Mark Jones

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Office: Palmer Hall 131B
Phone: 719-389-6643
Email: Mark.P.Jones@ColoradoCollege.edu

BA, Sociology, Indiana University at South Bend
MA, Sociology/Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., Sociology/Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

Research and Teaching Interests

I specialize in the sociology of science and technology. My empirical research examines the ways in which scientific and technological developments are transforming contemporary culture and social life. In pursuing this line of work, I've become well-versed in sociological literatures on institutions and organizations, economics, politics, and medicine. I'm also interested in intellectual questions shared by the disciplines of history, philosophy, and sociology - issues taken up in debates on the methodological foundations of the social sciences and theories of knowledge, consciousness, morality, and reason. I employ qualitative (historical and ethnographic) methods in my research almost exclusively, but I'm happy to assist students with analytical projects of all sorts.

Syllabi

SO290 Digital Technology and Society