Faculty Books
Charles Camic
Professor
John Evans Professor of Sociology
1808 Chicago Avenue
Room 107
Phone: (847) 491-5671
c-camic@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Tuesday 1:00-2:00
Areas of Interest
Classical/Contemporary Sociological Theory
Sociology of Ideas/Knowledge
Sociology of Science
History of Sociology and
Social Thought Historical Sociology
Biography
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago, 1979. Areas of interest include: classical and contemporary sociological theory; sociology of ideas/knowledge; sociology of science; history of sociology and social thought; historical sociology.
Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Camic was Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In recent years, his work has centered on examining the social processes by which the social sciences took shape and developed in the United States in the period from 1880 to 1940.
He is currently writing a book on the social origins of Thorstein Veblen's heterodox economics. And recently edited (with Philip Gorski, and David M. Trubek) Max Weber's Economy and Society : A Critical Companion.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 306: Sociology Theory Syllabus
SOCIOL 319: Sociology of Science Syllabus
SOCIOL 406-1: Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis Syllabus
Books
Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen
With Geoffrey M. Hodgson; Routledge, 2011
Social Knowledge in the Making
With Neil Gross and Michele Lamont; University of Chicago Press, 2011
Max Weber's Economy and Society: A Critical Companion
With David Trubek and Philip Gorski; Stanford University Press 2005
Publications
Concepts and the Social Order
Yehuda Elkana and Harriet Zuckerman (eds.), Repetition with Cariation: A Mertonian Inquiry into a Lost Mertonian Concept, Central European University Press, 2011
Handlung und Erfahrung
Wandlungen des Intelligenzbegriffs bei Dewey: Der Philosoph unter seinen Zeitgenossen, Bettina Hollstein, Matthias Jung, Wolfgang KnÖbl (eds.), Campus Verlag, 2011
How Robert Merton Sociologizes the History of Ideas
Craig Calhoun (ed.), Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science
Columbia University Press, 2010
Veblen's Apprenticeship: On the Translation of Gustav Cohn's System der Finanzwissenschaft
History of Political Economy; Duke University, 2010
Classics in What Sense?
Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008; Duke University, 2010
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
