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CURRICULUM VITAE YALE R. MAGRASS
Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth (UMD) North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747
Office: Liberal Arts-392A; Office Telephone: (508)-999-8402 Fax:
(508)-999-8808 E-Mail: [email protected] EDUCATION 1972-1978
University of California, Santa Barbara Ph.D.; Sociology; M.A.,1973
1971-1972 Columbia University; New York, New York 1967-1971
Brandeis University; Waltham, Massachusetts
B.A. Magna Cum Laude; Mathematics and Sociology; Honors in
Sociology
TEACHING INTERESTS Social Theory Social Problems Sociology of
Knowledge Introductory Sociology Political Sociology Historical
Sociology Social Movements Mass Society & Culture Political
Economy Sociological Methodology Social Impact of Science Computer
Programming and Technology Reading: Militaristic Capitalism Senior
Seminar: Bully Nation Senior Seminar: Capitalism, War Senior
Seminar: Baby Boomers and Irrationality vs. Millennials Wealth,
Status & Power TEACHING EXPERIENCE Chancellor Professor;
Department of Sociology and Anthropology; University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth; North Dartmouth, Mass. 2003— Professor
1989-2003 Associate Professor; 1983-1989; Assistant Professor;
1979-1983; Visiting Lecturer; 1978-1979 (Tenured, 1984) "Political
Sociology", Social Impact of Science and Technology", "Introduction
to Social Thought", "Senior Seminar: Millennials vs. Baby-boomers",
“Senior Seminar: Bully Nation”; “Militaristic Capitalism;” “Social
Movements”, ''Introduction to Research Methods", "Introduction to
Sociology", "Social Change", "Mass Society & Culture",
"Computer Programming I-Pascal", "Social Problems", "Sociological
Theory"
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Visiting Lecturer; Department of Sociology; University of
Massachusetts, Lowell; Lowell, Mass.; 1977-1978 "Introduction to
Sociology", "Sociology of Knowledge"; Lecturer; Department of
Sociology; University of California, Santa Barbara; 1975-1977 "The
Development of Social Thought", "Sociology of Knowledge" SCHOLARLY
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Glorious Causes: The Irrationality of
Capitalism, War and Politics (with Charles Derber); Routledge,
N.Y.,N.Y.; 2020 Moving Beyond Fear: Upending the Security Tales in
Capitalism, Fascism and Democracy (with Charles Derber); Routledge,
N.Y.,N.Y.; 2018 Bully Nation: How the American Establishment
Creates a Bullying Society (with Charles Derber); Second Paperback
edition with new preface on Trump; University Press of Kansas;
Lawrence, Kansas; 2017
霸凌国家:美国体制如何制造欺凌社会 Bully Nation (with Charles Derber & Cui
Zhuojun); [Chinese edition] Xinhua Publishing House: Beijing China,
2017 Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a
Bullying Society (with Charles Derber); University Press of Kansas;
Lawrence, Kansas; 2016 Capitalism: Should You Buy it? An Invitation
to Political Economy (with Charles Derber); Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.;
Paradigm Publishers, E. Boulder,Co.; Pluto Press, London UK; 2014
The Surplus American: How the 1% Is Making Us Redundant (with
Charles Derber); Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers, E.
Boulder, Co.; Pluto Press, London, UK.; 2012 Morality Wars: How
Empires, the Born Again and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the
Name of Good (with Charles Derber); Second edition, New Chapter on
Obama; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers, E. Boulder, Co.;
Pluto Press, London, UK; 2010
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Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again and the Politically
Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good (with Charles Derber);
Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers, E. Boulder, Co.; Pluto
Press, London, UK; 2008 Power in the Highest Degree: Capitalism.
