Eugene Jackson

Associate Professor of Sociology Office: STON 354
Office Phone: (765) 494-5783
Email: jacksone@purdue.edu

Courses: Taught (Last two years)

SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology
SOC 340 - General Social Psychology
SOC 341/ANTH 341 - Culture and Personality
SOC 591M - Social Psychology of Mental Disorder
SOC 603 - Individual in Society (social psychological theories)



Dr. Jackson is also a licensed clinical social worker.   He is currently working on the MIDUS data set in attempt to find out if Sulloway’s Darwinian hypothesis regarding birth order and the so-called “Big Five” personality dimensions obtain in the general population. He teaches General Social Psychology, Culture and Personality (psychology and culture), Individual in Society (graduate social psychology), and the Social Psychology of Mental Disorders. In the latter course, he first addresses the social psychological, psychiatric and deviance models of mental illness which is followed by social psychological (psychological and sociological variants) models of social learning, attribution, role and symbolic interaction, and personality and social structure.  A circumplex structure of mental health theories has resulted from teaching this course.

Positions at Purdue University

1988 – Present                Associate Professor of Sociology
1983 – 87, 1991 – 93       Chair, Social Work Section
1980 – 1987                    Assistant Professor of Sociology

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