Social Theories, Student Realities
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This Spring 2003 (II, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes student papers from coursework completed at SUNY-Oneonta. The creative efforts students display in advancing their sociological imaginations demonstrate the extent to which the best pedagogical strategies are those that rely on teaching their subject matter by encouraging students to draw upon the reality of their own lives in an applied way to learn various concepts and theories taught in class.
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Description
Social Theories, Student Realities
HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Volume II • Issue 1 • Spring 2003
Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston
Description
This Spring 2003 (II, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes student papers from coursework completed at SUNY-Oneonta. The creative efforts students display in advancing their sociological imaginations demonstrate the extent to which the best pedagogical strategies are those that rely on teaching their subject matter by encouraging students to draw upon the reality of their own lives in an applied way to learn various concepts and theories taught in class. Topics are: “Editor’s Note: Social Theories, Student Realities,” “Why I Smoke: Sociology of a Deadly Habit,” “The Drinking Matrix: A Symbolic Self Interaction,” “Theoretical Reflections on Peer Judgments,” “It’s Worth Living in the World,” “My Image Struggles in Capitalist Society,” “”It’s Not My Fault”: Overcoming Social Anxiety through Sociological Imagination,” “Treading Water: Self-Reflections on Generalized Anxiety Disorder,” “Sociology of Shyness: A Self Introduction,” “”Let Me Introduce Myself”: My Struggles with Shyness and Conformity,” “Religion in an Individualistic Society,” “A Precarious Balance: Views of a Working Mother Walking the Tightrope,” “Links in the Chain: Untangling Dysfunctional Family Ties,” and “Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim: Contested Utopistics of Self and Society in a World-History Context.” Contributors include: Emily Margulies, Neo Morpheus, M. Goltry, James McHugh, Anna Schlosser, Charles (pen name), Megan Murray, Colin Campbell, Jillian E. Sloan, Jillian E. Sloan, Jennifer S. Dutcher, Ira Omid (pen name), and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.
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Contents
v—“Editor’s Note: Social Theories, Student Realities”
M.H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi, SUNY College at Oneonta
1—Why I Smoke: Sociology of a Deadly Habit
Emily Margulies, SUNY College at Oneonta
12—The Drinking Matrix: A Symbolic Self Interaction
Neo Morpheus, SUNY College at Oneonta
19—Theoretical Reflections on Peer Judgments
M. Goltry, SUNY College at Oneonta
27—It’s Worth Living in the World
James McHugh, SUNY College at Oneonta
34—My Image Struggles in Capitalist Society
Anna Schlosser, SUNY College at Oneonta
42—“It’s Not My Fault”: Overcoming Social Anxiety through Sociological Imagination
Charles, SUNY College at Oneonta
50—Treading Water: Self-Reflections on Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Megan Murray, SUNY College at Oneonta
58—Sociology of Shyness: A Self Introduction
Colin Campbell, SUNY College at Oneonta
65—“Let Me Introduce Myself”: My Struggles with Shyness and Conformity
Sherry Wilson, SUNY College at Oneonta
73—Religion in an Individualistic Society
Jillian E. Sloan, SUNY College at Oneonta
81—A Precarious Balance: Views of a Working Mother Walking the Tightrope
Jennifer S. Dutcher, SUNY College at Oneonta
90—Links in the Chain: Untangling Dysfunctional Family Ties
Ira Omid, SUNY College at Oneonta
102—Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim: Contested Utopistics of Self and Society in a World-History Context
M.H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi, SUNY College at Oneonta