Contents
HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Volume VI • Issue 2 • Spring 2008
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SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS FROM THE CLASSROOM
Plus A Symposium on
Sociology of Science Perspectives on
Malfunctions of Science and Peer ReviewingGuest Co-Editor: Anna Beckwith, University of Massachusetts Boston
ix—Editors’ Note: Toward Sociological Re-Imaginations of Science & Peer Reviewing
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston
SYMPOSIUM:
SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON
MALFUNCTIONS OF SCIENCE AND PEER REVIEWING1—Science and Its Malfunctions
Klaus Fischer, Universität Trier, Germany23—Scientific Peer Review:
An Analysis of the Peer Review Process
from the Perspective of Sociology of Science Theories
Lutz Bornmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
39—Studying Ourselves as Scholar-Teachers
in the Age of HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa
Mathabo Khau, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa &
Kathleen Pithouse, McGill University, Canada49—Grappling with Global-Personal and Victim-Culprit Tensions:
Reflections on Teaching Globalization Courses
Satoshi Ikeda, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada59—“I Arrived Late to This Book”:
Teaching Sociology with Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, the ‘Novel’
Karen M. Gagne, University of Wisconsin at Platteville73—“it’s just a dream, just a dream”:
The WWII Japanese-American Internment in the U.S.
in a Sociological Imagination Class Exercise
Thomas J. Mason, Kathleen M. Powers & Emmett Schaefer, University of Massachusetts Boston
79—Exiles and Home
Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts Boston91—Gender and Violence:
A Reflective Sociology of How Gender Ideologies and Practices
Contribute to Gender Based Violence
Jacquelyn Knoblock, University of Massachusetts Boston103—The Snail’s Pace of Racial Progress in America:
Sociological Insights from a Participant Observer
Henry Mubiru, University of Massachusetts Boston115—No Longer Adding to the Problem:
Changing Society’s Raciallized Structure from Within
David Couras, University of Massachusetts Boston127—Money Whitens But Doesn’t Erase:
A Reflective Sociology of Racism from the Middle of the American “Melting Pot”
Dima Kurin, University of Massachusetts Boston
137—Beyond “Simply Understanding”:
Sociologically Reimagining and Reconstructing the Meaning of My Education
Kathleen R. O’Brien, University of Massachusetts Boston147—4.0: Self-Doubt, the Fear of Failure, and the Power of Symbols
Nicole Jones, University of Massachusetts Boston157—The Body/Mind Split in Pursuit of Beauty:
Understanding Eating Disorders Through Sociological Writing
Nicole, University of Massachusetts Boston169—Choosing My Major and Career: A Sociological Inquiry
Jacquelyn Knoblock, University of Massachusetts Boston179—A Futile Struggle?:
Power and Conformity in High School and the Society at Large
Eric Reed, University of Massachusetts Boston189—What Do I Want to Be?:
A Sociological Exploration in Choosing a Career
Joel Bartlett, University of Massachusetts Boston
197—A Lifetime of Labor: A Sociological Imagination of Work as Life
Stacey Melchin, University of Massachusetts Boston207—Finding My Work Utopia:
Examining My Work Experiences and Position in Society
Laura Zuzevich, University of Massachusetts Boston219—“Patching” My Life: Sociological Lessons for a Joyful Work
Michelle Tanney, University of Massachusetts Boston229—Life is Change: “My Adolescent State of Mind”
Lora Aurise, University of Massachusetts Boston239—Sociological Reflections on My Work Experience
Brian Ahl, University of Massachusetts Boston247—Tables of Contents of Previous Issues
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