A Stanford sociologist will discuss his important new book on American politics and society.
WHEN: October 27, 2014, 7-8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Koury Business Center 101
Professor Doug McAdam of Stanford University will visit Elon to discuss “Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America,” his new book co-authored with Karolina Kloos.
McAdam will be remembered by many Elon community members as the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa keynote speaker.
Praise for “Deeply Divided”:
“In this timely book, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos masterfully illuminate the often neglected role that social movements of the left and right have played in replacing bipartisan politics of the 1950s with the rancorous divisions of the twenty-first century.” –Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
“This thoughtfully provocative reading of transformations to American politics and society since the close of World War Two artfully weaves together issues, themes, and types of analysis too often kept apart. Placing race, social movements, and economic inequality front and center, Deeply Divided develops a fresh and compelling analytical account of the origins, content, and dynamics of current democratic distempers.” –Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
McAdam is The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and the former director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author or co-author of 18 books and some 85 other publications in the area of political sociology, with a special emphasis on race in the U.S., American politics, and the study of social movements and “contentious politics.” Among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, a new edition of which was published in 1999 (University of Chicago Press), Freedom Summer (1988, Oxford University Press), which was awarded the 1990 C. Wright Mills Award as well as being a finalist for the American Sociological Association’s best book prize for 1991 and Dynamics of Contention (2001, Cambridge University Press) with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly. He is also the author of the 2012 book, A Theory of Fields (Oxford University Press), with Neil Fligstein and and Putting Social Movements in their Place (with Hilary Boudet), which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Department of Political Science and Policy Studies, The Turnage Family Faculty Innovation and Creativity Fund for the Study of Political Communication, and the Council on Civic Engagement