Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 18, Number 1&2 (WINTER, SPRING, 1994)

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    The Influence of Sociology on American Jurisprudence from Oliver Wendell Holmes to Critical Legal Studies
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Trevino, A. Javier
    This paper analyzes the distinctive influence that sociology has had on legal scholarship during the past century. It examines some of the more significant contributions that sociology has made to four of the major jurisprudential "movements" of the twentieth-century: Holmesian legal science, sociological jurisprudence, legal Realism, and Critical Legal Studies. In essence, this paper shows how sociology has: (1) contributed to the language of the law some of its more important concepts, (2) given jurisprudence penetrating insight inlo the social dynamics of the law, (3) revealed the close relationship which exists between law and the other social institutions, (4) provided jurisprudence with a positivistic, structural methodology by which to study the law, and (5) inspired a legal approach that is perspectival and hermeneutical in orientation.
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    Making Time: The Chronocentric Vision of the Post Industrial Narrative
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Neustadter, Roger
    The ideological dimensions of post-industrial accounts reflect the political element in the theorists assumptions of a particular position on the question of the nature of social change and the implications that can be drawn from the study of past events for the understanding of present ones. By the term ideology is meant a set of prescriptions for taking a position in the present world of social praxis.
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    The Origins of Racism: The Critical Theory of Oliver C. Cox
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Klarlund, Susan E.
    Oliver C. Cox's theory of race relations and its impending problems in connection with the rise of capitalism have not been applied or addressed to the same extent as that of his contemporaries. Why does the work of Oliver Cox continue to be largely ignored and set aside? We will first look at Cox's hypothesis and some of the concepts he uses, his argument regarding the genesis of racism, and his criticisms of some of his better known contemporaries that may well have contributed to the bitter relationships he encountered.
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    Age, Labor Force Participation, and Income Patterns for Working-Class Households in the United States and England, 1889-1890
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Hill, Gretchen J.
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    Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 18, Number 1&2 (WINTER, SPRING, 1994): Front Matter
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01)
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    Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 18, Number 1&2 (WINTER, SPRING, 1994): Book Review
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Leahy, June
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    Method as Ruse: Foucault and Research Method
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Cooke, Marvin L.
    A ruse is a gimmick or device used as a strategy or instrument. For Foucault, method can best be understood as a ruse rather than as a method which promises truth. Methods regulate what can be discovered and the discourse about what can be discovered In this essay. the realist and idealist models of method are criticized from Foucault's perspective. Both models rely on some transcendental reality which -- from Foucault's perspective -- are constructed by the practices of research itself. Even though Foucault rejects foundational assumptions, he does have a method which has its homogeneity, its systematicity, and its generality. Foucault's method is outlined, discussed, and related to similar methods. Finally, Foucault's critics are noted and answered.
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    Changing Women's Workplace Status: Alone or Together?
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Harkess, Shirley; Hammer, Amy
    This review essay concerns what employed women can do to change their situation in the world of paid work. Now a perennial issue for women as well as men--going it alone versus mobilizing co-workers, assessment of several recent studies (Hertz 1986; Milkman 1987; Blum 1991; Paules 1991; Mcl1wee and Robinson 1992) from this perspective, chosen for the variety of occupations they represent, present very different ideas on this topic. The solutions which researchers, or the women they studied, pursue may be structural, cultural, or individual. Although the basic problem is essentially the same in each study-the lack of equity for women, researchers also arrive at different explanations of the problem, likewise structural, cultural. or individual. The objectives of this review essay are to: (I) map the variety of explanations and solutions; (2) examine the extent to which an author's explanation and solution are analytically consistent, and then characterize the researcher's philosophical stance on a continuum from voluntarist to detenninist; and (3) in conclusion, speculate as to the reasons for the obvious variation among these occupational case studies of employed women. The following table summarizes our analysis.
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    Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 18, Number 1&2 (WINTER, SPRING, 1994): Book Review
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1994-04-01) Worrell, Mark P.