Simon Gottschalk

Associate Professor of Sociology
B.A., University of Haifa, Israel
M.A., University of Houston
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of interest: Mental Illness, Postmodern Theory, Qualitative Methods, Youth Cultures, Environment, Social Psychology, Cultural Studies.


While still editor of Symbolic Interaction. Simon Gottschalk is working on several projects. These include: developing a new class in Ecological Social Psychology that will develop an ecological approach to social psychological and social psychiatric issues, and examine the contributions of ecological approaches to sociological thinking. He is also carrying research on the social and psychological effects of new mass media technologies, and on terrorism.

Last spring, he presented two papers at professional conventions: "Fatal Acceleration: A Postmodern Analysis of Web Commercial" (at the Pacific Sociological Association in Hollywood), and The Chemical Self: Serotonin, Cyberspace and Symbolic Interaction (at the Stone Symposium in Athens, Georgia). Dr. Gottschalk continues to be regularly interviewed by the Las Vegas Sun and other local papers on sociological issues.

Recent publications include:

· "Prozac, Postmodernism and Politics" pp. 61-84 in Psychotropic Drugs and Popular Culture: Essays on Medicine, Mental Health and the Media. Editted by Lawrence Rubin. McFarland Publishers. 2006.
· "Understanding Music in Movements: The White Power Movement Music Scene" (with Robert Futrell and Pete Simi). The Sociological Quarterly Vol 47 (2):275-304. 2005.
· "Mental Health Care in Nevada" (with Kathryn Landreth). In The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indictors and Quality of Life in the Silver State. (Edited by D. Shalin) Electronic publication by UNLV Center for Democratic Culture.
· "Authoritarianism and Pathological Hatred: A Social-Psychological Profile of the Middle-Eastern Terrorist." (with Michel Gottschalk). The American Sociologist. Vol 35(2): 38-59. 2004.
· "Reli(e)ving the Past: Emotion Work in the Second Generation." Symbolic Interaction. Vol 26(3): 355-380. 2003.
· "The Greening of Identity: Three Environmental Paths." Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 24 (Fall 2000).
· "Escape from Insanity." Pp. 18-48 in Pathology and the Postmodern: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience. Edited by Dwight Fee. London: Sage (2000).
· "Speed Culture: Fast Strategies in TV Commercials." Qualitative Sociology, Volume 22 (4):311-329. 1999.
· "The Pains of Everyday Life: Between the D.S.M. and the Postmodern." Studies in Symbolic Interaction Vol. 21: 115-146. 1997.

Joined faculty in 1992.

karma@unlv.nevada.edu

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