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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... social scientists , entitled The Academic Mind : Social Scientists in a Time of Crisis . While I had caught Stouffer's study on Communism , Conformity and Civil Liberties , I had missed this one completely , and I shouldn't have . I ...
... social body ; its vocation was to become a generalized function . " 66 Furthermore , Fou- cault argues , " it is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated , repressed , altered by our social order , Introduction to ...
... social order , it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it . . . . 67 In other words , as an alternative to the liberalist story of the emergence of the individual as the foundation of freedom and democracy , Foucault ...
... social , political , and institutional terms . However , such a social and histori- cal transformation might be begun in the same manner as that chronicled by Foucault , that led to the development and dispersion of the techniques of ...
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 |