Hideo AOKI Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics Ramseyer, J. and Rasmusen, E. (2018). Outcaste Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Effect of Terminating Ethnic Subsidies. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 15(1), 192-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12177 Ramseyer, J. (2019). On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan. Review & Law Economics, 16(2), 1-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/rle-2019-0021 The above two […]
by Darren Barany The mass protests against systemic white supremacist violence were sparked by the disturbing and sadistic display of the killing of George Floyd by Officer Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee into the neck of Floyd for almost nine minutes. Floyd was handcuffed, compliant, and eventually unresponsive, and Chauvin maintained the “hold” even […]
In his memory and in recognition of his commitment to nurture junior scholars, the Editorial Board of Critical Sociology has created the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award recognizing an outstanding contribution published each year in Critical Sociology. This award is given to a junior scholar or scholars for an article published in the journal’s pages the previous year, one […]
2019 AWARD WINNER – BEST PAPER BY A YOUNG SCHOLAR COURTNEY FRANTZ Courtney Frantz and Sujatha Fernandes, (2018) Whose Movement Is It? Strategic Philanthropy and Worker Centers, Critical Sociology, 44:4/5:645-660 DOI: 10.1177/0896920516661857 Courtney Frantz is a PhD Student and Graduate Center Fellow in the Sociology Department at the City University of New York Graduate Center […]
by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán On Monday evening, I saw an unsurprising post on Latino Rebels about a video where a self-defined “ethnically ambiguous” woman is encouraged by her acting coach to change her name and “be Latin.” Surprisingly, I’m not the only one (beside her) who found the advice disturbing. I’m confused the post merited mention at all. […]
HIDEO AOKI, Ph.D. Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics (https://www.istdjapan.org/english/) aoki@istdjapan.org http://moonpoet.jimdo.com Buraku Discrimination Burakumin (people living in disdained communities) are the biggest minority group in Japan. There are approximately 1.2 million Burakumin, who live in about 4,000 communities nationwide. Burakumin are a Japanese historical minority group. Buraku discrimination is a longstanding form of discrimination […]
Can Corporate Power Be Controlled? Steps Toward A Constructive Liberal-Left Alliance G. William Domhoff Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz Posted: January, 2018 ABSTRACT This document suggests possible steps that might make it possible for liberals and leftists to work together on economic programs and thereby have more success. However, the most immediate goal would […]
David Norman Smith and Eric Allen Hanley have a pair of forthcoming articles in Critical Sociology that explore the Trump election in more detail. What follows is a preview of the argument they develop, accompanied by the statistical tables that ground this argument in data drawn from the American National Election Study. David Norman Smith University of Kansas, United States Eric […]
Alfredo Saad Filho is Professor of Political Economy at the SOAS Department of Development Studies. His research interests include the political economy of neoliberalism, industrial policy, alternative macroeconomic policies, and the labour theory of value and its applications. The certainties that used to hold neoliberalism together are melting into the air: the common sense of the […]
Yale historian and Holocaust expert Timothy Snyder wrote: “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.” Snyder’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (which includes former […]