November 16, 2007
A Sociologist Offers a Harsh Assessment of How His Discipline Treats Race Relations
Stephen Steinberg's Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press) is a short, contentious new book that condemns American social science on two grounds.
"The people I win with the first half of the book I might lose with the second half," says Mr. Steinberg, a sociology professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
In his first salvo, Mr. Steinberg excoriates the so-called "race relations" model in sociology. That tradition, born at the University
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