus, Field of Power and Capital: The Question of Historical Specificity.” Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. Ed. C. Calhoun, E. LiPuma and M. Postone. Cambridge: Polity Press. 61-88.
• “Postmodernism as Pseudohistory.” Theory, Culture and Society
  Previous version appeared as Working Paper #40 of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago.
  Reprinted (revised) in P. Sztompka, ed.: Agency and Structure: Reorienting Social Theory. Yverdon, Switzerland: Gordon and Breach, 1994, 167-96.

1992

• “Quelques reflexions sur une revolution manque: Champ intellectuel, champ de pouvoir et ‘democratie’ en Chine.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (95): 26-36.
• “Sociology, Other Disciplines, and the Project of a General Understanding of Social Life.”Sociology and its Publics. Ed. T. Halliday and M. Janowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 137-195.
• “Beyond the Problem of Meaning: Robert Wuthnow’s Historical Sociology of Culture.” Theory and Society 21: 419-444.
• “Introduction.”Habermas and the Public Sphere.
• “The Infrastructure of Modernity: Indirect Relationships, Information Technology, and Social Integration.”Social Change and Modernity. Ed. H. Haferkamp and N. J. Smelser. Berkeley: University of California Press. 205-236.
• “Computerization, Aid-Dependency and Administrative Capacity: A Sudanese Case Study” (with Pamela F. DeLargy). Microcomputers in African Development. Ed. S. G. Lewis and J. Samoff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 25-64.

1991

• “Morality, Identity, and Historical Explanation: Charles Taylor on the Sources of the Self.” Sociological Theory 9(2): 232-263.
• “Imagined Communities and Indirect Relationships: Large Scale Social Integration and the Transformation of Everyday Life.” Social Theory for a Changing Society. Ed. P. Bourdieu and J.S. Coleman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 95-120.
  Previous version appeared as Working Paper #2 of the Program in Social Theory and Cross- Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.
• “Culture, History, and the Problem of Specificity in Social Theory.” Postmodernism and Social Theory. Ed. Steven Seidman and David G. Wagner. Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, Inc. 244-288.
• “The Problem of Identity in Collective Action.” Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology. Ed. J. Huber. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. 51-75.

1990

• “The Ideology of Intellectuals and the Chinese Student Protest Movement of 1989.” Praxis International 10(1-2): 131-160.Reprinted (condensed) in C. Lemert, ed.: Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory Beyond the Academy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1991, pp. 113-140 .
  Reprinted (revised) in L. Fink, S. Leonard and D. Reid, eds.: Intellectuals and the Public Sphere. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
• “Peter Blau’s Sociological Structuralism” (with W. Richard Scott). Structures of Power and Constraint. Ed. C. Calhoun, M. Meyer and W. R. Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-33.
• “Toward a Sociology of Business.” Comparative Social Research

1989

• “Classical Social Theory and the French Revolution of 1848,” Sociological Theory 7(2): 210-225.
  Previous version in Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1988, 55-87.
• “Tiananmen, Television and the Public Sphere: Internationalization of Culture and the Beijing Spring of 1989.” Public Culture 2(1): 54-70.
• “Protest in Beijing: The Conditions and Importance of the Chinese Student Movement of 1989.”Partisan Review LVI(4): 563-580.Reprinted in W. A. Nord and A. Cox, eds.: Adventures in Ideas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Program in the Humanities and Human Values, 1991, 68-78.
• “The Beijing Spring, 1989: Notes on the Making of a Protest.” Dissent 36(4): 435-447.
  Reprinted in Peter Kivisto, ed., Sociology for a Global Age, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• “Revolution and Repression in Tiananmen Square.” Society 26(6): 21-38.
  Excerpted in The University Gazette 17(10): 4-5; Carolina Alumni Review, September 1989.
• “Social Issues in the Study of Culture.” Comparative Social Research 11: 1-29.
• “Intérêt, rationalité et culture: à propos d’un récent débat sur la théorie de l’action” (with Loic Wacquant). Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 78 (June): 41-60.
  Translation published as “Interesse, racionalidade e cultura,” Revista brasiliera de ciences sociais 15(6): 76-100.
• “Social Theory and the Law: Systems Theory, Normative Justification and Postmodernism.” Northwestern University Law Review 83(1-2): 1701-1763.

