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Sociology and Anthropology

Gordon Chang

Gordon Chang, Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2008

Dr. Chang joined the Department in 2010.

Dr. Chang's curriculum vitae (pdf)

Contact Info

Courses

  • Soc 100 Introduction to Sociology
  • Soc 200 Contemporary Social Problems
  • Soc 272 Individual and Society
  • Soc 320 Sociology of Organizations
  • Soc 333 Classical Sociological Theory
  • Soc 334 Contemporary Sociological Theory
  • Soc 461 Educational Sociology
  • Soc 462 Political Sociology
  • Soc 499/599 Special Seminiar (Ideology and Social Relations)
  • Soc 518 Classical Theory
  • Soc 519 Contemporary Sociological Theory
  • Soc 535 Qualitative Methods

Areas of Specialization

Theory, Knowledge, Discourse, Politics

Selected Publications/Presentations

  • Chang, Gordon C. 2023. Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. (Honorable Mention for the 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Midwest Sociological Society.)
    • [Download additional materials and free ebooks at @ www.codeofideology.]
  • Chang, Gordon C., Kerstin Lueck, and Hugh B. Mehan. 2013. “Evidencing International Threat: Examining Iraq Survey Group’s Post-Invasion Verification of Iraq’s WMD Threat.” Journal of Language and Politics 12(1): 29-58.
  • Hugh Mehan, Gordon C. Chang, Makeba Jones, and Season S. Mussey. 2012. In College's Front Door: Creating a College-Bound Culture of Learning in High Schools. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
  • Chang, Gordon C. 2011. “Ethnomethodology.” Entry for Wiley-Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan.
  • Mehan, Hugh B. and Gordon C. Chang. 2011. “‘Is It Wrong For Us to Want Good Things?’: The Origins of Gompers Charter Middle School.” Journal of Educational Change 12(1): 47-70.
  • Chang, Gordon C. and Hugh B. Mehan. 2008. “Why We Must Attack Iraq: Bush’s Reasoning Practices and Argumentation System.” Discourse and Society 19(4): 449-478.
  • Chang, Gordon C. and Hugh B. Mehan. 2006. “Discourse in a Religious Mode: The Bush Administration’s Discourse in the War on Terrorism and Its Challenges.” Pragmatics 16(1): 1-23.
    • [Translated into Czech and republished as “Diskurz vedenĂ˝ nĂĄboĹžensky: Bushova vlĂĄda o vĂĄlce s terorismem a alternativnĂ­ diskurzy.” Biograf: Journal of the Association for Biographical and Reflexive Sociology (40-41): 85-111 (Prague, Czech Republic).
  • Chang, Gordon C. and J.R. Osborn. 2005. “Spectacular Colleges and Spectacular Rankings: The U.S. News Rankings of American “Best” Colleges.” Journal of Consumer Culture 5(3): 338-364.

Organizational Memberships/Affiliations

American Sociological Association; Consumer Studies Research Network; Society for the Studies of Symbolic Interaction; Midwest Sociological Society