The Neighborhood Outfit

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Corsino
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Alternative Routes ◽  
New Recruits

From the slot machine trust of the early 1900s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. This book taps interviews, archives, government documents, and the author's own family history to tell the story of the Chicago Heights “boys” and their place in the city's Italian American community in the twentieth century. Debunking the popular idea of organized crime as a uniquely Italian enterprise, the book delves into the social and cultural forces that that created a vibrant Italian enclave while simultaneously contributing to illicit activities so pervasive the city's name became synonymous with vice. As it shows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians' social mobility. The close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from grocery stores and union organizing to, on occasion, crime. In particular the book offers invaluable insights into the ways established Outfit figures brought in new recruits and how social forces worked to guarantee a pool of potential soldiers. The book throws light on a little-known corner of the history of Chicagoland organized crime.

scholarly journals Stigma, Trauma and the Social Forces Shaping Memory Transmission in Argentina

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Left ◽  
History Of Violence ◽  
Political Right

Since the return to democratic rule in Argentina in 1983, competing claims about how the period of political and state violence of the 1970s and 1980s might be collectively remembered by the nation have caused deep political and societal divisions. This paper explores the personal memories of Argentine women from two ideologically-opposed groups—those on the political Left affected by military repression during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship and those on the political Right affected by the armed guerrilla violence predominantly in the years leading up to the 1976 military coup. In contemporary Argentina, the memories of enduring personal trauma which both groups of women carry are commonly perceived as unable to co-exist in a shared mnemonic space – as if remembering one history of violence is seen as an attempt to forget or violate the other history of violence and trauma.

scholarly journals Formation of Terrorist Groups

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Nurlan Abzhetov ◽  
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Zhuldyz Zhumashova ◽  
Aliy Almukhametov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times

The article describes the history of terrorism, its development, purpose and methods used. It also provides a brief overview of the social significance of the various periods from ancient times to the present. The works of scientists dealing with this issue provide a comprehensive review of the threat of terrorism in society and the main aspects of the spread of terrorism around the world, its negative impact on domestic and international processes, and describe the ideological basis of terrorism. The research topic in the work is the reconstructed meanings and feelings of the concept typical of the epochs under consideration and the procedures and consequences of their perception. The concept does not exist outside of social discourses that work with it for a specific purpose. Therefore, the topic of our attention is the role in this struggle, which has always become a socio-political struggle of various discourses in society, through the interpretation and assessment of certain ideological positions in the social sphere, as well as the conceptual complex of terrorism. From this point of view, the deepest topic of our interest is the social pragmatics based on the discursive strategies of social forces that apply and conceptualize this phenomenon.

Back to the Woodshop: Black Education, Imperial Pedagogy, and Post-Racial Mythology under the Reign of Obama

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (14) ◽  
pp. 27-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy J. Curry
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

For centuries, European thinkers, and their contemporary white followers, have run rampant in the halls of academia prematurely championing the success of liberalism to speak to the experience of those historical groups of people excluded from modernity, while simultaneously celebrating the universal embrace by the supple bosom of whites’ anthropologically specific ideas of reason and humanity. This philosophical impetus has solidified the political regime of integration as not only the most desirable but also the most realizable condition of Black (co)existence in America. The education of Black Americans has been collapsed into a single ideological goal, namely, how to mold these Blacks into more functional and productive members of American society under the idea of equality established by Brown v. Board of Education. Unfortunately, however, such a commitment elevates the ethical appeals made by Brown, which focused on higher ideals of reason and humanity found in liberal political thought and the eventual transcendence of racial identity, to moral code. This ideology, instead of attending to what Blacks should learn or the knowledge Blacks need to have in order to thrive as Blacks in America, forces Blacks to abide by the social motives that aim to create good Negro citizens. When responding to the great debate over Negro education and Negro labor in the United States, Du Bois remarked: My thoughts, the thoughts of Washington, Trotter, Oswald Garrison Villard were the expression of social forces more than of our own minds. These forces or ideologies embraced more than reasoned acts. They included physical, biological and psychological habits, conventions and enactments. Opposed to these came natural reaction; the physical recoil of the victims, the unconscious and irrational urges, as well as reasoned complaints and acts. The total result was the history of our day. That history may be epitomize in one word—Empire; the domination of white Europe over [B]lack Africa and yellow Asia, through political power built on the economic control of labor, income and idea. The echo of this industrial imperialism in America was the expulsion of [B]lack men from American democracy, their subjection to caste control and wage slavery. (W. E. B. Du Bois— A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century: The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois—1968)

Connecting the Dots

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Joe Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Jewish Organization ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Italian American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Connecting The Dots

This introductory chapter presents the author’s personal journey to study the history of Jewish organized crime. Its story begins with family lore before ballooning into a history of West Side Jewish gangsters, who sometimes allied and sometimes fought within a backdrop of organized crime largely dominated by the Italian and the Irish. From there, the West Side criminal world slowly coalesced from a series of gangs competing with each other into a final independent Jewish organization headed by Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman. Then, during the early 1990s, Lenny Patrick became a household name, at least for a few months. Patrick was a gangster in his late seventies, described in many places as the head of the Jewish wing of the Syndicate. In a city notorious for Italian American gangsters, Patrick stood out as an anomaly. He was a Jew who had remained important in organized crime long after the crumbling of the West Side Jewish world.

