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Brock, A. C. (Ed.). (2006). Internationalizing the History of Psychology. New York: New York University Press. 260 pp. $50 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8147‐9944‐2
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| Author | Teo, Thomas |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES DOI: 10.1002/jhbs and the humanities today? Turner does not really make a strong case that boundaries against insubordination are enforced in a more authoritarian way in sociology when understood from a comparative disciplinary perspective. And surely the European social theory and academic establishment that serve as a counterpoint hero to Turner’s villain of the professionalized American mainstream sociologist are hardly free from careerism, elitism, and an aggressive approach to accumulating resources and academic status. Nonetheless, the issues Turner has raised are important, and can and should be explored in sociological context through intellectual history and the empirical sociology of ideas. Saskia Sassen’s essay “Always a Foreigner, Always at Home” also illustrates the value of intellectual work that comes from the professional margins. As a University of Chicago and London School of Economics professor, Sassen has produced numerous writings on global cities, the Internet, immigration, and political economy that are essential for anyone interested in how globalization is reshaping the world around us. Yet Sassen was once a young scholar, we learn here, who had her PhD thesis rejected at Notre Dame and was told by her chair that she should not even bother attempting to go up for tenure at the City University of New York’s Queens College. In many ways, Sassen did everything wrong. Originally a young Dutch woman who lived in Latin America and Italy, she came to the United States as an illegal immigrant, spent an enormous amount of her time working on music and political activism, and rejected the intellectual orthodoxies of both sociology and economics. Showing little interest in traditional academic career strategies, Sassen worked on developing a political economic perspective that was forged partly out of her experience of working with both radical activists and elite intellectuals such as Richard Sennett. A dangerous strategy, perhaps, for young scholars today who lack the networks Sassen was born into and created for herself, but this kind of scholarship from the margins exemplifies the intellectual excitement and creativity that is the best legacy of the social theory that we have inherited from the generation of the 1960s. |
| Starting Page | 183 |
| Ending Page | 185 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1002/jhbs.20286 |
| Volume Number | 44 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.yorku.ca/tteo/Teo2008RevBrock.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20286 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
