Kamolnick
PAUL KAMOLNICK
PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
CONTACT
E-mail: kamolnp@etsu.edu
Homepage: http://www.etsu.edu/cas/sociology/kamolnick
Phone: 423.439.6652
Office: 223A Rogers-Stout Hall
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Sociology
Modern Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Families in Transition
Sociology of Global Terrorism
Human Sex Differences
Sociology of Religion
CURRENT RESEARCH
I am actively pursuing two distinct sociological projects. The first is a comprehensive biosocially-informed analysis of class, sex, and race differences. The second seeks to apply key sociological concepts to the phenomenon of global Islamic jihadi terrorism. In both projects I seek to produce findings that are highly relevant to contemporary policy debates.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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. 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. 2008. Review of J. Brachman, Global Jihadism: Theory and practice (Routledge, 2009). Forthcoming, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (www.asmea.org)
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.