Kamolnick
PAUL KAMOLNICK
PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
CONTACT
E-mail: kamolnp@etsu.edu
Phone: 423.439.6652
Office: 223A Rogers-Stout Hall
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Sociology
Modern Social Theory Syllabus
Contemporary Social Theory Syllabus
Families in Transition Syllabus
Sociology of Global Terrorism Syllabus
Human Sex Differences
Sociology of Religion
The Sociology of Religious Fundamentalism Syllabus
Counterinsurgency Warfare Syllabus
In This interview with ETSU Student Mathew Cross, Professor Paul Kamolnick discusses Islam, Jihad, and Al Qa’ida’s Global Terrorist Campaign
CURRENT RESEARCH
My current research interests are two-fold. First, applying social scientific knowledge to the defeat of Al Qa’ida and Al Qa’ida-inspired global terrorism. Second, analyzing the relationship between religion, secularization, fundamentalization, and the variable consequences of fundamentalization, in particular, potentials for violent political action and religion-state relations.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Full CV
Books/Edited Books
Kamolnick, Paul. 2005. The Just Meritocracy: IQ, Class Mobility, and American Social Policy.Westport, CT: Praeger Press.
Powers, Tom, and Paul Kamolnick (eds.). 1999. From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory. Melbourne, FL: Krieger.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1988. Classes: A Marxist Critique. New York: General Hall.
Journal Articles/ Book Chapters
Kamolnick, Paul. 2010. “Sacred Barriers to Conflict Resolution? A Critique of Atran’s and Axelrod’s Bargaining Model as Applied to the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation.” Perspectives in Terrorism, 4(3), July: 39-53.
Kamolnick, Paul. 2010. Review Essay. “The Mind of Global Jihadism.” Terrorism and Political Violence, 22(3):458-463. Review of S. Vertigans, Militant Islam: a sociology of characteristics, causes andconsequences (London: Routledge, 2009); D. Springer, J. Regens, and D. Edger, Islamic Radicalism and Global Jihad (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2009); and, D. Aaron, In Their Own Words: voices of jihad (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2008).
Kamolnick, Paul. 2010. “Leveraging Legitimacy: A Key Tool in Population-Centric Counterinsurgency.” Small Wars Journal, 17 May 2010, 15 pp. Available Online
Kamolnick, Paul. 2007. “Unwelcome in Women’s Studies.” Academic Questions, 20:122-134.
Kamolnick, Paul. 2001. “Simmel’s Legacy for Contemporary Value Theory: A Critical Assessment.” Sociological Theory, 19(1): 65-85.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1999. “Central Themes in Simmel’s Philosophy of Money.” T. Powers and P. Kamolnick (eds.), From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory, pp. 151-168. Melbourne, FL: Krieger.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1998. “Visions of Social Justice in Marx: An Assessment of Recent Debates in Normative Philosophy.” In R. Panasiuk and L. Nowak, eds. Marx’s Theories Today, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Volume, vol. 60, pp. 319-347. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1997. “G.A. Cohen’s Refutation of Inegalitarianism and the Quest for a Contemporary Socialist Ethic.” Rethinking Marxism, 9(1): 80-100.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1994. “Marxism, Postmodernism, and Beyond: A Critical Analysis of David Harvey’s Theory of Contemporary Culture.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 14:71-88.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1993. “American Workers and the Future of Minimum Wage Politics.” Review of Radical Political Economics, 25(2):26-49.
Book Review Essays/Book Reviews
Kamolnick, Paul. 2010. Review. Terrorism and Political Violence, 22(1):139-142. Book Review of A. Giustozzi, Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency and Afghanistan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).
Kamolnick, Paul. 2009. Review of G. Hayes and M. Sedra eds., Afghanistan: Transition Under Threat (Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). Available online
Kamolnick, Paul. 2009. Review of J. Brachman, Global Jihadism: Theory and practice (Routledge, 2009). Available online
Kamolnick, Paul. 1999. “Habermasian Critical Social Theory as Antidote?” Review Essay of J. Bohman, New Philosophy of Social Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991) Human Studies, 22(1):117-123.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1999. Review of Heterogeneities: Race, Gender, Class, Nation and State (U. Mass. Press, 1996) in Passages: Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies, 1(1):133-134.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1994. “Sociology, Anthropology, and the Postmodern Challenge.” Review Essay of N. Lorraine and P. Pels (eds), Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science (Sage: London, 1991), and S. Seidman and D. Wagner (eds.), Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate Over General Theory (Basil Blackwell: Cambridge/Oxford, 1991), in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 24(3): 375-380.