Ray
Hutchison (MA, PhD Sociology, University of Chicago, 1977, 1985;
Professor of Sociology; Chair, Urban and Regional Studies; Director,
Hmong Studies Center. Courses
taught: Introduction
to Sociology, Urban
Sociology, Street Gangs in
America, The City Through Time and
Space, Sex and the City, Ethnic and Racial Identities. Travel
course: Renaissance City and Culture (Florence, Italy). Dr.
Hutchison is Senior Editor of The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, a three-volume encyclopedia from
SAGE Publications scheduled for publication in September, 2009. He is co-author (with Mark Gottdiener) of The New
Urban Sociology and Series Editor of Research in Urban Sociology (Elsevier Press) and author of more than thirty chapters, articles, and monographs.
These include articles on street gangs and gang graffiti, race and ethnic relations,
and urban recreation published in International Migration, Journal of Leisure
Research, Leisure Sciences, Social Problems, and other publications.
In March, 2008 Dr. Hutchison was awarded the International Award of Merit of the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence, Italy for his work with students and faculty in the international programs sponsored by the Foundation. He received the 1989-1990 Faculty Research Award from the UW-System Institute on Race and Ethnicity for his research on the Hmong community in Green Bay, and was one of several UW-Green Bay faculty who have worked to establish the Hmong Studies Center. You can read a follow-up study of the educational performance of Hmong students in public schools and in the UW-System in his report for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, and an earlier article on English language use in the Hmong community is available below.
Full academic vitae is available here.
For more information, go to
Ray Hutchison's personal
web page!
Check out Keeping Memory Alive: The Mine Wars in US and UK at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, August 2006.
To view other research activities, check out the following:
The
Racialization of Leisure
The
Problem with Edge Cities
Review of John
Hannigan, Fantasy
City: Pleasure
and profit in the postmodern metropolis
Some earlier research
articles:
Blazon Nouveau:
Gang Graffiti in the Barrios of Chicago and Los Angeles
Street Gangs in Small Cities: Appleton Gang Report (1994)
English
Language Use in the Hmong Community
Critique
of Race, Ethnicity and Social Class in Leisure-Recreation Research
| Gottdiener and Hutchison's outstanding textbook represents a broad, accessible and expert introduction to one of the most exciting research fields in the contemporary social sciences. It is lucidly written, coherently organized and impressively wide-ranging in its coverage of the most essential issues in the vast, interdisciplinary field of urban studies. The book contains a brilliant synthesis of the major approaches to urban theory, a valuable overview of the global history of capitalist urbanization and a wide-ranging analysis of diverse aspects of contemporary urban transformations, both in North America and beyond. In so doing, the authors effectively demonstrate how the new urban sociology can illuminate the key economic, social, political, cultural and environmental dynamics that underpin the production o! f urban space, as well as various social crises, political struggles and policy dilemmas that are rippling through major! cities around the world. I would enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone concerned to understand the contemporary metropolitan condition. (Neil Brenner, New York University) |
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The first edition of The New Urban Sociology represented a major breakthrough text for urban sociology and urban studies programs. Now in its second edition, and co-authored by Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison, the text has been completely revised and updated throughout to include discussions of many current topics and new case study material highlighting recent work in the field. This book is organized around an integrated paradigm throughout – the sociospatial perspective – which considers the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. |