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Ph.D., Mississippi State
University, 1984
Major: Sociology (religion, theory, and family)
Minor: History (historiography and historical method, French Revolution, and science and technology)
Dissertation: American Pentecostal Convergence and Divergence: A Hermeneutic and Survey Analysis
Major Professor and Dissertation Director: Ronald L. Neff, Ph.D. (bio from his site PDFed)
Postdoctoral work, Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center, 1984 (Wrote a grant proposal for a social survey addressing the needs of Mississippi's elderly population)
Major: Sociology (religion, political, human ecology, and development)
Thesis: Increasing Complexity as a Process in Social Evolution: A Case Study of the Bahá'í Faith
Advisor and Thesis Director: Changboh Chee, Ph.D. (PDFed), then chair of the Sociology Department
 
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A.B.J., University of Georgia, 1978 Major: Magazine Journalism Minors: Sociology and English |
Concentration: English
Diploma, Levittown
Memorial High School (Levittown, Long Island, New York), 1974
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Alpha Kappa Delta (sociology), Mississippi State University, 1983 |
 
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Phi Alpha Theta (history), Mississippi State University, 1982 |
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Phi Theta Kappa (two-year college), Nassau Community College, 1975 |
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Dr. Foster currently teaches, both on campus and over the Internet (distance learning), SOC 122 (Introduction to Sociology). He teaches SOC 125 (Social Problems) only on campus.
In his on-campus classes, Dr. Foster combines lecture with class and small-group discussions. Emphases are placed on the social construction of groups and societies and, especially in his Social Problems course, on the deconstruction, or elimination, of political, economic, and social oppression. His classes are constructed to promote structured dialogue.
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