James J. Chriss, Ph.D. (1994), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Cleveland State University. His most recent books are Beyond Community Policing (Paradigm, 2013) and Social Control: An Introduction 2nd ed. (Polity, 2013).

• Foreword by Richard Lee DeatonThe Two Masks of Alvin Ward Gouldner: Angry Outsider and Intellectual Street Fighter – Reflections of an Undutiful SonAcknowledgments1. The Classics and Beyond2. Intellectuals and Radical Sociology3. Crime and Deviance4. Bourdieu and Reflexive Sociology5. Radical Politics and Soviet Sociology6. Religion and Critical Theory7. Social Justice, Politics, and Religion8. Locals, Cosmopolitans, and the Politics of a Global Humanity9. Mao and the Communist HorizonReferencesIndex

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