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Deena Weinstein

Sociology

#140

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#190

Historical Rank

#73

USA Rank

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Deena Weinstein's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Deena Weinstein is a professor of sociology at DePaul University whose research focuses on popular culture. She is particularly well known for her research on heavy metal culture, on which subject she wrote a ground-breaking book, Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology , later published in a revised and updated version as Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture .

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Deena Weinstein's Published Works

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Published Works

Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock `n' Roll. (1982) (591)
Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture (2000) (281)
Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology (1991) (178)
Bureaucratic Opposition: Challenging Abuses at the Workplace (1979) (53)
The Globalization of Metal (2011) (34)
Postmodern(ized) Simmel (1993) (29)
Rock: Youth and its music (1983) (23)
On the visual constitution of society: The contributions of Georg Simmel and Jean-Paul Sartre to a sociology of the senses (1984) (20)
Fraud in science. (1979) (20)
The New Nietzsche (1987) (17)
The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal (2016) (15)
Simmel and the Dialectic of the Double Boundary: The Case of the Metropolis and Mental Life (1989) (14)
Alternative youth: The ironies of recapturing youth culture (1995) (10)
All Singers Are Dicks (2004) (9)
How Is Metal Studies Possible? (2011) (9)
Just So Stories: How Heavy Metal Got Its Name—A Cautionary Tale (2014) (8)
Is postmodern organization theory sceptical (1998) (7)
An existential approach to society: Active transcendence (1978) (7)
Relations in the Kinks—Familiar but not Fully Familial (2006) (7)
Postmodernizing (Macro)sociology (1993) (7)
The Amnesty International Concert Tour: Transnationalism As Cultural Commodity (1989) (7)
Rock Critics Need Bad Music (2004) (6)
La nostalgie construite. L’Âge d’or du rock ou « I Believe in Yesterday » (2014) (6)
Birmingham’s Postindustrial Metal (2014) (6)
Scientific fraud and scientific ethics. (1981) (6)
Living sociology;: A critical introduction (1974) (5)
ROCK MUSIC: SECULARISATION AND ITS CANCELLATION (1995) (4)
Dimensions of Conflict: Georg Simmel on Modern Life in Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology (1989) (4)
Rock protest songs: so many and so few (2017) (4)
The Popularization of Sociology and the Received Tradition@@@What Is Sociology?@@@An Introduction to Sociology@@@Modern Society: Social Studies for CSE@@@Teaching Social Change: A Group Approach@@@Choosing Sociology: An Introduction to Critical Enquiry@@@Sociology Full Circle: Contemporary Readings (1977) (3)
The Sociology of Rock: An Undisciplined Discipline (1991) (3)
Rock’s Guitar Gods – Avatars of the Sixties (2013) (3)
Roles of man;: An introduction to the social sciences (1972) (3)
Bereaucratice Opposition: the Challenge to Authoritarian Abuses at the Workplace (1977) (2)
Freud On the Problem of Order: the Revival of Hobbes (1979) (2)
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and their Cars By Amy L. Best New York University Press, 2006. 260 pages. $65 (cloth), $20 (paper) (2007) (2)
Grounds for Bureaucratic Opposition (1979) (2)
Hail to the Shrub (2002) (2)
Intellectual transcendence: Karl Mannheheim's defence of the sociological attitude (1981) (1)
Consequences and Policy (1979) (1)
On the importance of fraud in science. (1981) (1)
Constructed Nostalgia for Rock's Golden Age: “I Believe in Yesterday” (2014) (1)
The Problematic of Marginality in Mexican Philosophy (1980) (1)
Satisfaction With Professional Associations: a Measure of Organizational Responsiveness (1974) (1)
VERSIONS OF SI (1982) (1)
Individual and Society in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Views of Life (2009) (1)
A Review Symposium:Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version (1982) (1)
Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History (2015) (1)
Towards a New Role for Sociologists: Morris Ginsberg on Sociology and Social Philosophy (1972) (1)
Celebrity Worship as Weak Religion (2008) (1)
Intellectual History and Defending the Capabilities Approach (2020) (1)
On the possibility of society: Classical sociological thought (1982) (1)
Humor in Metal Music (2019) (1)
Blau's Dialectical Sociology (1972) (1)
The Ethics of Charity: Antonio Caso's Defense of Civilization (1980) (1)
Review essay: Return to the sources of modern sociological theory (1987) (0)
Net Game – An American Dialogue (1996) (0)
SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS AND THE POLITY: Advising, Activism and Apathy (1973) (0)
Further Reflections on Blau's Dialectical Sociology (1972) (0)
Clash of perspectives;: Readings in social sciences (1972) (0)
Book reviews (1975) (0)
Inside MTV.@@@Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture. (1989) (0)
Deconstruction as Symbolic Play (1990) (0)
Bureaucratic Oppositions: The Phenomenon (1979) (0)
Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s (2015) (0)
Daybreak: Thoughts on the prejudices of morality: Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R.J. Hollingdale, Introduction Michael Tanner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 231 pp., $19.95 (1984) (0)
Book Reviews : Theodore Caplow, Toward Social Hope. New York, Basic Books, 1975. 229 pp. $ 11.95 (1976) (0)
The dialectic of life and thought: Georg Simmel's philosophy of history (1983) (0)
The Problem of Individuality in Karl Mannheim's Sociology (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (1982) (0)
The Conditions of Bureaucratic Opposition (1979) (0)
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The Role of Ideals In Freud's Theory of Civilisation (1979) (0)
This Is Spın̈al Tap mocks metal and more, a lot more (2019) (0)
SOCIOLOLGIES OF KNOWLEDGE AS RHETORICAL STRATEGIES (1978) (0)
Simmel’s Assessment of Cybersociety (2018) (0)
A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk. By Peter Stanfield. London: Reaktion Books. 2021. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-789-14277-8 (2022) (0)
Phenomenology and the Social World: The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Its Relation to the Social Sciences.Laurie Spurling (1979) (0)
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and their Cars (review) (2007) (0)
Strategies and Tactics (1979) (0)
David Frisby , Fragments of Modernity . Reviewed by (1987) (0)
Is Thrash Metal Music Artistic ? (2010) (0)
Georg Simmel , Georg Simmel: On Women, Sexuality, and Love . Reviewed by (1987) (0)
Bureaucracy and the Dispersed Organization: The Educational Extension Agent Experiment.By Karen Seashore Louis and Sam Dixon Sieber. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1979. 272 pp. $19.95 (1980) (0)
Celebrity As Simulacrum (1994) (0)
Freud's encounter with religion: a study in bad faith. (1981) (0)
Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (2014) (0)
Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century.James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar. New York University Press, 1994/1996. 220 pp (1996) (0)
Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century. (1996) (0)
This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk, by Steve Waksman (2010) (0)
Deconstruction as Cultural History/The Cultural History of Deconstruction (1990) (0)

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