Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr., PhD.

Professor of Sociology

Email: ktucker@mtholyoke.edu

Office: Merrill House, Room 202

Tel: 413-538-2804

Books

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. Classical Social Theory: A Contemporary Approach. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory. London: Sage Publications, 1998.

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere. Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Articles

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "From the Imaginary to Subjectivation: Castoriadis and Touraine on the Peformative Public Sphere," forthcoming in Thesis Eleven.

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "Public Discourse and Civil Society: Habermas, Bourdieu, and the New Social Movements," forthcoming in Pierre Bourdieu, vol. 2, edited by Derek Robbins (London: Sage Publications).

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "The Limits of Homo Economicus: An Appraisal of Early American Entrepreneurship," Journal of the Early Republic 24 (Summer 2004), pp. 208-218 (with Barbara M. Tucker).

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "Harmony and Transgression: Aesthetic Imagery and the Public Sphere in Habermas and Poststructuralism." Current Perspectives in Social Theory 16 (1996): 101-120. 

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "Aesthetics, Play, and Cultural Memory: Giddens and Habermas on the Postmodern Challenge," Sociological Theory 11 (2), July 1993: 194-211. Reprinted in Chris Bryant and David Jary, eds., Anthony Giddens: Critical Assessments. Vol. 4 (Routledge, 1996).

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "How New are the New Social Movements?" Theory, Culture, and Society 8 (2), May 1991: 75-98.

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "Culture, Opposition, and Television: Reformulating the `Cultural Studies' Perspective on the Audience." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 7 (1990): 97-116 (with Ronald Lembo, Amherst College).

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "Ideology and Social Movements: The Contributions of Habermas," Sociological Inquiry 59 (1), February 1989: 30-47.

Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. "The Culture of Narcissism and the Critical Tradition: An Interpretive Essay," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 25, 1980: 231-240 (with Andrew Treno).