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Professor Khaldoun Samman edits new journal
Khaldoun Samman is the Co-Editor of a New Volume on Islam and Orientalism
This edited volume came out of a conference at Macalester. It includes 10 essays by academics, ranging from well-known authors, such as Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, and Marnia Lazreg to emerging world-system scholars of Islamic and Middle Eastern movements in the context of the capitalist world-economy.
The overarching aim of the sociology curriculum is to cultivate a well-developed sociological imagination—"the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of individual and society, of biography and history, of self and the world" as C. Wright Mills termed it. The enduring value of a sociological imagination is to help students situate their own lives in broader social contexts and to understand the dynamic interplay of the political, economic, and cultural forces that constitute social life.