Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Sociology

Legal Studies
Sociology

Expertise

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, Legal Studies, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture, Existential Sociology.

Profile

The thematic concerns of Gila Hayim's 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. An additional focus of Hayim's research centers around the study of complex systems using an autopoiesis methodology.

Courses Taught

FYS	5b	Conceptions of the Good Life
SOC	106a	Issues in Law and Society
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: An Expanded Edition with a New Introduction,". Transactions Publishers, New Brunswick,, 1996.

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.

Hayim, Gila J. "Modern Reality Strategies: An analysis of Weber, Freud, and Ellul"." Human Studies 1. 4 (1978).