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W. Timothy Anderson
tanderson@bentley.edu
MOR 149E
781/891-2730
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Bentley Faculty Senate

PhD, Boston University, 1982
Research Interests:

Native American Studies - Crow tribe

Pain Management

Sociology of Everyday Life

Conversation Analysis

Teaching/Pedagogy
Teaching Interests:

Native American Studies - Crow tribe

Sociology of Everyday Life

Conversation Analysis

Sociology of the Edge

Gender & Culture

introductory Sociology
W. Timothy Anderson
Selected Publications and presentations:

Journal articles
Psathas, George, Anderson, Tim. "The 'practices' of transcription in conversation analysis," Semiotica, 1998.

Books
Helm, D.T, Anderson, W.T, Meehan, A.J, Warfield(Rawls), A. The Interactional Order: New Directions in the Study of Social Order, Irvington, N.Y, 1989.

Book chapters
Anderson, Tim, Helm, David. "The Physician-Patient Encounter: A process of reality negotiation," in Patients, Physicians & Illness, Free Press, ny, 1979

Conference papers
Anderson, Tim. "Not to Study but to Learn," in ASBBS, January 2003.

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Sociology teaching interests include drugs and society, deviance, medical sociology and interaction analysis. Research interests include Native American culture, medical sociology, ethnomethodology and conversational analysis. Instituted Bentley summer program for students who want to learn about Crow Indian culture by living with a Crow Indian tribe in Montana. Published in Discourse and Institutional Authority: Medicine, Education and Law, New Direction in the Study of the Social Order, The New England Sociologist, Patients, Physicians & Illness, and Perspectives in Sociology. Has taught at Wheaton College, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Services, Boston College and Boston University. Formerly a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.