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1941

Kenneth Bock

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

I do not really belong in this group, for my degree from the University was in Social Institutions, not Sociology. Because the Department of Social Institutions soon disappeared in 1946 (mine was the last degree I believe) I was left homeless. It was my good fortunate, then, to be received as a faculty member in the new Department of Sociology and allowed to teach and write in the field of history of ideas for more than 45 years. The many friends among students, faculty, and staff that I made during those years remain fresh in my memory.

Dissertation: The Comparative Method

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-26

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1942

Lewis P. Kohrs

Lewis P. Kohrs has passed away.

Dissertation: The Social Theory of Sir Matthew Hales' "The primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature (1677)"

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1944

Cesar Grana

Cesar Grana has passed away.

Dissertation: Intellectual Alienation and Middle-Class Rule

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1946

Jelle C. Riemersma

Jelle C. Riemersma has passed away.

Dissertation: Dutch Institutions and Economic Change, 1550-1650

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1947

Dorris W. Goodrich

Dorris W. Goodrich has passed away.

Dissertation: The Making of an Ethnic Group: The Eurasian Community in India

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Robert P. Rankin

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, California State University, Chico

Dissertation: Religious Ideas and Church Administration: A Sociological Study of Methodism

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Charles E. Woodhouse

Emeritus Professor,University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Dissertation: A Study in Professional Ideology: City Managers and Public Housing Officials

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1948

Dorothy A. Mariner

Director, Ontario County Arts Council

Dissertation: The Museum: A Social Context for Art

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1949

Waldo W. Burchard

Waldo W. Burchard has passed away.

Dissertation: The Role of the Military Chaplain

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Robert C. Hanson

Lives in Boulder-check univ.

Dissertation: Confirmation and Social Research

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Frank W. Howton

Dissertation: The Changing Self-Image of the American Businessman

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Norman R. Jackman

Emeritus-Sociology-CSU Hayward

Dissertation: Collective Protest in Relocation Centers

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Clark E. Vincent

Clark E. Vincent has passed away.

Dissertation: Sociological Factors in Psychosomatic Illness

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Irving M. Witt

Emeritus Professor, College of San Mateo

Dissertation: Liberalism and Conservatism in Zionist and anti-Zionist Ideologies

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1950

Robert R. Alford

Robert R. Alford passed away on 2003-02-14

Robert Alford died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2003, just months before his 75th birthday. There was to be a celebration at his parents? ranch in Avery, California in the Sierras. Bob grew up near here at Angel?s Camp, the site of the Calaveras jumping frog contests fabled by Mark Twain. Bob loved to walk the forests paths that radiate out across the property, past the pond dense with water lilies and an apple orchard with forgotten species of fruit. The lupine and the Indian paintbrush would have been in bloom. Bob was a huge man who loped gracefully and could walk for miles. He thought best walking, which was how we worked out the structure of the Powers of Theory (1985), through hours and hours of movement.

A socialist radical with a Wobbly heritage, he dropped out of UC Berkeley in 1951, opposed to the McCarthy loyalty oaths, and went to work and to organize as member of the Labor Youth League in an International Harvester truck factory. Robert Blauner was a fellow worker and cell-member there. After Khrushchev?s ?secret? speech to the 20th Party Congress leaked out, a speech detailing Stalin?s ?crimes,? his incarceration and execution of spies and enemies who were, in fact, loyal Communists, Alford, like many others, including Blauner, returned to the university. The state?s promulgation of information that was, in fact, disinformation, or outright lies, would later become a theme in his work.

A graduate student of Seymour Martin Lipset, his 1961 doctoral dissertation on class voting was subsequently published as Party and Politics, distinguishing between determinants of the class distinctiveness of parties and the partisan distinctiveness of a class in Anglo-American democracies. The young quantitative political sociologist left for the University of Wisconsin, where, together with Michael Aiken, he led the Social Organization program until 1974. In this multivariate citadel, a generation of young students fired by the new-left enabled Bob to return intellectually to the home terrain of his politics, and indeed to leave behind the econometric rewriting of the social. In his turn Alford took his students through a critical re-engagement with the classic debates with Marxism as the way forward. It was at the seminar table, through a combination of withering critique and an overwhelming sense of care, that Bob shaped generations of sociologists who learned from him that a statement of a problem, the choice of an indicator, the settling on a particular level of observation, could have fateful consequences. His objective, as he put it, was ?to unpack? a student?s approach to a problem. Doctoral prospectuses, chapters, seminar papers all merited copious, typewritten comments. His seminars were always charged, overcrowded zones of engagement. We all foolishly thought that this was how academic life was lived everywhere. Teaching for him was a kind of wrestling, a loving combat. Sometimes after Bob?s ?unpacking,? you just wanted to go home and get in bed for the indefinite future. But you knew he knew you could go farther. And you did. His students didn?t just admire him; we loved him. In 1997, he was given the ASA?s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching award.

Bob left Wisconsin to return home to California in 1974, taking on the direction of the sociology program at UC Santa Cruz. In 1975, he published Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform. In that work he showed the ways in which displays of rationality and rituals of rationalization were forms of symbolic politics, part of a political process by which interest groups, organizations and the very structure of the system blocked substantive reform. The volume won the C. Wright Mills award.

This work on politics as aesthetics, beautiful form as substitute for interested transformation, was later followed by work on the politics of aesthetic production. Music was Bob?s first passion and the piano a life-long gift, one whose pleasure was later denied him by a congenital ear defect that steadily rendered him deaf. I think music was, in fact, the template by which he understood the practice of sociology, the imagination and construction of a beautiful structure, a disciplined passion, an enchanted reconstruction of the world. And it was from music that he learned the problematic of technique. A gifted teenage pianist, he had hitchhiked from Angels Camp to San Francisco just to hear Artur Rubinstein play. If you asked him, forty years later, he would still talk about Rubinstein?s piano-playing technique. Bob discovered that concert pianists, as well as other types of musician, often experienced bodily pains, sometimes quite extreme, indeed even leading to permanent injury. This pain, however, was not a necessity, but a taken-for-granted cost of an institutionalized technique. Bob wrote about it with Andras Szanto in ?Orpheus Wounded: The Experience of Pain in the Professional Worlds of the Piano? (1996, Theory and Society). He had wanted to write much more, but his own pain at not any longer being able to hear the music ended that research.

Bob used to take out his dog-eared copy of The Sociological Imagination and read passages out loud to me like a catechist. C. Wright Mills had felt that he arrived when he finally made it to Manhattan. Bob had fallen in love with New York City as a result of doing research there for his health care politics book. Like Mills, in 1988 Alford, too, finally made it to Manhattan, where he was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. At CUNY, he spent most of his time working with students crafting their dissertations. Sociologically speaking, Bob was a committed Trinitarian. Everything came to him in threes?home domains, theories, levels of analysis, modes of inquiry, classical theorists, and as it turned out, academic homes. His last major book The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence (1998), an exploration of historical, quantitative and interpretative modalities, developed out of decades of doing what he did best--working through the design, the genre, the technique by which one sought to apprehend the social. Bob was the master of the master class. There are hundreds of scholars out there whose craft was learned at his table. And for this we give thanks.

Roger Friedland

Departments of Religious Studies and Sociology, UC Santa Barbara





Tributes to Bob Alford from David Peerla and Neil McLaughlin, and Marc Renaud can be found at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cjscopy/current.html





REMEMBERING BOB ALFORD:

A Friend for Fifty Years

By Bob Blauner


Bob Alford died of pancreatic cancer on February 14, 2003,after a very brief illness. Because of his incredible vitalityand the fact that his father had lived to 90, Bob's death, only months before his 75th birthday, and its very suddeness,came as a terrible shock to his family and to his legion of friends. In this remembrance I recount how we first met in the early 1950s and why of all my old friends, the breadth and range of Bob Alford's humanity was unparalleled.



I first saw Bob Alford in the fall of 1952. He was wearing goggles to protect his eyes and a gray apron or smock over his work clothes to collect the metallic dust coming from the machine he was operating. The punch press was even taller than Bob's six foot plus frame. I watched him pull down the lever and the press made holes in the piece of sheet metal Bob was feeding it. Those holes were needed so that the fenders and other parts he would drill in Department 12 (Sheet Metal) could be assembled onto the chasses of truck frames, after the gray metal parts had been primed and spray painted. Add to each frame a diesel engine and a cab for the driver to sit in and a brand new truck would roll out the door.

There were only 150 blue-collar workers at our International Harvester plant in Emeryville, California in 1952. And yet three of us were Communists, or at least members of the party's youth group. The late Bill Lowe was the party's youth organizer in the East Bay then and it was Bill who told me about the other two guys at IHC who had also quit college "to go into industry". Our goal was to radicalize the working class, for according to the Marxist theory of the time, the proletariat ensconced in such heavy industries as steel, auto, and rubber manufacturing, was the only stratum that had a revolutionary potential. College students, the group each of us had abandoned, was the last---and I mean last---social group that could be expected to shake up American society.

I stood by Bob's machine several minutes before he noticed me. I was fortunate to have gotten a job in parts, which gave me the chance to move from one department to another, sometimes while rolling tires twice my size, a lucky break, since only a few months earlier, while working in an Oakland transformer plant, I had gotten panic attacks from remaining in front of the machine all day. Bob shut off his press, I introduced myself, and told him that Bill Lowe had suggested that the two of us, along with Burt, should start meeting every week as a club in "the League," meaning the Labor Youth League, the party's youth organization.

For four years the three of us would meet regularly at each other's houses talking about the factory, how we were getting along in making friends and influencing people---"contacts" was the word we used---and how we could push our extremely conservative local of the United Auto Workers in a more progressive direction. As you can imagine, given that the industrial concentration strategy was misguided to begin with, and to make matters worse, we were trying to colonize what was sadly one of the more conservative sectors of the society, the American working class, and add to all that the fact that it was 1952, the height of the hysteria brought on by McCarthyism and the Korean War, it's not surprising that we got absolutely nowhere. The best we could point to were the friends we had made in the plant, who once in a while---but only a rare while---consented to go to a union meeting with us.

What workers care most about in deciding whether to accept a new man in the informal work group is how good he does his job---and I say "man" and "he" because we were all men on the shop floor at International Harvester then. And Bob did excellent work on his punch press, and at times on another machine, the shears. He wasn't quite as loose in shooting the breeze as Burt was, but he still earned enough respect to serve as his department's shop steward. And as I walked by his work station, I could see that he was on very friendly terms with several of the young Mexican American workers, namely Johnnie Rivera and Johnnie Mena. Whether they visited back and forth at each others homes as Burt and I did with several of the plant's Negro workers, and I also did with a white guy from Arkansas who had befriended me, I no longer remember.

I used to think that of all my comrades from the 1950s, Bob Alford was the least likely to have become a Red. I thought that because he seemed to be---and was---a normal, well-adjusted, and happy person. Without any of the deep core of alienation that in my case had come from growing up in an unhappy family with a silent withdrawn father. That may be so, but as I recently learned from Roger Friedland, Bob's grandfather had been a lumber worker and a Wobbly, that is a member of the anarcho-syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World, perhaps the most authentically American---as well as Western and militant--radical movement American society has known.

Today I believe that Bob's becoming a Communist is best explained by one over-arching quality, his essential goodness. Bob Alford was the most unequivocally good human being I've ever known. His growing radicalism didn't come from a wild-eyed youthful idealism. It went deeper than that. It came, instead, from a an urgent desire to do good, to make the world a better place. So that even when we all had to admit that our early efforts to change the world had not borne fruit, Bob never ceased trying to do good, in politics, in community and university affairs, and above all in his work as a professor and as a father to his three children.

After graduating Angels Camp's Bret Harte High School in the heart of Northern California's gold country, where he was already active politically, Bob came to Cal in 1946. It was one year after the end of World War II, so he had missed being drafted to fight in that conflict by a mere year. At Berkeley he would become first active in, and then the president of, Stiles Hall, the campus YMCA, at the the time its leading liberal organization. As part of our "boring from within" tactics, communists worked in such "mass orgs" as the Y, looking for potential recruits and it was there that Bob met the man who brought him into the Labor Youth League. But as he told me two years ago when I was interviewing old friends about why they had become Reds in the 1950s---a most unlikely time---what most influenced Bob was not any one person or group of people. Nor was it ideology. It was music.

What made music such a fitting vehicle is that it speaks to the heart. And Bob was a man with a big heart. He was also a fine classical pianist, played regularly in the 1950s in a Berkeley chanber group led by a brilliant cellist, Dick Anastasia. But it was folk music that would move him politically.

The late 1940s was the beginning of the folk music revival in America. Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie were gaining big followings on college campuses. Bob heard their music sung by Pete Seeger, but it was the songs of Earl Robinson that most influenced him. Robinson's "The House I Live In" was brought to a mass national audience by two great singers, who couldn't have been more different, Paul Robeson and Frank Sinatra.

Bob graduated Cal and went on to work for an M.A. in sociology during the height of the Loyalty Oath controversy. President Harry Truman had set the process in motion in 1948 when he ordered that federal employees must sign affadavits that they did not belong to the Communist Party or any organization advocating the forcible overthrow of the U. S. government. A year later the State of California followed with an oath for its employees, including professors at Berkeley and UCLA. The oath was universally despised as a blatant violation of academic freedom. But except for a few brave souls, who years later were exonerated when the law was overturned, most of the faculty caved in and signed.

The oath settled it for Bob. Knowing that if he went on for his Ph.D he'd have to sign just to work his way through school as a teaching assistant, he finished his master's degree and left Cal.

Bob never regretted the years he spent at Harvester. We both felt that there was no other place that could have taught us so much about American society. But by the beginning of 1956, with almost four years under our belts, we were getting restless. The work had gotten old and it had become even more clear that we would never be successful in organizing our fellow workers. And there were all the ambitions to make something of ourselves, to become successful in a profession, that we had put to rest for so long.

And then in February 1956 came a bombshell, the report that Kruschëv had made a "secret speech" to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a speech in which he revealed that Stalin had been a criminal monster. The same Stalin who in my first year at IHC had made me feel safe, even as a group of right-wing Irishmen were baiting me as a "Jew-Communist," because with him at the helm in Moscow, all was right with the world.

Stalin's death in March 1953 would in time lead to a thaw in the Cold War. Tensions eased measurably when the Korean War ended that summer. At home McCarthyism would be dealt a death blow a year later when the Senator from Wisconsin's hearings into subversive activities in the Army backfired.

Years later I would learn that Harvester knew all along that we were communists, but had considered us too harmless to get rid of. Our more politically minded fellow workers also knew what we were up to. Bob may have been red-baited less than I was, because he didn't stand out as a Jew. Our comrade Burt took the most flack, because he was not only a "Jew-Communist like me," but was also married to a Negro woman. But Burt was so unapologetically matter-of-fact about his wife, and also his politics---although none of us ever revealed the full extent of our radicalism---that he was probably the most accepted and the most politically effective of us.

Burt's wife Bru and Ginny, to whom I was then married, were as died-in-the-wool true believers as their husbands. But Gloria never bought into our illusions that the Soviet Union was a workers' paradise or that socialism in America was virtually around the corner. Her healthy skepticism undoubtedly gave Bob a somewhat greater sense of political reality than was typical among Communists and fellow travellers in the 1950s. But reading Kruschëv's speech that spring devastated Bob as much as it did the rest of us.

Everything we had believed about the Soviet Union, everything we knew to be true about the world, came down crashing like a house of cards.

For weeks we talked about the Report and what it meant for us. Meanwhile our friends and comrades were beginning to leave the Party and the LYL. First in trickles, then in droves. After a while, as the shock wore off, Kruschëv's words began to look like an act of deliverance. For people like Bob and myself, it meant we had a second chance. The same American society which, only a few years earlier, might have locked us up in concentration camps---for the 1954 McCarran Act had actually provided for the rounding up of dangerous subversives in a national emergency---was now saying that our future was open.

Although I was admitted to Berkeley's Sociology Department that September, Bob decided to wait six months to save up money for his Ph. D. studies. Harvester's union-scale wages were high and hard to give up.

For two years in the late 1950s Bob and I ate lunch together every day, sitting in the sun in front of the Campanile. We were often joined by others in our cohort, Ken Walker, Ralph Beals, Lloyd Street, and Harry Nishio. Bob and I still packed the same black metal lunch boxes we had used in the factory, but it was what was inside Bob's that provoked the same wonder and jokes that it had at Harvester. With an enormous appetite, he always ate three or four sandwiches and several pieces of fruit.

Our return to Berkeley came at an opportune time. A new department was being built by Herbert Blumer that would soon be the best in the country. Blumer and his former student Tam Shibutani had a huge following of grad students interested in social psychology that included Tom Scheff and Arlene Caplan Daniels. The other major segment was political and industrial sociology, with such luminaries as Reinhard Bendix, Philip Selznick, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Bill Kornhauser. Along with Bob and I, the political and industrial students included Bill Friedland, Art Stinchcombe, Pat McGillivray, Amitai Etzioni, Fred Goldner, Günther Roth, and Gayle Ness.

The curriculum for students of class, social movements, politics, and work at the time couldn't have been more tailor-made for Bob and me. The books on the Ph. D. core reading list---and the others our profs recommended---were books that helped us make sense of our recent political and industrial experiences, answering questions that we were finally ready to face, questions about capitalism and socialism, the Soviet Union, and the politics of the working class. The books Bob and I read would influence our outlooks forever: Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Selig Perlman's Theory of the The Labor Movement, Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia, and perhaps the biggest eye-opener of all, Roberto Michels' Political Parties. Art Stinchcombe turned me on to Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution and I also learned a great deal from the anarchist theorists, Bakunin and Kropotkin.

Although I became an industrial and Bob a political sociologist, we both soon found ourselves Marty Lipset's star students. The year after I was Marty's research assistant for a book on social mobility, Bob became his leading assistant, doing much of the spade work, and even some of the writing, for the classic text Political Man.

What strikes me now as remarkable, looking back over 45 years, is how we remained good friends, indeed comrades, without falling prey to a competition that would have been natural, given that our relation to our mentor made us virtually sibling rivals. And given also the dog-eat-dog nature of the academic world. I attribute that mostly to Bob and his impressive inner security---he never needed to feel better than someone else to feel good about himself.

After eight years in which we had seen each other practically every day, Bob left the Bay Area to teach at the University of Wisconsin. A dedicated and selfless teacher, his career took off at Madison and he was the first of our peer group to be promoted to tenure. Still, we managed to see each other at least once a year, at ASA meetings, or when he arranged for me to be invited to Madison to deliver a talk.

As a man with such deep roots in California and the West---his favorite novelist was Wallace Stegner---Bob might have been a bit envious when I became the first Ph.D. in a generation to have been invited back as a regular faculty member in sociology. But he returned himself a few years later, as a full professor at UC Santa Cruz.

My feelings about sociology changed dramatically in the mid-1970s. Involved in primal therapy I became focussed on personal experience and much less interested in work and the profession. My contacts with many old sociology friends dropped off as I began to find many academic people---especially men---too involved in their work for my taste, too consumed with ideas, too much "in their heads," if you will.

Bob was the great exception. Even though he himself remained involved in the field, active in professional associations, with his circle of friends and colleagues constantly expanding, whenever we met he was always first and foremost a human being, a man with feelings, I never hesitated to ask him to read whatever new non-sociological manuscript I was working on. His comments on a memoir about my struggle with depression were especially thoughtful.

He was also much more grounded in the earth than any other professor I've known. A lover of nature, he spent every summer and every Christmas holiday at the family ranch near Avery, California. There in a hundred acres of semi-wilderness, he constructed trails so that he and his friends could go on long and strenuous hikes, reach ponds to swim in, and he also did much of the work himself in building an office where he could work and a home for him and his companion Noll Anne Richardson.

