Richard Biernacki, Associate Professor

Ph.D. - UC Berkeley, 1988

Areas of Specialization: Qualitative Methodology, Sociology of Knowledge and Misconduct in Science, Comparative-Historical Studies of Europe, Culture, Theory

Email Address: rbiernac@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-5388
Office location: 470 Social Science Building

Office Hours

Biography:

Rick Biernacki received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley in 1989. In THE FABRICATION OF LABOR: GERMANY AND BRITAIN, 1640- 1914 (University of California, 1995), he compares the influence of culture on the execution of factory manufacture. His interests are classical and contemporary theory, comparative method, and culture. His research focuses on the historical invention of key forms of cultural practice in Europe, including the categories of labor as a commodity, ethnic identity, and property in ideas.

Classes to be taught in 2011/12:

Fall 2011
SOCG 201A- Classical Sociological Theory I

SOCI 178- The Holocaust

Winter 2012

SOCI 106M- Holocaust Diaries

SOCG 207- Comparative Historical Methods

 

Recent Publications:

Richard Biernacki, "After Quantitative Cultural Sociology.

Interpretive Science as a Calling" and "The Banality of Misrepresentation," in Meaning and Method.  The Cultural Approach to Sociology, Paradigm Press, 2009.

"Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology," Oxford Handbook for Cultural Sociology, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Book manuscript at Duke University Press:

"Inside the Rituals of Social Science"

Book:

Biernacki, R.: The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain , 1640-1941, University of California Press, 1995.