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Glenn Goodwin

Glenn Goodwin

Adjunct Faculty

Sociology and Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Office: (909) 593-3511
La Verne Campus Hoover Building 114

Areas of Interest

  • Humanistic Sociology
  • Social Movements
  • Sociological Theory

My Research Interests

The most meaningful and fulfilling sector of my professional career has been my teaching. Even after taking early retirement, I find myself interested in continuing to work on becoming a more effective and stimulating teacher of social science. I am also continuing to do research on the intersections between the history and development of social science theory and the Humanities and I remain particularly interested in their mutual epistemological issues and problems.

A spin-off from my commitment to excellence in teaching is my continuing interest in researching and developing an ideal “capstone” course for especially sociology, anthropology, and criminology students, a course that synthesizes years of undergraduate and graduate study in these social sciences.

Finally, I have had a career-long interest in the sociology of the absurd and continue to examine scientific and other research genres on how the absurd and/or contradictions contribute to a sense of human meaning in contemporary society, a milieu that increasingly resembles what Maurice Merleau-Ponty once called a “broken world.”

Publications

Select/Representative Publications

  • (With Joseph A. Scimecca), Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology (Wadsworth, 2006). Nominated for the 2007 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award; also nominated for the 2006 History of Sociology (American Sociological Association) Book Award.
  • Co-editor (with Martin Schwartz), ‘Professing’ Humanist Sociology, 5th ed., The American Sociological Association, 2005.
  • (With Joseph A. Scimecca), “Jane Addams: First Humanist Sociologist,” Humanity and Society, 28, No. 3 (August, 2004), 29-47.
  • Book Review: Anthony King, The Structure of Social Theory, in Contemporary Sociology, 35, No. 3 (March 2006), 308-09.
  • Co-editor (with Martin Schwartz), The Humanist Sociology Resource Book, 4th ed., American Sociological Association, August, 2000.
  • Response to Jonathan Imber, “Values, Politics, and Science: The Influence of Social Movements on Sociology: Other-Directed Rebels” (with response from Imber), Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 28, No. 6 (May, 1999), 754-55.
  • Chapter 4, “The Sociological Imagination: From Personal Troubles to Public Issues,” in Gubbay and Middleton (eds.), The Student’s Companion to Sociology (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997).
  • “Toward the Articulation of a Humanist Perspective and the Teaching of Sociology,” in Schwartz and Miller (eds.), The Humanist Sociology Resource Book, 3rd.ed., American Sociological Association, 1997.
  • “Sociology at Pitzer College,”, California Sociological Association Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1 (February, 1993), 4-9.
  • “The American Political Scene: A Personal View,” The Humanist Sociologist, 17, No. 1 (November, 1992), 13-19.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • 2016    DeLance, L. Women and Combat: The Case of the British Military.  Oxford Research Group Sustainable Security Programme.
  • 2016    DeLance, L. Women and Combat in Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Naples, N., editor.

Edited Volumes

  • 2017    DeLance, Lisa (ed.). Crafting Conplexity: Material Culture and the Rise of Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica” (Edited Volume, in preparation, draft available upon request)
  • 2017     DeLance, Lisa (ed.). “Building a Figurine Typology: The Formative Period Figurine Assemblage from Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize” (Chapter contribution in edited volume, in preparation, draft available upon request)

Technical Publications

  • 2016    DeLance, L. Preliminary Catalog and Curation of Figurine Fragments From the Sites of Cahal Pech and Baking Pot. Report prepared for the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2015 Field Season. Hoggarth, J.A. and Awe, J.J., editors.
  • 2015    DeLance, L. Preliminary Catalog and Curation of Figurine Fragments from the Sites of Cahal Pech, Blackman Eddy, Pacbitun, Santa Rita, Baking Pot, and Xunantunich. Report prepared for the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2014 Field Season. Hoggarth, J.A. and Awe, J.J., editors.

Additional Information

Classes Taught at ULV

  • Soc 250: Introduction to Sociology
  • Soc 400: Sociological Theory
  • Soc 499 A/B: Senior Thesis

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