Eric Margolis

I teach a core course entitled "Power, Politics and Policy" and have grappled with how to include Dewey in a graduate seminar that begins with Thomas Hobbes and ends with discussions of the Bell Curve and its critics. The curriculum was designed with the recognition that incoming doctoral students, both U.S. and international students, were increasingly unprepared for graduate level work. Apparently their previous educational experiences had emphasized too many multiple choice tests and pre-digested textbooks for them to be able to engage and comprehend dense original source material. Similarly, the

Visual images produced as elements of material culture constitute a remarkable and under‐utilized resource for sociological investigation. This investigation of historic photographs of Colorado coal‐mining communities develops methods to analyze photos as sociological data. The coal industry was the site of sometimes violent struggle between workers and management. The labor intensive nature of mining and its location in under populated areas led to the development of company towns. Miners homes became contested terrain. Cameras were employed to create images to correspond to existing beliefs, values, and ideological definitions. By carefully examining photographs of miners houses we discover new meanings of the social facts governing the coal‐miners’ world.

... En el mundo digital de hoy, programas como Pho toshop facilitan. aún más la separación de la imagen del objeto. A TRAVÉS D. E UN LENTE OSCURO. Imaginación foto gráfica y escuelas urbanas en E stados Unidos. Por Eric Margolis. número 07 / julio 2008. ...

History of Education ISSN 0046–760X print/ISSN 1464–5130 online © 2004 Taylor & Francis Ltd http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals DOI: 10.1080/0046760032000151456 ... HISTORY OF EDUCATION, MARCH, 2004, VOL. 33, NO. 2, 199–230 ... Images of assimilation: ...

In April 1914, the Ludlow tent colony was burned by the Colorado militia. Photo 1 (opposite) shows the cellar where two women and eleven miners' children suffocated. There is something eerie about the stark white hand emerging from the "death hole." When I first saw the ...

... Dennis Hayes makes a particularly compelling argument that teacher education transforms the work of the professor into a form of ... simulation and spectacle which Ritzer (p. 21) celebrates as "elaborate fakes, designed to amaze and delight customers." Joanne Finkelstein (p. 186 ...

Issues related to the integration of race within sociology doctoral programs were explored. Two sets of data were analyzed: open-ended interviews with 26 women of color graduate students and 92 questionnaires completed by Ph.D. programs on faculty, graduate courses, and expertise in race. Quantitative data show that faculty of color are likely to be the one member of their race in the department. EuroAmerican faculty are over-represented in the rank of Full Professor and Associate Professor and faculty of color are under-represented in the tenured ranks. Less than a quarter of departments included the study of race in required theory courses. Departments listing race and ethnicity as a specialty in the area did not always offer graduate courses in the field and courses that were offered did not necessarily focus specifically on U.S. race/ethnic/minority relations, but included international studies and broad topics in social organizations and stratification. Comments by a sample of women of color graduate students point out a number of critical issues: curricula that are outdated, ignore race, are monocultural, and look better in the catalog than in the classroom; faculty that are top-heavy with older White males; students discouraged from pursuing what attracted them to the academy in the first place; and students in conflicts with racial overtones over scarce resources and favors. Qualitative results show that women of color graduate students perceive the inclusion of students and faculty of color to include an acceptance of their racial and ethnic experience in the intellectual and social culture of the department. They linked the goal of integration of the student body and the faculty to be inseparable from integration of race into the curriculum in both required and nonrequired courses, and assigned readings.

Following Marx, Harry Braverman argued that it is not the technical nature of the ma-chine that creates alienation but "invisible" social divisions of labor which produced and control machinery and the labor process. This paper marshals primary source mate-rial from a large visual ...

In 1985, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded an ethnographic research project in San Francisco to study the needle sharing behavior of injection drug users (IDUs). The goal of the research was to develop a strategy to slow the spread of HIV among this hidden and hard to reach population of drug users and their sexual partners. This small-scale project grew into a model intervention in which bleach, condoms, and street-based education by outreach workers were employed to inform IDUs of the risk of AIDS and of methods for protecting themselves. The “reach and teach bleach” model was adopted by NIDA and implemented in a number of American cities. This study describes the development of the model intervention, the adoption of the model by NIDA as part of its National AIDS Demonstration Research (NADR) project, and the political circumstances under which the city of San Francisco applied for the NADR grant. Drawing on Social Worlds/Arena theory, and based on extensive interviews and participant observation, a sociohistorical analysis examines the initial development, implementation, and disintegration of the model outreach project and the impact of the program on drug policy in the city of San Francisco.