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Alan Sica Professor of Sociology 302 Oswald Tower Department of Sociology       The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Office phone:  814-863-0121 Fax:  814-863-7216 ALANSICA@PSU.EDU

EDUCATION

University of Richmond, B.A. (1971)
College of William and Mary, M.A. (1974)
University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Ph.D. (1978)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
History of Sociology
Sociology of Culture 

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Outstanding Scholarship Award, Comparative and International Education Society, 1982

Associate Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1984-85

Summer Scholar, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1986

Publisher and Editor, History of Sociology, 1984-87      

Outstanding Educator Award, University of Kansas, 1987

Editor, Sociological Theory, 1989-1994

Elected member, Sociological Research Association, 1992

Chair, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 1995-96

Distinguished Achievement Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, August, 2004.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Dependency in the World Economy."  American Journal of Sociology, November 1978

"Parsons, Jr."  American Journal of Sociology  July, 1983

Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects, ed. (Massachusetts, 1984)

Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order (California, 1988)

"The Power of Talk."  American Journal of Sociology  September, 1991

"The Social World as a Countinghouse."  Theory and Society  April 1992

"Sociology as a Worldview."  American Journal of Sociology  July 1996

What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates, ed. (Blackwell, 1998)

Max Weber and the New Century (Transaction, 2004)

Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present, ed. (Allyn and Bacon, 2004)

"Modernity."  In G. Ritzer, Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005)

Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Transaction Pubs., 2004)

The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties. ed., with Stephen Turner. (University of Chicago Press, 2005)

Comparative Methods In The Social Sciences. ed., with the assistance of Julie Pelton, 4 volumes. (London: Sage Publications, December 2006)