Robert E. Rosenwein
 Professor of Sociology

  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Lehigh University
  681 Taylor St.
  Bethlehem, PA 18015-2169

  Phone: 610-758-3815
  Fax: 610-758-6552
  E-mail: rer6@lehigh.edu


Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 1970
Dissertation title: Determinants of low verbal participation rates in small groups: A study of the silent person

Research Interests
Dynamics of small groups
Human communication
Social psychology of politics
Science studies
Popular culture studies

Courses taught 
Introductory Social Psychology
Introduction to Sociology
The Social Psychology of Small Groups
Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups
Human communication
Seminar in Nonverbal Communication
Social Psychology of Politics
Seminar on Social Influence
Methods for Segmenting the Stream of Behavior
Sociology of Science
Integrated Study of Social Relations (year-long course)
Seminar on Social Influence (undergraduate and Graduate level)
Research Methods and Statistics (undergraduate and graduate level)
Mass Communication and Society
Freshman seminar, "A Sociology of Popular Music"
"Ain't no mountain high enough": Popular music and society, 1954-1979
Eckhardt College Seminar

Recent publications
Rosenwein, R. (1998). Modes of relating in the college classroom: the small college experience. In E. Godfrey (Ed.) The Small College Experience. American Sociological Association Press: New York, N.Y., Pp. 34-48.

Rosenwein, R. and Gorman, M. (1995). Simulating social epistemology. Social Epistemology, 9(1), 71-80.

Rosenwein. R. and Gorman, M. (1995). Heuristics, hypotheses, and social influence: a new approach to the experimental simulation of social epistemology. Social Epistemology, 9(1), 57-70.