Ted Goertzel is a professor in the Sociology Department at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ 08102.
He is best reached by email at tedgoertzel@gmail.com.
Ted Goertzel's new book, Brazil's
Lula: The World's Most Successful Politician, has just
been released on Amazon.com.
Only $26.95 and suitable for use in college classes. A
Kindle edition will follow in a few weeks.
For
full details on the book click here.
Raised in a shack in the Brazilian northeast by a single mother, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rose from a working-class background to become a union leader, organizer of Brazil’s Workers’ Party, and, in time, the most popular president in Brazilian history. In admiration, Barack Obama called Lula “the most popular politician on Earth” – perhaps a fitting title for a man who finished eight years as Brazil’s president with popularity ratings over 80%. As president, he rose above ideology to build his country’s self-esteem with a growing economy and relief from poverty. This is the first full biography of a democratic leader whose remarkable success will be an inspiration for decades to come.
Spanning his childhood, his years in the labor movement, his four campaigns for the presidency, his two presidential terms and the election of his successor, Dilma Rousseff, this volume focuses on Lula as a personality and explores his impact on Brazilian Society. Elected on an ill-defined platform of “change,” Lula’s inaugural address promised that hope had conquered fear and that it was time for Brazil to blaze a new path. However, he understood that what most Brazilians actually wanted was relief from stressful and demanding changes. Drawing strength from his mother’s courage, optimism and religious faith, Lula forged a new leadership style emphasizing consensus and contrasting sharply with that of many populist Latin American leaders.
Lula offers a model of leadership for an age when democratic revolutions sweep the globe and presidents-for-life are thrown out in disgrace. Despite his overwhelming popularity, Lula refused to allow his supporters to attempt to amend the Brazilian constitution to allow him a third term as president. His biography is essential reading for anyone concerned with building democratic order in a developing society. For more information on the book, click here.
Spring 2012 at Rutgers.
In the spring semester of 2012, Ted Goertzel will offer two hybrid internet courses. These courses will be participatory and will use SAKAI and the elluminate live! virtual classroom technology, as well as occasional meetings on campus:
If I am your academic advisor, please check the Advising Information and try to run Degree Navigator yourself before asking me to help with that. I will be glad to meet with you, respond to email or talk on the telephone to answer questions and help resolve any problems. If you want to come into the office, it is best to make an appointment by by email to tedgoertzel@gmail.com unless you happen to be on campus and it is convenient to stopy by and see if I am in the office.
Published Works and other materials:
A full list of publications, many of which can be downloaded from the WEB, can be found on my resume.
Syllabi for my courses include Social Movements, Methods and Techniques of Social Research, Singularity Studies and Cyberspace and Society. I regularly teach these courses in a hybrid internet format. This format was developed in consequence of a study of Retention and Recruitment of Students at Rutgers Camden. that my students and I did in a previous class.
Ted Goertzel's new book, Brazil's
Lula: The World's Most Successful Politician, has just
been released on Amazon.com.
Only $26.95 and suitable for use in college classes. A
Kindle edition will follow in a few weeks.
For
full details on the book click here. Raised in a shack in the Brazilian northeast by a single mother, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rose from a working-class background to become a union leader, organizer of Brazil’s Workers’ Party, and, in time, the most popular president in Brazilian history. In admiration, Barack Obama called Lula “the most popular politician on Earth” – perhaps a fitting title for a man who finished eight years as Brazil’s president with popularity ratings over 80%. As president, he rose above ideology to build his country’s self-esteem with a growing economy and relief from poverty. This is the first full biography of a democratic leader whose remarkable success will be an inspiration for decades to come.
Spanning his childhood, his years in the labor movement, his four campaigns for the presidency, his two presidential terms and the election of his successor, Dilma Rousseff, this volume focuses on Lula as a personality and explores his impact on Brazilian Society. Elected on an ill-defined platform of “change,” Lula’s inaugural address promised that hope had conquered fear and that it was time for Brazil to blaze a new path. However, he understood that what most Brazilians actually wanted was relief from stressful and demanding changes. Drawing strength from his mother’s courage, optimism and religious faith, Lula forged a new leadership style emphasizing consensus and contrasting sharply with that of many populist Latin American leaders.
Lula offers a model of leadership for an age when democratic revolutions sweep the globe and presidents-for-life are thrown out in disgrace. Despite his overwhelming popularity, Lula refused to allow his supporters to attempt to amend the Brazilian constitution to allow him a third term as president. His biography is essential reading for anyone concerned with building democratic order in a developing society. For more information on the book, click here.
Spring 2012 at Rutgers.
In the spring semester of 2012, Ted Goertzel will offer two hybrid internet courses. These courses will be participatory and will use SAKAI and the elluminate live! virtual classroom technology, as well as occasional meetings on campus:
- The Conflict and Social
Change course will meet on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to
8:50. The first classs will be held in Penn 401
(unless the registrar changes the room) on top of the
library on the Camden campus on Tuesday, January 17, from
7:30 to 8:50. The class will also meet on campus on
February 28 and March 24. The other classes will be
held in a virtual classroom online. All classes meet
on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 8:50. For
information on the Conflict and Social Change class
click here. .
- Methods and Techniques of
Social Research will meet on Thursdays from 7:30 to
8:50. The first class will be on January 19 at 7:30
p.m. in Penn 401, on top of the library, on the Rutgers
Camden campus. Class will also be held on campus on
March 1 and April 26. The final examination will
also be on campus. The other classes will be held
in a virtual classroom online. All classes will meet
on Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8:50.
For information on the Methods and Techniques of Social
Research Class click here.
If I am your academic advisor, please check the Advising Information and try to run Degree Navigator yourself before asking me to help with that. I will be glad to meet with you, respond to email or talk on the telephone to answer questions and help resolve any problems. If you want to come into the office, it is best to make an appointment by by email to tedgoertzel@gmail.com unless you happen to be on campus and it is convenient to stopy by and see if I am in the office.
Published Works and other materials:
A full list of publications, many of which can be downloaded from the WEB, can be found on my resume.
Syllabi for my courses include Social Movements, Methods and Techniques of Social Research, Singularity Studies and Cyberspace and Society. I regularly teach these courses in a hybrid internet format. This format was developed in consequence of a study of Retention and Recruitment of Students at Rutgers Camden. that my students and I did in a previous class.