Faculty
Mark Gould
Professor of Sociology & Department Chair
Mark Gould is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department. He has a B.A. in sociology from Reed College, where he worked with Howard Jolly, John Pock and John Tomsich, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, where he worked with Talcott Parsons, Barrington Moore, Jr., Kenneth Arrow, Judith Shklar, Karl Deutsch, and Shmuel Eisenstadt. He is a social theorist; consequently, he gets to teach and write about whatever he chooses, including the role of capitalist social development in the genesis of the English Revolution; the nature of contemporary racism, culture, opportunity structures and poverty in the inner-city USA; the logic of perfect and imperfect information microeconomic models and why the latter need to be reconstructed sociologically; the jurisprudential consequences of the sociological reconstruction of economic theory-especially for the law of employment discrimination and for the reconstruction of fiduciary obligations in corporate law; the jurisprudential consequences of a sociological construction of philosophical theory-especially in contract law and in discussions of affirmative action; on the nature of valid social orders and their derivation from values that legitimate and procedures that justify actions within them, in, for example, discussions about consensual sexual relationship policies in colleges and universities; about the relationship between theory and empirical research, and the relationship between normative and empirical theory, and about Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Freud, Parsons, Merton, Dworkin, George Herbert Mead, Habermas, Luhmann, and others. He is now writing about the logic of religious commitment and its consequences in Islam, about Islamic constitutionalism, about the role of reason in Christianity and Islam, and about a group of folks, including Kemal A. Faruki, who have attempted to reconstruct Islam(ic law).
Office:Roberts 205
Email: mgould@haverford.edu
Lisa McCormick
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Lisa McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Sociology on a tenure-track appointment. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of cultural sociology, sociology of the arts, self and identity, social theory, and qualitative methods. She is co-editor, with Ron Eyerman, of Myth, Meaning and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts (Paradigm 2006). McCormick graduated from Rice University with a B.Mus. in Cello Performance and a B.A. in Sociology, both summa cum laude. She was a Rhodes Scholar (Alberta & Corpus Christi 1998), earning a Master of Philosophy in Music: Performance and Interpretation from Oxford University. In 2008, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. Prof. McCormick is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale. She also serves on the editorial board for the journal Music & Art in Action.
Office: Roberts 102
Email: lmccormi@haverford.edu
Victor Lidz
Visiting Professor of Sociology
Victor Lidz is Professor and Director of the Division of Substance Abuse Treatment and Research in the Department of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine. He has been on the faculty of the college of medicine and predecessor institutions since joining the Hahnemann School of Medicine in 1991. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1962, Cum Laude in Government, and studied Sociology in the former interdisciplinary Department of Social Relations at Harvard, where he worked with Talcott Parsons, Robert N. Bellah, Erik Erikson, David Maybury-Lewis, Ezra Vogel, and others. He was Talcott Parsons’ research assistant from 1963-1968 and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology in 1976 with a dissertation entitled The Functioning of Secular Moral Culture; Steps Toward A Systematic Analysis. He has previously taught at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and St. Joseph’s University with most courses in the area of sociological theory. He has taught courses at Haverford College on several occasions. Since 1989, he has worked on a number of federally funded research projects concerned with evaluation of treatment modalities for substance dependence, adjunct services for people in treatment for substance dependence, and HIV-risk reduction interventions. He was the founding director of a clinic within Outpatient Psychiatry that provides mental health and substance abuse treatment to HIV+ patients referred from an infectious disease clinic at the Drexel University College of Medicine. He is the author of some 45 papers and co-editor of 5 volumes that address various aspects of the Parsonian theory of action.
Email: vlidz@haverford.edu
Soyoung Kwon
Visiting Professor Spring 2013
Soyoung Kwon is a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at Purdue University. Her dissertation, which examines changing patterns of health disparities during Chinese market economic reform, will be submitted in December 2012. She has earned an M.A. in sociology from Peking University in China as well as a B.A. in Chinese studies from Keimyung University in South Korea. Her research interests are in the sociology of health, social inequality, East Asian society, and quantitative methods.