
Lillian Rubin has worked as a professor of many subjects, including class, gender, race, family, and methods. Most of her work as a professor has been at the University of California Berkeley, until recently when she retired from this type of work.
Rubin was a research sociologist for UC Berkeley. She was also a professor of Interpretive Sociology at UC Berkeley. She has been a visiting professor at Queens College, CUNY, and The University of Utrecht in Holland, The Wright Institute, Mills College, The University of Southern California, Michigan State University, The University of Indiana, and Sonoma State University. She was also a Research Sociologist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis in San Francisco. She was a visiting Scholar at the University of Oklahoma, Norman in 1993, as well as a Scholar in Residence at the University of Wisconsin.
For most of her professional career, she has pursued other things besides that of strictly academia. Rubin has found academic institutions hinder progress and conduces specialization. She believes that specialization hinders creativity and stretching of the mind. She is confused by the idea of professors being rewerded for specializing, or “getting to know more and more about less and less.” Most of her focus has been on writing, and her clinical practice.
Rubin believes that the teaching of subjects cannot avoid the intergration of other subjects. The teaching of all subjects in her view, must “include the various aspects of life in a society”. She explains that she does not just “tack” on a feminist view of something, but is a part of her worldview and should not be and cannot be viewed in separate terms.
Sources:
Rubin, Lillian. E-Mail interview. 29 Feb. 2007
Rubin was a research sociologist for UC Berkeley. She was also a professor of Interpretive Sociology at UC Berkeley. She has been a visiting professor at Queens College, CUNY, and The University of Utrecht in Holland, The Wright Institute, Mills College, The University of Southern California, Michigan State University, The University of Indiana, and Sonoma State University. She was also a Research Sociologist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis in San Francisco. She was a visiting Scholar at the University of Oklahoma, Norman in 1993, as well as a Scholar in Residence at the University of Wisconsin.
For most of her professional career, she has pursued other things besides that of strictly academia. Rubin has found academic institutions hinder progress and conduces specialization. She believes that specialization hinders creativity and stretching of the mind. She is confused by the idea of professors being rewerded for specializing, or “getting to know more and more about less and less.” Most of her focus has been on writing, and her clinical practice.
Rubin believes that the teaching of subjects cannot avoid the intergration of other subjects. The teaching of all subjects in her view, must “include the various aspects of life in a society”. She explains that she does not just “tack” on a feminist view of something, but is a part of her worldview and should not be and cannot be viewed in separate terms.
Sources:
Rubin, Lillian. E-Mail interview. 29 Feb. 2007
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