Sun, 9 Oct 1994 08:07:45 -0700 for <SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU>
Date:         Sun, 09 Oct 94 10:51:34 EDT
From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Organization: Central Michigan University
Subject:      Electronic University and Grad Student Power
To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY <SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU>
To All Grad Students in SocGrad: I have been asked to explain a bit about
who and what I am doing on the Socgrad Network.I am pleased to do so.
This comes in four parts: 1)About T.R. Young, 2) About the Red Feather
Institute, 3) About the intrusion into the cyberspace of soc grad students
and 4) some ideas for the future.
                                               T.R.Y.
1).About T.R.Young.
   T.R.Young is founder and director of the Red Feather Institute for
Advanced Studies in Sociology.  He took his M.A. from U-Michigan and the
Ph.D. from U-Colorado.  He has taught at several colleges and universities
around the country.  He is now on permanent sabbatical with the Red Feather
Institute and visits other universities to lecture and to teach.  Last year
Young taught Soc/Law at UMich, Flint.  The year before, he was Senior
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Virginia Polytech where, with five grad
students, he developed the Great Flying Chaos Learning Circus.  The year
prior to that he was Scholar in Residence at Texas Woman's University.
Before that, Young was on the UPitt Semester at Sea with 350 students from
around the nation.  Next semester, Young will return to TWU to teach post-
modern social psychology.
Young has made several substantive contributions to American sociology in
his research and writing; a series of articles on systems theory, a set of
articles on conflict methodology; a set on macro-analytic approaches to
Dramaturgy; a series on the political economy of crime.  He is now working
on postmodern phil/sci in Chaos Complexity theory and has 6 articles in
journals on that topic.
Young is now working on four connected books: The Drama of Social Life,
The Drama of Social Enquiry, The Drama of Human Knowledge and the Drama of
the Holy.  All are explorations in postmodernity but Young makes the point
that pre-modern, modern and postmodern knowledge processes are essential
to the human project.
Young's work is archived by the Progressive Scholars Network at the UColo
and can be downloaded via gopher.