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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... security bureaucracy and began the development of a nationwide sur- veillance network and sophisticated records and indexing system for collecting and managing its massive collection of information , the Stalking Sociologists.
... records system for the Bureau's surreptitious and sometimes outright illegal activities . Intended to insure that they were not serialized or recorded in the Bureau's central records , it also made use of fine semantic distinctions ...
... records of patrons , particularly those of Soviet and East- ern European foreign nationals and or anyone else with foreign sound- ing names or accents . Investigations were extended to include those librarians who resisted and ...
... doubt continued to be systematically surveilled through the shutting down of the COINTELPRO program in 1971. One of the reasons I have no record of any sociologists beyond the early 1960s is that Introduction to the Transaction Edition XV.
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology. record of any sociologists beyond the early 1960s is that one can only request a file after someone has died , and therefore the records of the generation of sociologists who may ...
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 |