Dr. Joseph Schneider

Ellis and Nelle Levitt Professor of Sociology

Chair, Department for the Study of Culture and Society

Office: 130 Howard Hall

Phone: Office: 271-2158

Home: 256-9059

E-Mail: joseph.schneider@drake.edu

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Joseph Schneider came to Drake University in 1970 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Iowa, Nankai University in Tianjin, People's Republic of China (1985-1987), and at the University of Hong Kong (1996-1998). His main areas of current research, writing, and teaching interest are morality, theory, masculinity, and postmodernism. His past work includes books and articles on deviance, social problems, illness, family caregiving in China, and ethnography. He teaches courses in deviance, morality, masculinity, and contemporary Chinese society. His most recent book is co-authored with Wang Laihua and is titled Giving Care, Writing Self: A "New" Ethnography (2000), a critical examination of conventional ethnographic practice through a field study of caregiving for elderly parents in a small number of families in a large city in China. He served as editor of the national sociology journal, Social Problems, and is active in a variety of regional and national professional sociology organizations. He is a former director of The Cultural Studies Program at Drake.

Classes taught by Dr. Schneider

FYS 20/SOC 14. Men and Masculinity in Film - [Crosslisted with FYS 20]

Fall 2001 Syllabus

SOC 100. Doing Morality Course Description

Spring 2000 Syllabus

SOC130.Contemporary Chinese Society: The Moral Topography of the Cultural Revolution Course Description

Fall 2001 Syllabus

HONORS 151/SOC 150/WS 195: Science, Cyborgs, and Monsters:
Thinking Knowledge Projects for the New Millennium

Spring 2002 Syllabus

SOC 170. Deviance Course Description

Spring 2002 Syllabus