Dr. Mark A. Foster

Olathe, Kansas

I am a tenured full professor of sociology at a suburban Kansas City community college, the owner of The MarkFoster.NETwork™, the sole proprietor of Mark A. Foster Services™, the servant of Unities of All Things™ and The Emancipated Autism Project™. and the founder of The Institute for Structurization Theory™, As a sociologist and historian (with a Ph.D. in sociology and history and an M.A. in sociology), I specialize in the subfields of the sociology of religion, social theory, clinical sociology, and cultural history. I have been teaching sociology in higher education since 1980 (full-time beginning in 1985) and am a former president of the Kansas Sociological Society. I also have a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (A.B.J.) degree with a major in magazine journalism and an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree with a concentration in English. As a journalist, my current activities lie principally in the area of advocacy journalism. Previously, however, I was on the staff of three radio stations as, variously, a newscaster, a reporter, a news writer, and a producer. Theoretically, I am a critical realist. I have developed a new version of that theory, inspired by Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism, called "Structuization Theory." It also incorporates some of Bhaskar's "spiritual turn" (beginning in 2000). That body of his work is called the "philosophy of meta-Reality."

  • Work
    • Johnson County Community College
  • Education
    • Levittown Memorial High School
    • University of Georgia
    • Nassau Community College
    • Mississippi State University
    • Long Island University C.W. Post Campus