Gila Hayim
Associate Professor of Sociology
email: hayim@brandeis.edu
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Focus of Research Social Theory. Critical Theory and Social Movements. Applications of Autopoietic Theory to Cultural/Social Transitions. Existential Sociology. Sociology of Law. Education Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1972. |
The thematic concerns of my research revolve around the sociology and social psychology of cultural and identity transformations, especially in relation to our transitional experience in the emergent network society. Additional focus of my research centers around the study of complex systems.
Recent Publications
Instability, Complexity, and Cultural Change: An Autopoiesis Approach. Mellen Press, 2006.
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Existentialism and Sociology. Transactions Publishers, New Brunswick, 1996. |
"Hegel's Critical Theory and Feminist Concerns," in Hegel, Volume II ed. David Lamb (The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy. Ashgate Press, Dartmouth, 1998), pp.545-565.
"Post-Modern Tendencies in the Social Theory of Luhmann," Human Studies: A Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Vol. 27, pp. 307-324, 1994. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
"Naturalism and the Crisis of Rationalism in Habermas," Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer 1992) pp. 187-209.