Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
                                                                        Meier, Deborah

I often say sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense.
Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
                                                                       Pierre Bourdieu

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Teaching Philosophy

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Fall 2008 Courses

           SOC 100    INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
                             (FIG w/ ENG 160, topic: Food for Thought)
                             Mon/Thur 10:50--12:05
                               
           SOC 385    EDUCATION AND SOCIETY (*Writing Intensive*)
                             Mon/Thur 3:05--4:20

           SOC 303    SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
                             Tue/Fri 10:50--12:05

Fall Office Hours:   

            Monday 9:40 a.m.--10:40 a.m
            Tuesday 12:15--3:15 p.m
            or by appointment

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Publications

·         Halasz, Judith and Peter Kaufman. Forthcoming. "Sociology as Pedagogy: How Ideas from the Discipline can Inform Teaching and Learning." Teaching Sociology.

·          Fobes, Catherine and Peter Kaufman. 2008. “Critical Pedagogy in the Sociology Classroom: Challenges and Concerns.” Teaching Sociology 36(1):26-33.

·         Kaufman, Peter. 2008. “Teaching Note: Gaining Voice through Silence.” Feminist Teacher 18(2):169-171.

·         Kaufman, Peter. 2006 Critical Pedagogy in the Sociology Classroom, 2^nd Edition. Washington, D. C.: American Sociological Association Teaching Resource Center.

·         Kaufman, Peter. 2005. “Middle-Class Social Reproduction: The Activation and Negotiation of Structural Advantages” Sociological Forum. 20(2):245-270.

·         Kaufman, Peter and Kenneth A. Feldman. 2004. “Forming Identities in College: A Sociological Approach.” Research in Higher Education. 45(5):463-496.

·         Roschelle, Anne R. and Peter Kaufman. 2004. “Fitting In and Fighting Back: Stigma Management Strategies Among Homeless Kids.” Symbolic Interaction 44(1):23-46.

·         Kaufman, Peter. 2003. “Learning to Not Labor:  How Working-Class Individuals Construct Middle-Class Identities.” The Sociological Quarterly. 44(3):481-504.

·         Kaufman, Peter. 2001. “All the News Not Fit to Print:  Using Censored Stories as an Exercise in Critical Pedagogy." Teaching Sociology 29:80-87.

·         Kaufman, Peter. 1999. "The Contrasting Orientations Toward Work and Family Between Female and Male College Students." Sociological Focus.  32(3):229-246.

·         Kaufman, Peer. 1997. "Michael Jordan Meets C. Wright Mills:  Illustrating the Sociological Imagination with Objects from Everyday Life." Teaching Sociology 25:309-314. 

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SUNY New Paltz Links

Awosting Falls
 

 You should also take a walk or a ride on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail

Magnolia (aka Maggie) named after the Magnolia Bakery in New York City

Maggie is even faster than this!
 

Here are some other pictures of Maggie and her friends:




Click here to see a YouTube video montage of Three Greyt Friends


(forever in our hearts)