An Interview with Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin: Part 2

CultureFeed Podcast

CultureFeed.com’s Angus McBeath, a former public school teacher and administrator in Canada, recently sat down with sociologist Jeffrey Guhin to discuss Guhin’s research on shaping student character in a sample of US urban public high schools. Guhin, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles, has summarized the results of his research in a chapter of the book The Content of Their Character: Inquiries into the Varieties of Moral Formation.

In Part 2 of the interview, McBeath and Guhin discuss a range of issues, including "value spheres," the importance of principals, different views on respect, and more.