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Alvin Ward Gouldner (July 29, 1920 – December 15, 1980) taught sociology at Antioch College (1952-1954) 〔Antioch College per Archivist S. Sanders 2013〕 and was professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis (1957–1967), at the University at Buffalo (1967–1972), President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1962), professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam (1972–1976) and Max Weber Professor of Sociology at Washington University (from 1967). He was born in New York City. His early works such as ''Patterns in Industrial Bureaucracy'' can be seen as important as they worked within the existing fields of sociology but adopted the principles of a critical intellectual. This can be seen more clearly in his 1964 work, ''Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of Value Free Sociology'', where he claimed that sociology could not be objective and that Max Weber had never intended to make such a claim. He is probably most remembered for his 1970 work ''The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology''. This work argued that sociology must turn away from producing objective truths and understand the subjective nature of sociology and knowledge in general and how it is bound up with the context of the times. This book was used by many schools of sociology as analysis of their own theory and methods. Gouldner, however, was not the first sociologist to be critical of objective knowledge of society; see, for example, Adorno's ''Negative Dialectics''. Subsequently, much of Gouldner's work was concerned with critiquing modern sociology and the nature of the intellectual. He argued that ideology often produced false premises and was used as a tool by a ruling elite and that, therefore, critical subjective thought is much more important than objective thought. ==Major works== *1954 ''Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy'' *1954 ''Wildcat Strike: A Study in Worker-Management Relationships'' *1964 ''Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of Value-Free Sociology'' *1967 ''Enter Plato'' *1970 ''The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology'' *1976 ''The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology'' *1979 ''The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class'' *1980 ''The Two Marxisms'' () *1984 ''Against Fragmentation'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alvin Ward Gouldner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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