On the Contributors -- Chapter One What is Critical Sociology? (Graham Cassano) -- PART I A CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS -- Chapter Two Reflections on the Sociology Liberation Movement of 1968 (Robert J. S. Ross) -- Chapter Three Scholarship from a Critical Perspective (David Fasenfest and Rhonda F. Levine) -- Chapter Four A Left Weberian Road to Identity Politics in the United States (James W. Russell) -- PART II POLITICS AND THE NEW ADMINISTRATION -- Chapter Five It's Real! Racism, Color Blindness, Obama, and the Urgent Need for Social Movement Politics (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Victor Ray) -- Chapter Six President Obama and Political Culture in the United States (Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr) -- Chapter Seven Martin Luther King's Dream, Obama and Post Racial Society-Can We Yet Hope for a New Narrative? (Rodney D. Coates) -- PART III REVISITING SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICS -- Chapter Eight Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: On the Practice of Radical Philosophy (Richard Gilman-Opalsky) -- Chapter Nine The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion (Warren S. Goldstein) -- Chapter Ten Moving From Attitudes to Behavior: Using Social Influence to Understand Interpersonal Racial (Oppression Chavella T. Pittman) -- Chapter Eleven Teletechnology and Internal Dialogue (Gordon Gauchat and Casey Borch) -- Chapter Twelve On Surveillance as a Solution to Security Issues (Vida Bajc) -- Chapter Thirteen The Political Economy of School Violence in Trinidad: Towards a Caribbean Theory of Youth Crime (Daphne Phillips) -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.