Unlike most of my old friends and colleagues, he became as close to my wife Karina as he was to me. Whereas other academic people usually showed little interest in her work and who she was as a person, after all she was not a sociologist or a professor but a mere artist, Bob was as curious about her projects and her reactions to events, as he was to mine. So that whenever he brought food over to our house for lunch---his hearing deficit having gotten so bad that restaurants were too noisy---he positioned himself at our table with his good ear next to where Karina was sitting. And then halfway through his time with us he would move closer to me. * * *

Bob Alford made important contributions to sociology in a number of areas: politics, health care, music, theory, and methodology. As a teacher he guided scores of graduate students in dissertation research and to professionial success, teaching with a selfless dedication that earned him their respect and love. But having said all this, Bob excelled even more in two areas: as a father and as a friend.

Bob was an unusually nurturant father when his children were young and they remained his number one priority after they were grown up. At his 70th birthday celebration, Heidi, Jonathan, and Elissa each made a moving tribute to their father, who was always available at every turning point or crisis in their lives.

Along with his family and students, Bob was invested in a rich circle of friendship. And he knew that friendships have to be continuously cultivated, so that he would not think of passing through the Bay Area on the way from New York to his ranch in the gold country without coming over to visit with us.

A number of qualities made him a great friend: loyalty, being a good listener, modesty, and sensitivity to others. He never boasted about his many accomplishments, so that I had to read Roger Friedland's obituary to learn he had been awarded both the C. Wright Mills Award and a Distinguished Teaching prize from the American Sociological Association. Did he not tell us out of modesty? Or out of a sensitivity that came from knowing that I had regrets about almost winning the first and never having been nominated for the second?

It must have especially pained him that his cancer progressed so rapidly that he did not have the chance for fimal meetings with his friends. Still, on the day he died, barely able to speak, he dictated an e-mail to Noll Anne, so that she could forward his goodbyes to us.

I can still see Bob walking through our door with Noll Anne, placing our deli lunch on the table, to free his arms for the big hugs he would greet us with. And then finding his place at the table, ready with his everpresent curiosity, to ask us about our lives. Exuding as always a vitality that makes it hard to believe that he won't be coming any more.

Dissertation: Class-Voting in Four Anglo-American Countries

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-27

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Bennett M. Berger

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UC, San Diego

I got my Ph.D. in 1958 with a dissertation on suburbia under Reinhard Bendix and Bill Kornhauser. UCPress published it unchanged in 1960 and 1968. After year lecturing at Berkely, my first ladder job was at the University of Illinois which gave me tenure in 1962. In 1963 I moved to UC Davis as Chair of its then rapidly expanding dep't. While there I began studying and writing on youth and was eventually given a large grant by NIMH for field research on child rearing in Hippie communes. That research produced several Ph.D.s by my students and ten years later my book The Survival of a Counterculture which will soon re-appear in a new edition. In 1971 a collection of my essays was published. In 1973 I moved to UC San Diego. In the late 70s I was Editor of Contemporary Sociology. At San Diego I chaired the committees of several first class Ph.Ds (some mediocre ones too) and continued writing lots of reviews and review-essays. In 1990 UCPress published Authors of Their Own Lives, my collection of 20 autobiographical essays by American sociologists and in 1995 my last book An Essay on Culture. I retired in 1991 and don't do much sociology anymore though I continue to write a lot, mostly not for publication.

Berkeley shaped my way of thinking by its theoretical diversity which prevented me from ever becoming a partisan of a particular "school of thought." Pierre Bourdieu was the first theorist I ever read who thought like I did. I doubt that "my" sociology has shaped the world in any way. The poet Auden is often quoted as saying "poetry makes nothing happen" (an exaggeration of course, which makes it quotable). Sociology also seldom makes anything happen, maybe because its structural way of thinking is deeply offensive to American individualism which is why economics (which knows perhaps even less than we do) has become the dominant social science.

Dissertation: Working-class suburb; a study of auto workers in suburbia

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-12

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Alex Garber

Alex Garber passed away in 1984

Alex Garber came to California State University, Sacramento as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the fall of 1964. He had been on the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his BA and MA in sociology from the University of Chicago and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He was promoted to associate professor and then full professor during his tenure. He chaired the department from 1968 to 1974.

Upon arriving in Sacramento, Alex introduced three courses to the curriculum: Political Sociology, Soviet Society, and Arab-Israel Conflict. He also taught theory and social organization, both at the graduate and undergraduate level. He always had a group of students, both undergraduates and graduates, who followed him around and who were greatly influenced by him. He was an imposing figure. He could talk on and on about many topics, always giving an insightful analysis, even when discussing baseball statistics! He retired in 1982 at the age of 70 and died in Los Angeles in 1984 at age 72.

Alex was extremely bright, very well read, a macro sociologist in the best tradition of those graduating from the sociology department at Berkeley in those days. He knew history, read history and combined his historical knowledge with the sociological perspective. In that sense, he was I would guess a product of the Teggart-influenced department at Berkeley.

Alex did not publish much, but took his passion and considerable erudition into the areas union organizing and politics, especially his involvement over the years with the Democratic Socialists of America. He was a close friend of Michael Harrington, for example. He helped organize the first faculty union on the campus. He was one of the original seven members of the founding AFT chapter. Garber was interested in both the professionalization of faculty and the unionization of faculty. For him this was not a contradiction. Through professionalism faculty gained a voice in running the university in ways they thought were best for students and for themselves, and through unionization faculty gained support for increased resources such as graduate TA's, travel money, assigned time for research, etc.

When I came to CSU Sacramento in 1964 as a young man just out of graduate school, it was the first time in my life that I was in a position to interact with faculty members as a peer. Alex was older and wiser. I learned a great deal from him, as he was one of my early mentors.

Fond memories, Dean Dorn.

Dissertation: The Ideological Dimensions of the Historical Explanations of the Russian Constituent Assembly, January 18, 1918

Biography submitted on: 2004-05-04

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Robert E. Kantor

Robert E. Kantor has passed away.

Dissertation: Sociological Dimensions In Schizophrenia

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Irving Krauss

Emeritus Professor, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb

My 1962 Ph.D was preceded by an M.A.from the University of Chicago, and prior to that a B.A. in Communication and Public Policy at Berkeley. My first teaching position was at the University of Hawaii, for ten years, and then Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, for the next 16, including a stint as department chair. I retired in 1985, and live in Alpine County, on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, about 40 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe. The county has the smallest population in the state, about 1,000; our local community, Woodfords, has some 150 residents.

My perspective was shaped by my experiences as a child in the Great Depression, which included observing a broker negotiating with people who would return to sell their gold fillings and crowns, after removing them from their mouth; working the swing shift as a turret lathe operator in the industrial part of Chicago while attending classes during the day, and participating in the labor movement in the places where I lived. Berkeley?s radical groups and activities influenced a socialist orientation. Classes with Herbert Blumer and Tamotsu Shibutani, especially Blumer?s social movements work, suggested ways of achieving change to improve people?s lives.

Because of a talent in art?I began at Berkeley as an art major?my early career goal was a political cartoonist, and while an undergraduate I was Art Editor of the Daily Californian. However, the realization that few newspapers would appreciate work highly critical of capitalism led me to abandon that goal. The Berkeley milieu encouraged a reorientation, and a key influence which eventually led to graduate work in sociology was one of Marty Lipset?s classes. While a Ph.D candidate at Berkeley I was president of the sociology graduate students association and one of the founders and first editor of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology

My main interest continues to be stratification and class, and was reflected in my teaching and research, with special concern for the underprivileged. As a faculty member and citizen I have tried to apply sociological knowledge to improve conditions in academe and the community. In Hawaii I was head of the campus chapter of the ACLU and a board member of the congressional campaigns of Representative Patsy Mink, co-author of Title 9 of the Voting Rights Act. I was politically active in DeKalb as well as in Alpine County upon retirement. In Alpine, as an elected member of the county school board, I was responsible for establishing a voting district containing most of the county?s Native Americans. For years none was on the school board, even though a quarter of the population was Native American as were half the students. For many years I was a board member of the county arts commission, and presently am on the boards of the historical society and the Alpine County Democratic Central Committee. Thus, in a sense, my interest in art, sociology, and politics has come full circle.

Dissertation: The Determinants of Individual Social Mobility

Biography submitted on: 2003-06-02

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Cy W. Record

Cy W. Record has passed away.

Dissertation: The Role of the Negro Intellectuals in Contemporary Racial Movements

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1951

Irving P. Babow

Irving P. Babow has passed away.

Dissertation: Secular Singing Societies of European Immigrant Groups in San Francisco

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James W. Carroll

Dissertation: Flatheads and Whites: A Study of Conflict

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Stanley M. Honer

Dissertation: The Theory of Cultural Differences

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1952

Harry Brill

Sociology-Univ. of Mass. - Boston

Dissertation: Black Militancy: A Case Study in Ego Politics.

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Arlene K. Daniels

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

UC Berkeley was a terrific opportunity in the late 40?s. I came to Berkeley, to get away from home. I was poor, but it only cost twenty - five dollars a semester. As an undergraduate English major, I stumbled into graduate school through my admiration for Tamotsu Shibutani. Fortunately, a characteristic of the department at that time was benign neglect. You prepared to take the exams anyway you wished, with the list of great books of sociology as your guide.

When I received my PHD in 1960 I was thrown on my own, searching for grants, interrupted by a brief stay at SF State College. But I made a happy landing at Northwestern University in l975 as a full Professor where I spent the next twenty years. I found I could use what I had learned, primarily from Shibutani and Blumer, especially abut the Chicago School, but also from Selvin, Bock and Nisbet, in my research and teaching.

I made my way in professional circles as editor and President of Social Problems, as council member and secretary of the American Sociological Association and as a founder and then president of Sociologists for Women in Society.

I valued my colleague and the opportunity to work with graduate students and produce Ph Ds at Northwestern. I produced a modest canon, using the qualitative and analytic methods learned in graduate school, to study the field of occupations and professions, and, the place of women in work.

Dissertation: Ideological Response to Social Pressures on the Professions: A Study of Dentists

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-05

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Shoi B. Dickinson

Shoi B. Dickinson has passed away.

Dissertation: The Significance of Interaction Between Status Levels: A Case Study of a Major Department Store

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Ritchie P. Lowry

Sociology, Boston College

Dissertation: Who Runs this Town? A Study of the Quality of Public Life in a Changing Small Community

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Gayl D. Ness

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

I came to Berkeley first as an undergraduate in 1950, after doing three years in Forestry at Oregon State College (now University) in Corvallis. In those first three years, I found myself becoming more interested in people than in trees. As a Berkeley undergraduate I gravitated to Sociology through the influence of Wolfram Eberhard, Robert Nisbet and Kenneth Bock. On graduation, I was drafted into the US army in February 1953, destined to serve in the Korean War. But apparently the powers that were wanted to win that war, so they sent me to France. I served out my term, met a fine French woman who became my wife, and then on discharge, won a Fullbright Fellowship to study in Copenhagen. There I continued work I had done for my BA honors essay on the US and Scandinavian cooperative movements. Organizational sociology had got into my blood. In 1956, with French wife, a new baby and University of Copenhagen degree, we returned to Berkeley to resume graduate studies.

Those were heady times. All of us had been out between undergraduate and graduate studies, and some before, mostly in some kind of protest movement. Friedland, Stinchcombe, Alford, Blauner, Daniels and many others were part of that cohort. Someone mentioned benign neglect. That was certainly the faculty orientation toward us at those times. If there were brown bags, we students organized them. If there was something for those fine visiting professors like Rene Koenig, we students organized it. Faculty had offices without names on their doors. We could see them 2 hours a week in the ?bull pen? where open desks found them at obligatory ?office hours.?

Four of us accidentally formed a ?sub-seminar? at the beginning of one of Shibutani?s classes. Bill Friedland, Dorothy Anderson (now Mariner), Ernest Landauer and I fell in together and met regularly every Wednesday evening for the rest of our studies. We taught each other a great deal; I wonder if it was more or less than we learned from our professors. Our professors were superb scholars: Bendix, Eberhard, Lipset, Selznick, Smelser, and I learned economic development from Chou Ming Li, later Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They did inspire and they imparted knowledge, but it was our peers who provided a far more fundamental kind of intellectual sustenance.

On graduation I was fortunate to receive a four-year post-doctoral grant with the Institute of Current World Affairs. This was primarily the work of Wolfram Eberhard, who seems now in retrospect to have been the only professor even thinking about students? next steps. By this time my wife and I had a second child and we spent the next four years steeping ourselves in Southeast Asia and having a third son.

From Malaysia we came to Ann Arbor, to the University of Michigan. I was hired sight unseen and became one of Michigan?s 13 new assistant professors in 1964. Michigan proved to be something of an antithesis to Berkeley. There, we were roughly 200 graduate students left to fend for ourselves. There were three teaching Assistantships and one department fellowship. At Michigan I found 200 graduate students all supported by department grants. Faculty at Michigan entrepreneured for their students, finding foundation and government grants to support graduate students. I?m not sure which was best. At Berkeley we were all old organizers, so the lack of faculty leadership was no problem. We organized and learned. At Michigan students were drawn in and shepherded through their studies. I see advantages and disadvantages at both ends, and have no idea how to produce a net effect.

At Michigan I found a fine Sociology department, with great resources, superb colleagues, and support for whatever I wanted to do. I also found the single best university in the world to study Asia, and have been involved there ever since. I have maintained work in Southeast Asia. This would have been impossible had I returned to Berkeley when I had an offer in 1965. Remember that then even Bendix had to leave the department due to the intense and acrimonious disputes, where, as he put it, ?there was no milk of human kindness.? Michigan was less radical and less destructive. The Vietnam War tore Berkeley apart. At Michigan it produced a highly creative form of protest, ?the Teach-Ins.? This provides a good question for organizational analysts: why destructive protest in one university and constructive protest in another. (Michigan is older, of course, and with Harvard in the 1890?s was at the forefront of another national protest in the Anti-Imperialist League.)

And so I stayed, teaching courses in the sociology of economic development; taking organizational analysis into national and international development organizations, into international population planning, policies and organizations, and finally into the intricate realms of population-development environment analyses. I have continued to work in Asia, even in retirement.

Berkeley gave me the joy of the sociological imagination, as we called it then; it gave be Wolfram Eberhard who led me into the rich life of Asian societies; it gave me fellow students who taught me much and have remained life long friends. That it a heady mixture indeed.

Dissertation: Central Government and Local Initiative in the Industrializaiton of India and Japan

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-08

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Thomas J. Scheff

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UC, Santa Barbara.

At Berkeley, my basic approach to sociology, social psychology, and social science grew out of my contact with T. Shibutani. My contact with Goffman and his work was also influential, even though it was many years before I felt its full effect. From Shibutani I learned the importance of integrating theory and empirical work, and of attempting to develop an integrated social science, especially combining the social and the psychological. Later in my career, I began to understand Goffman's work in this way also, even though he himself took care not to develop these themes explicitly.

The two major areas in my sociology have been the societal reaction to deviance, on the one hand, and shame and the social bond, on the other. My theoretical and empirical work on labeling has been influential in many fields and has had considerable impact on the actual treatment of the mentally ill. In particular, my Being Mentally Ill (1966; 1999) was one of the key sources of the reform of the mental health laws of California in 1970, and subsequently in all the other states.

My work on shame and the social bond, begun in the mid-1980's, has also been influential, particularly in two areas, protracted conflict in families and between large groups. This influence is still a work in progress, however, since it requires integration of many different approaches and perspectives. In particular, it formulates links between individual psychology, interpersonal relations, and social institutions.

Dissertation: Staff Resistance to Change in a Mental Hospital

Website: www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/scheff/

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-12

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1953

Harry R. Doby

Harry R. Doby passed away in 1966

Dissertation: A Study of Social Change and Social Disorganization in a Finnish Rural Community

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Kian M. Kwan

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, CSU, Northridge

I left China, my native country, when I was a child to join my father in the Philippines. As a resident alien who had been through the difficult World-War II years and other hardships in the Philippines, I developed a deep interest in race and ethnic relations. This central interest led me in 1954 to the graduate program in sociology at Berkeley. Professor Tamotsu Shibutani, my dissertation adviser, invited me to work with him on a special project after I received my Ph.D. in 1958. Ethnic Stratification: A Comparative Approach, published by Macmillan in 1965, was the product of that collaboration.

I began my teaching career at Ohio University. My second academic appointment, at California State University, Northridge, lasted from 1965 until June 2000 ( except for a visiting engagement in 1972-73 at the University of Hawaii).

Individuality and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Tamotsu Shibutani (JAI Press, 1996) - a collection of mostly original papers by nineteen contributors -- was some form of personal repayment to my longtime associate and benefactor. I wrote a 23-page "Foreword" to the Festschrift -- offering selective interpretations on (1) Darwin's Evolution Theory, (2) Peirce's Scientific Logic, (3) Founding of Chicago Pragmatism, and (4) Rise of Chicago Sociology. The preface concluded: "These two distinguished Chicago alumni [Tamotsu Shibutani and Anselm Strauss] and many of their associates and students have faith that generations of young men and women will discover anew the verities of their intellectual heritage, build on what they have done, and make further advances." Guided by these great traditions -- Darwinian natural selection, American pragmatism, and a renewed Chicago Sociology -- I hope to make additional contributions in the future.

Dissertation: Assimilation of the Chinese in the United States: An Exploratory Study in California

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-10

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Charles B. Perrow

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University

After a quarter at the U. of Washington, two years at Black Mountain College in N.C., a year bumming about in NYC, and a brief stay at Reed College, I entered Berkeley as an undergraduate, reclaiming one year's worth of credit, and plowed through to the PhD. My personal turmoils matched that of the department, which was gutted by the loyalty oath issue but resurrected by Blumer. An undergraduate course with Bock on the Idea of Progress stabilized my direction; I was not going to write the great American novel, sociology was easier. Then came Selznick , Lipset, Goffman, Kornhauser, Shibutani and so on. With an equally stunning group of fellow graduate students to learn from, and Bendix (MA thesis) and Selznick (PhD thesis) as mentors, I drifted into organizational analysis because there was almost no literature to read (I still am a slow reader). Berkeley student unrest broke out just as I left for my first job at Michigan; we had been the silent generation, but the leftist urges were all about me. Graduate student life at Berkeley, of course, was idyllic, compared to that of an assistant professor in the Michigan department, which encouraged me to leave after five years. Since then I have had to leave Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, and Stony Brook, finally serving out my sentence at Yale. My cohort was good, but the market was even better as universities, sociology, organizations, and organizational theory grew; it was easy to be tenured, easy to move on.

Berkeley encouraged my critical stance toward my field and toward society; Michigan didn't, but when I was tenured at Wisconsin I could say what I pleased and had the freedom to leave that university in protest over its repression of anti-Vietnam war activities. Happenstance, almost a "normal accident," immersed me in the Three Mile Island story and vectored my career for over a decade. But last year I finally published a cherished project on the origins of U.S. capitalism and its corrosive power.

Dissertation: Authority, Goals, and Prestige in a General Hospital

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-29

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T. L. Skelton

Dissertation: Relation Between Poltical and Ideological Changes in Contempoary Japan

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Samuel J. Surace

Emeritus Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

I entered graduate school in Berkeley in 1953 and received my MA in Sociology from UCLA in 1952 working with Ralph Turner. In Berkeley, I studied with Reinhard Bendix, William Petersen, and Herbert Blumer. I was greatly influenced by the global outlook of Reinhard Bendix who wrote the forward to the publication of my thesis by UC Press.

I taught at UCLA from 1961 to 1989 and was also a visiting Professor at the University of Rochester. I have been a guest lecturer at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a symposium on modern Italy at Columbia University, and keynote speaker at a conference at Alma College. Swiss National Radio interviewed me on social change in America. I have taught courses in formal organizations, sociology of deviant behavior, social change, social theory, social structure and economic change, and political theory.

My research positions have included research assistant to Clark Kerr, one of principal investigators on the Mexican American project of patterns of work and settlement, and principal investigator of internal migration in Italy. I was a fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio Italy, received two Ford Foundation fellowships, and research grants from the American Philosophical Society and the UCLA Committee on Research.
,br> My publications include several studies on Mexican Americans, and work and modernization in Italy published in different Italian and American journals. I have been a manuscript consultant for several presses and journals.

