Disparate voices: The magic show of sociology |
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Authors: | Barbara J Peters |
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Institution: | (1) the Department of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061-0137 Blacksburg, VA |
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Abstract: | C. Wright Mills directed sociologists to use sociological imaginations to understand the happenings in the world at large
and to understand people through points where history and biographies intersect. Using this approach as it applies to sociology
as a discipline, I examine its intersection of history and biography with regard to silencing voices that are not the status
quo, i.e. white, male, and middle class. I do this using the metaphor of a magic show with three magic acts: Pulling a White
Rabbit out of a Black Hat, Levitation, and The Vanishing Woman. These acts refer to the history of sociology of repressing
the voices of the nonwhite, non-middle class and of women. |
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