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Biographical Sketch of Jan Smith |
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Jan Smith Professor of Sociology B.A. Antioch College, 1966 Ph.D. Princeton University, 1971
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| Jan Smith has been on the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan since 1977. From 1970 to 1977, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1983, on leave from Ohio Wesleyan, he taught for Syracuse University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Smith's research interests include contemporary social theory, the history of sociological thought, economic institutions, the sociology of knowledge, and social change. He has published scholarly articles in the American Journal of Sociology, the Review of the Society for General Systems Research, the Social Science Microcomputer Review, and in other journals and readers in the social sciences. Dr. Smith's current research identifies the basic attributes of human nature and social interaction and derives causal explanations of modern social institutions. He has presented selected parts of his manuscript-in-progress at annual meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics. | |
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Courses taught: Social Problems , Social Inequality, Sociology of Knowledge |
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