Today, I spend much time renewing my guitar repertory from my former jazz musician days and writing new songs in my own special style.

Dissertation: The Status Evolution of Italian Workers, 1860-1914

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-10

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1954

Harley L. Browning

Latin American studies specialist at UT-Austin

Dissertation: Urbanization in Mexico

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Richard M. Colvard

Professor Emeritus, Southern oregon University

Dissertation: The Foundation and the Colleges: A Study of Organizations, Professions, and Power in the Arkansas Experiment in Teacher Education

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Fred H. Goldner

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, CUNY, Queens

I have one thing left to do-----. Up to now, in a career that went back and forth between academia and executive experience I have written articles or chapters based on my research or experience in such divergent organizations as Ford Aircraft, IBM, Kaiser Cement, HSA, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., the priests of the New York Archdiocese, Sanus (an entrepreneurial start-up of an HMO, and NYLCare, its large corporate successor). In each I attempted to do what I was challenged to do: from Blumer -- to thoroughly understand the continual emergent nature of their world as perceived by organizational participants; from Bendix -- to understand the structural, historical and ideological processes involved in these organizations; from Selznick -- the role of power, politics, and the "imbuement" of values involved in organizational units. Out of this came materials on pronoia, demotion, boundary roles, delegitimation of the non-profit sector, professionalization as a control device, the growth or cynical knowledge in the priesthood, rhetorical reticence in politics, the role of beliefs about market processes and organization structure, and power and conflict as inherent organizational processes. And then there was my plea in 1975 at an ASA session to stop ignoring the flow of money as a key to understanding organizational behavior. And now -- I will attempt to do just that in a comparative study of those above organizations in order to explicate relations between personal experiences and organizational processes in such issues as money flow, blame, centralization/decentralization, etc. Wish me luck.

Dissertation: Industrial Relations and the Organization of Management

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-23

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Ida R. Hoos

Retired Researcher and Writer

UC Berkeley was an important step in the way sociology influenced my career. My undergraduate years at Radcliffe, under the wonderful inspiration of Gordon Allport, had already provided the template to guide me. thus, 5 years out of Radcliffe, I founded and ws director of a then-unique social service organization, Jewish Vocational Service, which is still flourishing and is still a major force in occupational guidance, trainng, and placement in the Boston area. With many branches and myriad activities, it is recognized for its service to the entire community.

Marriage to Sidney S. Hoos, on leave from UC Berkeley to the War Department OQMG (?) in Washington, put a temporary end to my work in Boston along with my part-time graduate program at Harvard. My main focus was Fannie Farmer and Dr. Spock, with Kuchen and Kinder all-important, while our two daughters grew up and Sid kept the armed forces in the far-flung theatres of war supplied. After the war, we returned to Berkeley, Sid much honored for his service and greatly advanced on the academic ladder.

A sabbatical at Harvard for Sid meant a refresher at the Pierian Spring for me. A return to ivy-clad Emerson Hall inspired me to desert Girl Scout cookie sales. Gordon Allport exhorted me: You just mustn?t stay graduated.? Herb Blumer smoothed all the administrative hurdles. My thesis, ?Implications of Electronic Data-Processing for the Clerical labor Force?, became a book, Automation in the Office, published by Public Affairs Press and was translated into German. I wrote and delivered the series ?Office Automation in America? for the Voice of America. My sister commented that if only I had titled my work ?Sex and Automation?, it would have attracted more attention!

With our two daughters now 12 and 16, we took our first sabbatical abroad, this time a year (for Sid) under the joint sponsorship of the Ford Foundation, the Italian government, and UC. Our year in Naples was a high point. When we returned to Berkeley in September 1961 I was considering another PhD?in Romance Languages, just for the fun of it?but but the Institute of Industrial Relations, under Art Ross and Peg Gordon, invited me to join their research program, ?Unemployment and the American Economy? and, always interested in adjustment to technological change, I designed a study of retraining programs. My book, Retraining the Work Force was published by the UC Press and ran through two editions.

Technological advance was evident on every front. Not only the more mechanical aspects of handling data but the very process of managerial thinking were becoming subject to new concepts and theories. The ?dominant paradigm? embraced only the quantitative. What you could not count did not count. The social and human aspects were systematically avoided in the rush to be ?scientific.?

Dissertation: Automation in the Office: A Social Survey of Occupational and Organizational Changes

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-24

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Howard M. Vollmer

I can claim few, if any significant contributions to academic sociology. After my dissertation on ?Employee Rights and the Employment Relationship? was published by the U.C. Institute of Industrial Relations and a subsequent book on the sociological process of Professionalization was published by Prentice-Hall, and after some futher graduate level course work in management, my career turned toward applied research and development and then into administration. Initially I served for 13 years at Stanford Research Institute (Now SRI International) in charge of management development and organization development projects. Our clients for such work included federal government agencies such as the U.S. Air Force (projects on the organization of research laboratories and the nianagement of scientific personnel): state agencies (design of the new Department of Ecology for the State of Washington); Indian reservations such as economic and social development programs on the Colville, Crow, and Navajo reservations and many other applied projects. For a two-year period thereafter I served as Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the American tJniversity, Washington, D.C..during which time I also participated in the design of a new College of Public Affairs at that university.

After returning to California (San Francisco), I became corporate manager of management development programs at Bechtel Corporation, an international construction firm. Then after several years of independent consulting work on organizational design, I became Director of Extended (Continuing) Education at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo California for 11 years. More recently, I?ve served on several boards of directors of non-profit corporations. At times during the above years, I taught sociology courses part-time to adults at Pennsylvania State University, University of Alberta-Calgary, University of California Extension, Stanford University, University of San Francisco, and Antioch University-West.

For me, the U.C. Berkeley graduate program in sociology provided a strong foundation for my lifelong work, especially in classical sociological theory (e.g., Weber, Durkheim. and other authors of the ?75 great books?). The fact that sociology (along with inputs from other disciplines) can provide a significant foundation for practical applications in ?the world? I believe is illustrated by the variety of involvements I have had in my own life.

Dissertation: Employee Rights and the Employment Relationship in Manufacturing Industries

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-10

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1955

Laile E. Bartlett

Writer and Researcher, Walnut Creek

My biography is in some ways the reverse of the usual assumptions. In short, my Sociology Ph.D. works as much or more as a legitimation of past activities rather than a preparation for future ones. More specifically, I was the Sociology instructor at two Ohio colleges (three years in all) and general utility instructor for three years at the University of Washington in Seattle - teaching a broad cross section of courses from Criminology to Race Relations.

My main emphasis both at UC Berkeley and afterwards, however, was the Sociology of Religion. I taught a summer course in this at Berkeley after getting my degree.

My post Ph.D. activity, however, has been research and writing: four books by major publishers, two published by organizations, and four books that are still in manuscript form. Much of my writing has a Sociology of Religion orientation. My most recent manuscript, Making Sin Legal, is an overview of gambling in America.

Dissertation: Unitarian Fellowships: A Case Study in Liberal Religious Development

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Patrick J. McGillivray

Patrick J. McGillivray passed away in 1993

Dissertation: Social Organization and Employee Rights

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Hubert W. Oppe

Professor Emeritus, West Texas A & M

Dissertation: Processes of Change in Generation Sequences

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Guenther H. Roth

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

I came to the United States in 1953 from the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research to finish a denazification study with Kurt Wolff at OSU. From 1955 until 1958 I was a full-time research assistant under Reinhard Bendix for the Ford Project on Labor in Economic Development housed in the Institute of Industrial Relations. A part-time graduate student in the Soc. Dept., I picked up my Ph.D. in 1960 with one of the first dissertations in historical sociology. For many of us assistants in the interdisciplinary Institute the apprenticeship nature of research was more important than disciplinary study, since we could look over the shoulders of our masters. For some of us our first teaching experience was in the Social Science Integrated Course. What all of this meant to me I have tried to recollect in Bennett Berger?s Authors of Their Own Lives (UC Press 1990), where I also recount my growing up in Nazi Germany and surviving the war.

I retired from Columbia in 1997 to finish my last book, a historical lesson for German readers, Max Weber?s Anglo-German Family History 1800-1950 (in German, 2001). I document Weber?s descent from one of the wealthiest Anglo-German families in the 19th century and suggest counterfactually that a stronger cosmopolitan bourgeoisie might have helped prevent the catastrophes of the 20th century.

Dissertation: The Social Democratic Labor Movement in Imperial Germany

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-30

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Dorothy E. Smith

Emeritus Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

My years at Berkeley were in many ways the unhappiest of my life, but I learned a lot inside and outside the formalities of academic instruction: I learned a kind of sociology (including survey methods and mathematical sociology) that I was fundamentally at odds with though I didn?t realize this until later; I learned George Herbet Mead from Tamotsu Shibutani?s brilliant course; I learned a lot I could have done without about North American sexism (I?ve always been grateful to John Clausen who did not share the pervasive sexism of other departmental faculty of the time); I learned a great deal from the Free Speech and Anti-Vietnam War movements on campus though I did not participate very actively because I was not an American citizen and didn?t want to be deported as an English friend of mine had been; I learned a radically different conception of poetry from once hearing Alan Ginsberg recite at Sather Gate; I discovered by accident in the university bookstore a copy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty?s The phenomenology of perception that furthered the intellectual transformation that originated with Shibutani?s course. I resolved when I taught my first undergraduate course in sociology that I had to find a different way of doing sociology. These experiences at Berkeley were foundational to the step I took as I became active in the women?s movement (three or four years after I left) to start writing a sociology that would know how to begin in the actualities of people?s lives.

Dissertation: Power and the Front Line: Social Controls in a State Mental Hospital

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-21

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William R. Smith

William R. Smith has passed away.

Dissertation: Police Control and the Black Community in Richmond, California

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Arthur L. Stinchcombe

Emeritus Profesor of Sociology, Northwestern University

Art Stinchcombe is retired, and spends most of his time in a library carrel working on the sociology of federalism. He plans to be in his office every Thursday, from roughly 9-5 except for coffee, perhaps lunch, colloquia usually 12:30-2 during term time. And he will erratically answer e-mail at other times when he is sick of what he is doing, and answer phone messages if he notices at 1(847)491 5536, or at home evenings about 7-10 1(847)491 9186.

Dissertation: Social Sources of Rebellion in a High School

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-10

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Kenneth N. Walker

Dissertation: Comparative Analysis of Student Political Behavior in Colombia and Argentine

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1956

Robert Blauner

Emeritus Professor, UC, Berkeley

I returned to graduate sociology at Berkeley after five years working in factories where I had been a total failure at revolutionizing the working class. I say return because I spent one semester in 1951 in the department. Then I had absolutely no interest in sociology, because as a communist (Stalinist variety) I had all the answers already and I was in school only for a deferment to keep me out of the Korean War. Reinhard Bendix was not at all impressed with my term paper arguing that Soviet workers were not alienated because they owned the means of production. So that in early 1956 I was afraid that C grade would prevent my getting back into the department. I asked my friend Tom Shibutani if he could help, and maybe he did.

Shibutani had been my main M.A. advisor at Chicago for a 1950 thesis on the social psychology of personal names. But because of my years as a worker and a communist I was now more interested in industrial and social psychology. It was almost as if the new chair, Herbert Blumer, had built a department tailor-made to my needs, which was to make sense of my experiences, and to answer questions about the politics of the working class (Selig Perlman), the similarities and differences between socialism, communism, and capitalism (Schumpeter), why revolutionary parties and movements ossify (Michels), and the appeal, for someone like myself, of ideologies and utopias (Mannheim). Not only did I have great teachers like Kornhauser, Lipset, Selmick, and Bendix (whom I never dared ask if he remembered me), but we had a fantastic cohort, as other bio writers have attested to. My best pal was the late Bob Alford, who had worked at International Harvester with me: other recent local proletarians included machinist Lloyd Street and railroad switchman John Spier, and from Detroit's auto plants, Bill Friedland. At the Institute for Industrial Relations, where I TA?d for Marty Lipset, we had a chess rivalry that included fellow grad students Amitai Etzioni, Guenther Roth, Pat McGillivray.--perhaps the most erudite and knowledgeable of all of us -- and Fred Goldner; a few years later my friends in grad school became Bill and Dorothy Smith. (Dorothy's bio is available, but not Bill's, who after a series of teaching jobs, including one at the University of Pittsburgh, gave it all up to become a plumber before dying from cancer in 1986.)

The comradeship and solidarity in graduate school was unbelievable---I've not yet mentioned Harry Nishio, Ernest Landauer, Art Stinchcombe, Gayle Ness, Walt Phillips, my good friend Ken Walker, and dozens of others I learned from-- in fact it was so good that I wasn't prepared for what I would meet when I began teaching. First at S. F. State, then at Chicago, finally at UCB, my fellow assistant professors were almost the opposite of my grad school peers: closed off, ultra-competitive, or perhaps just afraid that you'd steal their ideas.

My dissertation on factory workers was informed by my industrial experiences, but didn't draw directly on them. But Alienation and Freedom made my career. It got me a job at Chicago which permitted me to be hired back at UCB---the first Ph.D. to return since Ken Bock. It also got me tenure at Berkeley. I am indebted to Selznick, who made me rewrite a draft on the sociology of industries into a more theoretical version.

During the year that I did my M.A. at Chicago Blumer had been like a father figure for me. Though mostly from a distance as I sat in his seminars and marveled at everything about the man. That 15 years later the secretaries at Berkeley would be mixing up our mail is something I never would have dreamed of. It was great to see the Blumer renaissance in the 1960s, for after a period when he had been marginalized, the New Left grad students took to his theories and he gained a new following. But it was too late for Shibutani, who like Blumer himself, was not really respected by the very political and industrial sociologists who were my mentors, and who had been -- most unfairly in my view -- denied tenure.

Sometimes I've regretted that I only stayed one year at S.F. State, because I loved San Francisco, and also, in large part because of pressure from my second wife who hated Chicago, I left my alma mater after only one year. Another regret is that I flitted around in terms of research and writing, from workers to the sociology of death to Black-white relations. Each time I changed fields I had to learn a whole new literature. I would have had a less "disorderly career" (Wilensky) had I just stayed in the area of work, and then as I got inspired by the civil rights movement, studied race relations in the context of the factory.

Had I stayed in Chicago, where the department and the city was much more conservative than Berkeley, it's quite likely that neither my sociological writing nor my personal politics, would have become as radical as they did in the late 60s. I would probably have stayed in Freudian psychoanalysis rather than going through those four years of primal therapy in the '70s, an experience that was life transforming. It led to four years of no writing or research, followed by the decision to work on experiential projects (like Black Lives, White Lives) rather than theoretical ones. And it was the motivation for a change in my teaching style from the lecture format to discussion and an emphasis on personal experience. I am proud of the fact that I was one of the first to offer a course on men's lives, which I taught from 1975 through 1995.

Retiring in 1993 was my best career move ever. Even though teaching got easier over the years, it was never natural for me in the way writing is. As a retiree at UCB you get a cheap parking permit and all the time you want to write. Like Bennett Berger, my writing is 90% non-sociological these days and 90% unpublished. Exceptions are a collection of essays on race (Still the Big News, Temple 2002) and an anthology of men 's writing on the death and lives of mother (Our Mothers' Spirits, Harper Perennial, 1995). I'm quite excited about my current project, a memoir of growing up in Chicago in the 1930s and 40s that is part social history, part family history and coming of age story, with a lot of baseball (the Chicago Cubs) thrown in.

Dissertation: Alienation in Work: The Diversity of Industrial Environment

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-05

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Paul M. Blumberg

Emeritus-Sociology-CUNY-Queens

Dissertation: Workers' Management in Comparative Analysis

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Sethard Fisher

Emeritus Professor, UC, Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Social Organization in a Correctional Residence

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William H. Friedland

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UC, Santa Cruz.

Three factors shaped my history: family, 14 years of political and union activism, and Berkeley: family provided fundamental direction; activism provided an understanding and grounding in organization, politics, people, stratification, social analysis, especially Marxism; Berkeley gave me social science discipline.

Initially I followed a standard academic trajectory -- African studies and appointment at Cornell -- until the upsurge of the mid-1960s reactivated me. This led to a search for ways to survive within the university while engaging in social change teaching and research. I began at Cornell but found less academic bureaucracy and a willingness to experiment at UC Santa Cruz where I became the founding chair of Community Studies, an undergraduate department training students for activism by preparing them for six months fulltime field study followed by a senior thesis. Since 1969, teaching in Community Studies provided fine usage of my sociological and anthropological training geared at social change.

Activist research was more problematic. Agricultural interests brought me to research the UC's role in agricultural mechanization. This culminated in a decades long suit against the UC (we won, but lost on appeal). Bumping into rural sociologists in the late 1970s after finding zero interest in agriculture in the ASA, I found a supportive milieu. Mostly what I've tried with my rural sociology colleagues is convince them that gemeinschaft and rurality no longer exist in agriculture; modern agriculture consists of many discrete industrial systems. While it has been somewhat of an uphill struggle, it has had its rewards and satisfactions.

Dissertation: Institutional Change: A Study of Trade Union Development in Tanganyika

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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Toyomasa Fuse

Professor Emeritus, University of York, Toronto

Dissertation: A Sociological Analysis of Neo-Ortodoxy in American Protestantism: A Study in the Sociology of Religion

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Warren O. Hagstrom

Sociology-Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation: Social Control in Modern Science

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Stanford M. Lyman

Stanford M. Lyman has passed away.

I entered the University of California at Berkeley in 1951, three months after graduating from George Washington High School in San Francisco. I remained in Berkeley until 1960, obtaining a BA (sociology and social institutions, 1955); MA (political science, 1957); Ph.D.(sociology and social institutions, 1961), and serving as lecturer in the Department of Speech from 1955-1960. During my undergraduate years I switched to sociology as my major after doing a year as an economics major and finding that subject boring. My courses with Blumer, Bendix, Selznick, Kornhauser, Lipset, Shibutani, Grana, and Bock provided me with a broad and deep knowledge of the discipline and its several contending schools of thought. I was especially attracted to the historical sociology that was being espoused by Kenneth Bock. He would serve as my graduate adviser, outside man on my MA thesis, and chairman of the oral examinations committee for my Ph.D. Thinking of my self as a "political sociologist", I decided to take my MA in political science. With the blessings of the sociology department, and with the assurance that I would return to sociology for my doctoral studies, I went across the hall of "Old South" and studied with Ernst B. Haas, Paul Seabury, Sheldon Wolin, and other political scientists. My MA thesis, "The Impact of Germany on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization" was chaired by Professors Haas, Seabury, and Bock. (Thirty-eight years later, It was published as Germany And Nato: A Study In The Sociology Of Supranational Relations, [Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995] and awarded "honorable mention" in the "distinguished book award" competition conducted annually by the Mid-South Sociological Association). I returned to the sociology department and, with the supervision of Kingsley Davis, Franz Schurmann, and Edward A.N. Barnhart, completed my doctoral dissertation, The Structure Of Chinese Society In Nineteenth-Century America, in 1961. (Twenty-five years later, it was published as Chinatown And Little Tokyo: Power, Conflict, And Community Among Chinese And Japanese Immigrants In America, [Millwood, NY.: Associated Faculty Press, Inc., 1986).

Since the completion of my doctoral studies my career has been peripatetic. I taught in the department of anthropology and sociology of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 1960-63; directed the Liberal Arts Extension Division of The University of California, Berkeley, 1963-4; founded and chaired the sociology department of Sonoma State College [now University], 1964-68; served as vice-chairman of the department of sociology, University of Nevada, Reno, 1968-70; joined and taught in the sociology department, University of California, San Diego, 1970-2; accepted the invitation to become Professor of sociology and, later, of Asian Studies, and department chair, Graduate Faculty of Social Science, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1972-85; and was named Robert J. Morrow Eminent Scholar and Professor of Social Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1985-present. I have also served as Senior Member, Linacre College, Oxford University, 1976; Fulbright Lecturer, Ryukoku Daigakuen and Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 1981; Visiting Foreign Expert, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Peoples Republic of China, 1986; Co-director International Colloquium on Social Structure and Social Stratification, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1986-present. Under the auspices of the United States Information Agency, I have lectured in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa. I presented papers at two of the World Congresses of Sociology in Mexico City and Montreal.

