Anthony M. Orum

A Case for the case study

Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative reserach: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case study research in order to undersand changes in church involvement, city life, gender roles, white-collar crimes, family structure, homelessness, and other types of social experience. Each contributor contronts several key questions: What does the case study tell us that other approaches cannot? To what extent can one generalize from the study of a single case or of a highly limited set of cases? Does case study work provide the basis for postulating broad principles of social structure and behavior? The answers vary, but the consensus is that the opportunity to examine certain kinds of social phenomena in depth enables social scientists to advance greatly our empirical understanding of social life. The contributors are Leon Anderson, Howard M. Bahr, Theodore Caplow, Joe R. Feagin, Gilbert Geis, Gerald Handel, Anthonly M. Orum, Andree F. Sjoberg, Gideon Sjoberg, David A. Snow, Ted R. Vaughan, R. Stephen Warner, Christine L. Williams, and Norma Williams.

Introduction to political sociology

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Radical RootsEnriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline, edited by LevineRhonda F.. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2005. 357 pp.

This is an important book, but not for the typical reasons. There is no new theory here and no new project for sociology to take on. There are neither new findings nor new methodological innovations. But what is here is a set of readings that compel one to reflect on the course that the field of sociology has taken over the past three decades or so. One cannot read these articles without engaging in reflections on the course of the field and even reflecting on one’s own place in the field. The intent of the book, organized and edited by Rhonda Levine, is to take articles published in The Insurgent Sociologist (now called Critical Sociology) and to show how they have helped to make the field of sociology different and more critical than it was at the end of the 1960s. There is no question that the articles do just that. After reading them, one realizes how very different the discipline is today than it was then. At the same time, one must thank their authors for having helped enlarge and diversify the field. I confess that I know several authors and know their work well. Richard Flacks was one of my teachers at the University of Chicago in the 1960s and one of the prominent leaders of the student movement at that time. He was as articulate and forceful then as he is now. And even though I did not agree with everything he claimed, I admired him greatly. So, too, I know Harvey Molotch and Bill Domhoff well, authors that are also represented in this collection. Over the years I have come to appreciate their sociological insights more and more, especially those of Molotch. He took the old Chicago school of sociology very seriously, and then he put both human agency and power into the manner in which it worked. His view of the city, and of growth politics, has been the leading view of urban politics in America for many years. Its position was cemented in that fash-

29.95 paper. ISBN: 1-59451-168-3.

Introduction * Building, Unbuilding, and Rebuilding American Cities * Themes and Perspectives on the American City The Rise And Fall Of Milwaukee * Pre-Industrial Milwaukee: 18181870 * Early Industrial Milwaukee: 18701900 * Mature Industrial Milwaukee: 19001930 * Reshaping Industrial Milwaukee: 19301950 * The Decline of Industrial Milwaukee: 19501990 * An Analytic Summary of Milwaukee Three Comparative Histories * Introduction * The Rise and Fall of Industrial Cleveland * The Rise of a Post-Industrial City: Austin, Texas * The Rebirth of MinneapolisSt * Paul: Creating a Post-Industrial City in the Midwest Conclusion * Building Cities in America