Professionals and the Making of a New Mandarin Order; (with Charles
Derber & William Schwartz); Oxford University Press; N.Y.,
N.Y.; 1990 Thus Spake the Moguls: The New Deal and Other
Transformations of. Upper Class Ideology; Schenkman; Cambridge,
Mass; 1981 ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “Full of Bull: Militarized
Capitalism, Education & Psychology;” (with Charles Derber);
Christopher Donoghue; Power and Aggression among Adolescents:
Toward a Sociology of Bullying; N.Y.: NYU Press; forthcoming
“That’s What They Call Democracy: Capitalism, Democracy & the
State;” Levon Chorbajian; Power and Inequality; N.Y.: Routledge;
forthcoming “The Military and the Psychological Paradigm,” (with
Charles Derber) Library of Social Science; N.Y.,N.Y.; July 13, 2020
“Judaism versus Christianity on the Nature of the Afterlife:”
Library of Social Science; N.Y.,N.Y.; June 17, 2020 “Wandering
Jews;” (with Charles Derber) Library of Social Science; N.Y.,N.Y.;
June 8, 2020 “Jewish Germs Inflict the German Body;” (with Charles
Derber) Library of Social Science; N.Y.,N.Y.; May 27, 2020 “In
extreme crises, conservatism can turn to fascism. Here's how that
might play out;” When liberal capitalist societies fail, nations
turn to glory, honor, nobility and war to legitimate the system;
(with Charles Derber) Salon.com; Oct. 20, 2019; Alternet.com “Who
deserves safety and who doesn’t? How capitalism teaches us a
‘security story;’" (with Charles Derber); Salon.com; March 10, 2019
“How unchecked capitalism and massive inequality made America a
bully nation;” (with Charles Derber); Alternet; Jan. 14, 2019
“Donald Trump: Bullying Role Model for Children.” (with Charles
Derber) University Press of Kansas; June 15, 2017
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“Capitalism and War”; SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science
Perspectives; Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, Ca. 2016 “Class and
War”; SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives; Sage
Publications; Thousand Oaks, Ca. 2016 “Marxist Theories of War”;
SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives; Sage
Publications; Thousand Oaks, Ca. 2016 “Race, Ethnicity and War”;
SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives; Sage
Publications; Thousand Oaks, Ca. 2016 “Os ricos dignos e indignos:
as classes e as castas no capitalism;” Charles Derber; A Maioria
Deserdada (The Disinherited Majority in Portuguese); Temas E
Debates: Circulo-Leitores: Lisbon, Portugal. 2016 “The Worthy and
Unworthy Rich: Caste and Class in Capitalism”: Charles Derber; The
Disinherited Majority; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers; E
Boulder, CO. 2015 “When Wars Come Home” (coauthor); Charles Derber;
Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.;
Paradigm Publishers; E Boulder, CO, London UK; 2013 “Manufacturing
Surplus People”(coauthor); Charles Derber; Sociopathic Society: A
People's Sociology; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers; E
Boulder, CO, London UK; 2013 Romney’s “47 Percent” Blunder Reveals
the Hidden Heart of His Agenda” (coauthor); Charles Derber;
Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.;
Paradigm Publishers; E Boulder, CO, London, UK; 2013 “American
Empire and Its Moral Big Stick” (coauthor); Charles Derber;
Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.;
Paradigm Publishers; E Boulder, CO; London, UK, 2013 “The Wright
Problem”(coauthor); Charles Derber; Sociopathic Society: A People's
Sociology; Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers; E Boulder,
CO; London UK; 2013 “What Does It Mean to Call McCain a “War Hero’
Candidate?”(coauthor); Charles Derber; A People’s Sociology,
Sociopathic Society Routledge, N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers; E
Boulder, CO; London, UK; 2013;
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“History’s Magic Mirror: America’s Economic Crisis and the
Weimar Republic of Pre-Nazi Germany”(coauthor); Charles Derber; A
People’s Sociology, Sociopathic Society Paradigm Publishers; E
Boulder, CO, London UK; 2013 “Good Timing: Economic Meltdown and
Regime Change at Home” (coauthor); Derber, Charles; Greed to Green:
Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy; Routledge,
N.Y.,N.Y.; Paradigm Publishers; E Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, London,
UK; 2010 “Spinning Knowledge into Gold: Knowledge as Property”
(with Charles Derber & William Schwartz) Jeff Manza &
Michael Saunder; Inequality and Society; N.Y.,NY.: Norton, 2009
“Democracy or Plutocracy” (with Michael Parenti) Bimonthly Review
of Law Books ; Boston, Mass. Volume 17, November/December 2006
“Horowitz’s List: The Right Attack on Civil Liberties and Academic
Freedom” (with Gordon Fellman) Bimonthly Review of Law Books ;
Boston, Mass. Volume 17, No 5 September/October 2006 “Law, Politics
& Corporate Elites” (with G. William Domhoff) Bimonthly Review
of Law Books ; Boston, Mass. Volume 17, No 5 September/October 2006
“Changing Lives Through Literature” (with Robert Waxler) Bimonthly
Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass. Volume 17, No. 2 May/June 2006
