Dr. Jason Lee Crockett
Professor of Sociology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Kutztown University
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Dr. Jason Lee Crockett Professor of Sociology Department of Anthropology and Sociology Kutztown University |
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My goals in teaching are for classes to be informative, engaging, and applicable to students' lives beyond the classroom and their undergraduate educational experience. By informative, I mean introducing students to new ideas and perspectives, exposing students to cultures and phenomena many of them are unlikely to have encountered before, pointing to the "big picture" in terms of topics relevant to an area of study, and guiding them on where to find additional information. By engaging, I mean demonstrating how social theory and research can be applied to students' own lives, discussing questions and debates that students are interested in, and encouraging active dialogue among students. By applicability, I mean developing knowledge and skills that will be useful in other classes, future occupations, and navigating life more generally. My research is informed by a interest in sociological theories dealing with individual, group, and cultural development, as well as theories dealing with contestation and conflict. My dissertation examines the phenomenon of racial sexual orientation, sexual and dating preferences based on race. Specifically, I collected the life and sexual histories of gay men who expressed preferences for dating men of a different race and also studied the organization Black and White Men Together (aka Men of All Colors Together or People of All Colors Together), a multicultural organization organized in part to support persons with cross-race preferences in dating. Other research deals with such topics as: macro-level influences on the founding of conservative Protestant ex-gay movement groups; cultural contestation within the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) movement; the interplay of gender and risk management in public dog parks; and how intentional communities define their membership. I have also worked collaboratively on projects dealing with the gendered effects of specialization on publication, visibility, and promotion in academic disciplines and on the effects of participation in LGBTQ youth activism on commitment to other forms of civic engagement. I am branching into a new area of research with my sabbatical in the spring of 2020. I am looking at gaming culture through an intersectional lens of race, class, gender, and sexuality via a survey of self-identified gamers as well as observations and interviews at gaming conventions.
In my personal time, I enjoy reading, playing video and card games (I am advisor for the Gamers of Kutztown University club), gardening, and doing community-building activities.
"An Indian-born economist once explained his personal theory of reincarnation to his graduate economics class. 'If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist,' he said, 'you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.' A sociologist might say that this quote shows what is wrong with economists: they want a subject that is fundamentally about human beings to have the mathematical certainity of the hard sciences... But good economists know that the speaker was talking about something else entirely: the sheer difficulty of the subject. Economics is harder than physics; luckily it is not quite as hard as sociology." - Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity "The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise." - C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination You can navigate other pages and external links using the sidebar to the right.
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