Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life: HANS H. GERTH AND C. WRIGHT MILLS

The meteoric rise of the sociologist C. Wright Mills from a brash and ambitious graduate student to a leading figure in the American intellectual establishment was launched by his collaboration with Hans Gerth on two seminal works on Max Weber. The story of their thirteen-year partnership reveals a relationship of Shakespearean complexity in which respect, trust, generosity, and perhaps even love did not exclude envy, resentment, deceit, and betrayal. Gerth, a German emigre, was several years Mills' senior and his mentor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. What began as a graduate student editing and polishing a professor's rough translations evolved into a publishing partnership pairing Gerth's scholarly expertise with Mills' savvy and skill at organizing and negotiating. Their publication of "From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology in 1946" marked a sea-change in American sociology by making key Weberian texts available to social scientists working in the English language. Their second project, "Character and Social Structure", demonstrated how Weber's theories could be put into practice. In the course of exploring the history of the Gerth-Mills association, Guy Oakes and Arthur J. Vidich consider themes central to questions of academic ethics, including how the distribution of knowledge and power in collaboration shapes the social production of authorship, academic reputation, and intellectual authority; how the dynamics of collaboration play into the competition over credit for scientific and scholarly work; and how concealment, secrecy, and deception contribute to the building of academic reputation. Thus, the historic partnership of Gerth and Mills serves as a point of departure for a sustained discussion of essential issues in the ethics and politics of academic life.

Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills

Politics & Social Sciences

Oakes, Guy

Vidich, Arthur J.

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

The meteoric rise of the sociologist C. Wright Mills from a brash and ambitious graduate student to a leading figure in the American intellectual establishment was launched by his collaboration with Hans Gerth on two seminal works on Max Weber. The story of their thirteen-year partnership reveals a relationship of Shakespearean complexity in which respect, trust, generosity, and perhaps even love did not exclude envy, resentment, deceit, and betrayal. Gerth, a German emigre, was several years Mills' senior and his mentor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. What began as a graduate student editing and polishing a professor's rough translations evolved into a publishing partnership pairing Gerth's scholarly expertise with Mills' savvy and skill at organizing and negotiating.Their publication of "From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology" in 1946 marked a sea change in American sociology by making key Weberian texts available to social scientists working in the English language. Their second project, "Character and Social Structure", demonstrated how Weber's theories could be put into practice.In the course of exploring the history of the Gerth-Mills association, Guy Oakes and Arthur J. Vidich consider themes central to questions of academic ethics, including how the distribution of knowledge and power in collaboration shapes the social production of authorship, academic reputation, and intellectual authority; how the dynamics of collaboration play into the competition over credit for scientific and scholarly work; and how concealment, secrecy, and deception contribute to the building of academic reputation. Thus, the historic partnership of Gerth and Mills serves as a point of departure for a sustained discussion of essential issues in the ethics and politics of academic life.

American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions

Lyman, Stanford. M.

Yale University Press

Lyman, Stanford

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Westport Conn Greenwood Press 1982

Politics, Character, and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (Contributions in Sociology)

Bensman, Marilyn

Gerth, Nobuko

History

Praeger

The description for this book, Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community, will be forthcoming.

Small Town in Mass Society; Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community,

Princeton Univ Pr

Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community

Bensman, Joseph

Anthropology

Princeton University Press

Book by Lyman, Stanford M., Vidich, Arthur J.

Social Order and the Public Philosophy: An Analysis and Interpretation of the Work of Herbert Blumer (Studies in American Sociology)

Philosophy

Univ of Arkansas Pr

<div>Internationally renowned sociologist, Arthur J. Vidich (1922-2006), was an active researcher and teacher whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. With a Critical Eye: An Intellectual and His Times recounts Vidich's career in the wider cultural context of his life and work. Providing a window into post-World War II intellectual life, the richness of the autobiography lies not only in Vidich's perspectives on the academic world, but also in his personal and sociological observations about the world around him. Best known for his book, Small Town in Mass Society (co-authored with Joseph Bensman, 1958), Vidich taught for more than forty years at the New School for Social Research in New York. He published eighteen books, co-edited a book series with Robert Jackall, and was the founding editor of the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. </div>

With a Critical Eye: An Intellectual and His Times

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Newfound Press

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