”Hidden Power, Regime Change and Public Policy” (with Charles
Derber); Bimonthly Review of Law Books; Boston, Mass. Volume 17,
No. 1 March/April 2006 “Globalization and the Emerging
International Legal Order” (with Charles Derber); Bimonthly Review
of Law Books ; Boston, Mass. V.14, N. 6 Nov/Dec, 2003 “Uwaga na
sprzedaz” (Co-Author) Derber, Charles Zaistniec w spoteczenstwie
(The Pursuit of Attention in Polish); Gdanskie Wydawntictwo
Psychologiczne; Gdansk, Poland; 2002 “The Public Construction of
the Private.” In Towards A Responsible and Solidary World; Editions
Montmorency; Montreal Canada; 2001
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"Religion and War;" Magill's Guide to Military History. Salem
Press; Pasadena California; 2001 "Attention for Sale; The Hidden
Privileges of Class" (with Charles Derber); in Ann Branaman; Self
& Society; Brackwell, London, U.K.: 2001 "Attention for Sale;
The Hidden Privileges of Class" (Co-Author); Derber, Charles; The
Pursuit of Attention; (second edition); Oxford University Press;
N.Y., N.Y.; 2000 Stephen W. Hawking; Dictionary of World Biography
:The Twentieth Century Vol. 8; PP 1580-1583; Fitzroy Dearboarn ;
Chicago, Illinois; "Great Depression;" Encyclopedia of North
American History; Marshall Cavendish; Terrytown , N.Y.; 1999
"Roosevelt's (F.D.) Presidency;" Encyclopedia of North American
History Marshall Cavendish; Terrytown , N.Y.; 1999 "Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS);" The Sixties in America; Salem Press;
Pasadena California; 1998 "Civil Defense Campaigns, U.S.;"
Encyclopedia of Propaganda; M.E. Sharp; Armont, N.Y.; 1998
"Education as an Anti-Propaganda Tool;" Encyclopedia of Propaganda;
M.E. Sharp; Armont, N.Y.; 1998 "Dialecticism;" Survey of Social
Science: Government and Politics; Salem Press; Pasadena California;
1995 "Computer Literacy: The Pigeonhole Principle" (with Richard
Upchurch); Computers and Society; Vol. 18, No. 3; July, 1988
"Computer Literacy: People Adjusted to Technology" (with Richard
Upchurch); Computers and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2; April, 1988 "The
Pursuit of Attention" (with Charles Derber); in Candace Clark &
Howard Robby; SociaI Interaction ; St. Martin's Press; N.Y.; 1988
"Money Changers in the Temple"; Humanity and Society; Madison,
N.J.; Vol. 10, No. 2; May, 1986
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''Ideology and Upper Class Interests"; Quarterly Journal of
IdeoIogy; Montgomery. Ala; Vol. 10, No. 2; 1986 "The Boy Scouts,
The Outdoors and Empire"; Humanity and Society; Madison, N.J.; Vol.
10, No. l; February, 1986 "Computer Science Curriculum:
Technography, Technocracy, Technology, or Theology?" (with Richard
Upchurch); SEGCSE Bulletin; N.Y, N.Y.; Vol. 17, No. 4; December,
1985 "Humanism Under Siege (The Moral Majority and the Legitimation
Crisis )"; Humanity and Society; West. Hartford, Conn. Vol. 8,
No.2. May, 1984 "Attention for Sale; The Hidden Privileges of
Class" (Co-Author); Derber, Charles; The Pursuit of Attention;
Oxford University Press; N.Y., N.Y. 1983; G.K. Hall and Schenkman;
Cambridge, Mass.;1979; "The Private and the Public in Collision";
Human Affairs; Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Vol. 2, No. l; Spring,
1982 "Emancipatory Metasocial Psychology: Marx, Freud, Piaget,
Chomsky and Skinner"; Transforming Sociology Series; Red Feather
Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology; No. 48; 1979 "The New
Deal: A Case Study in Transformations of Corporate Ideology";
Working Papers on the Capitalistate Newsletter; San Francisco; 1976
BOOK REVIEWS Review of Paul Shackel; An Archaelogy of Unchecked
Capitalism: From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World;
Choice; Middletown CT. July 2020 Review of Nicholas Lemann;
Transaction Man: The Rise and Decline of the American Dream;
Choice; Middletown CT. February 2020 Review of Julius Grey;
Capitalism and the Alternatives; Choice; Middletown CT. August 2019
Review of David Stoesz; Pandora’s Dilemma: Theories of Social
Welfare for the Twenty-First Century; Choice; Middletown CT. June
2018 Review of Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Kruse, Issac Ariail
Reed; Social Theory Now; Choice; Middletown CT. February 2018
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“Vietnam was No Mistake- It was a War Crime;” Review of John
Marciano; The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration: LA
Progressive; LA, CA.; Vietnam Full Disclosure; Monthly Review; N.Y.
N.Y.; August 26, 2016 Review of Charles W. Smith; What the Market
Teaches: Limitations of Knowing and Tactics for Doing; Choice;
Middletown CT. 2016 Review of Douglas Porpora; Reconstructing
Sociology-The Critical Realist Approach; Choice; Middletown CT.
February 2016 Review of Katherine Twamley, Mark Doidge & Andrea
Scott; Sociologists’ Tales; Choice; Middletown CT. November 2015
Review of Sandra Levitsky; Caring For Our Own; Choice; Middletown
CT. November 2014 Review of Greg Urban; Corporations and
Citizenship; Enterprise and Society; Oxford University Press; Fort
Wayne, IN. August 2014 Review of Eugene Rosa, Ortwin Renn &
Aaron McCright; The Risk Society Revisited; Choice; Middletown CT.
