W.E.B. Du Bois în studiile contemporane: conștiința dublă și modernitatea rasializată

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Ștefan Baghiu
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Decolonial Theory

This article outlines W.E.B. Du Bois’s general sociological theory and literary activity in connection to the recent study of Jose Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown, The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. It describes the role of Double Consciousness and Racialized Modernity within postcolonial and decolonial theory and explains how postcolonial Romanian studies have engaged with postcolonial theory by avoiding these concepts.

On W.E.B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Racialized Modernity. An Interview with José Itzigsohn

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
José Itzigsohn ◽  
Ștefan Baghiu ◽  
Vlad Pojoga
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
New York University ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
February Issue

The February issue of Transilvania journal hosts an interview with professor José Itzigsohn focusing on his activity within the field of sociology and his latest book with Karida L. Brown, on The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line (New York University Press, 2020). It delves into Du Boisian sociology, “double consciousness” and racialized modernity, alongside contemporary decolonial perspectives and new studies and researchers in the field.

“A Most Disagreeable Mirror”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrie Balfour
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois

This chapter positions Baldwin in relation to W. E. B. Du Bois and also expands notions of consciousness to discuss Baldwin’s ability to reach across and beyond the color line. The essay draws on the Du Boisian notion of double consciousness in order to establish a sense of general race consciousness. In doing so, Lawrie Balfour, and in turn Baldwin, challenge the notion that white supremacy was extinguished with slavery. It is significant in establishing Baldwin’s simultaneous appreciation yet careful delineating of community.

scholarly journals SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Itzigsohn ◽  
Karida Brown
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Sociological Theorist

AbstractIn this paper we emphasize W. E. B. Du Bois’s relevance as a sociological theorist, an aspect of his work that has not received the attention it deserves. We focus specifically on the significance of Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness. This theory argues that in a racialized society there is no true communication or recognition between the racializing and the racialized. Furthermore, Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness puts racialization at the center of the analysis of self-formation, linking the macro structure of the racialized world with the lived experiences of racialized subjects. We develop our argument in two stages: The first section locates the theory of Double Consciousness within the field of classical sociological theories of the self. We show how the theory addresses gaps in the theorizing of self-formation of James, Mead, and Cooley. The second section presents an analysis of how Du Bois deploys this theory in his phenomenological analysis of the African American experience. The conclusions point out how the theory of Double Consciousness is relevant to contemporary debates in sociological theory.

scholarly journals Double Consciousness in the 21st Century: Du Boisian Theory and the Problem of Racialized Legal Status

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Tiffany Joseph ◽  
Tanya Golash-Boza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois

In W.E.B. Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk, he argued that the problem of the 20th century in the United States was the problem of the color line. Given that de facto and explicit racial discrimination persist, anti-immigrant rhetoric is intensifying, and legal status has become more salient, we argue Du Boisian theory remains relevant for understanding social and political cleavages in the 21st century United States. The intersection of race, ethnicity, and legal status or “racialized legal status” represents a new variation of Du Bois’ “color line,” due to how these statuses generate cumulative disadvantages and exclusion for citizens and immigrants of color, particularly the undocumented. We begin with a review of Du Bois’ double consciousness theory, highlighting the marginalization of African Americans. Next, we apply double consciousness to the 21st century U.S. context to empirically demonstrate parallels between 20th century African Americans and the marginalization faced today by people of color. We close with a discussion about how double consciousness enhances our understanding of citizenship and has also generated agency for people of color fighting for socio-political inclusion in the contemporary United States.

Value-driven issues throughout the development of sociological theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Gulbarshyn Chepurko ◽  
Valerii Pylypenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social System ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

The paper examines and compares how the major sociological theories treat axiological issues. Value-driven topics are analysed in view of their relevance to society in times of crisis, when both societal life and the very structure of society undergo dramatic change. Nowadays, social scientists around the world are also witnessing such a change due to the emergence of alternative schools of sociological thought (non-classical, interpretive, postmodern, etc.) and, subsequently, the necessity to revise the paradigms that have been existed in sociology so far. Since the above-mentioned approaches are often used to address value-related issues, building a solid theoretical framework for these studies takes on considerable significance. Furthermore, the paradigm revision has been prompted by technological advances changing all areas of people’s lives, especially social interactions. The global human community, integral in nature, is being formed, and production of human values now matters more than production of things; hence the “expansion” of value-focused perspectives in contemporary sociology. The authors give special attention to collectivities which are higher-order units of the social system. These units are described as well-organised action systems where each individual performs his/her specific role. Just as the role of an individual is distinct from that of the collectivity (because the individual and the collectivity are different as units), so too a distinction is drawn between the value and the norm — because they represent different levels of social relationships. Values are the main connecting element between the society’s cultural system and the social sphere while norms, for the most part, belong to the social system. Values serve primarily to maintain the pattern according to which the society is functioning at a given time; norms are essential to social integration. Apart from being the means of regulating social processes and relationships, norms embody the “principles” that can be applied beyond a particular social system. The authors underline that it is important for Ukrainian sociology to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of axiology and make good use of those ideas because this is a prerequisite for its successful integration into the global sociological community.

scholarly journals STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates
Keyword(s):  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Past ◽  
Considerable Work ◽  
Public Policy Decisions

In 1903, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois famously predicted that the problem of the twentieth century would be the problem of the color line. Indeed, during the past century, matters of race were frequently the cause of intense conflict and the stimulus for public policy decisions not only in the United States, but throughout the world. The founding of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race at the beginning of the twenty-first century acknowledges the continuing impact of Du Bois's prophecy, his pioneering role as one of the founders of the discipline of sociology in the American academy, and the considerable work that remains to be done as we confront the “problem” that Du Bois identified over a century ago.

scholarly journals De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 1407-1433 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIAGO MOREIRA
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Changing Role

ABSTRACTDeparting from the proposition that, in the sociological debate about whether there has been a shift towards a de-standardised lifecourse in advanced economies, little attention has been devoted to the infrastructural arrangements that would support such a transition, this paper explores the changing role of standards in the governance of ageing societies. In it, I outline a sociological theory of age standard substitution which suggests that contradictory rationalities used in the implementation of chronological age fuelled the emergence of a critique of chronological age within the diverse strands of gerontological knowledge during the 20th century. The paper analyses how these critiques were linked to a proliferation of substitute, ‘personalised’ age standards that aimed to conjoin individuals’ unique capacities or needs to roles or services. The paper suggests that this configuration of age standards’ production, characterised by uncertainty and an opening of moral and epistemic possibilities, has been shrouded by another, more recent formation where institutional responses to decentred processes of standardisation moved research and political investment towards an emphasis on biological age measurement.

scholarly journals DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BELL HOOKS’ BONE BLACK

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Mzukisi J. Lento
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Du Bois

This article investigates the shifts in the concept of double consciousness as depicted in bell hooks’ Bone black (1996). According to Du Bois, the idea of ‘double consciousness’ refers to being both black and American. In Du Boisian understanding, double consciousness refers to a condition of being black and American in which ‘One ever feels his two-ness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings’ (Du Bois 1989, 5). bell hooks agrees with this view but she also revises the concept in order to take on board the fact that black women have other experiences in addition to double consciousness in America (Hooks 1996).

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