Publications

Articles

Populistische Politik in der Klassengesellschaft

(1984) "Populistische Politik in der Klassengesellschaft," L'80: Demokratie und Sozialismus, Politische und literarische Beitrage, Heft 30, Juni 1984, pp. pp. 29-37.

Technology's Global Village Fragments Community Life

IEEE Spectrum, vol. 21, #6, pp. 80-84.

Book Review: Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode

Industrialization and Social Radicalism: British and French Workers' Movements and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Crisis

Theory and Society, vol. 12, #4, pp. 485-504.

Note: Previously an Occasional Paper of the Center for International Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reprinted (expanded) as "The 'Retardation' of French Economic Development and Social Radicalism During the Second Republic: New Lessons from the Old Comparison with Britain," in E. Burke, III, ed.: Global Crises and Social Movements: Artisans, Peasants, Populists and the World Economy,. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988; pages 40-71.

The Radicalism of Tradition: Community Strength or Venerable Disguise and Borrowed Language?

American Journal of Sociology, vol. 88, #5, pp. 886-914

Reprinted (revised) in M. Taylor, ed.: Rationality and Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1988; pages. 129-175.

The Microcomputer Revolution? Technical Possibilities and Social Choices

Calhoun, C. J. (1981). The Microcomputer Revolution?: Technical Possibilities and Social Choices. Sociological Methods & Research, 9(4), 397–437. https://doi.org/10.1177/004912418100900402

Reprinted in D. Heise (ed.), Microcomputers and Social Research. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981; pages 5-45.

Transition in Social Foundations for Collective Action: Communities of Workers in the Southeast Lancashire Textile Region in the 1820s and 1830s

Social Science History, vol. 4, #4, pp. 419-451.

Democracy, Autocracy and Intermediate Associations in Organizations: Flexibility or Unrestrained Change?

Calhoun, C. J. (1980). Democracy, Autocracy, and Intermediate Associations in Organizations: Flexibility or Unrestrained Change? Sociology, 14(3), 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/003803858001400301

The Authority of Ancestors: A Sociological Reconsideration of Fortes's Tallensi in Response to Fortes's Critics

in Response to Fortes's Critics," Man, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, new series, vol. 15, #2, pp. 304-319.

Note: Web published in 1997 by the Experience Rich Anthropology Project, University of Kent, at http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Ancestors/

Calhoun, C. J. (1980). The Authority of Ancestors: A Sociological Reconsideration of Fortes’s Tallensi in Response to Fortes’s Critics. Man, 15(2), 304–319. https://doi.org/10.2307/2801673

Community: Toward a Variable Conceptualization for Comparative Research

Social History, vol. 5, #1, pp. 105-129.

Note: Reprinted in R. S. Neale (ed.), History and Class: Essential Readings in Theory and Interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983; pages 86-110.

Chinese translation in Y. Keping, ed., Community, Identity and Solidarity. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.