About

Harvey S. Goldman is a Professor at UC San Diego's Department of Sociology, holding a PhD from UC Berkeley obtained in 1978. His research focuses on theory, sociology of intellectuals and of knowledge, and sociology of culture. His academic work involves exploring the conceptual frameworks and social dynamics that underpin cultural and intellectual phenomena within society, contributing to a deeper understanding of how knowledge and culture influence social structures and interactions.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• History

Selected publications

• <i>What Is Critique?</i> and <i>The Culture of the Self</i> What Is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, by FoucaultMichel, edited by FruchaudHenri-PaulLorenziniDanieleDavidsonArnold I., and translated by O’FarrellClare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 208 pp. $35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780226383446.

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2025-03-01

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• Politics, Death, and the Devil

  2023

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  • Political Science
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  • History
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• Poetry Inspired, Physics Driven, Experimental Animation

  Electronic workshops in computing · 2017-01-01

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  “When the serenity of the great void and the fury of the cosmos intersect, when quantum mechanics and relativity come face to face, tiptoe and waddle, skitter and scuttle, whirl and whisk, behold: The Prophecy of the Sky Pacers is now! There is no escaping our cosmic destiny.” “Glints of light, passing of shadows, the choreography of perpetual existence sets the stage for this Delphian ballet. The impenetrable flow of life’s rhythms, their Sisyphean inceptions and cessations are punctuated with eternity’s ephemeral modulations. The transmigration has begun, the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning.” Above are two descriptions of some of the works we will look examine. The essence of the presentation is to demonstrate how two seemingly opposite approaches, a humanistic, poetic approach and that of digital imaging technology can be integrated in the creation of new works of art.

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• INTERPRETATION AND EXPLANATION IN CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

  History and Theory · 2014-02-01 · 1 citations

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  ABSTRACT Continuing debates over the role of interpretation in history and social science have recently been linked to a program to develop a cultural sociology, as distinct from a sociology of culture. Apart from a defense of the importance of culture and meaning, this effort aims to develop a form of “interpretive explanation,” though not simply by following Max Weber's similar project from nearly one hundred years ago. The book under review looks at different “epistemic modes” that aim to produce social knowledge, in order to show how interpretive explanation can combine the best of all the modes. Unfortunately, the book is beset by numerous theoretical problems, including a problematical understanding of the relations of fact and theory, hasty criticisms of examples of the different modes, and a reliance on metaphors that makes it impossible to do justice to the issues. The project of what I would call a “thick explanation” is worthwhile, but will have to be pursued in a more nuanced and careful way.

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• Revitalizing pathology laboratories in a gastrointestinal pathophysiology course using multimedia and team-based learning techniques

  Pathology - Research and Practice · 2012-03-29 · 9 citations

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• The Passion, and Passions, of Max Weber

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2010-01-01

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  When Marianne Weber, the widow of Max Weber, published her biography of her hus band in 1926, six years after his death, it was considered to be so unusually frank about Weber's life and his enormous person al sufferings, that one of Weber's former col leagues sarcastically remarked that the biography gave one insight into the value of the institution of widow-burning. Yet, starting after her death almost 30 years later, more and more information, and then docu mentation, began to become available to scholars that painted an even more intimate picture of Weber's psychological sufferings and personal experiences, and in particular his apparently redemptive extramarital love life, details of which, understandably, Marianne chose not to reveal in her book, assuming she herself even knew the details. Although some works began to appear that challenged aspects of the idealized picture of Weber? notably Wolfgang J. Mommsen's Max Weber and German Politics (1959) on Weber's nationalist politics?the works that then began to reveal, or to speculate, about his intimate life in more detail were not writ

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• Book Review: Max Weber. Max Weber’s complete writings on academic and political vocations, ed. and with an intro. by John Dreijmanis, trans. Gordon C. Wells. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008. xii + 221 pp. ISBN 978—0—87586—549—2 (hbk); 978—0—87586—548—5 (pbk)

  Journal of Classical Sociology · 2010-02-01

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• TRADITIONAL FORMS OF WISDOM AND POLITICS IN PLATO'S <i>APOLOGY</i>

  The Classical Quarterly · 2009-11-23 · 4 citations

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• Pouch dysplasia: A new challenge

  Inflammatory Bowel Diseases · 2007-04-18

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• Autoimmune Pancreatitis in the Setting of Castleman Disease

  Pancreas · 2007-11-01 · 7 citations

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  Maithel, Shishir K. MD*; Pratt, Wande BA*; Kelleher, Thomas MD†; Avigan, David MD†; Goldman, Harvey MD§; Pfeifer, Walther MD§; Pihan, German A. MD§; Vollmer, Charles M. MD* Author Information

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant P01CA044704

  NIH · $5.2M · 2000

Frequent coauthors

• Donald A. Antonioli

  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  41 shared

• Aubrey J. Katz

  Harvard University

  38 shared

• Helen M. Shields

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  30 shared

• Jeffrey Hyams

  25 shared

• Donald J. Glotzer

  Harvard University

  22 shared

• Norman Joffe

  16 shared

• K DeSchryver-Kecskemeti

  Washington University in St. Louis

  16 shared

• Cynthia J. Best

  16 shared

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