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Kurt Finsterbusch

Professor

 

Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University, 1969

 

Office: 3101 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6397
Email: kurt@socy.umd.edu

 

Departmental Specialty Areas:
Development

 

Additional Research Interests:
Organizations

 

Kurt Finsterbusch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland who specializes in Social Impact Assessment, the Sociology of Development, and Environmental Sociology. In the first area he wrote Social Research for Policy Decisions (with Annabelle Bender Motz) and Understanding Social Impacts and edited with others three major works on social impact assessment methodology. In the second area he wrote with Jerry Hage Organizational Change as a Development Strategy. In the third area he is currently writing a book on society and the environment.

 

Course Syllabi

 

Sociology 305: Scarcity and Modern Society

 

Sociology 431: Principles of Organizations

 

Sociology 671: Sociology of Development

 

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