June 2014 Review of Sinisa Malesevic; Nation-States and
Nationalisms; Choice; Middletown CT. April 2014 Review of Neil
White; Company Towns; Corporate Order and Community; International
Journal of Comparative Sociology; Irving Ca. February 2014 Review
of Daniel Chernilo; The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social
Theory; Choice; Middletown CT. September 2013 Review of Niklas
Luhmann; Introduction to Systems Theory; Choice; Middletown CT.
June 2013 Review of Neil Fligstein & Doug McAdam; A Theory of
Fields; Choice; Middletown CT. April 2013 Review of Anthony Elliott
& Bryan Turner; On Society; Choice; Middletown CT. December
2012 Review of Sal Restivo ; Red, Black and Objective: Science,
Sociology and Anarchism; Choice; Middletown CT. April 2012
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Review of Sandra Hanson & John White; The American Dream in
the 21st Century; Choice; Middletown CT. February 2012 Review of
David Sciulli; Etzioni’s Critical Functionalism; Choice; Middletown
CT. December 2011 Review of Victoria Carty; Wired and Mobilizing;
Choice; Middletown CT. May, 2011 Review of Hans Dave Elder-Vass;
The Causal Powers of Social Structures; Choice; Middletown CT.
April, 2011 Review of Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl; Social Theory;
Choice; Middletown CT. July, 2010 Review of Goran Therborn; From
Marxism to Post-Marxism?; Choice; Middletown CT. July, 2010 Review
of Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui; The Hyperlinked Society ; Choice;
Middletown CT. May, 2009 Review of William Pawlett, Jean
Baudrillard; Choice; Middletown CT. November, 2008 Review of
Andrzej Zieleniec, Space and Social Theory; Choice; Middletown CT.
May, 2008 Review of Talcott Parsons, American Society; Choice;
Middletown CT. May, 2008 Review of Frank Brian Roberts, Micro
Social Theory; Choice; Middletown CT. June, 2007 Review of Frank W.
Ellwell, Macrosociology; Choice; Middletown CT. February, 2007
Review of Ira Katznelson, Mark Kesselman, Alan Draper; The Politics
of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government. Fifth
Edition. Bimonthly Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass. V17, N4
July/August 2006 Review of Jason Powell, Social Theory and Aging;
Choice; Middletown CT. September, 2006
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Review of John P. Jackson, Science for Segregation; Choice;
Middletown CT. July 2006 Review of G. William Domhoff. Who Rules
America? Power, Politics & Social Change, Fifth Edition.
Bimonthly Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass. V16,
N6-November/December 2005 Review of Christian Davenport, Hank
Johnston & Carol Mueller Repression and Mobilization; Choice;
Middletown CT. December 2005 Review of William Outhwaite &
Larry Ray Social Theory and Postcommunism Choice; Middletown CT.
November 2005 Review of Edward Martin & Rodolfo Torres Savage
State Choice; Middletown CT. June 2005 Review of Scott Schaffer
Resisting Ethics Choice; Middletown CT. June 2005 Review of Michael
Melo Legalizing Gay Marriage; Bimonthly Review of Law Books ;
Boston, Mass. V 15 N 6 November/December 2004 Review of Thomas
Frank What’s the Matter with Kansas? Bimonthly Review of Law Books
; Boston, Mass. V14 N4-July/August 2004 Review of Jongryul Choi
Postmodern American Sociology Choice; Middletown CT. March 2005
Review of Roger Sibeon Rethinking Social Theory Choice; Middletown
CT. December 2004 Review of Alan How Critical Theory Choice;
Middletown CT. July 2004 Review of John Sitton Habermas and
Contemporary Society Choice; Middletown CT. April 2004 Review of
Richard Swedberg Principles of Economic Sociology Choice;
Middletown CT.; March, 2004 Review of Steven Goldberg Fad and
Fallacies in the Social Sciences Choice; Middletown CT.; February
,2004
Review of Alan Dershowitz America Declares Independence
Bimonthly Review of Law Books; Boston, Mass. ; V14 N4- July/August
2003
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Review of Michael Moore Stupid White Men Bimonthly Review of Law
Books; Boston, Mass.; V 14 N 2 – March/April 2003
Review of Robert A Dahl.How Democratic is the American
Constitution?; Bimonthly Review of Law Books; Boston, Mass.; V 14 N
2 – March/April 2003 Review of Mauro Guillen. The New Economic
Sociology. Choice; Middletown CT. 2003 Review of David McBride
Mission for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America’s
African World. Choice; Middletown CT. 2003 Review of Stephen Lyng
& David Frank. Sociology and the Real World. Choice; Middletown
CT. 2002 Review of Robert C. Post etc. Prejudicial Appearances: The
Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law. ; Bimonthly Review of Law
Books ; Boston, Mass.; January-February 2002 Review of Franklin E.
