Fumiko Hosokawa
Professor/Department of Sociology
fhosokawa@csudh.edu
(310)243-3482
Office:  SBS C-340

Education:

• M.S. Marriage, Family Therapy, CSUDH, 1984
• Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA, 1973
• M.A. Sociology, UCLA, 1971
• B.A. Sociology, CSULB, 1969

Dissertation topic:

• “Ethnic Identification Among the Third Generation Japanese”

Licenses and Certificates:

• Marriage, Family Therapy license, State of California, July 15, 1985
• Certificate in Chemical Dependency Training, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, July 1984
• Certificate in Child Abuse Assessment and Reporting, January 25, 1986, Approved by the State of California
• Certificate in Family violence Hotline Crisis Intervention Training, 1982
• Hypnosis Certificate, State of California, August 27, 1987

Courses commonly taught at CSUDH, Sociology Dept.:

• Sociology of Adult Life & Aging
• Seminar in Marriage and Family
• Sociology of the Helping Professions
• Seminar in Aging:  Minorities and Special Groups
• Seminar in Interaction Processes

Research Interests:

• Fieldwork in Ethnic Communities     
• Cross-cultural couple counseling
• The aging family

Selected publications and papers:

• Building Trust:  Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities, Lexington Books, 2010.
• “Using Applied Sociology to Understand the Culture and Needs of Ethnic Communities,” paper presented at the Society for Applied Sociology Conference, Sacramento, CA, October 17-20, 2002.
• “Arranged Marriages,” in Survey of Social Science:  Sociology, Frank N. Magill, editor, Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press, December 1994.