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 201
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 491-3804
Fax: (847) 491-9907
Office Hours :Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-11:00 am
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| Current Courses: Fall Quarter 2007 | |
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| Soc 110-0 Sec.20 (Spring 2006)(Fall 2006) (Spring 2007): Intro to Sociology |
Syllabus |
| Soc 513-0 Sec.20 (Spring 2006): 03/17/2008 | Syllabus |
| Soc 301-0 Sec.20: The City |
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| Soc 226-0 Sec.20 (Fall 2005)(Fall 2006): Sociological Analysis |
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| Soc 376-0 Sec.20 (Fall 2005): Special Topics Suburbia |