Zimring etc..Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You’re Out
in California. ; Bimonthly Review of Law Books; Boston, Mass.;
January-February 2002 Review of Stephen K. Sanderson The Evolution
of Human Society: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective; Choice;
Middletown CT. 2001 Review of Micheal Hechter Social Norms; Choice;
Middletown CT. 2001 Review of Carroll L. Estes etc. Social Policy
and Aging; Choice; Middletown CT. 2001 Review of David Dyzenhaus
(Editor) Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism;
Bimonthly Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass.; July-August 2001
Review of Marc Tuchnet Taking the Constitution from the Courts.
Bimonthly Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass.; V.11, N. 5, 2000
Review of Terri Jennings Peretti In Defense of a Political Court.
Bimonthly Review of Law Books; Boston, Mass.; September-October
2000 Review of John William Sayer, Ghost Dancing the Law: The
Wounded Knee Trials; Bimonthly Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass.;
V. 8 N. 6 1998 Review of Brian Barry; Theories of Justice;
Bimonthly Review of Law Books ; Boston, Mass.; V.1, N. 4, 1994
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Review of Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff; Knowledge and
Class; Quarterly Journal of Ideology; Montgomery, Ala; V. 14, N. 3;
1990 Review of Norman Pollack; The Just Polity; Quarterly Journal
of Ideology; Montgomery, Ala; V. 14, N. 1; 1990 Review of Judith
Perrolle; Computers and Social Change (with Richard Upchurch);
Computer; Rochester, N. Y.; January, 1988 Review of John Gray;
Llberalism; Quarterly Journal of Ideology; Montgomery, Ala; Vol.
11, No. 4; 1987 Review of John Clarke & Chas Critcher; The
Devil Makes Work; Quarterly Journal of Ideology ; Montgomery, Ala;
Vol. 11, No. 1; l987 Review of Raymond Aron; History, Truth &
Liberty ; Quarterly Journal of Ideology ; Montgomery, Ala; Vol. 11,
No. 4; l986 Review of Frank Hearn; Reason and Freedom in
Sociological Thought; Quarterly Journal of Ideology ; Montgomery,
Ala; Vol. 11, No. 3; l986 Review of John Ryan; The Production Of
Culture in the Music Industry; Quarterly Journal of Ideology ;
Montgomery, Ala; Vol. 10, No. 2; 1986 Review of Arlie Hochschild;
The Managed Heart ; Quarterly Journal of Ideology ; Montgomery,
Ala; Vo. 10, No.1; 1986 Review of Susan Ostrander; Women of the
Upper Class; Quarterly Journal of Ideology ,; Montgomery, Ala; Vo.
10, No. I; 1986 Review of David McLeod; Building Character in the
American Boy ; Journal of Sports and Social Issues Lowell, Mass.;
Winter/Spring.1985 Review of Nathan Keyfitz; Population Change and
Social Policy; Sociology; Washington D.C.; 1983 Review of Hermann
Strasser and Susan Randall; An Introductlon to Theories of Soclal
Change; Sociology ; Washington, D.C.; 1982 Review of Jergen
Habermas; Communication and the Evolution of Society; Sociology and
Social Research ; Los Angeles; 1980
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Review of Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter; Imperial Brain
Trust ; Sociology and Social Research ; Los Angeles; 1978 "With
Words Like Bats", Review of Bertell Ollman; Alienation ; The Human
Factor ; Columbia University; N.Y., N.Y.; June, 1972 PRESENTATIONS
AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS “Glorious Causes;” New Book Reception;
Eastern Sociological Society; Philadelphia Pa; February 28, 2020
“Education for Militarized Capitalism;” Boston College; Chestnut
Hill, MA; October 3, 2019 Glorious Causes; Pre-Publication Author
Presentation; American Sociological Association Convention; New
York, New York; August 11, 2019 Bully Nation: Author Visit (with
Charles Derber); National Library Week; Mass Bay Community College;
Wellseley, MA. April 12, 2018 “Trump’s Bullying Reflects American;”
Boston College; Chestnut Hill, MA; October 5, 2017 “Marching to
Bully;” Boston College; Chestnut Hill, MA; October 6, 2016 “Bully
Nation: How Militaristic Capitalism Builds a Bullying Society.”
Left Forum; N.Y., N.Y. May 21, 2016 “Marching to Bully: How the
Military Trains Bullies, both Inside and Outside the Services.”
