Stalking sociologists : J. Edgar Hoover's FBI surveillance of American sociology / Mike Forrest Keen ; with a new introduction by the author.

"This history uses documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Keen argues that Hoover and the FBI marginalized sociologists such as W.E.B. Du Bois and C. Wright Mills tried to suppress the development of a Marxist tradition in American sociology, and likely pushed the mainstream of t...

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Main Author: Keen, Mike Forrest (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick (U.S.A.) ; London (U.K.) : Transaction Publishers, [2004]
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sociology > United States > History > 20th century.
Sociology.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxxiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. W. E. B. Du Bois: Sociologist beyond the Veil
  • 3. Ernest W. Burgess: Security Matter-C
  • 4. William Fielding Ogburn: Scientist, Statistician, Schizophrene
  • 5. Robert and Helen Lynd: From Middletown to Moronia
  • 6. E. Franklin Frazier: Enfant Terrible
  • 7. Pitirim A. Sorokin: Sociological Prophet in a Priestly Land
  • 8. No One above Suspicion: Talcott Parsons under Surveillance
  • 9. Testing a Concept: Herbert Blumer's Loyalty
  • 10. Samuel Stouffer: Patriot and Practitioner
  • 11. Our Man in Havana: C. Wright Mills Talks, Yankee Listens
  • 12. Crimefighter and the Criminologist: The Case of Edwin H. Sutherland and J. Edgar Hoover
  • 13. Conclusion.