My published researches include 25 books and about 100 articles in refereed journals, educational reports, essays and book chapters. I have received four Distinguished Book Awards and two Honorable Mentions from the Mid-South Sociological Association, the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and recognition awards from the Chinese Historical Society of the United States, The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, The Japanese American Citizens League, and the American Association for Ethnic Studies. I am one of the founders of the Section on Asian/Asian American sociology of the American Sociological Association. I have served as President of the Mid-South Sociological Association.

I believe the comprehensive education that I received at Berkeley provided the groundings and the bases for the development of my career in the discipline. For this I shall be always grateful.

Stanford Lyman died of pancreatic and liver cancer on March 10, 2003.



TRIBUTES TO STANFORD LYMAN



From Armand Mauss ? An Anecdote of Inspiration

I will always remember Stan with gratitude for serving as the catalyst for my very first publication. At the annual meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association in 1965, I presented a paper in a session where Stan was present. Afterward, he undertook to offer me some criticisms. As a complete rookie, I immediately became defensive in the belief that he was trying to shoot me down. However, in response to my defensive reaction, he softly replied, "Hey - I think it's a publishable paper already - I'm just suggesting some improvements!" Stunned, I recovered long enough to ask how one would go about getting a paper published. He pointed to the then-editor of the Pacific Sociological Review across the room (now Sociological Perspectives) and said, "There's the editor of the PSR over there. Go and ask him". I did so, and "the rest is history." I went on to publish four score papers or more, plus three books. Stan started it all off for me. Without him, I might have stayed with my junior college job indefinitely and never published anything. I had no idea that publication was possible for ordinary mortals like me! Thank you Stan, wherever you are : "May flights of angels bear thee to thy rest!".



From Ivan Light ? Nomination Letter for the Distinguished Career Award in International Migration

1-15-03

Roger Waldinger, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Dear Roger,

This letter nominates Stanford Morris Lyman for the IM Distinguished Career Award. Technically, it is not needed because Lyman was nominated last year. Therefore, he is automatically renominated in a successive year. In fact, Lyman was our number two candidate last year whom we passed over in part because, at 67, he is younger than Milton Gordon, last year's award winner. Nonetheless, aware that documents are often lost from one year to the next, I have taken the liberty of recompiling Lyman's record for nomination.

My compilation focuses only upon publications that deal with Asians in America. These publications constitute the core of Lyman's contribution to the sociology of international migration. The attachment ("Lyman.S") lists Lyman's publications on the topic of Asian Americans. The earliest is dated 1961; the most recent 1997. The list contains his seminal doctoral dissertation, nine books, and one article. I have listed the chapters in four books separately as articles in order to display their Asian American content. These chapters were originally published as articles in refereed journals; but they were subsequently combined in edited books to facilitate access. There is really only one article that was never published in book form.

The chronology shows that Lyman's interest in Asian Americans has been continuous throughout his professional life. True, in the last 20 years, many others have shared this interest. Prior to that, however, Lyman was the first sociologist who undertook serious historical and theoretical scholarship on this topic. Of course, he had able forebears. Frank Miyamoto's Social Solidarity among the Japanese in Seattle (1939) was a great community study that made sociological sense of the Japanese community, probably for the first time. The accomplishment was the more memorable in view of the war clouds that were then gathering. Rose Hum Lee deserves credit for providing a historical account of Chinese in America. But Lee's main publication, The Chinese in the United States of America, was principally interested in bringing Chinese American contributions to American history to the attention of Americans of Chinese descent. Paul Siu's superb 1953 dissertation on the Chinese laundryman brought this then common American icon under the theoretical umbrella of Chicago School sociology. That was a splendid contribution, but Siu's ambitions were limited. In contrast. Lyman's massive 1961 dissertation, much later published in book form as Chinatown and Little Tokyo: Power, Conflict, and COmmunity among Chinese and Japanese Immigrants to America (1986)analyzed the social organization of nineteenth century Chinese and Japanese communities in the USA in a work of prodigious, comparative scholarship. Drawing on Park, Weber, and Simmel, this scholarship put the comparative historical experience of Chinese and Japanese Americans on the serious research agenda of American sociology in a way that previous efforts, very meritorious in themselves, had not accomplished. It is no exaggeration to observe that Stanford Lyman was the father of Asian American studies, but that statement does not do justice to his contribution to the field of international migration. It is not simply that Lyman's work opened up the unexplored history of Chinese and Japanese in the United States for research and scholarly analysis; Lyman framed this historical experience in terms that improved the general level of scholarship on immigration. His interest in structures of community opened the way for subsequent inquiries into non-Asian immigrant communities. The strategic role of what current Mexican American research now calls "home town associations" was first fully explicated in Lyman's 1961 dissertation on Chinese and Japanese.

Because he was such an early pioneer of Asian American research, Lyman confronted a professional sociology that did not then understand the importance of his historical and theoretical contribution. Now we do; then we did not. It is easy now to study and research that subject; then it was not easy. Moreover, that we now understand the importance of Asian American immigration owes much to the shoulders of Stanford Lyman onto which later sociologists climbed for a better view. It is, of course, true that the immigration of Asians to the USA since 1970 has increased the visibility and salience of Asians in American society, thus increasing the significance of their history. Without that real and current immigration of Asians, Lyman's comparative studies of nineteenth century Chinese and Japanese communities would have less practical significance now than in fact they do. On the other hand, thanks to Lyman, when Asian immigration resumed after 1970, and sociological interest accelerated, sociology had a superb understanding of the early history of the Chinese and Japanese in America. This strong base permitted research to proceed apace in response to renewed interest. For many years Lyman's work was the arcane source, known to the cognoscenti, from which departed what we now identify as classic research into Asian American society.

One should recall that in 1961 when Lyman's career began, there were few persons of Chinese or Japanese descent who were professional sociologists. Now there are many; then there were few. Lyman was, however, neither a tourist nor a curiosity seeker. Although a non-Asian, Lyman actually began his research into Asian American history and sociology as a student in San Francisco's Galileo High School, which is still Chinatown's public secondary school. Hanging around with Chinese and Japanese friends after school, Lyman acquired a knowledge of, interest in, and love for them and their communities. This basis sustained and animated his subsequent professional rendez-vous with their history. This human interest story offers a little vignette of American history that I happen to know as a result of conversations with Stanford Lyman, and I am glad that it can now be recorded in the official record as a small counter-weight to the otherwise lamentably common American practice of marginalizing Asian Americans.

When IM makes a distinguished career award, we evaluate the scholarly impact of the nominee's scholarly work. This is a job only scholars can do as they alone understand where the ideas came from that now bedeck and adorn the mentality of journalists and media pundits. John Maynard Keynes once remarked that crackpot ideas spouted by "madmen in authority" were originally deposited on the page by unknown scribblers. As scholars, it behooves us to note that scribblers sometimes have good ideas too. If we ask, where would the sociology of immigration be today without Asian American studies, we conclude appropriately that it would be depleted and inferior. In that sense, Lyman's seminal contribution to Asian American sociology has earned our gratitude as well as this official IM recognition, the distinguished career award.

Yours truly,

Ivan Light Professor of Sociology UCLA

Dissertation: The Structure of Chinese Society in 19th Century America

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-22

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Gianfranco Poggi

Professor of Sociology at University of Trento.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia and European University Institute

I was born in Italy, in 1934, and educated there. In 1956, shortly after graduating in law at Padua, I became a graduate student in sociology at UCB. In 1957-58 I worked in Rome as an assistant on an American political science research project, returning to Berkeley the following year, and leaving after two years to work on my doctoral dissertation on Italian Catholic Action. I studied chiefly under Lipset, Bendix, Kornhauser, Lowenthal. I returned to Italy in 1961, and received my Berkeley PhD in 1963. In 1964 I joined the sociology dept. newly founded by Tom Burns at Edinburgh, and remained there 24 years (though during this time I also taught in the US, Canada, and Australia). In 1988 I joined the sociology faculty at the University of Virginia, which I left in 1965, returning to Italy in order to teach at the European University Institute (Florence). My current (and last!) post is at the University of Trento. My two main research and teaching fields are modern political institutions (I have published two books and several essays on the state and related subjects) and the ?classics? (I have published on Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel).

Dissertation: Italian Catholic Action: A Case Study of a Sponsored Organization

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-21

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John F. Scott

Dissertation: Prolegomenon to a Theory of Moral Learning

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David W. Swift

Sociology-University of Hawaii-Manoa

Dissertation: Latent Functions of Progressive Education

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1957

Charles G. Allyn

Dissertation: Manpower, Education, and Mobility in the Modern Society

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Ralph C. Beals

Dissertation: Bureaucratic Change in the Mexican Catholic Church, 1926-1950

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Robert L. Brannon

Psychology-CUNY Brooklyn-?

Dissertation: The Production of Care: The Hospital Industry and the Nursing Labor Process

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Orville A. Collver

Emeritus-SUNY Stonybrook

Dissertation: Birth Rates in Latin America: New Estimates of Historical Trends and Fluctuations

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Adnan B. Daoud

Emeritus Professor, San Jose State University

Dissertation: The Military as an Agent of Social Change in Underdeveloped Countries

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Joan P. Emerson

Dissertation: Social Functions of Humor in a Hospital Setting

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Amitai W. Etzioni

Professor and Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, George Washington University

When I arrived in the United States in January 1957 to study, I enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley. It was a renowned department of sociology, whose stars at the time included several sparkling senior scholars -- S.M. Lipset, Reinhard Bendix, Philip Selznick, Kingsley Davis, Nathan Glazer, and Leo Leventhal. Herbert Blumer was ending his teaching years. Even several of the young professors had already acquired a name for themselves (including Erving Goffman, William Kornhauser, and Martin Trow). Visiting scholars added to the department?s luster (especially a seminar by Talcott Parsons). Even the students were a choice lot, including Robert Blauner, Fred Goldner, Juan Linz, David Matza, Guenther Roth, and Arthur Stinchcombe.

My first challenge was managing with the $300 total I had to my name, the maximum loan a relative could afford. I also had a sealed note from a professor at the Hebrew University, S.N. Eisenstat, introducing me to Berkeley professor, S.M. Lipset. I prayed it would deliver me a part-time job. I dutifully handed the letter to Lipset, who read it, grunted something I could not understand, and invited the next student into his office. I was sure my days at Berkeley were numbered. To stretch their number, I joined a co-op, which in exchange for my attention to massive piles of dirty dishes and other equally unattractive kitchen chores, provided room and board.

A few days later, I attended Lipset?s first class. At the end of the class he handed me a huge manuscript, some eleven hundred pages. He invited me to examine the work and drop by to discuss it. After struggling through the magnum opus for two long days and much of one night, I knocked on his door. Mindful of what my Israeli friends had said about American manners, I allowed that the book was ?indeed a fine one, a masterful work of sociology, a tour de force of political theory.? Lipset grinned: ?Come on, what do you really think?? I let loose a small barrage, as maybe only a young Israeli, right off the boat, could: ?Although the book has immense potential it is much too long and incredibly repetitious; at the same time, in places it is crying out for more documentation. Above all, the arguments need straightening out.? When I left the office I had a part-time job as Lipset?s research assistant. I helped Lipset some as he re-worked his manuscript together with another assistant, Juan Linz. The book that grew out of this manuscript, The Political Man, was published to great success. Its acknowledgment notes my role such as it was, but it does not mention that without it, I would not have been able to pay my way at Berkeley. Nor does it note that I learned at least as much from the exercise as I contributed to it.

Another major hurdle I faced was my poor command of English. The first book I was assigned was Samuelson?s thick introduction to economics. It took me well over half an hour to struggle through the first page, constantly consulting a dictionary. I was sure that soon I would be found out, unable to follow, and be sent packing. It took all my willpower to learn the peculiarities of this foreign tongue. My American friends were surprised at the great difficulties I had in learning English, and a bit annoyed when I kept asking them why words were spelled in one way and pronounced in another, until they recalled their experiences in acquiring French or German, let alone Hebrew.

Having secured my livelihood and mastered some of the secrets of English, I worked long hours at the Berkeley library on my PhD. I paid little mind to the Berkeley around me. I never got to the top of the Campanile, the tower in the middle of the campus, a leading tourist attraction, from which you can admire the striking San Francisco bay. I missed practically all the rallies that harbingered the Free Speech movement. I earned my PhD in 18 months (three semesters and two back-to-back summer sessions, to make for the required two academic years). I was able to complete my degree in record time, in part because I had brought with me piles of data on the organizational structure of Kibbutzim and in part because I worked longer, and maybe a bit harder, than many graduate students.

While some of my fellow students were involved in various counterculture experimentations, my main diversion for that year and a half were items that cost nothing. These included occasionally playing chess with other research assistants, or watching the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights at the home of a fellow student, Fred Goldner. But I could negotiate the library?s stacks blindfolded.

Our first son, Ethan, was born shortly before I was awarded my PhD. Hava and I lived on the wrong side of the tracks in a small room, in which Ethan?s hand-me-down baby carriage doubled as his bed. I could not wait to hold a full-time job. Academic life was dandy, but I had been a student for too long.

As I was completing my dissertation in the first months of 1958, Lipset was placing phone calls to help me land my first academic job. Columbia University was one of the places that showed some interest. None of the others universities that responded came close to Columbia in terms of their sociological standing.

Professor William J. Goode (whom everyone called Si), a highly respected sociologist of the family and stratification, (he later developed a sociological theory of his own), was doing the recruiting for Columbia. He asked me to write him a several page letter laying out my plans for the future, above all ?revealing? myself, so that he could ?get a feel for what you are like.? This request stuck in my craw; he might as well have asked me to disrobe. Aside from feeling awkward and believing that the request was not legitimate, I had brought with me from Israel a bit of an ?in-your-face? attitude. ?Hell,? I said to myself ?I am not going to talk about my inner self; this is none of his God damn business.? I continued to fume. ?Goode wants a tell-all letter? Here is what he is going to get: a detailed description of my research ideas, the grand and not so grand subjects I plan to study in the coming years. Period.? I wrote a letter about my plans to develop organizational sociology, which I discovered while working on my PhD did not really exist. There was industrial sociology, I explained, and studies of governmental bureaucracies, but no attempt to pull together the features of all or even most organizations. I guess I was about to become a true academic: making distinctions where none previously existed, arguing that there are significant tools in bettering our understanding, and so on. With the letter off, I waited.

Nothing happened; weeks ticked by and turned into long months. In those days, appointments were usually not made after mid-May. April was grinding to an end, and still there was no word from Columbia, which continued to be by far the most coveted job of those open to me. Lipset called and Goode explained in his inimitable style: ?I asked the guy to write something about himself; he sent me this piece of shit.? Well, Lipset took me by my lapel, sat me down, and insisted that I compose a long letter about my inner feelings. I hated every minute of it. It took me longer, and I had to toss out more drafts, than most anything I had written to date. But I did get my first academic job. The move to New York City was an easy one; we had little packing to do.

Adapted from My Brothers Keeper: A Memoir and Message, published by Rowman & Littlefield, May of 2003

Dissertation: The Organizational Structure of the Kibbutz

Biography submitted on: 2003-04-10

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Elizabeth D. Huttman

Emeritus Professor, CSU, Hayward

Dissertation: Stigma and Public Housing: A Comparison of British and American Policies and Experience

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Arthur S. Lipow

Dissertation: Study in Authoritarian Anti-Democratic Ideological Currents in 19th Century American Reform Movements

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David Nasatir

Applied Researcher and Visiting Professor at UC, Berkeley.

With hubris nourished by degrees from MIT, Stanford and a fellowship at the Merrill Palmer Institute for Human Development, I arrived in Berkeley in the fall of 1957 with wife, child and not a clue about how we would support ourselves.

It took almost a decade for me to finish my Ph.D. I was having such a wonderful time as a graduate student. I taught in the department, was deeply immersed in research at the Survey Research Center (under the direction of Charlie Glock) and eventually became director of the International Data Library and Reference Service.

My involvement in the social science data archive movement and early consulting jobs eventually led to work with organizations as diverse as the Berkeley Board of Education, the United States Postal Service the Ford Foundation and the Government of Chile. My 1973 monograph for UNESCO, Data Archives for the Social Sciences helped establish the first international standards for this activity.

Applying perspectives and techniques learned from Herb Blumer, Marty Lipset, Hanan Selvin and Marty Trow involved me in efforts to assess the effects of such diverse policies and activities as school integration, the creation of a regional transportation system, college drinking policies, and the feasibility of transforming rice farmers to fish farmers. Trying to develop the resources, and demonstrate the potential of ?social impact analysis? using survey data has taken me to West Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and back to Berkeley.

Dissertation: Social Sources of Academic Failure: A Contextual Analysis

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-07

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Harry K. Nishio

Harry K. Nishio has passed away.

Dissertation: Political Authority Structure and the Development of Entrepreneurship in Japan, 1603-1890

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Valerie K. Oppenheimer

Emerita-Sociology-UCLA

Dissertation: The Female Labor Force in the U.S.: Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition

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Lloyd C. Street

Dissertation: Abusive Families

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1958

Jay J. Demerath

Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

I left Berkeley for Madison in 1962, following the lead of Warren Hagstrom and Bob Alford in previous cohorts. I finally finished my dissertation in 1964, and then, because Wisconsin had no sabbatical system and its salaries were low, its promotions were quick. By 1970, I was a Full Professor needing a break. I served two-years as Executive Officer of the ASA, with every intention of returning to UW, where I had been elected Chair. At the last moment, however I turned down this three-year administrative rotation in what had become one of the country's best departments to take the Chair at one its newest at UMass, Amherst. I have been here ever since. After serving two five-year stints as Chair in my first fifteen years, I gave up administration for full-time research and teaching. My teaching portfolio continues to include theory and culture, but my primary interest over the last twenty years has involved religion and politics, both at home (e.g. "A Bridging of Faiths," Princeton, 1992) and abroad ("Crossing the Gods," Rutgers, 2001). These are two of a dozen books on a vita that also includes a reasonable 40-year yield of papers and presentations, scholarly awards and fellowships, and association presidencies and other offices -- though the brass ring of an ASA Vice-Presidency proved too much of a reach. Finally, you ask of my self-estimate for posterity. Alas, posterity will probably little recall the author of a great Presidential address to the Ohio Valley Soc. Society whose survey showed that sociologists were inclined to feel that they themselves would be remembered quite well, thank you, but when asked to identify a long list of names, they drew a blank on most of these former Presidents of the American Sociological Society/Association [cf. F. Westie, Sociological Focus 5(4) 1972, 1-25]. For me, posterity is next semester. At this point, I am 66 years old and have begun to look deeply and suspiciously into the eyes of colleagues who say they don't want me to retire.

Dissertation: Social Class and American Protestantism

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-29

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James O. Haehn

Emeritus-Cal State-Chico

Dissertation: A Study of Trade Unionism Among State College Professors

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Carlos E. Kruytbosch

Former Director, Science & Engineering Personnel Group, National Science Foundation

Dissertation: Research Organization in the University: The Case of Non-Faculty Research Employees

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Robert M. Martinson

Robert M. Martinson passed away in 1980

Dissertation: Treatment Ideology and Correctonal Bureaucracy: A Study of Organizational Change

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Armand L. Mauss

Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Religious studies, Washington State University

I taught in the public schools and junior colleges of the California Bay Area 1957-67 while working toward Ph.D. Moved to Utah State University, Logan, UT, as Associate Professor of Sociology, 1967-69. Then I went to Washington State University 1969-99 and retired there as Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies. I had eight children with wife of 50+ years, Ruth, plus 21 grandchildren, and so far 3 great-grands. I am currently living in Irvine, CA, among some of these descendants.

