Dick Flacks

Dick Flacks "teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of Making History: The American Left and the American Mind (Columbia)."

He was a member of the founding generation of SDS.

• Advisory Board, Critical Sociology
• Advisor, Campaign for America's Future

He blogs at http://sb.city2.org/blogs/rflacks

Key Publications

• “Knowledge for What: Notes on the State of Social Movement Studies” (2001)
• Cultural Politics and Social Movements (coeditor with Marcy Darnovsky and Barbara Epstein, 1995)
• Beyond the Barricades: The 60's Generation Grows Up (1989)
• Making History: The American Left and the American Mind (1988).

Other articles

• “Making History and Making Theory: Notes on How Intellectuals Seek Relevance” in Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World. Sage: Newbury Park, 1991, pp. 3-18.