Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733
Here Are Course Materials
Summer 2008
Social Theory (SOCL502)
Syllabus
Berger, Sociology an an Individual Pastime
Erving Goffman,
Stigma
G. H. Mead, Mind as the Product of Social Interaction
Rosenhan, Being Sane in Insane Places
Spencer, Society as an Organism
Fall 2008
Socialization, Self, and Society (SOCL303)
Syllabus
Geertz,
Culture and Human Nature
Zerubavel,
Islands of Meaning
I've just become the past-chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Winthrop University, and am the President Elect of the Southwestern Social Science Association. If you are a student, a faculty member, an SSSA participant, or just about anyone else, you can get hold of me at one of the phone numbers or email addresses below. But please don't call after 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Phone numbers
(803) 323-4654 (office)
(803) 366-0637 (home)
(803) 517-4819 (cell)
Email addresses
eckbergd@winthrop.edu (office)
eckberg@comporium.net (home)
Southwestern Social Science Association
Southwestern Social Science Association (main web page)
To get to my other main associations, click on the organizations' names, below:
Southwestern Sociological Association
Social Science History Association
American Sociological Association
C. V.
(1) Ph.D., Sociology, December 1978. University of Texas at Austin.
(2) M.A., Sociology, May 1973. University of Missouri-Columbia.
(3)
B.A., cum laude, Psychology, May 1971.
University of Texas at Austin.
Some Awards and Honors
(1) Elected Vice-President, Southwestern Social Science Association (President in 2009)
(2) Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Grant, 2005-2006 Academic Year (Topic: "The South Carolina Murder Project")
(3) Winthrop University Sabbatical Leave, 2005-2006 Academic Year
(4) Past-President, Southwestern Sociological Association (elected 2002)
(5) Winthrop University Sabbatical Leave, 1997-1998 Academic Year
(7)
Institute for Southern Studies Summer Fellow, University of South
Carolina, June-August 1997
(8) Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar to India (topic: "Ethnic Issues in Modern India"), July-August 1994.
Some Recent Publications
2006. “Crime, victimization, and the criminal justice system,” In Historical
Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition,
edited by
Susan Carter, Scott Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and
Gavin Wright.
Cambridge University Press.
2005. "Teaching scholarship during the 1990's: a study of authorship in Teaching Sociology." Teaching Sociology 33 (Fall) [with Jonathan Marx].
2004. "The mouse that roared? Article publishing in undergraduate sociology programs." The American Sociologist 35 (Winter): 58-78. [with Jonathan Marx].
2001.
“Stalking the elusive homicide: a capture-recapture approach to the
estimation of post-Reconstruction South Carolina killings.”
Social Science History 25:67-91.
2000. “Introduction: H. V. Redfield and the study of southern homicide.” Homicide, North and South, by H. V. Redfield. Facsimile Reprint of 1880 edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
1997. “Gender and environmentalism: results from the 1993 General Social Survey.” Social Science Quarterly 78 (December): 841-858. [with T. Jean Blocker].
1996. “Christianity,
environmentalism, and the theoretical problem of
fundamentalism.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
35:343-355 [with T. Jean Blocker].
(reprinted: Pp.156-172 in The Earthscan Reader in
Environmental Values, edited by Linda Kaloff and Terre
Satterfield. Earthscan, 2005).
1995. “Estimates of early 20th-century U.S.
homicide rates: an econometric forecasting approach.”
Demography 32:1-16.
Recent Papers Read at Professional Meetings
2003 “Why do mice roar? Predictors of article publishing in undergraduate sociology programs.” Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, (with Jonathan Marx)
2004 "Killing counts and the question of biased reporting: South Carolina violence in the streets and in the press, 1877-1878." Social Science History Association, Chicago.
2005 “Divergent 20th Century Black-White Homicide Rates: The Evidence and the Meaning,” Social Science History Association, Portland
2006 “Pseudonymous sex-story posting: stigma and anonymity on the Internet.” Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio.
2007 "`Formal ante-mortem statements and the question of late 19th-century southern violence." Southwestern Social Science Association, Albuquerque.
2007 "Coroner's records and estimates of "excessive" homicide deaths in Charleston, SC: 1885-1912." Social Science History Association, Chicago.