Stalking Sociologists: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American SociologyUntil recent years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation enjoyed an exalted reputation as America's premier crime-fighting organization. However, it is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While no one was above suspicion, Hoover appears to have held a special disdain for sociologists and placed many of the profession's most prominent figures under surveillance. In Stalking Sociologists, Mike Forrest Keen offers a detailed account of the FBI's investigations within the context of an overview of the history of American sociology. |
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... director , he chose then Assis- tant Director J. Edgar Hoover , even though , since 1919 , Hoover had been head of the Bureau's General Intelligence Division , and the driv- ing force behind its wide - ranging hunt for subversives.6 ...
... Director . However , recent scholarship has begun to suggest that while Hoover may well represent a personal incarnation of the FBI , and was undoubtedly a major figure in its development , its do- mestic intelligence and surveillance ...
... Director , and / or McCarthyism and its impact on American society and its social insti- tutions such as academia , my work joined that of another group of scholars who were more narrowly examining FBI surveillance of par- ticular ...
... Director Robert Mueller announced a major shift in the Bureau's mission from fighting crime to preventing terrorism , along with a new set of guidelines that even further loosen the controls placed on its domestic surveillance ...
... Director himself.82 Imagine , if a symmetri- cal transparency would have been in place and allowed for a recipro- cal visibility of Hoover and the FBI's surveillance activities , could the same abuses have continued ? No doubt it was ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
WEB Du Bois Sociologist beyond the Veil | 11 |
Ernest W Burgess Security MatterC | 33 |
William Fielding Ogburn Scientist Statistician Schizophrene | 55 |
Robert and Helen Lynd From Middletown to Moronia | 69 |
E Franklin Frazier Enfant Terrible | 85 |
Pitirim A Sorokin Sociological Prophet in a Priestly Land | 105 |
No One above Suspicion Talcott Parsons under Surveillance | 123 |
Samuel Stouffer Patriot and Practitioner | 155 |
Our Man in Havana C Wright Mills Talks Yankee Listens | 171 |
The Crimefighter and the CriminologistThe Case of Edwin H Sutherland and J Edgar Hoover | 187 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Bibliography | 211 |
Bibliography 2004 | 225 |
Index | 229 |
Testing a Concept Herbert Blumers Loyalty | 143 |
Other editions - View all
Stalking Sociologists: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology Renee C. Fox,Mike Forrest Keen No preview available - 2017 |
Stalking Sociologists: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology Mike Forrest Keen No preview available - 2004 |