Military Sociology Mini-Conferences; Eastern Sociological Society;
Boston Mass. March 19, 2016 “So-called ‘Professionalization’ Leads
Universities to Lose Sight of their Real Purpose.” Evaluation
Mini-Conference. Eastern Sociological Society; Boston Mass. March
19, 2016 “The Surplus American & Capitalism: Should You Buy
It?;” New Book Reception; Eastern Sociological Society; Baltimore,
MD; February 21, 2014 “Three Paradigms on Racial Inequality”;
Association of Humanist Sociologists; Arlington, Va; Oct. 11,
2013
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“YOU’RE FIRED: How Americans are Becoming a Surplus People or
What the 1% Plan for the 99%” (with Charles Derber); play preformed
at Boston College; December 7, 2011 Panelist; “Brandeis in the
Sixties;” Association of Humanist Sociologists; Boston, Ma;
November, 2008 “Morality Wars;” New Book Reception; Eastern
Sociological Society; N.Y.,N.Y; February 22, 2008 “The Holocaust as
Rorschach;” Eastern Sociological Society; Boston, Mass. February
25, 2006 “Capitalism and Democracy” Literature, Communication, and
Democracy Symposium; UMass Lowell ; April 2, 2003 “The Public
Construction of the Private;” World Congress on Human Coexistence
in a Responsible World. Montreal, Quebec, Canada; July, 2000
"Corporations and the State;" Transformations of Corporation
Seminar; Boston College; November, 1996 "Control of the Means of
Reality;" American Sociological Association; Washington, D.C.;
August, 1995 "Dialectics and Equality"; Seventh Conference of North
American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists; Havana,
Cuba; June, 1995 "Religion and Democracy: Israel and the United
States"; Association of Humanist Sociologists; Hartford,
Connecticut; October, 1983 "Values within the Corporate Community:
Roosevelt to Reagan"; Eastern Sociological Society; Baltimore,
Maryland; March, 1983 "The Religious Right and the Corporate
Right"; Association of Humanist Sociologists; Washington, D.C.;
October, 1982 "The Conservative Attack on Liberal Humanism";
Massachusetts Sociological Association; November, 1981 "The Private
and the Public in Collision"; Association of Humanist Sociologists;
Cincinnati, Ohio; October, 1981
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"Ideology and Class Interests"; Society for the Study of Social
Problems; Toronto, Canada; August, 1981 'The Colored Slate: Toward
an Emancipatory Metapsychology"; Pacific Sociology Association;
Anaheim, California; April, 1979 "Economic Sector and Ideology";
Association of Humanist Sociologists; South Bend, Indiana October,
1978 "Foundations of Critical Theory and Political Economy"; West
Coast Social Scientist Conference. Nevada City, California; May,
1975 "Political implications of Pedagogical Techniques"; West Coast
Social Scientist Conference; San Jose, California; May, 1974
PUBLICATION & PRESENTATIONS FOR THE MASS MEDIA “Violence: As
American as Cherry Pie;” LA Progressive; June 8, 2020 “How
America’s militaristic, capitalist culture led to Trump.” (with
Charles Derber) Salon.com. December 17, 2017 “When Tax Law Becomes
Bullying” (with Charles Derber) Alternet.com; Dec. 14, 2017 “Higher
Education: The Chain of Bullying.” (with Charles Derber) LA
Progressive; May 24, 2017 “Bullying, retrato de um Sistema”
(Portuguese translation of interview with Charles Derber by Mark
Karlin). Carta Maior. May 12, 2017 “Bully Nation” (with Charles
Derber) New York 92nd St Y; December 9, 2016 “How Capitalism
Fosters Bullying.” (Interview with Charles Derber by Mark Karlin)
Truth-out; October 16, 2016 “The Bullying of US Militarism Pervades
the Entire Society” (With Charles Derber) Truth-Out; October 13,
2016 “Vote for Hillary! You May Live to Regret it.” (with Charles
Derber) LA Progressive; August 12, 2016 Meet the Authors-Bully
Nation (with Charles Derber); Kansas City Central Library; Kansas
City. Mo.; August 11, 2016
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Bully Nation Author Interview (with Charles Derber) Up to Date;
KCUR; Kansas City, MO.; August 11, 2016 “Germany then, America
Now.” LA Progressive; July 1, 2016 Bully Nation Author Interview
(with Charles Derber) The Gary Null Show; WBAI; N.Y.,N.,Y.; June
24, 2016 "We Can Control Him": How Conservatives Underestimate
Trump and How Progressives Could Stop Him.” (with Charles Derber);
Truth-Out; June 9,2016 “How Unchecked Capitalism and Massive
Inequality Made America the Bully Nation.” (with Charles Derber)
Alternet.com; May 26, 2016 “The U.S. is the World's Biggest Bully;
And You Wonder Why Bully Trump Is Popular Among Some Americans.”
