PERSONAL DATA:
Full Professor (effective 9/2001)
Sociology, Muskingum College
New Concord, OH 43762
740-826-8288 (O); Fax 740-826-8357
smcguire@muskingum.edu
TERMINAL DEGREE:
Ph.D. 1979, SUNY/Stony Brook (Sociology)
EMPLOYMENT:
1988-pres Muskingum College (tenure effective 9/1992)
1985-8 Central College (Iowa)
1981-5 Olivet College
1979-81 Lycoming College
1993,1996 summer teaching at University of Lethbridge in Alberta
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS:
1997 "Rendering Obdurate Features of Couchian Epistemology." Pp. 21-33 in Stanley L. Saxton, Michael Katovich, and Dan E. Miller (eds.), Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Supplement Three). Greenwich, CT:JAI Press.
1996 "Tempting Simplicity and Robust Complexity; Conflict Management in Selected Prestate Societies" in Peace and Conflict Studies 2 (2):54-61 and http://www.trenton.edu/~psm/pcs/
1996 "Baseball: Political Economy Would Like to Say It Ain't So." Humanity and Society. 20(1):87-93.
1993 "The Individualistic Imagination and National Resource Policy." Society and Natural Resources 6:259-272 (with Janel Curry-Roper).
1990 "Language Lessons." (Part 2) Phenomenology and the Human Sciences 15(2):12-22.
1989 "Language Lessons." (Part 1) Phenomenology and Social Science Newsletter 14(1):8-15.
1984 "Values." Humanity and Society 9(1):57-66.
1984 "A Feminist Ethic for Science." Humanity and Society 9(1):461-467.
1982 "Incommensurability and Relativism." Current Perspectives in Social Theory 3:l6l:l88.
1982 "Moral Relativism and Habermas." American Legal Studies Association Forum 6(1):23-31.
1982 "The National Economy and the Declining Status of Humanistic Sociology." Humanity and Society 6(l):20-32. (Co-author: Moon H. Jo.).
1981 "Interpretive Sociology and Paul Ricoeur." Human Studies 4(2):l79-200.
SHORT PIECES ON TEACHING, INSTITUTE REPORTS, REVIEWS:
Forthcoming -- "Concentric Circles;" "Forced Choice Metaphors;" "Ten Quotations;" "Fill In the Blanks Lecture Outline" accepted in Glenn Currier (ed.) Students Active: Collaboration in the College Classroom.
1999 "Questioning All the Time" and "Playful/Serious" in Eric Godfrey (ed.), The Small College Experience (second edition). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1998 "Peacemaking Syllabus" in Helen Raisz (ed.), The Sociology of Peace and War. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1997 "Humanist Sociology Goes Multiple Choice." and "Student Journals: The Sociology of Peace." in the third edition of The Humanist Sociology Resource Book. (Edited by Martin D.Schwartz and William J. Miller). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1995 "Gender and Nonverbal Communication: Class Exercise." P.137 in Barrie Thorne, et al. (eds.), The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. Washington, D.C.:American Sociological Association.
1993 "The Architecture Assignment" P.83 in Kinney, Marjorie and Keith Roberts (eds.), Writing in the Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum: A Guide for Teachers. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
1992 "Re-Vision." The Humanist Sociologist. 17(1):5-8.
1992 "Review of Technology as Symptom and Dream by Robert Romanyshyn. Humanity and Society 16(1):107-8.
1990 "It Was Good" Pp. 9-11 in Nancy Blackford (ed.) After Epistemology: Positions. Published by East Central Colleges
1989 "Personal Project Assignment" in Wright, Richard A., Max Ewalt, and Linda B.Deutschmann, (eds.) Crime and Control:Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Criminology and Criminal Justice (Revised Edition). Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
1988 "The Army of God." The Humanist Sociologist 13(2).
1986 "Textbook Flyer in Social Context." Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Newsletter. 13(2):10.
1984 "Take Home Assignments." Pp. 83-4 in Judith K. Little (ed.), The Introductory Social Psychology Course. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
IN PROCESS:
Community on Land (book with Jan Curry; under contract with Rowman and Littlefield; projected publication date: March 2002)
Discontent and its Civilizations
Humor the Corporations
GRANTS:
Muskingum College Faculty Development Grant (2001, $892)
Muskingum College Mack Grant (1998, $250)
"The Theory and Practice of Peaceful Conflict Resolution" (1995 National Endowment for the Humanities, $3,000)
Muskingum College Mack Grant (1993 $988)
"The Legacy of Columbus" (1992 Ohio Humanities Council, $927)
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
2001 "Monad Law"; "The Rise and Potential Demise of Corporations"
2000 "The Legal Boundary between Individual and Community"
1999 "Communal Conflict Resolution Traditions and Group Rights"
1998 "An UnEnlightened Epistemology Cum Worldview" (with Arthur Jaynes) "Shadow Energy and the Colonial Expansion"
1997 "Collective Legal Rights in an Individualized World"
"Good Pluralism:" Oxymoron or Aufheben, Dialectic?
1996 "Gandhian Truth: Personal Applications"
"Discontent and Its Civilizations"
1995 "Bad Communal (Human Nature) Metaphor; Cultural Anthropology Corrective"
1994 "If Value Neutrality Were...."
"Baseball: Political Economy Would Like to Say It Ain't So"
1993 "A Whorf-Sapir Take on the Life of Conflict Resolution"
1989 "Politically Incorrect Spirituality"
"To Do or Not to Be: Theory as Moral Discourse"
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT:
Association for Humanist Sociology Vice President for Membership (1991-98), Program Chair (1995), President (2002)