Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Sociology

Sociology

Expertise

Classical and contemporary social theory. Critical theory. Social movements. Existential sociology. Legal studies.

Profile

Professor Hayim's teaching and research is in social theory and its applications: ranging from social movements to the rise of the network culture. She has recently completed work on complex society using autopoietic frameworks of analysis.

Courses Taught

5PE	94a	PEER ASSISTANTSHIP
FYS	5b	Conceptions of the Good Life
SOC	10b	Introduction to Sociological Theory
SOC	106a	Issues in Law and Society
SOC	128a	Religion and Globalization
SOC	164a	Existential Sociology
SOC	200a	Contemporary Social Theory
SOC	201a	Classical and Critical Theory

Scholarship

Hayim,Gila J. Instability, Complexity, and Cultural Change: An Autopoiesis Approach. Mellen Press: An International Publisher of Advanced Research, 2006.

Hayim,Gila J. "Hegel's Critical Theory and Feminist Concerns." Hegel, Volume II (The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy). Ed. David Lamb. Dartmouth: Ashgate Press, 1998. 545-565..

Hayim,Gila J. Existentialism and Sociology: The Contribution of Jean-Paul Sartre. Transaction Books, 1995.

Hayim,Gila J. "Post-Modern Tendencies in the Social Theory of Luhmann." Human Studies: A Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences 27. (1994): 307-324.

Hayim,Gila J. "Naturalism and the Crisis of Rationalism in Habermas." Social Theory and Practice 18. 2 (1992): 187-209.

Hayim,Gila J. The Existential Sociology of Jean-Paul Sartre. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.