Selected Articles and Book Chapters – Craig Calhoun
Published on: Apr 05, 2007

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Forthcoming

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

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

1998

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

1991

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

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.
 
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