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Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Notes and Comments(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Carithers, Martha W.Publication Review Essay: Education and the Radical Critique(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Sickle, Larry VanThis essay will be primarily concerned with a critical analysis of recent writings pertaining to schooling in America. Included in the analysis will be the work of Samuel Bowles, Martin Carnoy, Herbert Gintis, Michael Katz, and Joel Spring. Although these scholars of American education will provide the theoretical framework for the essay, they do not necessarily concur on all issues. As we will later demonstrate, all of the works differ in many instances, especially their policy recommendations. If there is a common thread woven throughout all of these works, it is the intellectual debt they owe Karl Marx. All of them rely heavily on Marxian materialism in their analyses, but few utilize the Marxian dialectic to its fullest. The task of the essay will be an explication of the theories and subsequent policy recommendations of the works under scrutiny followed by a critical evaluation of the theory and its proposed praxis (or lack thereof).Publication BEYOND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGY: THE CASE OF BEHAVIORISM AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Oliver, Melvin L.The paper focuses on an analysis of the potential impact that the behaviorist and ethnomethodological paradigms may have on academic sociology. Structural analysis in the sociology of sociology (Friedrichs, 1974; Mullins, 1973) is criticized and countered with an analysis which stresses the subjective process of theory acceptance and rejection exploiting Gouldner's concept of "domain assumptions" (1970). Utilizing data from a large survey of sociologists queried during the mid-sixties (Sprehe, 1967), the fit between various groupings of sociologists' "domain assumptions" and the "background assumptions " of each theory are analyzed. The results ofsuch an analysis suggest that ethnomethodology may be more attractive to certain groupings of sociologists than behaviorism, thus contradicting in part the argument advanced on the basis ofa structural analysis. The paper calls for a recognition of the dialectical interplay between "structural conditions" and "subjective forces" in the adoption and rejection oftheory.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Keating, Barbara R.Publication Cult and Sport: The Case of Big Red(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Stein, MichaelThis paper explores the importance ofsport in our society. Several metaphors for sports are presented, including the military and religion. It is argued that for some fans, sport takes on the quality of a secular religion which serves to offer continuity in life, an institutionalized agency for catharsis, a transcendent experience giving followers an escape from the mundane, and a sense of belonging. Using football at the University of Nebraska as an example, empirical support is given for the notion of sport as civil religion.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Book Value(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Haines, Herbert H.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Back Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01)Publication MARCUSE AND THE PROBLEM OF INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Piran, ParvizThis paper examines Marcuse's approach to the major problem of capitalism-the domination of subjective reason over objective reason. It is argued that Marcuse's approach to this problem differs from the approach of Critical Theory. It is further argued that there is a contradiction in Marcuse~ argument, namely, the contradiction between revolutionary change and the change suggested by Marcuse's aesthetic perspective.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Front Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01)Publication ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND ETHNOSOCIOLOGY(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Wieder, D. LawrencePublication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Weeks, VickiePublication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Notes and Comments(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Wax, Murray L.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 2, Number 2 (WINTER, 1977): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1977-01-01) Barnes, Roger C.