Joseph Gusfield

Joseph Gusfield

Joe Gusfield, founding Chair of the Sociology Department received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, U. of Chicago, and the University of Illinois before coming to UCSD. He has also taught and conducted research in India and Japan. His current interests are in social ritual and symbol, sociology of law, social movements, and the rhetoric of social science. Among his major works are Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement, and The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order.