My areas of specialization for research and teaching are deviant behavior, social problems, social movements, and the sociology of religion. I have been active and periodically an officer in several professional societies related to those special fields, but mainly the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Religious Research Association. I was editor, 1989 through 1992, of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and associate editor of several other journals. I was founding officer of the Mormon Social Science Association, 1976 and officer and president of the Mormon History Association (1,000 members), 1995-2000. I was also author or co-author of around 100 articles and reviews in various refereed journals, especially in JSSR; Sociological Analysis; Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought; Social Problems; Journal of Alcohol Studies; ASR, and AJS. Author of four books : Social Problems as Social Movements (Lippincott, 1975); Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1984, with Lester E. Bush); The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation (University of Illinois Press, 1994); and All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage (University of Illinois Press, 2003).

My interests in graduate school focused mainly on the sociology of religion, survey research, and social movements, so naturally my chief mentors were Charles Glock and Neil Smelser. I redirected what I learned from Smelser more toward social constructionism and somewhat away from the functionalist tradition, and thus my 1975 book was a social constructionist "merger" of social problem theory with social movement theory. Underlying all of this was an abiding interest in the sociology of religion, with particular reference to the rise and evolution of new religious movements. Focusing particularly (though by no means entirely) on the Mormons was a natural product of my own background. Inspired by Charlie's work on religion and prejudice, I have tried, with some success, to use sociology as a vehicle for constructive change within the Mormon tradition.

Dissertation: Mormonism and Minorities

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-10

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Ingeborg B. Powell

Ingeborg B. Powell has passed away.

The late Ingeborg Powell, who became Inge Bell, was a graduate student in the department between 1958 and 1965, during which time she was active in CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). We do not know when or how she died. She wrote her dissertation on CORE and then published it as a book, ?CORE and the Strategy of Non-Violence? (1968). She later published ?This Book is Not Required? (1983) which pursued her vision of Buddhist Sociology, taking a critical look at undergraduate education. The following extract is taken from the preface, but you might want to turn straight to the last paragraph:



This is a book that invites you to look at your college education: what it could be, and what, alas, it often is. It is a book which suggests to you what you can make of this opportunity, given the resources at your disposal. If you want to become truly educated, you will have to educate yourself, and at times you will have to do it in spite of the academy. Perhaps this is good, because knowledge which comes too easily doesn't train one to be an independent thinker, and only an independent thinker is ever truly intelligent.

We will not look at these four years merely in terms of the formal world of classes and professors. We want to look at the larger experience: at your whole environment and your whole life during these four years, because some of the most important learning is always done outside the classroom.

I have tried to make this a survival manual for undergraduates: emotional survival and intellectual survival. I will even say that it speaks to the issues of spiritual survival, if by "spiritual" we mean the capacity to live in harmony with oneself and with the universe.

You will undoubtedly disagree with parts of this book. It is only one person's view. But if it connects with your life at any important point, I shall feel that it has served its purpose for you. I have tried to give you the broadest possible picture of your position as a student in the academic world and in the larger society of which you are a part. To do this, I have had to use a large brush, and I have undoubtedly made mistakes. But I have always considered this broad perspective more important than the fine attention to detail given by the academic specialists.

This is not an academic or scholarly work. It is a very critical look at academia by one who has been through it from freshman to full professor. Occasionally, I will suggest a book which I think you might like. But you will not find an ibid. or an op.cit. littering these pages.

In my years as a college teacher, I succeeded in what was ever the chief ambition of my career: to keep my students awake. Of course, there were always a comatose few who hadn't gotten to bed until four in the morning, or had mononucleosis, or where merely in love. But on the whole, I succeeded because I discovered that students always came awake when I laid aside academic sociology and talked to them about their lives as students -- about the academic institutions in which they labored, and the how and why of how those institutions functioned; about the competition and anxiety created by grades; about their ambitions and difficult choices of major and career; about the travail of those who came from minority or working-class families; yes, even about their love affairs and loneliness. We talked about how you find out what you want to do in life and about how you can keep your integrity and your sanity in this very difficult society.

Eventually, drawing on sociology and Eastern philosophy, I developed a course devoted solely to these questions. I shall describe that to you in the chapter "Adventures in Desocializatioin" and give you some of the exercises and "walking meditations" which I used to help students gain insight into their own functioning.

As I discussed life in the academy with my students, I also listened, and learned a lot. It is therefore to all my former students that I dedicate this little book, because much of what I have written here I learned from them.

It is, perhaps, ironic that after writing a chapter called "Everyone Hates to Write," I found myself hugely enjoying the process of writing this book. After the writing I had done in the usual, stilted language of social science, it was a huge relief to talk good English. I always love to write, and I think I did pretty well at it until I got to graduate school and had all the style knocked out of me by the demands of acedemic sociologese. I always resisted a little. I remember my dissertation chairman asking me sadly whether I had "turned against sociology" because I used too much plain English. In writing this book, I felt that I had regained my writing voice after 30 years.

Dissertation: Ideology and Strategy of Direction Action: A Study of the Congress of Racial Equality

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-07

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Karen S. Renne

Dissertation: Family Constellation and Achievement

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Patricia M. Richmond

Patricia M. Richmond has passed away.

Dissertation: Mexico: A Case Study of the One-Party Politics

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Philip D. Roos

Retired Data Analyst with Missouri Department of Mental Health

I taught sociology for about six years; three at the Denver campus of the University of Colorado; 2+ at Stockton State College in Pomona NJ, some off and on as part of the University Year for ACTION program at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. My work at Pine Ridge convinced me that I was a lot better program evaluator than sociologist -- just a change from "pure" to "applied." I worked as a research associate for the Nurse Practitioner Program at Northeastern University for almost 4 years. An interesting job with some evaluation included.

I was jobless many times and for many years. I was fired three times. My Ph.D. in sociology was at least a minor hindrance to finding employment.

The last 14 years and 3 months of my work life, ending with my retirement on 1Dec98, was with the Missouri Department of Mental Health where civil service protection, an angel in Personnel, and perhaps my veteran's status prevented some of the managers who hated me from firing me again. I did a little evaluation at the beginning, but worked mostly as a SAS programmer, analyzing patient/client data.

My approach to solving intellectual problems became much more systematic as a result of my Berkeley training. Goffman's Hobbesianism shaped my thinking in general. The Berkeley sociology department's lack of statistics, mathematics, and computer programming as part of the Ph.D. had to be made up by post Ph.D. formal courses, self-instruction, and assistance from others.

As to how my sociology has shaped the world -- not even the teeniest, tinyest bit.

Dissertation: Three Conceptions of Large-Scale Academic Reform: An Analytic and Sociological Description

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-14

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Alvin Rudoff

Alvin Rudoff passed away on 2001-01-21

Dissertation: Prison Inmates: An Involuntary Association

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Emanuel A. Schegloff

Sociology-UCLA

Dissertation: Unable to locate official title -- found reference to "The First Five Seconds"

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Betty R. Stirling

Betty R. Stirling passed away in 1981

Dissertation: The Interrelation of Changing Attitudes and Changing Conditions with Reference to the Labor Force Participation of Wifes

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Audrey J. Wipper

Professor Emerita, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Dissertation: A Study of Three Political-Religious Movements in Western Kenya

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Jacqueline P. Wiseman

Emerita-Sociology-UC San Diego

Dissertation: Making the Loop: The Institutional Cycle of Alcoholism

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Maurice Zeitlin

Professor of Sociology, UC, Los Angeles

I was appointed an instructor in sociology and anthropology at Princeton University on July 1, 1961, whereupon I went to Cuba for the summer to begin research for my dissertation on the revolution and workers consciousness; I returned to Cuba the next summer to complete my research, and got back to the US just in time for the "missile crisis." Princeton terminated my employment soon after, effective at the end of the academic year of1963. If the interpretations of my being "let go" vary, the facts are not in dispute: the president of the university had called the department's chairman, as he later told me, to evince "concern" about my frequent public criticism of American foreign policy toward Cuba (my first book, with Bob Scheer, Cuba: Tragedy in our Hemisphere, came out late in the summer of 1963); and the Daily Princetonian and some alumni letters had publlicly urged that Princeton fire me. I'd have been out of a job and out of a career if not for the fact that among the burgeoning faculty of sociology at UW-MSN were three UCB alumni who managed to convince a skeptical Ed Borgatta, then chairman, to hire me as an assistant professor in the fall of 1964. So I say two cheers for the Old Boy network. I got promoted to assoc prof in 1968 and to full professor in 1970. But I often wonder how, since those were years, in Madison, of my deep involvement in the intensifying anti-Vietnam war movement, in rallies, protests, and demonstrations on campus, which were met at their high point by massed helmeted police with billy clubs and shields and national guard troops armed with live ammunition and bayonets, buttressed by a tank that sat high on a hill overlooking the campus. All too many of my fellow faculty were denied tenure as the result of their own involvement in these activities. Soon after things quieted down there, I opted for the Southland, and UCLA, where, since the fall of1977, I've been hiking, horseback riding, sailing, sunning, and biking, except for enforced interruptions to teach, research, and write.

I was influenced by Berkeley in two ways: as much if not more by the time I spent outside of class involved in campus activiites against capital punishment; in rallies against violations of civil liberties by HUAC's notorious Hearings in San Francisco in 1960; picketing in support of the early civil rights movement (e.g., at the Woolworth's in Berkeley, which had segregated facilities in the South), and especially in writing, mimeographing, and distributing leaflets and making one long speech after another at Sather Gate (along with Bob Scheer) in the defense of the Cuban revolution against US covert action and intervention. I had entered Sociology after a year in Anthropology at UCB studying both ethnography and paleontology with some of the world's leaders in their field. In Sociology, my historical sensibility was deepened by the tutelage of my research and writing on Japanese feudalism by Reinhard Bendix, my M.A. Thesis committee chair, and Wolfgang Eberhard; intellectual (and political) jousts with them and then with S. M. Lipset, who chaired my doctoral dissertation committee, and Martin Trow, another committee member, as well as with Leo Lowenthal, Hanan Selvin, and William Kornhauser (for whom I TA'd), not only taught me an immense amount but also strengthened my commitment to carrying out socially relevant research and writing.

Having admitted to that aspiration, to shaping the world that is, I am tempted to say "bah, humbug" in answer to this question. Although I know (and am grateful) that my work is taken seriously and respected if not admired by other scholars, and my teaching too is appreciated by and has enriched many students over the years, none of my scholarly research and writing -- as far as I can tell, alas -- has even rippled the surface waters of "the world" outside academe, let alone in any way actually having "shaped the world."

Dissertation: Working Class Politics in Cuba: A Study in Political Sociology

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-28

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1959

Frank A. Darknell

Frank A. Darknell has passed away.

Dissertation: Democracy and Parapolitics: The Case of Mulitant Suffragists in Britain 1905-1914

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Paul S. Denise

Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Dissertation: Status, Deprivation, and Political Attitudes in Berkeley

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Bruce M. Hackett

Emeritus, Sociology, UC, Davis

Dissertation: Higher Civil Servants in California

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Ann Neel

Professor Emeritus, University of Puget Sound

Dissertation: Experimenting with the Black Community: A Case Study in the Sociology of Applied Sociology

Website: www.wolfmanproductions.com/entangled.htm

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Gerald M. Swatez

Dissertation: Social Organization of a University Laboratory

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Charles F. Templeton

Professor emeritus, university of Colarado

Dissertation: Guilty Knowledge

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John H. Blake

Director of African American Studies, Iowa State University

My 36 years in higher education have been an extraordinary personal experience. I have had the opportunity to build a strong relationship between my commitment to teaching undergraduates and my research, scholarship and community service. While much of my time has been spent in higher education administration, the teaching and research have always been extremely important.

The pattern of my academic career was established early in its first decade. Between 1966 and 1973 I started teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz; completed a doctoral dissertation on social change in Mexico; published a book on the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; and founded an undergraduate college at Santa Cruz.

The process of working with outstanding undergraduate students at Santa Cruz while simultaneously working closely with extraordinarily angry Panthers in Oakland?who were the same age as many of my students?had a great impact on my intellectual development. In both venues the youth were intelligent and talented and had an infectious joie de vivre. However in Santa Cruz they were building for the future through learning. In Oakland the youth ?picked up the gun? because they did not believe they had a future.

Ultimately for me my mission in higher education became how to use my skills in undergraduate teaching and learning to provide a hopeful future for all youth, regardless of background or social circumstance. I always maintained a regular program of teaching regardless of my administrative appointment. The teaching focussed exclusively on lower-division students because of my belief it was important to give new students a strong beginning.

I developed a philosophy of teaching/learning that has guided all my work: ?There is no known limit to the capacity of the human mind to learn, grow, develop and change.? As a result my courses emphasize active student involvement in the learning process and high expectations of students, all within a context of respect for their intellect and support for their academic goals.

Dissertation: Social Change and Population Trends in Mexico

Website: www.iastate.edu/~aastudies/

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-10

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Robert Feinbaum

Dissertation: Status Politicist Professionalization in the Medical Profession

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Max A. Heirich

Emeritus-Sociology-Univ. of Michigan

Dissertation: Demonstrations at Berkeley: Collective Behavior During the Free Speech Movement of 1964-1965

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Travis W. Hirschi

Emeritus-Sociology-University of Arizona-Tucson

Dissertation: Infraction as Action: A Study of the Antecedents of Illegal Acts.

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George A. Huaco

Sociology - University of New Mexico

Dissertation: The Sociology of Film Styles

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Barclay D. Johnson

Emeritus Professor, Carleton College, Ottawa, Canada

Dissertation: Some Philosophical Problems in Parsons' Early thought

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Minako Kurokawa Maykovich

Emeritus Professor, CSU, Sacramento

Dissertation: Acculturation and Childhood Accidents Among Chinese and Japanese Americans

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Norman K. Linton

Dissertation: Doing Drugs: A Study of the College Drug Culture

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John F. Lofland

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis

I was a graduate student in sociology at Berkeley from 1960 to1964. My major mentors were Erving Goffman, Herbert Blumer, Neil Smelser and Phillip Selznick. Together with Morris Zelditch, with whom I studied at Columbia the prior two years, these five, and the intellectual currents they embodied, inspired me to engage in three kinds of sociological work in subsequent years: field study, research synthesis, and research methodology.

1. These mentors were advocates of field study in the sense of intensive and long-term observation in a natural setting, an activity I have ventured once a decade: ? the Unification Church of the 1960s (Doomsday Cult, 1966, enlarged edition 1977), ? protests at the California Capital in the 1970s (Crowd Lobbying, 1982; Symbolic Sit-ins, with Roger Finke, 1982), ? the American peace movement of the 1980s (Polite Protesters, 1993), and, ? Davis, California in the 1990s (and historically) (books listed below).

2. Inspired by their works that sought to make overall sense out of an inchoate array of disparate studies, I have attempted such research synthesis on: ? deviance (Deviance and identity, assisted by Lyn H. Lofland, 1969, republished 2002), ? social interaction in natural settings (Doing Social Life, 1976), ? formal organizational aspects of social movements (Social Movement Organizations, (1996), and, ? some other topics (for which the papers are assembled in my collected studies titled Protest, 1985).

3. Hoping to strengthen sociological field studies, in the late 1960s and early 1970s I was the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (1971?continuing). For the same reason, I also wrote Analyzing Social Settings (1971), a primer on how to do field studies. Lyn Lofland and I co-authored the second (1984) and third (1995) editions, both of which were extensive revisions. David Snow and Leon Anderson have became the lead authors of the fourth??the 2005??edition, which is once more extensively revised.

Over the past decade or so, my main scholarly work has been on aspects of local history and historic preservation, especially as these are displayed in Davis, California. My publications on these topics have included: ? Davis: Radical Changes, Deep Constants (2004), ? Davis, California, 1910s-1940s (with Phyllis Haig, 2000), ? Demolishing a Historic Hotel (2003), and, ? Old North Davis (1999).

On the surface, this recent body of work may seem a departure from the past, but it is not. Although the substance is different, this effort involves field study, research synthesis, and innovation in research methods.

Erving Goffman once remarked, seemingly about himself, "You get your best ideas when you are young and you spend the rest of your life working them out." He was right about himself??and also about me.

Dissertation: The World-Savers: A Field Study of Cult Processes

Biography submitted on: 2005-01-19

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Jerry S. Mandel

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State, Writer and Researcher

My sociology graduate school was Berkeley in ?the ?60?s? ? entered 1960, Ph.D. 1969. I entered grad school at age 25, but I?d been thinking ?sociologically? since age 5. I was an idiot savant with numbers, statistics, and methodology, but the advent of the computer at UC (about 1963) transformed me from near genius to near dummy.

Sociology, as I experienced it was exciting largely because of its political relevance, even though much of the classwork and most of my professors were neither particularly exciting nor politically relevant. There were, then, a slew of ?new? social causes in which to become involved, and even influential?at just about the time Marx and Marxism were being interred. (Talcott Parsons, by contrast, never seemed alive enough to warrant a big funeral or much mourning,)

Early in the ?60?s I participated in local political issues, I was hosed down SF City Hall?s steps in the HUAC demonstrations; was a campus stump speaker for CORE (re supermarket hiring); headed the Berkeley campus? Student Civil Liberties Union; and did several housing studies for groups in communities threatened by urban renewal.

The most important , and exciting, study was presented at the first major anti-urban renewal demonstration in San Francisco ? to preserve the Fillmore district. A few months previously I helped direct a volunteer study in Hunters Point to protest proposed urban renewal clearance, which succeeded in putting a damper on Redevelopment Agency plans for that area. In April 1964, three classmates ? Carl Werthman, Mike Miller (a sociology Grad student for only one year) and Herman Blake ? asked me to do research for the United Freedom Movement, an off-shoot of the NAACP in San Francisco, to be presented at an imminent San Francisco Board of Supervisor hearing. In just under a week I conceived of a report, got the data, wrote, typed and corrected the ditto-masters (the slow and messy means of reproduction at the time), found a machine, ran off about 15 copies, and sped to the hearings? arriving 4 ½ hours after its scheduled beginning. 1,000 residents turned up (thanks to community organizers, like Mike); hearings were moved to a larger hall; a supper break was necessary; and so I arrived 10 minutes before ?our side? began its testimony. Right off, I was introduced as the key researcher for UFM. My argument: by combining blocks on the area?s borders (well maintained buildings lived in by rich whites), with the entire Fillmore district (old housing lived in overwhelmingly by poor blacks), the agency claimed Western Addition II was mixed, in housing, incomes, races, and improvement ?vs.-- relocation. In fact, the wealthy fringe areas would all be improved and the Fillmore totally demolished. As I began to lay out the ?finding? I heard stamping and felt the floor trembling. Urban renewal planning in San Francisco changed that very moment. I didn?t ?cause? the change; the research was not original (similar scenes happened in cities across the country); urban renewal in San Francisco did not end; and the great old Fillmore was slowly but surely replaced by a new but incoherent and bland neighborhood? but, for better or worse, plans for Western Addition II were derailed; massive, instant demolition in San Francisco was a thing of the past. Racism in housing policy would thereafter be more subtle, even kinder and gentler.

Other sociologists later tried to influence local urban renewal. At follow-up hearings on Western Addition II, Nathan Glazer (whose first urban Sociology class at Berkeley [1963?] was attended by Carl, Mike and myself) gave a quintessentially sociological defense of Fillmore on the basis of its being a superb Black community which the Redevelopment Agency did not begin to fathom and should not touch. A few years later, another sociology graduate student, class of 1960 ? Harry Brill ? was an activist researcher opposing the insatiable Redevelopment Agency when it set its sights on the housing units of poor persons living South of Market in San Francisco.

Carl, Mike and myself would leave academia. Mike?s career has been as a community organizer. After the Fillmore demonstrations, he helped create and headed the Mission Coalition which wrung concessions from BART, guaranteeing that local businesses and residences would not be torn down or boarded up during BART construction, and that there be two Mission stations which would have charm and local character. This preserved and enhanced a wonderful Latino community. Carl went directly from grad school to UC faculty, yet was so popular and busy outside academia, and so inattentive to administrative details, that UC let him go. He soon was Jerry Brown?s friend, confidants, and pollster when Brown first decided to run for governor, and won. Carl was given an office in the Governor?s Mansion and was a key back-stage figure (and right-hand man) during Brown?s first 2 years as governor ? Brown?s most radical, independent, and successful years. Carl also wrote 2 major housing studies ? one in 1966 (?) on New Towns, and a massive study of the major new federal housing program of the early 1980?s ? Section 8 housing ? completed in 1984 (a few months before he died). On the first study, Carl and I were co-authors; on the latter study I was ?recruited? and worked full-time the last 6 weeks (of a multi-year project) as editor, sounding board, outliner, typist, and calming influence.

