Albert Hunter
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Professor Areas of Interest: Urban Sociology
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Professor; Ph.D. University of Chicago 1970, B.A. Cornell University 1964. Areas of interest include urban sociology, community, civil society, ethnicity, culture and literature, and methods. Hunter has published numerous books and articles, including Symbolic Communities, and most recently Pragmatic Liberalism: Constructing a Civil Society. His broad methodological interests include multimethod research and studies in the rhetoric of science, and these are reflected in two of his books Foundations of Multimethod Research, and The Rhetoric of Social Research: Understood and Believed. He has served as Editor of the Local Community Fact Book and Urban Affairs Quarterly and Chair of the Community Section of the American Sociological Association. He was also the Director of the Urban Studies and Chicago Field Studies programs at NU. He served as elected chair of the NU faculty senate. Currently, Hunter is affiliated with the Institute for Policy Research, and the Transportation Center, and he has served as Chair of the Evanston Plan Commission. He is continuing his research on symbolic ecology in a series of community case studies, including a restudy of Zorbaugh's The Gold Coast and the Slum, a study of the elite suburb of Kenilworth, a study of neighborhood responses to gangs, and a study of local ethnic institutions. He is also comparing poetic and social scientific conceptions of truth, and engaged in a long-term comparative study of civil society in the US and the UK.
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1812 Chicago Ave., Room 203
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 491-3804
Fax: (847) 491-9907
Office Hours :Tuesday and Thursday 1:30 - 2:30 and by appointment.
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| Courses Taught |
| Soc 101-6: Freshman Seminar |
| Soc 110-0 Sec.20 (Spring 2006)(Fall 2006) (Spring 2007): Intro to Sociology |
| Soc 226-0: Sociological Analysis |
| Soc 301-0 Sec.20: The City |
| Soc 302-0: Sociology of Complex Organizations |
| Soc 329-0: Field Research |
| Soc 376-0 Special Topics: Suburbia |
| Soc 376 Special Topics: The Gang |
| Soc 476-0 Special Topics: Civil Society |
| Soc 513-0: Urbanization and Community |
