The old City Hall, Springfield, Missouri opened in 1894 as a
Federal Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse.
Dr. Marvin T. Prosono, a former and unreconstructed New Yorker, received his B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. The sociology department at the University of California, San Francisco is located in the School of Nursing at the UC medical school complex and is steeped in the Symbolic Interactionist tradition (Chicago Sociology). In addition, located within a medical environment, the department devotes its attention to the problems of medical sociology. His dissertation, The Professionalization of Expertise in the Case of Forensic Psychiatry: A Study of Emergence and Quest for Legitimacy, is a study of the interrelationship of law and medicine and how the two disciplines have worked toward legitimizing the practices of each.
Dr. Prosono, now emeritus, still teaches at Missouri State University in Springfield and concentrates his attention on the issues of globalization, alienation, and the impact of robotics on social life in this post-modern world. After having published numerous papers on Holocaust studies, health care policy and in other areas, Dr. Prosono can speak on a host of issues of interest to a wide variety of groups. As the founder and president of Wisdom In The Heartland INsitute, he believes that this is both an auspicious and necessary moment to bring to the attention of the public a tradition in American thought that has been often overlooked - that is the pragmatic tradition in philosophy and the symbolic interactionist tradition in sociology. The Institute operates on the premise that a serious recommitment to the progressive, positivist and pragmatic basis of American society could go a long way to helping heal some of the wounds, many self-inflicted, from which our society suffers. For contact information, please see the contact page.
