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Welcome to my web pages. I'm Eric Strayer, and I teach sociology. Currently I teach three courses at Hartnell College: two Introduction to Sociology courses and one Social Problems course. I have also taught Minority Relations.
This site is designed primarily with my Hartnell and Chapman students in mind, but may be used as a segue for others in the academic and political community.
I will state here that neither Hartnell College nor Chapman Univesity is responsible for any of this site's content, and that this site is my way of creating added value to an already functioning curriculum.
It is my intent to become a link in the chain of social knowledge so that I may in some way contribute to betterment of the human condition--a condition that is in great need of betterment.
As a teacher (and a perennial student) of sociology, I believe that it is important to look at the ugly underside of our (and other society's) social fabric and remain, in the words of Marx, ruthlessly critical of all that exists. It is imperative that we learn how to look at the horrors around us and neither turn away in shame and revulsion or to become so acclimated that we become indifferent. That said, it is also to our advantage to merely look at the ordinary and the strange and maybe find that the ordinary is not so ordinary after all, and the strange is strangely commonplace. Sociology is, after all, the practice of the “sociological imagination” as C. Wright Mills described it. |
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CONTACT: ericstrayer@pinxit.com |
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