1988

• “Populist Politics, Communications Media, and Large Scale Social Integration.” Sociological Theory 6(2): 219-241.Previous version appeared as Working Paper #16 of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, IL, 1987.
• “Microcomputer Implementations in the Least Developed Countries: Some Policy Considerations” (with Pamela DeLargy, John Freymann and Dale Whittington). Microcomputer Policy for Developing Countries. Ed. E. Griffin Shay. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
• “Who Really Wants Donor Coordination? Reflections on the Development of a Microcomputer-Based Development Project Directory in the Sudan” (with Dale Whittington). Development Policy Review 6(3): 295-309.
  Reprinted (condensed) as “Reflections on Donor Coordination: An Attempt to Establish a Microcomputer-based Development Project Directory in Sudan,” Carolina Planning 14(1): 8-14.
• “Coping with Insidious Injuries: The Case of Johns-Manville Corporation and Asbestos Exposure” (with Henryk Hiller). Social Problems 35(2): 162-181.
  Reprinted in J. H. Galliher, ed.: Human Behavior and Human Rights, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991.
  Reprinted in D. Ermann and R. Lundman, ed.: Corporate and Government Deviance, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; 5th ed. 1996.
  Reprinted in W.P. Perdue, ed: Systemic Crisis: A Critical and International Perspective. New York: Holt/Sanders/Dryden, 1992. 6
  Reprinted in L.W. Klemke, ed.: Analyzing Deviants and Deviant Behavior. Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press/Simon and Schuster, 1994.
• “Computerization in Legal Work: How Much Does New Technology Change Professional Practice?” (with Martha Copp). Research in the Sociology of Work 4: 233-259.

1987

• “Class, Place and Industrial Revolution.” Class and Space: The Making of Urban Society. Ed. P. Williams and N. Thrift. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 51-72.
• “Computerized Information Management in a System-Poor Environment: Lessons from the Design and Implementation of a Computer System for the Sudanese Planning Ministry” (with William Drummond and Dale Whittington). Third World Planning Review 9(4): 347-365.
  Reprinted in P. Woodward, ed.: Sudan after Nimeiri. London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 184-206.
• “History and Sociology in Britain: A Review Article.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 29(3): 615-625.

1986

• “Computer Technology, Large Scale Social Integration and the Local Community.” Urban Affairs Quarterly 22(2): 329-349.

1984

• “Populistische Politik in der Klassengesellschaft.” L’80: Demokratie und Sozialismus, Politische und literarische Beitrage Heft 30, Juni: 29-37.
• “Technology’s Global Village Fragments Community Life.” IEEE Spectrum 21(6): 80-84.

1983

• “Industrialization and Social Radicalism: British and French Workers’ Movements and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Crisis.” Theory and Society 12(4): 485-504.
  Previously an Occasional Paper of the Center for International Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.
  Reprinted (expanded) as “The ‘Retardation’ of French Economic Development and Social Radicalism During the Second Republic: New Lessons from the Old Comparison with Britain,” in E. Burke, III, ed.: Global Crises and Social Movements: Artisans, Peasants, Populists and the World Economy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988, 40-71.
• “The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?” American Journal of Sociology 88(5): 886-914.

1981

• “The Political Economy of Work.” Political Economy: Critique of American Society. Ed. S. G. McNall. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman. 272-299.
• “The Microcomputer Revolution? Technical Possibilities and Social Choices,” Sociological Methods and Research, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 397-437.Reprinted in D. Heise (ed.), Microcomputers and Social Research. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981, pp. 5-45.

1980

• “Transition in Social Foundations for Collective Action: Communities of Workers in the Southeast Lancashire Textile Region in the 1820s and 1830s.” Social Science History, 4(4): 419-451.
• “Democracy, Autocracy and Intermediate Associations in Organizations: Flexibility or Unrestrained Change?” Sociology 4(3): 345-361.
• “The Authority of Ancestors: A Sociological Reconsideration of Fortes’s Tallensi in Response to Fortes’s Critics.” Man, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15(2): 304-319.
  Web published in 1997 by the Experience Rich Anthropology Project, University of Kent, at http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Ancestors/
• “Community: Toward a Variable Conceptualization for Comparative Research.” Social History 5(1): 105-129.Reprinted in R. S. Neale (ed.), History and Class: Essential Readings in Theory and Interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983, 86-110.

1978

• “History, Anthropology and the Study of Communities: Some Problems in MacFarlane’s Proposal.” Social History 3(3): 363-373.

1976

• “Education and the Problem of Continuity.” The Anthropological Study of Education. Ed. C. J. Calhoun and F. A. J. Ianni. The Hague: Mouton, and Chicago: Aldine. 327-346.
• “Notes on the Social Organization of High Schools” (with F. A. J. Ianni). The Anthropological Study of Education. Ed. C. J. Calhoun and F. A. J. Ianni. The Hague: Mouton, and Chicago: Aldine. 217-226.Reprinted in R. Barnhardt, H. Wolcott and J. Chilcott (eds.) Anthropology and Educational Administration. Tucson: Impresora Sahuaro, 1979, 107-113.
• “Continuity and Change: The Significance of Time in the Organization of Experience.” International Review of Psychoanalysis 3(3): 291-304.

1975

• “The Social Function of Experiences of Altered Perception.” Socialization and Communication in Primary Groups. Ed. T. R. Williams. The Hague: Mouton, and Chicago: Aldine. 429-436.

1974

• “General Status: Specific Role.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 5(2): 15-18.