(with Charles Derber) Alternet.com May 19, 2016 “Trump Card: The
Bully Who Exposes Our Bully Nation.” (with Charles Derber)
Truth-Out; May 17, 2016 “Bully Nation;” Public Intellectuals
Project; Education for a Global Democracy (with Charles Derber);
February 5, 2014 “Bully Nation;” Truth-Out (with Charles Derber);
February 1, 2014 “When Wars Come Home;” Truth-Out (with Charles
Derber); February 19, 2013 “Foreign Policy: Do Republicans And
Democrats Really Disagree?” ZNet; (with Charles Derber) November 4,
2012 “History's Magic Mirror: America’s Economic Crisis and the
Weimar Republic of Pre-Nazi Germany;” Truth-Out; (with Charles
Derber) November 1, 2012 “Romney's ’ 47 Percent’ Blunder Reveals
the Hidden Heart of His Agenda” Truth-Out; (with Charles Derber)
October 9, 2012 “Surplus People;” Facebook “YOU’RE FIRED” (with
Charles Derber & Cal Greene III) The Gavel; Boston College;
March 2012; V4; N.1; P 22 &23; “YOU’RE FIRED” (with Charles
Derber); video of play preformed at Boston College; on website
http://mlib.bc.edu/media/play/fired.mp4.; 2011
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“Vietnam: Disrupted Lives;” Stories Project DVD; Sharon High
School; Sharon, Mass. January 7, 2009 “Stifled Debate: The ‘Wright
Problem’”(with Charles Derber); International Herald Tribune;
Paris, France; May 3, 2008 “Stifled Debate: The ‘Wright
Problem’”(with Charles Derber); New York Times; N.Y.N.Y.; May 3
2008 “The ‘Wright Problem’ Belongs to America”(with Charles
Derber); Common Dreams.; May 1, 2008 “The ‘Wright Problem’ Belongs
to America”(with Charles Derber); Boston Globe; Boston, Mass.; May
1, 2008 “Rethinking War Hero”(with Charles Derber); Baltimore Sun;
Baltimore, MD; April 21, 2008 “War Hero 624787;” (with Charles
Derber); Christian Science Monitor; Boston, Mass.; April 14, 2008
“Morality Wars & The High School Experience;” Boston Latin
School; Boston, Mass.; January 30, 2008 Interview of Holocaust
Survivor (Abraham Landau) with Robert Michael; WEAN Radio;
Providence, R.I.; June, 1983 PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS FOR
GREATER UMD C0MMUNITY “Redesigning Life Through Gene Editing: Panel
Discussing Gene Therapy,” Claire T. Carney Library Grand Reading
Room. November 15, 2017 “A Celebration of the Life of Geraldine
Gamburd;” UMass-Dartmouth Sociology/Anthropology Newsletter;
November 2014 “What is Good Teaching?” PHENOM Rally; October 7,
2009 “Teaching Evaluations and the New Contract;” Faculty Forum;
May 2009 Morality Wars: Meet the Author Series; February 24, 2009
“All Quiet on the Prison Front;” Changing Lives Through Literature
Website; December 6, 2008
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“Dissent from the Committee to Create a Common Student
Evaluation Form;” Position Paper sent to entire faculty; February
12, 2008 “Forks in the Energy Road;” Focus the Nation Teach-In;
January 31, 2008 “UMD Losing Focus on What Made It so Great:
Misplaced Priorities & Regaining Respect for Student Input; ”
The Torch; Vol. 53, Issue 20; March 8, 2007 “The Myth of Apolitical
Science,” Earth Day Seminar; April 20, 2006 “Scientific Ambiguity
and Political Certainty,” Earth Day Seminar, April 21, 2005
Panelist: “Is it Patriotic to Protest When We are at War?”; 2004
"Sociology Course Challenges Students to Ponder the Impact of
Science and Technology;" Growth and Changes in Arts & Sciences
at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; 1996 "What I Did During
My Summer Vacation: The Cuban Revolution in the 90s" 1994 Faculty
Senate Social and International Perspectives; 1995 "Rise of the
Expert Class"; Arnold Dubin Labor Seminar; 1993 "Upper Class Rifts
& The State"; Arnold Dubin Labor Seminar; 1989 "Why Study
Social Sciences at Our University?"; 1981 Panel of Disabled
Faculty; March, 1981 "Growing Up Handicapped"; April, 1980 "What's
News Worthy in Sociology/Anthropology"; 1980 "The Wall St. Crash:
Its Present Implications"; October, 1979 "Brochure of
Sociology/Anthropology Department"; 1979 PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL AND
REVIEWER STAFF MEMBERSHIPS Reviewer for grant proposal Devon
Fergus, “White Collar Crime and the Racial Wealth Gap;” University
of Missouri; 2018 Reviewer for Routledge Publishers
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Reviewer for Teaching Sociology; Sage Publications Editorial
Board; Humanity and Society; 1983-1986, 2011- Book Review Staff;
Choice 2001- Editorial Board; Bimonthly Review of Law Books
1998-2007 Editorial Board; Quarterly Journal of Ideology; 1992-
1995 Book Review Staff; Quarterly Journal of Ideology; 1985- 1990
Book Review Staff; Sociology: Review of New Books; 1982-1983
ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS 2015 Capitalism: Should You Buy It?
