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BA, MA & PhD: University of California at Berkeley
Boston College Department: Sociology422 McGuinn Hall
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3807
Telephone: (617) 552-3346
Boston College Department: Sociology
NOTE: I will be on sabbatical during the 2008-2009 Academic Year and will not be teaching.I will be working on two books and will be in and out of my office during the year.
I can be reached by e-mail or my home phone (508-358-4098).
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FALL CLASSES:
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How and why issues become defined as social problems (the social construction of reality). Conflicting theories and social scientific paradigms about social problems and their strengths and weaknesses. A comparison of micro-level versus macro-level social and cultural theories of problems. Consideration of the various private and public policy responses to social problems and their strengths and weaknesses.Seminar on the nature and character of warfare. Historic changes in the nature of war and an historical typology of major changes in warfare (primitive, historic, modern, and insurgent warfare). Special emphasis on the corporatization and privatization of war and the nature of terrorism. Term project includes individual studies of specific problems or issues.Two lectures on the origins and nature of war and an historical typology of major changes in warfare (primitive, historic, modern, and insurgent warfare).
SPRING CLASSES:
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