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The essays gathered in this debut (I, 1, Spring 2002) issue of Human Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge were written by undergraduate students enrolled in various sociology courses offered at SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Oneonta. the issue also includes the editor’s paper on K. Mannheim, where the idea of a sociology of self-knowledge was born. What these courses shared was their common use of the sociology of self-knowledge as a strategy for learning about their respective subject matters. Each course required students to engage throughout the semester in an ongoing self-exploratory sociological research focusing on a specific unresolved issue, problem, or question still facing their everyday lives. They were required to link their self-explorations to the study of society at large through various course and outside readings and films studied in class throughout the semester. Topics “The Capitalist Cuckoo’s Nest,” “I only Thought I Knew It Society and the Individual,” “Why Is P Afraid to Love a Woman?,” “Teacher Recruitment and Personal Conflicts, Social Dilemmas,” “”Alien Nation,”” “Good Mother/Daughter A Process of Self-Healing,” “For the Love of Our Many Lives,” “Banana or Bridge? How Capitalism Impacts My Racial Identity,” “My Asian-American Experience,” “Welfare Beyond Caring for Children and Their Parents,” “The Disabled Welfare The Welfare System and the Disabled,” “Inadequate Programs Assisting Mothers in Poverty,” ” The Unheard Society,” and “Ideology and Utopia in Towards the Sociology of Self-Knowledge.” Contributors R.F.A., Samara Cohen, Peter Dai, P. E. Gracey III, P. Heim, L. Mlecz, S. R., YuhTyng Tsuei, William Wang, Jan Michele Chilion, Erin Syron, Jessica Udice, Aaron Witkowski, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.