placed on Wall of Scholarship;
UMass-Dartmouth 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title;
Capitalism: Should You Buy It? 2008 Evaluator for Peter Urmetzer,
Ideology and Free Trade"; Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2000-2008
Listed in Who's Who in America 1997 Listed in Who's Who in the
World 1996 Listed in Who's Who in The East 1992 Power in the
Highest Degree, nominated for Distinguished
Publication Award, 1 of 12 candidates for the best book in
Sociology in previous 3 years; American Sociological
Association
1992 Amicus Curiae; Supreme Court of the United States 1988,
1986 Tier II Merit Raise, UMD 1988 Participant-Comparative
Sociology Seminar, Nanzan University; Nagoya, Japan 1987
Participant-Comparative Economist Tour of Soviet Union &
Eastern Europe
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1986 Participant-Cultural Exchange Seminar- People's Republic of
China 1985-1986 Sabbatical Leave, UMD 1984 Greater New Bedford
Jewish Federation Grant 1983-1984 Broad Field Release Time
-Computer Fluency 1983 Participant- New Jewish Agenda Peace Tour of
Israel 1972-1973 University of California Fellowship 1971-1972
Columbia University Fellowship 1971 B.A. Magna Cum Laude with
Honors in Sociology, Brandeis University 1968-1971 Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Scholarship COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS & OTHER
POSITIONS AT UMD Sociology-Anthropology Department Curriculum
Committee 2017- Sociology-Anthropology Department Representative to
Accepted Student Day, April 19, 2017. Member of the Department
Recruitment and Retention Committee; 2016 Sociology-Anthropology
Department Representative to Experience UMassD, March 7, 2016.
Social Science Academic Council 2015- Student Writing Assessment
Committee 2015, 2016 Geraldine Gamburd Memorial Scholarship
Committee; 2014- Represent UMD at the National Association for
College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Fair, Boston, Mass.; May 2014
Delegate American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts Convention
2010; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016
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College of Arts & Sciences Student Experience Strategic
Focus Area Committee; 2013 Grievance Advocate 2012 Convener
Sociology/Anthropology Faculty Evaluation Committee for Tenure and
Sabbatical Application of two colleagues 2011
Sociology/Anthropology Curriculum Subcommittee for the
Revitalization of the Program 2011-2012 Sociology/Anthropology
Course Evaluation Workshop 2011-2012 University Admissions
Committee 2009- University Sustainability Committee 2008- Faculty
Student Academic Affairs Committee 2008- Social Science
Representative to Faculty Senate Steering Committee 2007-2008
Faculty Senate 2006-2017 Faculty Federation Committee to Create a
Common Student Evaluation Form 2007-2009 Faculty Federation Working
Conditions Contract Sub-Committee 2006 Sociology/Anthropology
Methods Curriculum Committee 2006 Committee to evaluate the Center
for Business Research 2004-2005 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action
Advisory Committee 2003- Sociology/Anthropology Methods Search
Committee 2004 Vice Chairman for Students Affairs; Department of
Sociology/Anthropology; 1994-2003 Institutional Review Board for
Protection of Human Subjects 2000-2001 Leo Sullivan Teacher of the
Year Committee, 1996-1998 Committee to Evaluate the Provost
1998
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Mentor for Minority Students; 1992- College of Arts &
Sciences Curriculum Committee,1991-2000 Chair,1984-1985 University
Calendar Committee; 1991- 1994 University Curriculum Committee;
1983-1984, 1991-2000 University General Education Committee;
1987-1989 Arranged visit of Brandeis Professor Gordon Fellman 1985
Computers and Problem Solving Committee; 1983-1985 Member of UMD
Jewish Culture Seminar; 1981-1985 College of Arts and Sciences
Worker Outreach Committee; 1983 Attended Computer Programming for
Faculty Course; 1983 Staff of UMD Micro-Computers Expo '83; 1983
Participated in UMD Five Day Academic Computer Work Shop; 1983
College of Arts and Sciences Student Advising Staff; 1980-1985
College of Arts and Sciences Recruitment Committee; 1980-1981
Sociology/Anthropology Evaluation Committee Sociology/Anthropology
Department Student Affairs Committee Sociology/Anthropology
Department Curriculum Committee Sociology/Anthropology Colloquium
Committee Sociology/Anthropology Continuing Education Committee
Liaison between Sociology/Anthropology Department and Handicapped
Center