Chicago Heights and Organized Crime

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Corsino
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Look Back ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The City

Chicago Heights was a twentieth-century city. The defining movements of the century—urbanization, industrialization, and immigration—tell much of the city's history and provide an understanding of the social conditions leading to the emergence of organized crime. This chapter takes a brief look back at these historical developments as they played themselves out in the Chicago Heights context. Following this, it traces the history of the vice operations in Chicago Heights from their beginning in the early 1900s, to their union with the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s, to their ascendance and decline throughout the remainder of the century. The chapter suggests that the rise development and decline of the Chicago Heights Outfit run parallel in many ways to the fortunes of the city.

scholarly journals Mapping Gender and Migration in Sociological Scholarship: Is It Segregation or Integration?

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara R. Curran ◽  
Steven Shafer ◽  
Katharine M. Donato ◽  
Filiz Garip
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
American Sociological Review ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Migration

A review of the sociological research about gender and migration shows the substantial ways in which gender fundamentally organizes the social relations and structures influencing the causes and consequences of migration. Yet, although a significant sociological research has emerged on gender and migration in the last three decades, studies are not evenly distributed across the discipline. In this article, we map the recent intellectual history of gender and migration in the field of sociology and then systematically assess the extent to which studies on engendering migration have appeared in four widely read journals of sociology (American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, and Social Forces). We follow with a discussion of these studies, and in our conclusions, we consider how future gender and migration scholarship in sociology might evolve more equitably.

scholarly journals From the Margins to the Core of Haute Couture: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Coco Chanel

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Gino Cattani ◽  
Mariachiara Colucci ◽  
Simone Ferriani
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Haute Couture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multilevel Perspective ◽  
Micro Level

We trace the history of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s entrepreneurial journey as a fashion designer from her early years as an outsider (early 1900s) to her rise to success and consecration as an icon within the French haute couture field (early 1930s)—a field controlled by powerful insiders. Our study sheds light on the social forces and historical circumstances underlying an outsider’s journey from the margins of an established field to its core. Drawing on unique historical material, we develop a novel process view that highlights the shifting influence of forces operating at different levels in the accumulation, deployment, and conversion of various forms of capital (i.e., human, social, economic, and symbolic) that outsiders need to promote their ideas. In particular, our multilevel perspective accounts simultaneously for the individual’s efforts to push forward these ideas (micro-level), as well as the audience dynamics (meso-level) and exogenous forces (macro-level) that shape their recognition. Chanel’s historical case analysis also affords a window into one of the first female entrepreneurs with global impact in business history, with the added challenge of establishing herself in what at the time was a male-dominated and mature field.

The Prague Spring and the Big Chill: the marketing moment in communist Czechoslovakia

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Hyder Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Marketing Concept ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prague Spring ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Policies

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze an important series of events in the history of marketing in socialist Europe and the internationalization of marketing thought and practice. Examining the reception of the marketing concept in communist Czechoslovakia, the study shows the effective blockage of the implementation of marketing approaches by orthodox communist authorities. The paper demonstrates the distinctiveness and importance of the Czechoslovak case and provides a basis for integrating that experience into the larger history of marketing under socialism. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an extensive review of the most relevant Czech and Slovak primary sources including trade journals, manuals and textbooks in marketing and related fields, party and government documents and statements on commercial issues, and other important professional literature on domestic commerce. Findings – The paper provides insights into the use of communist political power to suppress the use of marketing as contrary to the social and ideological goals of socialism. It identifies the rise of marketing approaches during a brief “marketing moment” following market-oriented economic reforms in 1965 and lasting through the “Prague Spring” of 1968. Following the restoration of orthodox communist control, new policies of “normalization” dictated the decline of marketing, which returned to its earlier status of near-invisibility. The suppression of marketing thought and practice lasted until the end of communist rule in 1989. Originality/value – This paper analyzes an unexamined case of marketing in a socialist society and places the case in broader comparative context.

Debunking the myth of the ‘radical profession’: analysing and overcoming our professional history to create new pathways and opportunities for social work

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Shane Brady ◽  
Jason M. Sawyer ◽  
Nathan H. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Knowledge Base ◽  
Professional History

The social work profession has often been portrayed as a progressive, critical and even radical movement for social justice and social change (Wagner, 1990; Reisch, 2013). This article analyses the basis of these claims and critiques the labelling of social work as radical, utilising a philosophy-of-science lens and critical theories and perspectives to interrogate the professionalisation of social work, the current knowledge base and practices, and the history of social work. The final analysis finds that social work is not a radical profession due to the influence of neoliberal values and social forces that promote the status quo. Implications point to a need to move beyond the myth of the radical profession and towards realistic ways that social work could reposition itself as a progressive profession.

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