Papers by donald clelland
Journal of World-Systems Research
We would like to thank the JWSR editor for pushing forward this debate about the impacts of the n... more We would like to thank the JWSR editor for pushing forward this debate about the impacts of the nonwestern semiperiphery on world ethnic/racial inequality. We would also like to thank the four commentators who sacrificed time from their summer writing schedules to participate in this symposium. Most particularly, we wish to express our appreciation for the cogent reformulation of our arguments by Brazilian scholar-activist Ana Garcia. Unfortunately, three of the commentators pay little attention to the conceptual arguments or the empirical data presented in our essay. Consequently, their ideas render invisible the important middle tier of the world-system upon which we focus. One of the worst flaws of global racial dualisms is their description of world ethnic/racial inequality as though it was structured once in the past and has never changed over the history of the modern world-system. According to Winant, the 21 st century nonwestern semiperiphery is unimportant because "racial differences often operate as they did in centuries past." Boatca insists that the historical "colonial axis" constructed by white western colonizers is of greater significance than systemic changes that are occurring in the 21 st century nonwestern semiperiphery.
Journal of World-Systems Research
While there has been much attention to the economic, political, and transformative potential of t... more While there has been much attention to the economic, political, and transformative potential of the semiperiphery, scholars have failed to explore the ways in which this zone of the world-system causes, contributes to, and exacerbates world ethnic/racial inequality. By 2015, a majority of the world’s population is concentrated in 41 nonwestern semiperipheries that generate 40 percent of the world Gross Domestic Product. For those reasons, this essay decenters analysis of global ethnic/racial inequality by bringing the nonwestern semiperiphery to the foreground. Part I examines the ascent of nonwestern semiperipheries over the last half century, calling into question the popular “global apartheid model” which posits “white supremacy” as the singular cause of global ethnic/racial inequality. In Part II, we conceptualize, and present empirical data to support, ten conjunctures between the nonwestern semiperipheries and world ethnic/racial inequality. Part III offers a “theoretical retr...
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2016
Using world-system concepst, this essay challenges the popular racial bifurcation of the world be... more Using world-system concepst, this essay challenges the popular racial bifurcation of the world between whites and peoples of color.
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015
The capitalist world-economy takes the form of an iceberg. The most studied part which appears ab... more The capitalist world-economy takes the form of an iceberg. The most studied part which appears above the surface is supported by a huge underlying structure that is out of sight. Unlike the iceberg, the world-economy is a dynamic system based on flows of value from the underside toward the top. These include drains of surplus (expropriated value) that take two forms: visible monetarized flows of bright value and hidden un(der)costed flows that carry dark value (the unrecorded value of cheap labor, labor reproduction and ecological externalities). Commodity chains are central mechanisms for these surplus drains in the world-economy. At each node of the chain, participants attempt to maximize their capture of bright value through wages, rent and profit. They do this by constructing differential degrees of monopoly (control of the markup between cost and sale price) and degrees of monopsony (control of markdowns of production costs). However, this process depends upon the transformatio...
The Social Organization of Law, 1999
Sociological Analysis, 1974
Abstract This article is an examination of the social characteristics of a Billy Graham Crusade a... more Abstract This article is an examination of the social characteristics of a Billy Graham Crusade audience in Knoxville, Tennessee. Basic data sources are (1) a short questionnaire administered to persons in randomly selected seats,(2) a larger follow-up mail ...
Enforcing Regulation, 1984
The Sociological Quarterly, 1975
Literature on religious conversion contains turnabout and ritualistic explanations. This paper ex... more Literature on religious conversion contains turnabout and ritualistic explanations. This paper examines the nature of the contemporary religious revival or crusade and finds evidence that revival conversions are ritualistic, integrative events. Crusaders are overwhelmingly ...
Social Problems, 1983
Recent trends in regulatory bureaucracies in the United States indicate a shift toward detailed, ... more Recent trends in regulatory bureaucracies in the United States indicate a shift toward detailed, rigid mandates. In part, this movement represents an attempt to weave an increasingly seamless web of non-discretionary policies for field-level inspectorates. This paper ...
Social Forces, 1980
Page 1. Kanawha County Revisited: Reply to Billings and Goldman* DONALD A. CLELLAND, University o... more Page 1. Kanawha County Revisited: Reply to Billings and Goldman* DONALD A. CLELLAND, University of Tennessee AN N L. P AG E, Appalachian State University Our analysis of the Kanawha County textbook dispute (Page ...
Social Forces, 1984
Abstract Although southern textile workers typically are portrayed as anti-union and extremely de... more Abstract Although southern textile workers typically are portrayed as anti-union and extremely deferential, there is little empirical evidence to support such an assertion. We present data from 208 textile workers in a southern textile community without any ...
Social Forces, 1978
ABSTRACT Kanawha County, West Virginia is the scene of a continuing protest over the content of t... more ABSTRACT Kanawha County, West Virginia is the scene of a continuing protest over the content of textbooks used in the public schools. This protest is analyzed within a reformulated theoretical framework of status politics derived from Weber and Gusfield. The background and ...
Social Forces, 1976
ABSTRACT This study seeks the empirically elusive dimension of civil religion which has been sugg... more ABSTRACT This study seeks the empirically elusive dimension of civil religion which has been suggested by Bellah and others. It is done against the backdrop of previously established orientations to church religion. Items designed for both civil and church religious dimensions are factor ...
American Sociological Review, 1968
American Journal of Sociology, 1964
American Journal of Sociology, 1967
Journal of World-Systems Research
While there has been much attention to the economic, political, and transformative potential of t... more While there has been much attention to the economic, political, and transformative potential of the semiperiphery, scholars have failed to explore the ways in which this zone of the world-system causes, contributes to, and exacerbates world ethnic/racial inequality. By 2015, a majority of the world’s population is concentrated in 41 nonwestern semiperipheries that generate 40 percent of the world Gross Domestic Product. For those reasons, this essay decenters analysis of global ethnic/racial inequality by bringing the nonwestern semiperiphery to the foreground. Part I examines the ascent of nonwestern semiperipheries over the last half century, calling into question the popular “global apartheid model” which posits “white supremacy” as the singular cause of global ethnic/racial inequality. In Part II, we conceptualize, and present empirical data to support, ten conjunctures between the nonwestern semiperipheries and world ethnic/racial inequality. Part III offers a “theoretical retr...
Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, 2012
The Sociological Quarterly, 1975
Literature on religious conversion contains turnabout and ritualistic explanations. This paper ex... more Literature on religious conversion contains turnabout and ritualistic explanations. This paper examines the nature of the contemporary religious revival or crusade and finds evidence that revival conversions are ritualistic, integrative events. Crusaders are overwhelmingly ...
Social Problems, 1979
First, this research challenges the methodological adequacy of previous juvenile disposition stud... more First, this research challenges the methodological adequacy of previous juvenile disposition studies, particularly their conceptualization and measure of social class. Second, a neo-Marxian theory of juvenile court dispositions is presented. This theory distinguishes between two ...
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