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Sociology Dept.
H. Gray, Chair
C. West, Grad Director
B. Crow, UG Educ Cmte Chr
College 8, 226
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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Andrew Szasz Home  Directory Andrew Szasz
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Andrew Szasz
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Professor |
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Faculty Member |
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Email: |
szasz@ucsc.edu |
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Phone: |
(831) 459-2653 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message |
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Office: |
College 8, 336 |
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Office Hours: |
Winter 2010: Tues and Wed 11-12:30 |
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| Courses Taught | |
SOCY-105B - Contemp Sociological Theory
SOCY-185 - Environmental Inequality
SOCY-208 - Writing Practicum
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| Research Focus | |
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Environmental Sociology: Environmental Movements, Regulation, Environmental Justice, Consumption, Politics of Climate Change |
| Education History | |
B.A., Harvard University;
M.A., University of Chicago;
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Selected Publications | |
Szasz, A., 2007. Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves, University of Minnesota Press.
Finalist, 2008 C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Honorable Mention, 2008 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/szasz_shopping.html
Szasz, A. 2000. "America's Toxic Waste Movement: Implications for Asia's Environmental Movement," Yok-shiu F. Lee and Alvin So (eds.), Asia's Environmnetal Movements in Comparative Perspective, M.E. Sharpe.
Szasz, A. and Meuser, M. 2000. "Unintended, Inexorable: The Production of Envrionmental Inequalities in Santa Cruz County, California." American Behavioral Scientist, 43(4): 602-632
Szasz, A., and Meuser, M. 1997. "Public Participaton in the Cleanup of Contaminated Military Facilities: Democratization or Anticipatory Cooptation?" International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 34(1): 1-22.
Szasz, A. 1994. EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Winner, Association for Humanistic Sociology Book Award, 1994-1995
Voted one of Top 10 Environmental Sociology Books/Articles in poll conducted by the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/szasz_ecopopulism.html
Szasz, A. 1991. "In Praise of Policy Luddism: Strategic Lessons from the Hazardous Waste Wars." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology, 2(1): 17-43.
Szasz, A. 1990. "The Labor Impacts of Policy Change in Health Care: How Federal Policy Transformed Home Health Organizations and Their Labor Practices." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 15(1):191-210.
Szasz, A. 1986. "Corporations, Organized Crime and the Disposal of Hazardous Waste: An Examination of the Making of a Criminogenic Regulatory Structure." Criminology, 24(1):1-27.
Szasz, A. 1986. "The Process and Significance of Political Scandals: A Comparison of Watergate and the 'Sewergate' Episode at the Environmental Protection Agency." Social Problems, 33(3):202-217.
Szasz, A. 1986. "The Reversal of Federal Policy toward Worker Safety and Health: A Critical Examination of Alternative Explanations." Science and Society, 50(1): 25-51. |
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