Dr. Mark A. Foster's Sociological Imagination Site

<meta name="Author" content="Dr. Mark A. Foster" /> </head> <body background="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/jccc.gif" link="brown" vlink="darktan" alink="purple" text="orangered"> <script>   </script> <center><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/jccc1.gif" alt="Dr. Mark A. Foster's Sociological Imagination Site" /></center><br /> <center><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/imagination.gif" alt="My Sociological Imagination" height="71" width="594" /> </center> </head> <center><p> <hr size="3" width="100%" /><br /></center></p> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <b><p><tt><center><table border="8" frameborder="8"> <td bgcolor="gold"><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/mfoster.jpg" border="0" alt="Mark A. Foster" height="178" width="135" /></center></td> </table></center> <center><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/mafjccc2.gif" alt="Mark A. Foster" /></center></td> <td valign="top"> <center><b><h5> <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/crimson.html" target="frame2"><img alt="Crimson Ribbon Campaign for Unity in Diversity" src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/cr_ribb.gif" border="0" /><br />Click for info.</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/sociology.html" target="frame2"><img alt="Sociology NOW! Click here to go to my Sociology Page." src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/socnow.jpg" height="30" width="118" border="0" /><br />Find out why!</a> </h5></b></center> </td> <td valign="top"><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/mindwalks.gif" alt="Poem" /></td> </tr></table></center> </p></center> <hr size="3" width="100%" /></p></center> <script>  </script> </td> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <blockquote> <h3><center><font color="purple"><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/aniwelc.gif" /></center> <script language="JavaScript">  </script><br /></font></h3></blockquote><b> </h3><font color="blue"><h3><b> <blockquote> <h3><p>The <i>science of sociology</i> promotes a better understanding of the human condition through the study of <i>social facts</i>, or realities, transcending the individual level.</p> <p><spacer size="25" />Confronting an <i>anti-intellectual</i> age of psychic hotlines and talk show zoos, which cuts across social class boundaries while exploiting the poor and their problems for economic profit, sociology advocates the use of the scientific (deductive-inductive) method and <i>critical thinking</i> in the systematic examination of human society, culture, groups, and, above all (as I see it), <i>social structure</i>.</p> <p>Click <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/sociology.html" target="frame2">here</a> for a brief, if somewhat technical, discussion of my basic theoretical perspective. It focuses on social structures as <i>frameworks of collective consciousness</i> and is, partially, inspired by the views of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Pitirim Sorokin, Georg Hegel, and Erving Goffman. This material might be more appropriate for my colleagues than for my students.</p> <p>After looking around here, click <a href="index2.html">here</a> to go to my <i><blink>Page Index</i></blink>!</p> <p>My email address is: <a href="mailto:mfoster@johnco.cc.ks.us"> mfoster@johnco.cc.ks.us</a>. <p>Or, if you are in my <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/dlsoc122.html" target="frame2">distance learning course</a>, email me here instead: <a href="mailto:mfoster@bbs.johnco.cc.ks.us">mfoster@bbs.johnco.cc.ks.us</a>. </p> <p>I am the maintainer of the <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/socring" target="frame2">Sociology Ring</a>. A <a href="http://www.webring.org" target="_top">webring</a> is, briefly, a network of web sites, connected by a server, allowing easy navigation from one to another by following links on member pages.</p> <b><p>Click <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/member.html" target="frame2">here</a> to go to the pages highlighting this site's <i>webring</i> and other memberships and affiliations (including the <i>Web Friend Exchange</i>, a <i>banner exchange</i> program, <i>world peace</i> projects, and campaigns for <i>free speech</i> and <i>privacy</i> in online communications). </p></h3></b></font></font></blockquote> <center><div align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="15" valign="top"> <td valign="top"> <p><h3><font color="mediumblue"><i><b> Cordially,<br /> Mark A. Foster<br /> Professor of Sociology<br /> <a href="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/">Johnson County<br /> Community College</a> </i></font></b></p></h3></td> <td valign="top"><font color="black"><center><b><h6> Best viewed with<br /> <a href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/"><img height="30" width="90" src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/now3.gif" alt="Netscape Communicator" border="0" /></a><br /> Download it now!</center></b></h6></font></td> <td valign="top"><font color="black"><center><b><h6> The author is a member of<br /> <a href="http://www.hwg.org/"><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/lo-025.gif" width="64" height="90" border="0" alt="The HTML Writers Guild" /></a> </center></b></h6></font></td> <td valign="top"><center><font color="black"><b><h6> Best experienced with<br /> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie/default.asp"><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/an_explorer.gif" border="0" height="31" width="88" alt="Internet Explorer" /></a><br /> Click here to start.</center></font></b></h6></td> </div></table></center> <center><hr width="100%" size="3" /></center> <center><img src="http://www.johnco.cc.ks.us/~mfoster/guestbanner.gif" alt="Please sign or view the guestbook! 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