Charles Thorpe, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego (Sociology), 2001

Charles Thorpe

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Social Theory, Sociology of Intellectuals

Email Address: cthorpe@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-0953
Office location: 497 Social Science Building

Office Hours

Classes to be taught in 2009/10:

Winter 2010

SOCG 201B - Classical Sociological Theory II

Spring 2010

SOCI 168T - Sociology of Technology

SOCI 234 - Intellectual foundations of the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine

 

Book:

Thorpe, Charles Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. University of Chicago Press. 2006.

Through a sociological biography of atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, this book examines the transformation of the social and political role of American scientists during World War Two and the Cold War.