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Leon Bailey holds a B.S. from Northeast Missouri State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. His doctoral dissertation on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School was awarded the Louis M. Schneider Memorial Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Sociology in 1988. Formerly the Department Chair of Sociology and Assistant Director of the School of Policy Studies, his primary academic interests are critical social and political theory, social movements and social change. Professor Bailey teaches courses in classical and contemporary social theory, globalization, the sociology of culture, and criminology. His publications include "Theodor W. Adorno: Reflections from Damaged Life," Issues in Radical Therapy, Vol. XII, No. 3 (1986); Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: A Comparative Study in the Theory of Ideology (Peter Lang, 1994, 1996); "Karl Mannheim e la Scuola di Fancoforte riconsiderati," Studi Perugini, Anno II n.2 luglio-dicembre, 1997; and a critical review of Axel Honneth, Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming September 2009).
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