Teaching
Graduate and undergraduate teaching in sociology, research methods, and statistics, at Harris-Stowe State University and, earlier, at several universities. Whatever the subject, every course follows one shape: question, design, evidence, analysis, and a claim the student can defend.
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Educational Research and Evaluation
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Social Stratification
- Social Theory
- Social Research
- Social Statistics
- Introduction to Statistics
- Social Change
- Social Problems
- Social Psychology
- Introduction to Sociology
- History of Social Thought
- Foundations of Demography
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Cultural Anthropology
- Human Geography
- Human Relations and Cultural Diversity
- Introduction to Multicultural Education
- Alcohol, Drugs, and Society
- Sociology Senior Synthesis
- Social Power, Coalition,& Decision Making
Each student carries one original project from question through analysis to defense. Every technique is taught twice: once as a procedure, and once as a claim a skeptic could attack.
Organized around the Davis-Moore debate: whether unequal rewards are functionally necessary, or a justification offered after the fact. Students work through how much of an outcome is fixed before a person acts.
Marx, Durkheim, and Weber read closely and tested against contemporary cases. Durkheim's Suicide is taught as a methods text as much as a theory, on the argument that the founders were empirical scientists.