Herbert G. Reid

Toward a Post-Modern Theory of American Political Science and Culture: Perspectives From Critical Marxism and Phenomenology

Nearly half a decade ago, a new revolution in American political science was heralded by David Easton Speaking before the members of the American Political Science Association, the departing president startled his audience by his ringing call for the acceptance and institutionalization of this revolution the &dquo;post-behavioral revolution&dquo; in the discipline, just as he had urged the assimilation of behavioralism into political science some sixteen

From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology: John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar Ethics

Dangerous evils of our time are linked with pathologies of scale. Global markets in labor and capital overwhelm democratic controls at local and national scales. Injustice is ever more deeply spatialized. To understand these pathologies of scale, this chapter enquires into the ontology of the interscalar. We argue for an ecological understanding of human and natural being, in which diverse spatio-temporal scales intertwine to generate a transformative fabric of interscalar co-being. To do this, we put the Indian sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee into dialogue with the American philosopher John Dewey. Both thinkers made original contributions which can help build a transformative ontology of the interscalar for the twenty-first century. We call for theoretical genealogies to re-embody and replace social theory in our actual lives—lives embedded in, and emergent from, ecological being that is complex, historical, paradoxical, and dynamic in its scaling.

Todd Gitlin. The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Pp. xiv, 327. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1980.

gether to represent almost a genre in the type of social research that tries to impress the reader with the horror of its subject matter. One can only endorse their cries of sympathy and admire their devotion to such worthy causes. Yet their solutions seem somehow impotent, and the reason for this lies in their naive acceptance of social constructionist theory. They seem to believe that society is totally composed of values, beliefs, and stereotypes, and so since everything is socially constructed, the solution must be to socially &dquo;deconstruct&dquo; : we must change society’s conceptions of the values of violence (Gelles) and we must change society’s conceptions of who the rapist is, but even

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are culture, ideology, and identity. Our insights into this multi-leveled structure need to be deepened and our comprehension of its dialectical interrelations enhanced, if the classroom is to be a common seedbed of political theory and critical consciousness. The latter appear as mere ’sprouts’ in the midst of a larger cultural ’garden’ dominated by the aging, giant ’trees’ of capitalism and liberalism. Late adolescent middle class students typically encounter us and each other with the bits and pieces of an outlook tinc-

Ideology critique and problems of student consciousness in the united states

The record of Grant’s concerns during the period are of interest to students of the Civil War, but still more to students of the man himself, both the general and the president. He exhibited-and confirmed-his aggressiveness and self-reliance in the Battle of Belmont, of which he wrote: &dquo;It has given me a confidence in the officers and men of this command, that will enable me to lead them in any future engagement without fear of the result.&dquo; Although hesitant to make war on loyal slaveholders, he showed his potential radicalism when he declared: &dquo;If it is neces-