University of Lethbridge

Selected Publications

Edited volume

1999
William Ramp, Judith Kulig, Ivan Townshend, Virginia McGowan, eds.
Health in Rural Settings: Contexts for Action
Lethbridge: University of Lethbridge


Guest-edited journal issue

2008
Journal of Classical Sociology 8:2 (May).
Special issue on Durkheimian sociology
(includes intro., "Durkheim Redux", pp. 147-157)


Journal articles

2008
"Transcendence, Liminality and Excess: Durkheim and Bataille on the Margins of 'Sociologie Religieuse'"
Journal of Classical Sociology 8:2 (May), 208-232

2003
"Religion and the dualism of the social condition in Durkheim and Bataille"
Economy and Society, 32:1 (February), 119-140

2001
"Durkheim and the Unthought: Some Dilemmas of Modernity."
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 26:1 (Winter), 89-115


Co-authored journal article

2004
William Ramp and Kirby Smith
"What is an Educated Person? Definitions of and Motivations for Educational Achievement Among Members of the Pii'kani Nation"
Canadian Journal of Native Studies XXIV: 1, 65-89


Contributions to edited collections

2009
"'Blood Money': Gambling and the formation of Civic Morality"
In J. Cosgrave and T. Klassen, eds. Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada
Toronto: University of Toronto Press

2008
"Le Malin Génie: Durkheim, Bataille and the Prospect of a Sociology of Evil"
In W.S.F. Pickering and Massimo Rosati, eds., Suffering and Evil: The Durkheimian Legacy
Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books

2000
"The Moral Discourse of Durkheim's Suicide" (chapter)
"Introducing Durkheim: the Perils of Theoretical Pedagogy" (contribution to symposium)
Both in G. Walford and W. S. F. Pickering, eds. Durkheim's Suicide: a Century of Research and Debate
London: Routledge

1999
"Durkheim and Foucault on the Genesis of the Disciplinary Society"
In M. S. Cladis, ed. Durkheim and Foucault on Education and Punishment
Oxford and New York: Durkheim Press and Berghahn Books

1998
"Effervescence, Differentiation and Representation in Durkheim's Elementary Forms"
In N. J. Allen, W. S. F. Pickering and W. Watts Miller, eds. On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life
London: Routledge


Book chapters

2001
"Global Investment and Local Politics: The Case of Lethbridge." (Mustafa Koc 2nd author)
In Roger Epp and David Whitson, eds. Writing Off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments and the Transformation of Rural Communities
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Parkland Institute

2000
"Moral Spectacles: Norm and Transgression in the News Media"
In L. Beaman, ed. New Perspectives on Deviance: The Construction of Deviance in Everyday Life
Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall, Allyn & Bacon

In The Media

Civic morality and gambling: An intersection of past and present; Alberta Gaming Research Institute; http://www.abgaminginstitute.ualberta.ca/news.cfm?story=45938

Research Team Considers Peigan Nation's Attitudes Towards Education; Legend; February 2005.

Half of Gambling Grants Go to U of L; Legend; December 2002.

Current Research and Creative Activity

Title	Location	Grant Information	Principal Investigator	Co Researchers
Constructing Emigrant		University of Lethbridge Research Fund, $4,200.00, to Dec. 2007.	W. Ramp, University of Lethbridge
Cultural history of selfhood and identity			W. Ramp, University of Lethbridge
Liars of Truth: the invented worlds of Edwardian Art-Collectors			W. Ramp, University of Lethbridge
Sociological Theory - Durkheim			W. Ramp, University of Lethbridge

Previous Research

Title	Grant Agency	Completion Date
Motivation for education among Peigan youth and adults	Multidisciplinary Aboriginal Project (SSHRC Aid to Small Universitie)	2004
Gambling, Identity and Community: Evaluating the place of chance in the formation of moral cultures	Alberta Gaming Research Institute	2007; analysis ongoing
The Construction of Emigrant Identities: a documentary case study	University of Lethbridge Research Fund	Ongoing