Publications by Eleanor Townsley

Books

Media Intellectuals and the Social Space of Opinion. Co-authored with Ronald Jacobs). Forthcoming.

Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe (with Gil Eyal and Iván Szelényi). London: Verso. 1998.

Articles and Reviews

"Intellectuals, power and politics". Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

"On the Communicative Geography of Public Sociology". Co-authored with Ronald Jacobs. Canadian Journal of Sociology 2008. Vol. 33 No. 3, pp. 1-20.

Review of "Histories of Australian Sociology edited by John Germov and Tara Rena McGee". International Journal of Sociology. 2008.

"The social construction of social facts: Using the U.S Census to examine race as a scientific and moral category". Teaching Sociology 2007. Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 223-238.

"The public intellectual trope in the United States". The American Sociologist 2006. Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 39-66.

"On Irony: An Invitation to Neoclassical Sociology" Co-authored with Gil Eyal and Iván Szelényi. Thesis Eleven. 2003. No. 73 pp., 5-41.

Review of "Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe by S. Wojciech Sokolowski" Contemporary Sociology 2002. Vol. 31, No.5, pp. 553-554.

"The Sixties Trope". Theory, Culture and Society. 2001. Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 99-123.

"The utopia of post-socialist theory and the ironic view of history in neo-classical sociology". Co-authored with Gil Eyal and Iván Szelényi. American Journal of Sociology 2001.Vol.106, No. 4, pp. 1121-1128. (See full review symposium of our book in this issue).

"A History of Intellectuals and the Demise of the New Class: Academics and the U.S. Government in the 1960s". Theory & Society 2001. Vol. 29, No. 6, pp., 739-784.

"‘Liberal’ Academics and the U.S. Government in the 1960's". In Fettschrift for Iván Szelényi on his 60th birthday. Edited by Éva Fodor and Lanos Ladanyi. Budapest: Budapest University of Economics. 1998.

"Wives, Husbands, and Housework Reporting: Gender, Class, and Perceptions of Social Desirability" Co-authored with Julie Press. Gender and Society 1998. Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 188-218.

"Capitalism Without Capitalists: The Remaking of the Economic Institutions of State-Socialism". Co-authored with Gil Eyal and Iván Szelényi. New Left Review 1998. 222(March/April), pp. 60-92.

Review of "Time for Life by John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey" Contemporary Sociology. 1997. Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 51-52.

"The Social Composition of the Communist Nomenklatura". Co-authored with Gil Eyal. Theory and Society. 1995. Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 723-750.

"Gender and the Economy". Pp. 600-619 in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, eds. Handbook of Economic Sociology. Co-authored with Ruth Milkman. New York: Russell Sage and Princeton University Press. 1994.

Review of "Neighborhood Politics by Robert J. Dilger" American Journal of Sociology 1993. Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 522-524.