- Comparative and Historical Sociology
- Culture/Knowledge
- Economic Sociology and Organizations
- Family/Gender /Sexuality
- Global, Regional and Transnational Sociology
- Health, Medicine, and Biosocial Interactions
- Deviance, Crime and Law
- Methods
- Political Sociology and Social Movements
- Race and Ethnicity
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- Theory
Selected Recent Faculty and Student Publications
By faculty name in alphabetical order.
Julia Adams
(2011) Patrimonial Power in the Modern World, Julia Adams and Mounira M. Charrad, Special Editors. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 636 (July): Washington, DC: Sage. Hear the podcast interview > >
(2011) Culture in the Transitions to Modernity: Seven Pillars of a New Research Agenda, Isaac Ariail Reed and Julia Adams, Theory & Society, published online by SpringerLink.
Jeffrey Alexander
(2010) The Celebrity-Icon,
Cultural Sociology, November 2010 4: 323-336.
This article develops a non-reductive approach to celebrity, treating it as an iconic form of collective representation central to the meaningful construction of contemporary society. Read Abstract.
(2010) The Performance of Politics - Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power. Oxford University Press. Read more...
Rene Almeling
(2011) Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. University of California Press.
(2009) Gender and the Value of Bodily Goods: Commodification in Egg and Sperm Donation, Download Article, Law and Contemporary Problems 72: 37-58.
Elijah Anderson
(2011) The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life,
W. W. Norton & Company.
Elijah Anderson illuminates the workings of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America.
Duke W. Austin
(2012) “Preparedness Clusters: A Research Note on the Disaster Readiness of Community-Based Organizations” (SOP-11-03-0037.R1) Forthcoming in Sociological Perspectives.
Scott Boorman
(2010) Mathematical and Simulation Models (with research & model evaluation suggestions), Trajectories, Fall 2010, Vol. 22, No.1. Download Article >>
Richard Breen
(2010) Mixture Models for Ordinal Data, Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 3-24.
Elizabeth Butler Breese
(2011) “Mapping the Variety of Public Spheres.”.
Harnessing public sphere scholarship inspired by Habermas along with civil public spheres and Arendtian political public spheres, this article proposes that public spheres vary along two axes, scale and content. Scholarship describing the multiplicity of publics has significantly advanced our understanding of the public sphere in recent decades, but public spheres are multiple in patterned ways. Communication Theory, Vol. 21. Issue 2, pp. 130-149. Read Abstract.
(2010) Meaning, Celebrity, and the Underage Pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears.
This article argues that the focus of previous literature on the economic and psychological aspects of the celebrity system unduly restricts our understanding of the social phenomenon of celebrity.Cultural Sociology 4 (3), pp. 337-355. Read Abstract.
Hannah Brückner
(2009) Surveys, Chapter in Peter Hedstrom and Peter Bearman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, Oxford University Press.
Deborah Davis
(2010) Who Gets the House? Renegotiating Property Rights in Post-Socialist Urban China, Modern China, first published on June 22, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0097700410373265 hard copy in fall 2010. Download PDF.
Mira Debs
(2012) The Suffering of Symbols: Giotto Frescoes and the Cultural Trauma of Objects. Cultural Sociology, Sage. Download PDF.
Shai M. Dromi and Eva Illouz
(2010) Recovering Morality, This article seeks to apply some insights of pragmatic sociology to the field of literature by exploring the ways in which moral claims are expressed, evaluated and negotiated by texts and through texts by readers. Link: Download PDF.
Jesse Einhorn
(2011) The History Page: Risky Business, AIG's founder took chances long before his company was too big to fail." TheDaily.com. Read more...
Ron Eyerman
(2011) The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination: From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh. Palgrave Macmillan.
(2008) The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma, Duke University Press. Read More...
Sigrun Kahl
(2009) Christian Social Doctrines and Poor Relief: A Different Causal Pathway, Article in: Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow (eds.): Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare State Regimes, Cambridge University Press.
Esther Chihye Kim
(2009) “Mama’s family”: Fictive kinship and undocumented immigrant restaurant workers. Article in: Ethnography, December, vol. 10, 4: pp. 497-513.
Carolyn Ly
(2010) More than a Library?: Urban Poverty and an Exploratory Look at the Role of a Neighborhood Institution, Introduction by Waverly Duck, Link to: Perspectives on Urban Education.
Vida Maralani
(2008) The Changing Relationship Between Family Size and Educational Attainment over the Course of Socioeconomic Development: Evidence from Indonesia. Demography. Volume 45, Number 3, August 2008, pp. 693-717, Read Abstract...
Mayer, Karl Ulrich, Daniela Grunow & Natalie Nitsche
(2010) Is occupational flexibilization a myth? How stable have working lives been and how stable are they being perceived? (Mythos Flexibilisierung? Wie instabil sind Berufsbiografien wirklich und als wie instabil werden sie wahrgenommen?) Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Vol 62, No. 3, pp. 369-402.
Matthew Norton
(2010) A structural hermeneutics of The O’Reilly Factor, Theory and Society, Volume 40, Number 3, 315-346. Download Article >>.
Philip Smith
(2010) Incivility-The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life, Cambridge University Press.
Peter Stamatov
(2010) Activist Religion, Empire, and the Emergence of Modern Long-Distance Advocacy Networks, American Sociological Review 75:607-628. Download abstract here: http://asr.sagepub.com/content/75/4/607
Christopher Wildeman, Jason Schnittker, and Kristin Turney
2012 “Despair by Association? The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers”American Sociological Review
Christopher Wildeman
(2011) Studying Health Disparities by Including Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Individuals. JAMA 305:1708-1709.
(2011) Mass Imprisonment and Racial Disparities in Childhood Behavioral Problems. Criminology and Public Policy 10:791-817.
Jonathan Wrytzen
(2011) Reflections from Morocco on the Arab Spring, Trajectories, Spring 2011, Vol. 22, No.2. Download Article >>

