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Jack Spencer
Associate Professor of Sociology
J. William Spencer received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1983, and joined the Purdue faculty in 1989.
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Office Phone: (765) 494-4677
Email: jspencer@purdue.edu
Specialization: Deviance and social control, criminology and delinquency, sociolinguistics, social psychology. qualitative methods
Courses:
Taught (Last two years)
SOC 324: Criminology
SOC 421: Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 426: Deviance and Social Control
SOC 603: Social Psychological Theory
SOC 609: Constructing Social Problems
SOC 686: Qualitative Methods
Dr. Spencer has published 29 articles and chapters in journals and research annuals such as Social Problems, Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Inquiry, Perspectives on Social Problems, and Symbolic Interaction. He has presented papers at national and regional conferences such as American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and Midwest Sociological Society. Undergraduate offerings include Criminology, Deviance, and Delinquency at the undergraduate level. Graduate offerings include Social Psychological Theory, Qualitative Methods, Seminar in Constructionist Social Problems Theory and Research, and Seminar in Sociological Sociolinguistics.
Positions at Purdue University
2005 – present Director, Graduate Programs
1993 - present Associate Professor of Sociology
1989 - 1993 Assistant Professor of Sociology
Service to the Profession
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography on “Discourse and Ethnography,” 1994
Chair, Theory Division, SSSP, 1996-98
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