Except for the anti-renewal and the new town studies, and teaching Urban Sociology at Sonoma State College (1969-1972), housing was not my focus. Early in the 1960?s I became interested in marijuana, especially the history and implications of prohibition. Banning marijuana always seemed to me idiocy and extraordinarily (and increasingly) harmful. The Sociology of Drugs course I taught at Sonoma State College drew a small crowd. After my third year there (when I was Department Chair), I got a fellowship to go to Washington D.C.; in 1974 I was doing research on drug problems of US youth in Europe, which based in Paris and St. Tropez. (Conclusion: 8 different European societies had saner drug policies than the US; the US policies caused the problems. The report was re-written by my ?liberal? sponsoring agency.) Life was so exciting and intellectually stimulating that I let Sonoma go? and never again got back to academia. (Being white, male, and not having published a book didn?t help.) From 1972-1981 I was primarily in Washington DC, and hated it. With nary an exception, the government employees in Washington running the drug agencies ? enforcement and treatment ? were the most naive people I ever met on the drug issue. US drug policies are deliberately ignorant, mean-spirited and socially destructive, yet unstoppable. My views and government policy were so at odds that my best year from 1974-1981 was spent on a farm. My longest job ran from 1989-1994, when I ?cloned? a San Francisco project providing AIDS outreach services to drug injectors for Bronx Community College, and directed the project (La Familia Unida) in Mott Haven its first five years. The job was exciting and rewarding, but New York City on the drug issue is ultra-conservative ? light years behind the Bay Area. The thought of recuperating from major heart surgery in a small New York City apartment pushed me back ?home,? to Berkeley in 1994.

The past 8 years I resumed drug research, at my ?leisure? (i.e., with a vengeance). My earliest research always seemed to me to be lacking a ?prime mover?; the issues, the raison d?etre to prohibition, had been decided at some distant time and place. At last, I took a close look at Britain in Asia (India and China) where a debate raged for the better part of a century between, on the one hand, the British colonial class (my heroes) and the masses (Indian opium growers and processors, and Chinese opium smokers) who were their allies, and, on the prohibitionist side, a narrow strata of top Imperial Chinese along with 3,000 extraordinarily dedicated, influential, ignorant and quite possibly mad Protestant (English and American) missionaries in China. I?ve also stayed active in the medical marijuana movement. For years I?ve been inundated with data ? the history of drug prohibition is weirder, yet more relevant, than I could ever have imagined when I was a graduate student. (The first major ?modern? war between Anglo-European culture and ?the East? was the Opium War circa 1840; the earliest tales about marijuana which were used to justify it prohibition in the US, in 1937, involved young men in the Middle East who, in the late 11th century, individually, and often suicidally, attacked Christian crusaders. The Old Man of the Mountain, Hassan ben Sabbah [the man behind those assassins], meet Osama bin Laden.)

In retrospect I?ve been blessed by the intelligent, original, funny, and interesting life-long friends from my graduate days in Berkeley, and downright lucky to have settled in Berkeley where it took me 35 years to discover that UC?s Doe Library was superb for the very drug issues which most interest me now. Among my regrets are that I so badly misjudged my ability to make a living wage outside of academia, and that in these late years, when I have amassed a truly world class library of 18th ? early 20th century writings on the history of drug prohibition, I have neither the skills nor resources to convert them to a computerized library; and that I see not the slightest sign that the sociology department in Berkeley the past 20 years seems as interested in drugs and drug policy as were the graduate student classmates and our faculty in the ?60?s, or as I and my surviving graduate students are today.

Dissertation: Official Statistics and the Reality of Crime

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-19

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Gary T. Marx

Professor Emeritus, M.I.T.

After graduating from UCLA and the obligatory summer trip to Europe for the privileged, I headed up Highway 99 (there was no highway 5) for Cal -- lucid about what I didn?t want, rather than what I did. With mentors such as Erving Goffman, Charles Glock, Marty Lipset and Neil Smelser the latter quickly changed. After the orals exam, spent a year traveling around the world, including going by land from Iran to Calcutta. I received the Ph.D. in 1966 and taught at Berkeley in 1966-67; before moving to the Harvard Department of Social Relations with appointments at the Joint Center for Urban Studies and later the Law School?s Criminal Justice Center, moved to MIT in Urban Studies and Planning 1973-1994. I have been privileged to have had a variety of shorter teaching and fellowship sojourns in France, England, Santa Barbara, La Jolla, Italy, Stanford, Belgium, Spain, Boulder, Vienna, Nankai (PRC), Washington D.C., and most recently at UCI, Northwestern, UCB Law School and the University of Washington.

Books on the civil rights movement, undercover police, and new surveillance technologies kept notoriety and resources coming in. I moved, in a trajectory I could not have predicted, from initial work in race relations and stratification, to social movements and collective behavior, social control, and technology and society and from quantitative to qualitative methods. I have worked with a variety of commissions, Congressional committees, government agencies and non-profit groups on issues of inter-group relations, civil liberties, social control and technology and society.

Change the world? Nowadays I am happy if I can get through the day with my dignity in tact having done no harm. Yet I have tried as the poet said, ?to patch the world as best I can.? Among contributions to social change ?keeping large sums flowing into the civil rights movement as a result of the findings from Protest and Prejudice; contributing to the report of the National Advisory (Kerner) Commission on Civil Disorders and the Senate Select Committee On Undercover Activities; helping provide the intellectual rationale that led the phone companies to eventually reign in Caller-Id; increasing national and international awareness of the social issues raised by new information technologies through popular and academic writing and training students.

Articles on my web page dealing with success and failure and the search for meaning in academic life, 37 moral mandates for aspiring sociologists, Erving Goffman, Neil Smelser, travel, muckraking sociology, dirty data and whites in the civil rights movement reflect the anvil of Berkeley.

Dissertation: Protest and Prejudice: The Climate of Opinion in the Negro American Community

Website: www.garymarx.net

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-29

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Charles M. Otten

Emeritus Professor, San Jose State University

Mike Otten My academic career ended a few years ago. It began at Berkeley in 1961, and finished at San Jose State University thirty two years later. My career was good, and my life has been excellent. As Max Weber wrote some values conflict, so I struck a balance between the values of life and work, family and career, location and ambition, fun and duty. In grade school, I knew they were lying when they said you can be anything you want to be. It would have been pleasant to win an endowed chair at Harvard, the Nobel Prize or just an award for the best sociology book of the year, and have a full life and great family. But as Weber pointed out, some values contradict others.

I grew up in a rural, Midwestern area, majored in history at a liberal arts college and became involved in a radical Catholic organization. No, Catholic radical is not necessarily an oxymoron. In the early 50s, we tried to organize college students around anti-nuclear, social justice issues. Then I worked for the Chicago civil service commission and was conscripted into the army for two years. Almost by accident, I landed in Berkeley when the requirements for graduate school were lower than now. Erving Goffman once said he wouldn't have gotten in either so I am in good company.

In the 1960s, Berkeley was the center of a global revolution of social, intellectual, political and cultural change. It was a wonderful ?learning environment? where classroom analysis was directly applied to ?real life situations.? My former military training with tear gas, along with Marxist theory, was directly applied to ?everyday, real life.? A day might go like this: Class with Herbert Blumer in the morning, then a noon rally featuring Malcom X, followed by an evening concert with a weird group called Jefferson Airplane and their light show of colored oil spilled on an overhead projector. Intellectual excitement, political activity and cultural rebellion formed a magic mix. I was young enough to be involved and old enough to know where to stop.

I spent much of my time at the Law and Society center founded by Philip Selznick. The center became an intellectual vortex for the issues of the day, and, with great advice from from Phillip Selznick and Shelly Messinger, I wrote a thesis about the changing authority patterns at the University of California. To my enormous delight, University of California Press published my thesis as major book in their stable. The book greased an easy slide into tenure.

Through major miss timing I got married, started teaching and went out on strike --all within a two month period in 1968. I came to San Jose through a chance meeting with an old friend, and planned to leave within a year or so. California was distasteful to me. But personal circumstances and a changing job market prompted me to remain in California where the idyllic environment gradually seduced me away from my Midwestern roots.

After coming to San Jose State, I continued doing research on organizational authority and published articles here and there. Following my mentor, Phillip Selznick, I wrote a conflict oriented text. But unlike Phil?s, mine floundered. It was partially a victim of a capitalist buy out to kill off competitors. But I had the pleasure of writing what and how I wanted in the non sociological language.

In the early 80s, my wife and two children spent a semester in Oslo Norway where I was attached to the Work Research Institute. Norway combined the environmental and workers movement with organizational democracy and passed a law outlawing unhealthy work. Nothing unusual about that, but they defined boredom and lack of personal control as unhealthy. Towards the end of my career, I became chair. Like crime, I thought that studying organizations is better than doing it. To my surprise it turned out to be both satisfying and fun. I was paid and rewarded to talk, socialize, gossip and plan. Planning is more gratifying than doing. The President of the University once said that she hoped the last professor in sociology would turn out the light and lock the door, but for the first time in 19 years, we were able to hire new people who energized us tired, mainly white, old men. Taking advantage of my one and only administrative experience, I ran for dean of the School of Social Science and lost.

I owe a lot to the University of California and the sociology department. It gave me an enormous amount of intellectual capital, political insight and cultural richness. When my daughter graduated from Cal, it was one of the great moments of my life. To my slight embarrassment, I bought a Cal hat and, for the first time in my life, attended Cal football games.

Like many people from the 60s era, I feel that academia has declined from the golden era of fat budgets, dedicated students, subsidized research and more jobs than professors. Yet graduate training at Berkeley and being a sociology professor was the basis for a good life, satisfying work and useful career. I have gone full circle and now spend time in classes learning to be a painter, not houses, but landscapes.

Dissertation: From Paternalism to Private Government: The Patterns of University Authority Over Students

Biography submitted on: 2003-04-30

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Jawahar R. Rele

Jawahar R. Rele passed away on 1990-11-13

Obituary taken from Demography India


On Tuesday, the 13th of November 1990, Professor J. R. Rele, former Director of International Institute for Population Sciences, Bombay and former Vice President of Indian Association for the Study of Population passed away. Every one who knew him and came in contact with him is saddened over the sudden passing away of an eminent demographer and a thorough gentleman.

Born in 1931, Professor Rele, after a brilliant academic record, joined the International Institute for Population Sciences, Bombay (erstwhile Demographic Training and Research Centre, Chembur). Rele had also been an alumnus of this Institute as he was trained at the DTRC in its very first batch (1957-59). Within four years of his rejoining the Institute he was elevated to the post of a Professor. As an acting Director he steered the Institute through the turbulent period of 1973 to 1976. He became the full-fledged Director of the Institute in 1977. After leaving IIPS, Professor Rele joined the Division of Population and Social Affairs. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok as Technical Adviser. Just before his death he was Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Affiliate Graduate Faculty in Population Studies. at the East-West Population Institute. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Professor Rele held a Master's degree in Statistics, Diploma in Demography and Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California, under the guidance of Professor Kingsley Davis. Thus a beautiful blend of a statistician. demographer and sociologist could be seen in his research work. His work on estimation of fertility and mortality through an application of the concept of stable population has contributed a great deal towards the development of the discipline of population sciences. His method known as Rele's method of estimating fertility and mortality using age-sex distribution obtained from various censuses is useful for countries with incomplete or unreliable data like India. The method has the advantage that it can be applied to any type of population-unstable and affected by migration-in his words. "to any eccentric population".

Those who had been fortunate to be his students can never forget his efficient style of unfolding even very difficult topics. It was a pleasure to hear JRR explaining GRR and NRR. Professor Rele was a soft-spoken. mild-mannered and a modest person. He possessed a strong inner character and did not falter to stick to his convictions though it was at times disadvantageous to him. During Emergency, Professor Rele had reservations about the introduction of compulsory sterilization bill in Maharashtra. After Emergency, Professor Rele was proved to be right and his stand was vindicated. It was a great pleasure to be with Professor Rele as his colleague. The sudden demise of Professor Rele is a tremendous loss to the community of Indian demographers. We at lIPS will miss him.

Dissertation: Fertility Analysis Through Extension of Stable Population Concepts

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-15

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Marvin B. Scott

Sociology-CUNY-Hunter

Dissertation: The Social Organization of Horse Racing

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Rodney W. Stark

University of Washington

Dissertation: Police Riots: Collective Violence and Law Enforcement

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Carl S. Werthman

Carl S. Werthman has passed away.

Dissertation: The Social meaning of the Physical Environment

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1961

Sondra J. Betsch

Dissertation: Penny Economy

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Hubbard T. Buckner

Retired Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Consultant Socoiologist

Dissertation: The Police: The Culture of a Social Control Agency

Website: www.tbuckner.com

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Sherri E. Cavan

Sociology, San Francisco State University

Dissertation: Social Interaction in Public Drinking Places

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Henry C. Finney

Emeritus, University of Veremont. Living in New Mexico, 35 Barranca Rd. Los Alamos, NM 87544

Dissertation: Development and Change of Political Libertarianism Among Berkeley Undergraduates

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Arthur Liebman

Arthur Liebman passed away in 1985

Dissertation: Children of Their Fathers: The Politics of Puerto Rican University Students

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David M. Makofsky

Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina

Dissertation: The Capitalist Factory, the Socialist Factory: Class Conflict in Turkey and Yugoslavia

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Donald L. Metz

Emeritus Professor, Marquette University

I knew so little about Sociology when I arrived in the Bay Area, that I wasn?t accepted into the graduate program until I had taken a full semester of undergraduate courses. I was an ordained minister and wanted to work in the Sociology of Religion. Charlie Glock, who was the expert on that topic at the time, hired me for a research project on new congregations and encouraged me to take a qualitative approach. The report developed into my Master?s Thesis and was published (and reviewed in the ASR) before I took my comps. The experience pumped up my confidence so much that I failed the exam and had to retake it. I was also influenced by Blumer, Smelser, Wilensky, and Selznick.

The best thing Berkeley did for me was to introduce me to my wife, Mary Haywood, by putting us together as TAs for the undergraduate methods course. We both got Kent Fellowships in 1965 which made it possible for us to get married. Our first choice of available jobs was a liberal arts college (Earlham) in Indiana, where we were nearly the whole department. We learned about teaching and became competent in a wide range of substantive areas. Student interest in religion was declining so I decided to prepare myself in medical sociology which promised unending growth. To get into the backstage of health care I trained (while still a faculty member) as an Emergency Medical Technician. This nurturing of talents didn?t impress the administration, and after six years our contracts weren?t renewed.

I was hired at Marquette University (and Mary later at the U. of Wisconsin), where I spent a mostly pleasant twenty-six years, several as department Chair. I got certification as an EMT, worked for a private ambulance company, and wrote a book about ambulance work. My primary interest is in exposing the intriguing complexities of social life to non-specialists, so my greatest pleasure as a sociologist has been in teaching (except for the grading). When I retired in 2001, I was happily involved in an introductory course, substantive courses in health care systems, and a capstone course for majors. Looking back, I can see that I have made little mark as a sociologist, but I am able to feel I have contributed something useful to a lot of people. I am more convinced than ever that sociology is important; I am grateful for the life it has enabled me to lead; and I delight every day in being able to exercise the sociological perspective Berkeley gave me.

Dissertation: Informal Involvement in the Protestant Congregation

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-08

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Mary H. Metz

Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation: Authority in the Junior High School: A Case Study

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Philippe M. Nonet

Law - UCB

Dissertation: Administrative Justice: A sociological Study of the California Industrial Accident Commission

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Harvey Sacks

Harvey Sacks has passed away.

Dissertation: The Search for Help: No One to Turn To

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Irwin J. Sperber

Sociology-SUNY-New Paltz

Dissertation: Fashions in Science: A Study of the Fashion Process in Sociological Inquiry

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David N. Sudnow

David N. Sudnow has passed away.

David Sudnow died early this morning following surgery for cancer at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley.

His dissertation: \\\"Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying in the County Hospital\\\" did not forecast his future success.

His book: \\\"Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct\\\" brought him considerable fame both within and outside the world of academe. In a very special way, he put reflexive sociology to work and by this effort brought a great deal of happiness to many.

From David Nasatir, 7/20/2006

Dissertation: Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying in the County Hospital

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Roy H. Turner

Emeritus-Anthro/Soc-Univ. of BC-Adjunct Sociology-York University

Dissertation: Talk and Troubles: Contact Problems of Former Mental Patients

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1962

David O. Arnold

Retired Sonoma State University, Freelance Photography and Writing

Dissertation: Theoretical Model of Subcultures: With an Application to the Internal Variability of Social Classes

Website: http://www.arnoldrutman.com

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Jean-Louis M. DeLannoy

Jean-Louis M. DeLannoy has passed away.

Dissertation: University Autonomy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Mexico

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Robert G. Dunn

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, CSU, Hayward

In my senior year at UC Santa Barbara, recent Berkeley émigré Tamotsu Shibutani introduced me to social psychology and the sociology of knowledge, and therein began the influence of Berkeley sociology on my academic career. When I first arrived I found the bigness, competitiveness, and cosmopolitan impersonality of the Berkeley campus difficult to negotiate. Despite these challenges the combined mentorings of faculty as diverse as Robert Blauner, Ernest Becker, Reinhard Bendix, Herbert Blumer, Troy Duster, Gertrude Jaeger, Leo Lowenthal, Philip Selznick, and Neil Smelser turned me into an enthusiastic PhD. From them I got a strong sense of the foundational importance of sociology and social theory for understanding the contemporary world and its politics. Most of all, these mentors taught me lots of theory, supplying often seemingly disjunctive pieces of what was to become my ?sociological imagination?. The originality, creativity, dedication, rigor, and intellectual weight of these faculty gave me both a sense of being distinct from graduates at other institutions and the confidence to enter university teaching.

The contrasting claims of symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and Marxism created an exciting environment of competing intellectual forces that seemed to drive the debates and politics of the department. A collision and uneasy fusing of these forces in my own work constituted the center of my overall experience and development as a student of social theory and set me on an early path of struggling with the ?agency/structure problem.? Overall, the highly charged theoretical atmosphere of the department afforded me a perspective that transcended the familiar and routine practices of what I thought of as conventional sociology. More than any specific skills or knowledges (though there was that), Berkeley provided me an intellectual method, a way of comprehending the world, and a disciplined style that were unique and productive.

Determined to stay in the Bay Area I took a position in the Department of Sociology and Social Services at CSU Hayward, where I taught for 32 years. I specialized in theory, cultural sociology, social inequality, and, lately, the sociology of identity. Most of my research has been in the areas of mass culture, critical theory, and postmodernity. My book, Identity Crises: A Social Critique of Postmodernity, was published by University of Minnesota Press in 1998.

Dissertation: On the Compatibility of Symbolic Interactionism and Structural-Functionalsim in Contemporary Sociology: A Study of Theoretical Models

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-10

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Arlene R. Hochschild

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Much of my education at Berkeley in the 1960?s careened on outside the classroom. I remember Herb Blumer bending over the drinking fountain on the fourth floor of Barrows Hall showing a bunch of us how to wet our handkerchiefs and cover our eyes against the tear gas coming from canisters dropped by helicopter during the massive campus protests against the war in Vietnam. I remember members of the Berkeley Women?s Caucus sitting cross-legged on the floor of my apartment on Virginia Street, debating what sociology might look like if women helped produce it: (there were no ladder rank female faculty when I arrived in l962.) Berkeley in the 1960?s was an education in itself.

