Publications
Edited Books
Forthcoming
Habermas and Religion (with Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen). Cambridge: Polity.
Creating Authority (with Richard Sennett). Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Rethinking Secularism (with Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Latest
Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Crisis (with Georgi Derlugian)
New York University Press/ SSRC, 2011
From the Publisher-Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, Business As Usual shows how the current financial crisis was made possible by both neoliberal financial reforms and a massive turning away from manufacturing things of value to make profits from trading financial assets. In original essays, the contributors establish how the Great Recession is related to crises of the past and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether the crisis—despite its severity—contains seeds of a new global economy, what role the United States will play, and whether China or other countries will rise to global leadership.
The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges After Neoliberalism (with Georgi Derlugian)
New York University Press/ SSRC, 2011
From the Publisher-Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security, ethnicity, and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the global financial crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world’s richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order (with Georgi Derlugian)
New York University Press/ SSRC, 2011
From the Publisher-The global financial crisis revealed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world’s richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil, and other countries are growing faster than Europe or America and have weathered the crisis better. Is their growth due to following conventional economic guidelines or to strong state leadership and sometimes protectionism? These issues are basic to the question of which countries will grow in coming decades, as well as to the likely conflicts over global trade policy, currency standards, and economic cooperation.
Knowledge Matters (with Diana Rhoten) The Public Mission of the Research University”
Columbia University Press, 2011
From the Publisher- Everyone from parents to policymakers has an interest in the mission of higher education, yet in many cases, the shifting relationship between public and private goods and public and private purposes has complicated that mission. Recent changes in organization, funding, and assessment have also altered the public purpose of universities. In this collection, scholars from around the world confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agenda. Their perspective illuminates the trajectory of education in the twenty-first century and the continuing importance of the university’s public mission.
Varieties of Secularism (with Michael Warner and Jonathan VanAntwerpen) Charles Taylor and “A Secular Age”
Harvard University Press, 2010
From the Publisher- “What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect.
Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science, Sociology as Science
Columbia University Press, 2010
From the Publisher- Gathering together twelve major sociologists, Craig Calhoun launches a thorough reconsideration of Merton’s achievements and inspires a renewed engagement with sociological theory. Merton’s work addressed the challenges of integrating research and theory. It connected different fields of empirical research and spoke to the importance of overcoming divisions between allegedly pure and applied sociology. Merton also sought to integrate sociology with the institutional analysis of science, each informing the other. By bringing together different aspects of his work in one volume, Calhoun illuminates the interdisciplinary& mdash;and unifying& mdash;dimensions of Merton’s approach, while also advancing the intellectual agenda of an increasingly vital area of study.
Practicing Culture (with Richard Sennett) [Taking Culture Seriously Series]
Routledge, 2007
From the publisher — Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do – and do in rich variety and distinctive contexts as engaging case studies from the book reveal.
Contemporary Sociological Theory, 2nd ed. (with Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, and Indermohan Virk)
Blackwell, 2007
From the publisher — This meticulous collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining current key topics in the field such as such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity.
Classical Sociological Theory (with Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Kathryn Schmidt, and Indermohan Virk)
Blackwell, 2007
From the publisher — This comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to its current guideposts and reference points in contemporary sociological debate.
Sociology in America: A History
University of Chicago Press, 2007
From the publisher — Though the word “sociology” was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that situation—and to celebrate the centennial of the American Sociological Association—Craig Calhoun assembled a team of leading sociologists to produce Sociology in America.
The Sage Handbook of Sociology (with Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner)
Sage Publications, 2006
From the publisher — [T]hree leading figures in the field of sociology were selected as editors to bring together the foremost exponents of the different strands that contribute towards the make up modern sociology. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, the contributors have been commissioned to utilise the most up to date research available to provide a critical, international analysis of their area of expertise. The result is this essential resource collection that not just reflects upon the condition of sociology today but also looks to future developments in the discipline.
Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power
New Press, 2005
From the publisher — This final volume in the Social Science Research Council “After September 11” series examines what the experience of past empires tells us about the nature and consequences of global power. How do the goals and circumstances of the United States today compare to classical imperialist projects of rule over others, whether for economic exploitation or in pursuit of a “civilizing mission”?
Understanding September 11 (with Paul Price and Ashley Timmer)
New Press, 2002
From Publisher’s Weekly — [T]his volume comprises 24 essays by historians, sociologists and political scientists, nearly all American professors, tackling Islamic radicalism, terrorism and the politics of the new world order in the thoughtful, careful prose of the academy. Like a college course on September 11 slipped between two paper covers, this addition to the current dialogue, edited by SSRC president Calhoun and colleagues Price and Timmer, provides serious study of the “divides in perspectives,” the challenges posed to liberal democracies, and the increasing international dominance of Western culture.
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Oxford University Press, 2002
From the publisher — Featuring over 1,800 concise definitions of key terms, the Dictionary of the Social Sciences is the most comprehensive, authoritative single-volume work of its kind. With coverage on the vocabularies of anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism, it is an integrated, easy-to-use, A-to-Z reference tool.
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Social Theory and the Politics of Identity
Wiley Blackwell, 1994
From the publisher — New social movements of the post-war era have brought to prominence the idea that identity can be a crucial focus for political struggle. Linked to an increasing recognition that social theory itself must put the politics of identity on center stage, this volume impels social theorists not only to make sense of the “world out there,” but also to make sense of differences within the discourse of theory.
Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (with John McGowan)
University of Minnesota Press, 1997
From the publisher — Is politics really nothing more than power relations, competing interests and claims for recognition, conflicting assertions of “simple” truths? No thinker has argued more passionately against this narrow view than Hannah Arendt, and no one has more to say to those who bring questions of meaning, identity, value, and transcendence to our impoverished public life. This volume brings leading figures in philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary theory into a dialogue about Arendt’s work and its significance for today’s fractious identity politics, public ethics, and civic life.
Bourdieu (with E. LiPuma and M. Postone) Critical Perspectives
University of Chicago Press. 1993
From the Publisher- Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives provides a unified and balanced appraisal of Bourdieu’s varied works by both proponents and skeptics. The essays are written from the varied viewpoints of cultural anthropology, ethnomethodology and other varieties of sociology, existential and Wittgensteinian philosophies, linguistics, media studies, and feminism. They work around three main themes: Bourdieu’s effort to transcend gaps between practical knowledge and universal structures, his central concept of “reflexivity,” and the relations between social structure, systems of classification, and language.
Habermas and the Public Sphere
MIT Press, 1993
From the publisher — The relationship between civil society and public life has become a major topic of discussion in many disciplines, and no single scholarly voice informs this discussion more than that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic politics. In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas’s most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.
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