Jerome L. Himmelstein               Professor of Sociology at Amherst College
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Contact Info:
Department of Anthropology-Sociology
Amherst College
P.O. Box 5000
Amherst MA 01002-5000
Campus Box 2226		 Phone: (413)542-2129
Fax:(413)542-5838
e-mail:jlhimmelstei@amherst.edu
Office: 110 Morgan Hall

OFFICE HOURS: Mon 9-10:30, Thurs, 1-2:30

COURSES FOR FALL 2007: Sociology 15 (Foundations of Sociological Theory) and Sociology 41 (The American Right)

COURSES FOR SPRING 2008: Sociology 16 (Social Research) and Sociology 43 (Drugs and Society)


"EXTREME FREEDOM CORRECTS THE ABUSE OF FREEDOM, AND EXTREME DEMOCRACY FORESTALLS THE DANGERS OF DEMOCRACY." TOCQUEVILLE


What I Teach

I teach courses on drugs and society, the American Right, and sociological theory.  Click here for a short description of each course. Click below for recent syllabi.

Syllabus for Sociology 15, Fall, 2007

Syllabus for Sociology 41, Fall 2007

Syllabus for Sociology 43, Spring 2007
     
Sociology 16: Social Research, Spring 2007


My Current Research

 I am currently studying changes in public discussion of marijuana since the mid 1970s and efforts to reform marijuana laws. More generally, I am interested in the very different ways we handle different drugs--as food, medicine, key to consciousness expansion, or source of harm.

Other Work I've Done

 I have written on corporate philanthropy, the American Right, and the history of marijuana laws in the U.S.
Click here for a list of selected articles and reviews.
Click here for a summary of my books:
Looking Good and Doing Good : Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power (co-winner outstanding Book Award, ARNOVA, 1999)
To the Right : The Transformation of American Conservatism
The Strange Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America		      

Education

 I got my B.A. from Columbia (1970) and my Ph.D. from Berkeley (1979). I did postdoctoral work at Michigan. I have also studied at the London School of Economics.
 More about me see my C.V.