But inside the classroom were true masters of the trade ? Neil Smelser, Erving Goffman, Reinhard Bendix, Robert Blauner, Charlie Glock, Robert Bellah ? and it was a privilege to work with them. Privately those first two years, I felt lost and lonely, and I deeply appreciate those who helped me find my way ? especially Neil Smelser, my fellow graduate student Janice Stroud and my orals study group. I graduated from Berkeley in 1969, returned to teach here in 1971 and have ever since. My books -- The Unexpected Community, The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, Global Woman (co-edited with Barbara Ehrenreich), and The Commercialization of Intimate Life span many issues. But some of them are long answers to points raised in those Virginia Street debates, and all of them focus on that echo chamber between social structure and individual human emotion. Ask radical questions, do serious scholarship, make a difference --that was the message I drew from Berkeley.

Dissertation: A Community of Grandmothers

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-22

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Aline L. Kan

Senior Advisor, Office of the President, National University of Singapore

Dissertation: The Kaifong (Neighborhood) Association in Hong Kong

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James N. Meehan

University Chaplain, Gonzaga University, Spokane

Dissertation: Social Sources of Intellectualism: A Study of College Freshmen

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Parker J. Palmer

Writer, Educational Consultant and Speaker, Madison, Wisconsin

My years in Berkeley (1962-65, 1967-69), were among the most formative of my life, largely because of the social movements of that era and the vision of community I caught and never lost. I specialized in the sociology of religion, and have long felt grateful to Robert Bellah, Hanan Selvin, Gertrude Selznick, Philip Selznick and Neal Smelser for their mentoring (and to Albert Rasmussen and Charles S. McCoy, both deceased, who were on the faculty at Pacific School of Religion). The influence of sociology in my life and work is largely caught up in C. Wright Mills' notion of the sociological imagination, which I value deeply and try to keep alive. When I left Berkeley in 1969, I left formal academic life as well. I moved to Washington, D.C., where I was a community organizer working a racial issues for five years, and then to Philadelphia, where I worked for a decade as dean of studies at Pendle Hill, the Quaker living-learning community. During that time, I started trying to learn how to write, and am now working on my seventh book; the last two were "The Courage to Teach" and "Let Your Life Speak". For the past fifteen years, I've worked independently as a writer and traveling teacher, focused on the same themes that preoccupied me in Berkeley: education, community, spirituality and social change. During this time I have lived in Madison, Wisconsin, a city that reminds me of Berkeley, thus making me feel much younger than the sixty-four that I am. For that reason, I have no intention of moving, ever! I am taking 2004 as a work-free, sixty-fifth year sabbatical to try to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.

Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of the Process of Secularization in Modern Societies

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-18

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Carl Reiterman

Dissertation: Birth-Control Policies and Practices in California County Welfare and Health Departments

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Jeffrey M. Schevitz

Family Therapist, Germany

After years of combining anti-Vietnam war activities and graduate school, I was finally able to bring academics and politics together enough to finish my dissertation on the personal and professional crises of scientists and engineers in the military industries in the Stanford area. In the process, I helped make two documentary films to aid their efforts to organize fellow scientists and engineers. I left Berkeley in September 1969, dissertation unfinished, to join Dave Colfax and George Rawick as new members of the Washington University "radical" sociology department. Unfortunately, Al Gouldner and the others who recruited us thought we were just radical scholars. But our scholarship served to point our way politically. With my students, I helped produce "The McDonnell Film" which did not endear me to Sanford McDonnell, a member of the Board of Trustees. In the course of making the film, the McDonnell workers in the film were threatened by Naval Intelligence. Dave Colfax and I had the same friendly undercover agent of the St. Louis police watching us. We frequently chatted with him, standing bored by one of our houses. With a professor of Asian history, I started "War and Peace Report" on a local radio station. After unrelenting support for Dave Colfax in his tenure battle, I was denied a contract renewal. Although I had not completed my dissertation, I was told I would receive a renewal if I would stop publicly speaking on Colfax's behalf. I did not and soon I was on my way to Cortland State College in the SUNY system, a big intellectual drop, I must say. But as soon as my dissertation was accepted (on the condition that the political history creating the huge pool of science warriors in the labs be cut, including my political economic analysis) I applied to the State College of Buffalo, because it was in an industrial city. I tried to teach at night there as much as possible to reach working people.

While at Buffalo, I received a notice (over the radical sociology group) of an opening for an assistant professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. I applied and received the position. I started teaching in West Berlin in April 1976. It took several months before I went over to East Berlin to talk with Americans and non-Germans living there. From watching GDR television, I had been very impressed with the achievements of the GDR in the area of full employment, institutional equality for women (and thus, for men), child care, and (high) culture, also for factory workers, who could not only attend opera and theater for almost nothing, but who went as collectives, if they wished. There was universal health insurance, almost free child care by trained personnel, from six weeks onward, union or company-owned vacation facilities that cost very little. The GDR was supporting Cuba and Vietnam with tools and training. Just as important, I was enthused by the fact that the leading members of the GDR government, army, courts, and cultural life, had been anti-fascists, many having spent years in the concentration camps. On the other hand, West Germany's leaders were credited with their earlier loyalty to their fatherland. Older judges and law school teachers served the Nazi regime and were allowed to train the next generation of judges and diplomats.

Until this time, I had been an anti-communist, self-labeled American "socialist revolutionary" ? with neither academic nor direct experience with a functioning advanced socialist society. I was taken aback by my first media impressions of the GDR; they did not jibe with my prejudices. To try to understand this seemingly impressive society, my wife and I visited a famous novelist, Walter Kaufmann, now an Australian, but a Jew born into a "bourgeois" Düsseldorf family. We visited an American Communist journalist and TV personality Victor Grossmann, who told me he was in the same CP cell at Harvard with Robert Bellah. We talked with a female American playwright, Edith Anderson. And we became friends with an Irish English lit professor who translated Brecht and organized the annual political song festival. I attended the world-famous Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, where I wept when I embraced the Vietnam delegation and when I saw a Cuban documentary in which workers were marching, holding up as though they were weapons the drills provided by the GDR ? weapons of peaceful construction. None of those living in the GDR spared us their criticisms but all were united in saying that there was no other place to live if one wanted to live in Germany.

As a result of all of this, I thought I would like to live in the GDR and experience so-called "real socialism" first hand. Well, it came differently. As a result of my Princeton background, I was an ideal candidate to be more helpful to the protection and improvement of the existing form of socialism, if I stayed in the West, gave up my Berkeley-acquired ways and appearance to return to my earlier potential - a Princeton graduate headed into the policy arena.

I became a specialist in nuclear non-proliferation policy, spending a year at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. In my next position at a West German National nuclear lab, I was asked to became advisor to West German conservative politicians, a liaison between the German government and various U.S. Congressional and executive government agencies, and a Senior Associate Consultant for a Watergate-based energy policy consultant firm that did a great deal of work for government agencies, including intelligence agencies. I was, I have to admit, delighted to have myself on a list of consultants with retired generals and admirals.

With Berkeley in my head and Princeton on my face and suits (Richard Burt, U.S. Ambassador to Germany and a Cornell graduate, accused me of having the Princeton seal of my buttocks) after a number of years, I came to the point that I knew a lot about of what went on in the German Chancellor's office and why, not to speak of other German ministries and large German firms producing energy or energy-generating equipment, including nuclear reprocessing facilities.

I am proud to have been part of a group of "Agents for Peace" as we call ourselves, still meeting annually with Markus Wolff and others in Berlin to discuss the politcal situation and to raise money for those who have spent much more time in jail than I have, and to work on our second book. We gave the GDR breathing space and we helped to prevent NATO military aggression against the socialist countries. With my comrades at the top of the NATO policy planning staff, in high positions in the German foreign service and defense ministries, and as head engineer of the advanced German fighter, Tornado, we learned first-hand of the first-strike plans of NATO ? 150 nuclear missiles onto the Soviet Union, two onto the GDR. Knowing exactly what was planned enabled actions, both political and military, to counter them.

I am proud that the education and convictions I acquired in Berkeley were put to the service of preserving the peace in Europe, which, according to U.S. plans, would have been sacrificed in balls of fire in a limited nuclear war.

I am still active in anti-war politics, in the Munich-American Peace Committee, speaking in front of the famous Munich City Hall, where I first stood over 40 years ago as a Princeton senior.

And I am putting my sociology education to good use as a systemic family therapist - the only kind that a sociologist could become, I believe.

Dissertation: Weaponsmakers: role Orientatons and Behavior of Scientists & Engineers in the Aerospace Industries

Website: http://www.dr-schevitz.de/

Biography submitted on: 2004-09-23

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Lucy W. Sells

Director, Region 6, California Democratic Party

Dissertation: Sex, Ethnic and Field Differences

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Stephen H. Steinberg

Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

I am going to resist the temptation to recite my professional achievements, culminating with a humble encomium to my professors for making me the great sociologist that I am. Instead, in the Berkeley tradition, I am going to inject a dissident voice. I?m skeptical about the logic behind this Berkeley Alumni Project. Not that I am immune to the innocent pleasure of peering into lives attached to names from the distant past. But I have a gnawing sense that the real purpose of the Alumni Project is to develop a cult around UC, Berkeley. Either this is elitist at its core, or it is a fundraising gimmick, or it is just plain silly: an evocation of ?old school? spirit, even though we passed through Berkeley at different times, did not know each other, and have nothing in common except for a nominal institutional affiliation. Don?t get me wrong: I have nothing but positive memories of my years at Berkeley, both the university and the charms of Northern California. But when I returned last summer after living in New York City for three decades, I felt like Woody Allen?s character in Sleeper, awakening in a strange place, save for some enduring physical markers and a few senescent professors (joke!). For me, ?Berkeley? is not a place that invites nostalgia or self-congratulation, but rather an injunction to go forth and change the world. With this caveat, however. As Godfrey Hodgson wrote in America in Our Time with reference to SNCC in the 1960s: ?Success is not the only test. Since, in the end, failure is the fate of most human endeavors, what matters is with what enterprise and in what spirit one fails.?

Dissertation: The Religious Factor in American Higher Education.

Biography submitted on: 2003-04-01

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Janice G. Stroud

Dissertation: Careers of Middle-Aged Women in Work and Family: Personal and Social Concomitants and Antecedents

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David T. Wellman

ISSC-UCB

Dissertation: "It's Nothing Personal Against Colored People, You Understand?." Portraits of White Racism

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Chester A. Winton

Emeritus Professor, San Jose State University

I write this upon my retirement after 36 years as a professor of sociology at San Jose State University. I was a graduate student at Berkeley from 1962-67, went to teach at SJSU in 67 and finished my dissertation in 1970. Professors who influenced my professional development included Herbert Blumer, John Clausen, Erving Goffman, Kenneth Bock, Neil Smelser, and Charles Glock. I was part of John Clausen's NIMH training program to study Social Structure & Personality. Henry Lennard came to Berkeley and taught a graduate seminar on "Social Interaction" that had the class going one week to observe family therapy sessions at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute (part of the UC Med Center in San Francisco) and the alternate week observing family therapy sessions at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto which had what came to be some of the leading family therapists in the United States. We were put in interdisciplinary teams to observe communication patterns in families that featured a schizophrenia child on the premise that pathological communication in families drove children crazy. As a sociologist I was teamed with anthropologists, teachers, psychologists, nurses, social workers and we all observed from our disciplinary perspective and discussed what we saw with the therapist and helped the therapist strategize the next session. This experience launched me into a second career as a state licensed Marriage, Family & Child Therapist.

While teaching sociology (classes in family, socialization, theory) and training family therapists in a Clinical Psychology graduate program at SJSU, I had a private practice as a family therapist. I have spent many years as an advisor to judges, for two years as an adult probation officer where I recommended sentences to judges in municipal and superior courts in San Mateo County and also as a child custody evaluator for the Santa Clara County Superior Court. I recommended custody and visitation schedules to judges when parents could not agree among themselves on custody issues. I have conducted over 250 child custody evaluations over an eighteen year period; some of these required giving testimony in court as an expert witness. I also do divorce mediation in my private practice, assisting couples write a marital settlement agreement relative to custody and visitation issues involving their children.

I believe that the probation work, custody work, mediation work, and therapy work all arose as a function of learning interviewing skills in the graduate program at Berkeley. My doctoral dissertation had me interviewing eighty legally blind young adults in the San Francisco Bay Area assessing the effects of employment conditions (did they get jobs themselves or through a social worker, did they work in a sheltered workshop for blind people or were they integrated with normally sighted people) on self esteem. Results of the dissertation were published in a monograph published by the American Foundation for the Blind, an organization that invited me to an international invitational conference in New York in 1970 for people they considered the fifty top researchers on blindness in the world. One of the issues I considered in the dissertation is how a person who is congenitally blind comes to cognitively grasp what blindness and sight are, what seeing involves.

Although I taught at SJSU for much of my career, I spent a year as a Visiting Scholar teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1973-74 and was one of few Americans to get into Mainland China during the height of the Cultural Revolution in 1974. I was recruited as a researcher by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1978 to research what in a family therapy session makes a difference in affecting change, versus all that happens that makes no change whatever. Can one tell any therapist what they did that affected change and what they did that had no impact? In 1985 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where I helped to train family therapists who were going to work on kibbutzim. In 1997 I was part of the first ever United States Delegation of Marriage & Family Therapists to the People's Republic of China where I conferred with divorce mediators in China to compare the the mediation process in China and the United States (resulted in an article for the sociological journal Social Insight) and consulted with judges and attorneys in Shanghai who were trying to get a divorce court off the ground.

I have written four books: Theory & Methods in Sociology (Schenkman/Wiley, 1974), Family Therapy: Etiology & Treatment of Illness (Applied Medical Training, 1981), Frameworks for Studying Families (Dushkin, 1995) and Children As Caregivers: Parental & Parentified Children (Allyn &

Dissertation: The Blind College Student

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-14

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John R. Woodworth

Dissertation: On Faking Reality: The Lying Production of Social Cooperation

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1963

Mouhamad S. Al-Akhrass

Dissertation: Revolutionary Change and Modernization in the Arab World: A Case from Syria

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Earl R. Babbie

Professor of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University

I left Berkeley in 1968 for the University of Hawaii. I stayed 12 years, became a father, grew concerned about overpopulation, the environment, and hunger, crafted my ability to teach, and began writing textbooks.

In 1979, my wife, Sheila, whom I had first met at the Survey Research Center at UCB, got a job offer in the Bay Area. Taking a deep breath, I resigned as a tenured professor and department chair, and we moved. For the next seven years, I was a writer only. As the years went by, however, I found I missed the classroom, partly because the ham in me missed performing.

At about the time I was strongly thinking I wanted to get back into the classroom, I learned Chapman College (now University) was beginning to search for a new chair. So I applied and moved to Orange in 1987. I've been here ever since, partly to watch the political transformation of Orange County, beginning with Loretta Sanchez's booting out B-1 Bob Dornan.

It would be hard to exaggerate the importance of my Berkeley education. When I was assigned Charlie Glock as my advisor and sent off to the Survey Research Center, I wasn't sure what survey research was. (Charlie remedied that.) Even more important, I met and became friends with such a variety of people, with varied sociological and social views that I think their impact still pushes my unfolding evolution.

How has my sociology shaped my world? Totally, I suppose.

Dissertation: The Teaching Physician

Website: www.chapman.edu/~babbie/

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-21

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William R. Blischke

Sociology-CSU Dominguez Hills

Dissertation: Bureaucracy, Academic Conservatism, and Politics in California Higher Education

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Daniel W. Chandler

Research and Evaluation Consultant

Dissertation: Living the the Country: Patterns of Relationship Between Hippies and Straights in Nevada County

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Ronald Y. Cheng

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder

Dissertation: A Sociological Analysis of the Chinese Revolution of 1911

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Forrest D. Dill

Forrest D. Dill has passed away.

Dissertation: Bail and Bail Reform: A Sociological Study

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Samuel Farber

Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Dissertation: The Social Bases of Bonapartism and Charism

Website: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/polisc

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Shirley F. Hartley

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, CSU, Hayward

I married Dave Hartley two days after graduating from Berkeley the first time in Business Administration. I worked as a full charge accountant for several years and knew that wasn't what I wanted to do indefinitely. So, after two children and intense volunteer work, I went back to grad school in sociology. It changed my life completely.

I felt fortunate (as an early woman Ph. D.) to be hired at CSUHayward. We had a heavy teaching load, and I taught 25 different courses, introducing many of them to our campus. I managed lots of eclectic research, three books and about 20 articles. I was elected to the Board of the Population Association of America and served on an NIH Research Panel.

Sociology is endlessly exciting, and Berkeley, especially, opened my eyes to learning and the world we live in. Fortunately my husband is also very open and loves to travel. We've visited about 120 countries and also scuba dive world wide. Now, in retirement, we are volunteer mediators in a very active program on Maui, and I am active in the art community, painting Plein-aire in oils and have been featured artist in several shows.

We currently live on Maui most of the time, travel about three months a year and return to the S. F. Bay Area two to five times a year for short reunions with family and friends. We started a travel website, but were travelling too much to keep it updated.

Dissertation: Comparative Differences and Changes in Levels of Illegitimacy

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-18

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Constance B. Holstein

Dissertation: Parental Consensus and Interaction in Relation to the Child's Moral Judgement

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John K. Irwin

Dissertation: Career of the Felon

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Bruce C. Johnson

Litigation Attorney, Office of Consumer Counsel,Connecticut

I earned my Ph.D. in 1973, having left in 1971 to teach at UC San Diego. In 1982, I left UCSD, having been denied tenure. In 1985, I graduated from Yale Law School. I now am a litigation attorney at the Office of Consumer Counsel, a State of Connecticut agency. We advocate for the ratepayers of regulated utilities. The simplest way give you a flavor of my legal/policy practice is to refer you to our agency website, www.occ.state.ct.us, from which [at the “What’s New” link] you can download a long piece titled “ELECTRIC RESTRUCTURING TODAY: The OCC White Paper.” While that document does not have my name on it, I wrote it.

You ask how Berkeley influenced my use of sociology. At Berkeley, I learned social science from three marvelous sources. First, key faculty (e.g., Reinhard Bendix and Bob Blauner in Sociology; Henry May/History; Sheldon Wolin/Political Science). Second, numerous fellow students (e.g., Nigel Young, Sam Kaplan, Volker Eisele). Third, the very times (e.g., the Free Speech Movement, La Huelga and Country Joe’s I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixing-to-Die Rag).

I took a Berkeley ethos (critical, historical approach to sociological issues, etc.) with me to UCSD and that is part of why retrograde senior faculty there voted against my tenure. That event (which of course angered and frustrated me at the time) turned out okay, partly because I had come to believe that college teaching has no helpful effects on students. By then, I had been an expert witness in some legal cases, which helped me decide what to do next. My social science experience undoubtedly has made me a better lawyer, so that is a continuing benefit.

You also ask how my sociology has shaped the world. What a hubris-laden question! The obvious answer, of course, is not at all. I doubt whether anyone with a Berkeley Sociology Ph.D. can claim much influence in the world beyond academic sociology as such. In the 1960’s, after his fatal heart attack, we said “C. Wright Mills lives” --- but of course this did not turn out to be true as meant (because no critical mass of public intellectuals emerged in sociology thereafter). By now I have spent more time working as a lawyer than as a sociologist. I like this second career just fine, and believe that in it I have “shaped the world” more effectively than I could have done as a sociologist. Also, I find it a lot more challenging to convince a judge to decide a dispute my way than to explain ideas to undergraduates.

Dissertation: Discretionary Justice and Racial Domination: A Study of Arrest Without Prosecution in Urban America Today

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-10

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Robert E. Kennedy

Emeritus-University of Minnesota

Dissertation: Population Trends and Rlated Factors in Ireland from 1871 to 1961

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Karl W. Kreplin

Dissertation: Clean Air Bureaucracy: A Sociological Study of the Bay Area Pollution Control District

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Timothy I. Lehmann

Emeritus Professor, Empire State College, New York

Dissertation: Politics, Planning and Policy Formation: A Case Study of Authority and Autonomy in Illinois Higher Education

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Ivan H. Light

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

I have been Professor of Sociology at UCLA since 1969. It was my first job. Berkeley offered poor training in quantitative methods in those days, and the graduate student culture was hostile to them to boot. Unfortunately, those proved subsequently to be the dominant methods in professional sociology so, in this respect, I was poorly prepared at Berkeley. It would be very presumptuous to suppose that my sociology has shaped the world; to the extent that my research and writing have influenced the world in some minimal manner I hope and believe they have strengthened agency in a field top heavy with structure.

