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December 31, 2007: Death and the End of an Era?, Canadian Journal of Sociology (2008)
 
1948 & the Origins of the Big Lie in America, Irish Journal of Sociology (2007)
 
The Emotional Climates of Globalisation The new individualism and its contradictions (with Anthony Elliott), Arena Magazine: Australian Journal of Left Political, Social and Culture Commentary (2006)
 

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Said & “Edward”: Dispossession and Overcoming Nostalgia, Discourse of Sociological Practice (2005)
 

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Why Mills and Not Gouldner?, Fast Capitalism (2005)
 
Can the Worlds be Changed? On Ethics and the Multicultural Dream, Thesis Eleven (2004)

Multiculturalism is, among other things, an attitude toward values - hence, an ethic of a...

 

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Schools and Scholars Durkheim’s Ghosts, Journal of Historical Sociology (2003)
 

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Against Capital-S Sociology, Sociological Theory (2003)
 

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Can Critical Realism be Critical? Review Margaret Archer, Being Human: The Problem of Agency, The International Journal of Sociology and Family Studies (2003)
 
The Analytic Foundations of Social Violence, Journal of Modern Psychoanalysis (2003)

Although questioning Freud's use of the dual drive theory to explain the struggles he saw...

 
Poetry and Public Life, Cultural Studies/Critical Methods (2002)

The public life is one entered more by the patience of the poetic ear than...

 

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After the Wizard, What? (with Audrey Sprenger), Qualitative Sociology (2002)
 

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The Might Have Been and Could Be of Religion in Social Theory, Sociological Theory (2002)

Religion may well be the most inscrutable surd of social theory, which began late in...

 
The Clothes Have No Emperor: Bourdieu on American Imperialism, Theory, Culture and Society (2000)

`The Clothes Have No Emperor' (a title borrowed from Paul Slansky's hilarious critique of the...

 

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Knowledge or Knowledges?, International Journal of Culture, Politics, and Society (1997)
 

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Social Ethics?, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior (1997)

Most of the sciences of social behavior arose initially out of social ethics. The question...

 

Books

Deadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization (with Anthony Elliott) (2006)
 
The Souls of WEB Du Bois (with Alford A. Young, Jerry G. Watts, Manning Marable, and Elizabeth Higginbotham) (2006)
 
Dark Thoughts: Race and the Eclipse of Society (2002)

In Dark Thoughts prominent sociologist Charles Lemert compellingly argues that race is the central feature...

 
The Goffman Reader (1997)

The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing...

 
Michel Foucault: Social Theory and Transgression (with Garth Gillan) (1982)
 

Contributions to Books including Forewords and Afterwords

Death, Justice, and Freedom: Does Global Knowledge Change the Rules? Or Freedom's Family Romance, Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st Century Perspective (2008)
 
The Mystery of the Social Betweens, Between Citizen and State: An Introduction to the Corporation (2008)

Between Citizen and State is an intrepid and readable introduction to, and insightful commentary on,...

 
Culture as the Zero Signifier of Politics, Critique for What?: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies (2007)
 
Culture as the Zero Signifier of Politics, Critique for What?: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies (2007)
 
Liquid Waste, Being Human, Bodily Death (with Makenna Goodman), The Contemporary Bauman (2007)

This text covers Bauman’s contribution to sociology and social theory. This ideal teaching text analyzes...

 
Resetting the Temperature: Are Technomedia Cool or Hot or Others?, Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (2007)

This is an introductory survey of what the author calls the technomedia, the generation of...

 
The Poor, Always with Us, Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society (2007)

The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are...

 
After Mills: 1962 and Bad Dreams of Good Times, Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times (2006)
 
Liberating Critical Talk, Discourses on Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory (2006)
 
The Risk of Scholarship, Instability, Complexity and Cultural Change: An Autopoiesis Approach (2006)
 
On the Aging of Social Theory, Social Theory and Aging (2005)
 
The Indexical Properties of Sociological Time, Seeing Sociologically: The Routine Grounds of Social Action (2005)
 
Say Everything/ the Social Imperative, The New Psychoanalysis (2004)
 
Max Weber: A Man of Many Words, The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages (2003)
 
Multiculturalism, Handbook of Social Theory (2001)
 
Structuralisms (with Daniel Chaffee), The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (2000)

The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Second Edition, builds on the success of the highly...

 
A World of Differences, Theorizing Modernity (1998)
 
Searching for the Millennium, Social Theory: Classical and Multicultural Readings (1998)
 
Who's In? Who's Out?, Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential Books (1998)