Dissertation: Sociological Aspects of Self-Employment and Social Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese and Negroes in Northern Urban Areas of the United States, 1900-1940

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-27

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Terry F. Lunsford

Jury Consultant, Berkeley

I got the doctorate in Sociology at Berkeley in 1970. From 1968-72 I taught in the Social Sciences Integrated Course and Field Major at UCB, and directed that program for its last year. Later I was Academic Director of UCB's Field Studies Program, worked as an Evaluation Research professional in the campus's Health and Medical Sciences Program, and was a research staff member at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, studying the social and legal impacts of genetic research. I also helped to create an Oakland campus of New York's College for Human Services, and for 28 years I have been a Board of Directors member and adjunct faculty member of the Western Institute for Social Research, a State-approved Berkeley institution that provides degree study for community-involved adults. Since 1984 I have been a professional Trial Consultant, using social research to advise litigating attorneys about the discovery of bias in potential jurors, and the clear presentation of complex case materials. From 1984-1996, I worked at the National Jury Project/West, in Oakland, and am now a semi-retired, independent practitioner.

My time in Sociology at Berkeley was one of great turmoil on campus, and I learned as much from that as from my course work. But study with Philip Selznick, Reinhard Bendix, and others opened new windows for my mind, and I value it greatly. Through various projects of UCB's then Center for the Study of Law and Society and Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, I wrote a monograph on the Free Speech Movement and the issues that it raised for social and legal research, as well as other papers on campus protests and the structures of U.S. higher education.

Dissertation: The Social Situation of Large University Executives in the U.S. and the Perspectives on Authority Which They Develop as Responses to That Situation

Biography submitted on: 2003-06-02

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Kathryn P. Meadows-Orlans

Research Professor Emerita, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.

After four whirlwind years as a Berkeley graduate student, I took a soft-money position at Langley Porter/UC San Francisco conducting further research on my dissertation topic: social and psychological effects of deafness on children and families. The result was Sound and Sign: Childhood Deafness and Mental Health (1972) co-authored with psychiatrist Hilde Schlesinger. Together with articles from my dissertation, this helped change the education of deaf children. Formerly, all schools barred sign language for those younger than 13. Today, sign language combined with speech is standard practice from preschool onward.

By 1976 soft money was scarce, college tuition for two children expensive, and divorce had changed my financial outlook. I moved to a hard money research post at Gallaudet, the world?s only liberal arts college for deaf students. There I set up a research program, wrote Deafness and Child Development (1980), and worked happily until retiring in 1998, the gratified recipient of a festschrift.

Graduate school gave me some life-long friends: many contributed to Gender and the Academic Experience, Berkeley Women Sociologists (1994), edited with Ruth Wallace. It also gave me a measure of confidence and the research skills to produce a satisfying body of work. John Clausen?s mental health training program, life-span approach, and acceptance of an ?odd-ball? dissertation topic were especially valuable. In ?retirement,? I weave, am an active grandmother, a cookbook memoirist, and continue to work with Gallaudet colleagues: Parents and Their Deaf Children will appear in 2003, and Oxford will publish The World of Deaf Infants in 2004.

Dissertation: Family Interaction and Hearing Status of Parents in Relation to Self-Image of Deaf Children

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-10

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Hans-Eberhard Mueller

Swarthmore, 1970-78

Dissertation: Bureaucracy and Education: Civil Service Reforms in Prussia and England as Strategies of Monopolization.

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Whitney Pope

Emeritus-Sociology-Indiana University

Dissertation: Emile Durkheim's Theory of Social Integration

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Richard Roman

Sociology-University of Toronto

Dissertation: Ideology and Class in the Mexican Revolution: A Study of the Convention and the Constitutional Congress

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Robin Room

Dissertation: Governing Images of Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Structure, Sources and Sequels of Conceptualizations of Intractable Problems

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Janet W. Salaff

Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

My thesis researched Chinese family formation, supervised by Kingsley Davis. From my perch in Hong Kong, I tried to do a minisurvey people using topical questions, on people that no longer lived in China. I discovered that asking people their views of what would have happened if they had remained in China [what would have happened in their lives if they had not done what they did do] was troubling to me and them. I really had to do participant observation. So I retooled myself in interpretive sociology with a structural bais. I have studied Chinese family formation with interviews and participant observation ever since.

My best known book is WORKING DAUGHTERS OF HONG KONG, which pioneered the life study method on a previously overlooked population of factory girls. I have also done research on the Chinese diaspora elsewhere (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Inner Mongolia). I am currently writing a book on PRC immigrants to Toronto, looking at labor market adaptation, entrepreneurial activities, family economies and child care opportunities and responsibilities of this newest outreach of the Chinese diaspora. With my new husband Arent Greve (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration), I am applying concepts of social networks and social capital to understand why skilled immigrants have trouble getting jobs in Toronto. I learned in Berkeley not to "blame the victim, " and I am trying to give a voice to well trained Chinese in Toronto that are diminished by their efforts to develop their capacities in North America.

Dissertation: Youth, Family, and Political Control in Communist China

Website: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~salaff

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-26

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Mark Sanford

Independent Writer, Researcher and Consultant, Mark Sanford Associates

I graduated with the Ph.D. in 1969 and went off for a first teaching job at the University of Santa Clara. I had been radicalized by the student movements of the sixties and while I was initially headed for a job at a so called big ten school, I ended up at much smaller venue due in part to my anger at my professors for being on the wrong side during those tumultuous days. Neil Smelser, Erving Goffman and Marty Trow were my mentors. Trow was marvelous in his supervisionof my dissertation.

Having received absolutely no training on how to teach, I was totally unprepared for the boredom and indifference of students in my sociology classes at Santa Clara. So I developed a style of teaching that I came to call 'experiential sociology'. It consisted of designed experiences that I and students developed and then implemented and then documented using multi media formats. I carried on this approach at my next teaching job at Stockton State College in New Jersey after getting the boot at Santa Clara for participating in a disuption of a ROTC ceremony after Nixon went into Cambodia.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, I never could decide, I never was able to convince the administrators at Stockton State of the value of experiential sociology and thus I was denied tenure at that institution. Fortunately, my father, Nevitt Sanford, the founder of the Wright Institute in Berkeley, found a spot for me at the institute where I took up residence for three years in the late 1970s. Next it was out into the world of business and the discovery of my calling.

I fell into a real estate office in Montclair in the early 80's when interest rates were 19 percent and the market was flat. My sales manager told me to go out and make cold calls so that if and when the market turned I would have some customers. Nobody else in the office was making those calls; I went out and tried and found it very difficult, embarrassing and humiliating. And hence the question that all my years at Berkeley taught me how to ask: What is there in us that resists reaching out to strangers with our proposition? That is, why is it so hard for most people to make cold calls to strangers, to bridge the social gulf between themselves and strangers when there is no third party introduction. This is in business to business calls, where the phone is used to set up appointments.

I became of a student of the problem. I researched the literature, overcame the reluctance myself and ended up teaching public seminars on how to overcome call avoidance. Now I have a web site, www.coldcalling.com where I market training materials on business development and coach people on how to reach out to strangers with their business proposition. I have written a book on the topic, Fearless Cold Calling. And my next book will be on reluctance in other arenas: stage fright, writer's block, fear of public speaking and self promotion. I plan a second web site: reluctance. org.

UC Berkeley sociology gave me the willingness to write and do research and as a result I have been able to leverage those strengths in ways that have greatly aided the growth of my business.

Dissertation: Making Do in Graduate School: Graduate Students' Modes of Accommodation to Assessment

Website: www.coldcalling.com

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-29

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Matthew R. Speier

Dissertation: Socialization and Social Process in Children's Conversations

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Metta W. Spencer

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Marty Lipset was my most influential mentor, since I was his research assistant five years at Berkeley and Harvard. I became a peacenik in Berkeley, though my status as a single mom then inhibited my activism. After I came to Toronto in 1971 my career was divided between two concerns revising my successful introductory textbook, Foundations of Modern Sociology (of which I produced ten different editions over the years) and my commitment to peace studies as professor, researcher, journalist, and activist.

I have edited Peace Magazine since 1985 and write for it; I created a peace and conflict studies program at my college and administered it for 14 years until I retired five years ago; and I have produced books on such peace-related topics as women in post-Communism; separatism; and the lessons of Yugoslavia.

At conferences in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union I discovered that the international peace movement had extraordinary influence on Soviet military policy, especially under Gorbachev, and began documenting these effects. My interviewing of officials was interrupted for several years after I was deported for associating with dissident peace activists. Fortunately, I was able to help them more from Canada, for the prime minister sent observers to a trial with favorable effects.

Since retiring I am writing a book on the serious uses of entertainment. Part I is theoretical and Part II empirically explores the moral, emotional, and physiological effects of episodic television dramas.

Dissertation: Political Behavior of University Students in India

Website: metta.spencer.name

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-02

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Mely G. Tan

Atmajaya University - Indonesia[?]

Dissertation: Social Mobility and Assimilation: The Chinese in the United States

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Mary G. Taylor

Mary G. Taylor has passed away.

Dissertation: Some Structural Limitations to Conflict Resolution in a Religious Organization

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Simon M. Teitler

Dissertation: The Algerian Bureaucracy after Independence

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Ruth A. Wallace

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, George Washington University

I arrived at Berkeley in the fall of 1963, after completing my B.A. at Immaculate Heart College (1961), and M.A. in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame (1963). My key interests ? theory, religion, and education ? were sharpened in courses taught by Neil Smelser, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Blumer, Reinhard Bendix, Nathan Glazer, and by my many discussions with Erving Goffman.

After graduation from Berkeley in 1968, I taught at Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, run by members of my religious community. In 1970 I accepted a position at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

My first book on gender issues was an edited book, Feminism and Sociological Theory (1989). Over the years, two Berkeley colleagues were my coauthors: Shirley Hartley (1988) and Kathryn Meadow Orlans (1994). Kay and I were pleased to discover that our book, Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists, was the inspiration for Michael Burawoy?s project.

Among my other publications were a theory text, Contemporary Sociological Theory, coauthored with Alison Wolf, and two books from my research on leadership changes in Catholic parishes: They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women (1992) and They Call Him Pastor: Married Men in Charge of Catholic Parishes (2003). I am convinced that George Washington University was a good ?home? for my teaching and research over thirty-two years, and I am indebted to the Berkeley professors and graduate students who were a major influence on the shaping of my career.

Dissertation: Some social Determinants of Change of Religious Affiliation

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-28

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R. S. Warner

Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago

Having earned all my degrees at Cal (BA, MA, PhD), I am quite thoroughly stamped with the Berkeley experience, not only in sociology (Neil Smelser, Reinhard Bendix, Guenther Roth, Leo Lowenthal, Kenneth Bock, William Kornhauser, Erving Goffman, Aaron Cicourel, the Berkeley Journal, and my Fellow graduate students) and other disciplines such as history (Carl Schorske), political science (Sheldon Wolin) and english (Gardner Stout), but also with the movements (anti-HUAC, Civil Rights, FSM, AFT, anti-war and TWLF) and above all the exuberant, questing spirit of the place in the ?60s. My training in what we grandly called ?theory? not only got me every teaching job I have ever held (Sonoma State, UC Berkeley, Yale, UIC). It also prepared me later to master the field of research (sociology of religion) in which I now work but was not trained. The theory taught, debated, and modeled at Berkeley instilled in me the convictions that theories were plural, that every theory had to be interrogated for its meaning as well as its truth, that theorists were answerable to empirical reality, that empirical reality was always changing, and that ?empirical? did not only mean ?quantitative.? If my work has shaped the world, it is through my mentoring of succeeding generations of students and bringing to light neglected corners of the social world (most recently, the religious institutions of post-1965 immigrants).

Dissertation: The Methodology of Max Weber's Comparative Studies

Website: www.uic.edu/depts/soci/yrp

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-09

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Richard Weisman

Associate Professor in Law and Society Program, York University, Canada

I came to Berkeley in 1963 with the naive faith that lived experience and social perceptions could be recorded on punch cards with nothing lost in the translation. Fours years later, when I left to work in New Jersey, my assumptions about the availability of the external world had been badly shaken on moral and methodological grounds. If the pursuit of sociology was inextricably value-laden, was our privilege to speak as scientists a sham? And, if we relied in an unexamined way on common sense to ground our insights and test our theories, were we the emperors without clothes? What happened in between was immersion in the legendary Berkeley of the mid-sixties - the rise of ethnomethodology and my succumbing to its subversive charms, countless discussions with fellow grad students about the early R.D. Laing, and the intellectual ferment of a major theoretical reorientation in deviance- as well as exposure to social movements that were upending familiar categories of race, gender, and sexuality. It was a blessing and a curse but ultimately more of a blessing. In Berkeley, I saw the future before it arrived elsewhere - but the intensity and instability drove me to seek sanctuary in the East and ultimately in Canada. My career has been interdisciplinary to say the least- my dissertation was intended to apply sociology to history but overshot the mark and when it was published(in revised form) got lots of attention among historians but was ignored in sociology. I went back to school in 1982 and got a law degree in 1985. My research and teaching has since been focussed on analyzing legal discourse- as the great normalizing language- and placing it in historical and sociological context.

Dissertation: Witchcraft in 17th Century Massachusetts: The Construction of a Category of Deviance

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-12

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Angelo A. Alonzo

Associate Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University

I arrived at Berkeley midyear in 1964, after graduating from San Francisco State College. Being a Mexican-American born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, going to graduate school at Berkeley was an intimidating experience in terms of the repute of the faculty and the backgrounds of fellow students, who were from all over the country, as well as being bright, articulate and especially well read. The intellectual environment of Berkeley provided an exceptional opportunity to be a symbolic interactionist, a structuralist or a Marxist and to move fluidly among these ideologies. Blumer, Bendix, Glock, Goffman, Matza, Clausen, Lowenthal, Smelser and Selznick created an intellectual environment rich in ideas and embracing of theoretical exploration.

In the midst of this intellectual feast, however, two events proved exciting, yet disruptive. The first was the Free Speech Movement, and the second was the Vietnam War and its protests. For those of us who experienced the former, I think we were different students than the cohorts before us, for no matter what we focused on in our individual studies, we were all students of social movements, institutions and politics. Unfortunately, some of the cohort did not survive -- finding the Era of the 60?s too disruptive and chaotic. As a first year student it was difficult knowing whether to cross the picket lines or not, and if you did, not knowing whether the faculty would be in class.

The second event was the Vietnam War. My time at Berkeley was cut short because I selected an alternative service rather than be drafted. In one respect it was beneficial because I was assigned to NIH and was able to collect dissertation data. Yet, I missed not being at Berkeley with my cohort, fellow students and the faculty. John Clausen, however, was the most reliable distant dissertation advisor anyone could have. He was so quick in reading chapters I called him ?The Flash.?

I completed my dissertation while at De Pauw University and when finished I came to Ohio State University where I have enjoyed a quiet career of health research and teaching greatly informed by my work with Blumer and Goffman and my all too brief years at Berkeley.

Dissertation: Illness Behavior During Acute Episodes of Coronary Heart Disease

Website: http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/aaa/

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-02

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Jack M. Bloom

Indiana University, Northwest

Dissertation: Civil Rights: The Emergence of a Movement

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Randall A. Collins

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

I came to Berkeley in summer 1964. The previous year I'd been a grad student in psychology at Stanford; I was interested in personality and cognition but they assigned me to work in a rat lab, so I decided to switch to sociology across the Bay. Spring and summer 1964 were the time the civil rights movement hit the North. There had been big sit-in demonstrations and mass arrests in San Francisco to integrate hiring at auto row and the downtown hotels. At Berkeley I joined campus CORE, and through it met some Trotskyite "cadres" with whom I took part in various clandestine plottings. CORE, along with SNCC and a red-diaper-baby outfit called SLATE, were developing a plan to picket UCB in the fall to integrate their hiring.

UC beat us to the punch. We had the custom of setting up tables on the sidewalk at the Telegraph Ave. entrance to campus to drum up support for our sit-ins; the university (apparently under local pressure) tried to force us off the sidewalk. In response we took the offensive and set up our tables in front of Sproul Hall, and waited to get arrested. I was in the group of 20 or so at the tables when the campus police brought in a patrol car to arrest one of us, who was not registered as a student that term. It was a big tactical error, because we'd been doing non-violent sit-ins all summer, and we spontaneously sat down to block the wheels and trapped the car. The rest is history -- big crowds gathered, various people started getting up on top of the car to make speeches (thereby making a reputation with the media as if they were the 'leaders' of the movement), the fraternity boys came down in the middle of the night to try to break up our demo; next day the Oakland police showed up in menacing formation, revving their motorcycle engines like a bunch of Hell's Angels, whereupon a last minute agreement was reached. And so on. I was on the coordinating council of the FSM, the coalition of campus organizations that came out of that confrontation; went to innumerable rallys; got arrested inthe Sproul Hall sit-in; in the next few years, got heavily involved in the anti-war movement. Then when the non-violent movement got hijacked by the more violent and doctrinaire wing, I gravitated, like many others, into the psychedelic wing of the counterculture, got interested in Asian religions and psychotherapy groups. Good choice, I think; some of those who stuck with the political trajectory disappeared into Weatherman and a whiff of dynamite.

Through all this, somehow I managed to go to classes, soaking in the influence of a very inspiring group of sociologists: among the most impressive to me personally were Blumer, Goffman, Philip Selznick, and Leo Lowenthal. I worked as an R.A. for Joseph Ben-David, then visiting from the Hebrew University, and got launched on a series of publications in the sociology of science; this early work, decades later, culminated in my 1998 historical-comparative book The Sociology of Philosophies. I was in a group of graduate students putting together a reader in comparative political sociology, franchised out by Reinhard Bendix as editor; writing up the theoretical chapter for the volume launched me on a path of developing a left-wing version of Weber as a multi-dimensional theory of social conflict. Putting together Weberian conflict theory with the radical micro-sociology inspired by Goffman, led to my 1975 book Conflict Sociology; systematizing the micro-macro connection led to subsequent work including my 2004 book Interaction Ritual Chains. I did my dissertation under Harold Wilensky, analyzing comparative organizational data to show that rising educational requirements for employment were not due to technologically-driven demand for skills, but to changing standards of cultural respectability; this later became my 1979 book The Credential Society.

I left Berkeley in 1968 and received my PhD the following year. My career has taken me to Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, UCSD, Univ. of Virginia, UCR, and Univ. of Pennsylvania, with visiting stints at Chicago, Harvard, and Cambridge, and at various universities and institutes in Europe, China, and Japan. Taking my own argument against educational credentialism seriously, I dropped out of the academic world for a while in the late 70s and early 80s, published a novel, The Case of the Philosophers' Ring, and did a lot of free-lance writing. My intellectual trajectory was laid down by the time I left Berkeley; the rest has been largely extensions. I'm still working on it; my next book is a radically micro-sociological theory of Violent Conflict.

Dissertation: Education and Employment: Some Determinants of Requirements for Hiring in Various Types of Organizations

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-13

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Harold S. Jacobs

Sociology-SUNY-New Paltz

Dissertation: The Personal and the Political: A Study of the New Left

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Robert E. Kaffer

Executive Assistant to the President, Regis University

Dissertation: Contemporary Witchcraft: A Sociological Examination of Witches and of Their Practice and Concept of Witchcraft

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Jae-on Kim

University of Iowa

Dissertation: The Future of Social Inequality: Meritocratic Caste or Open Society

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Barbara B. Lal

Affiliated-Sociology-UCLA

Dissertation: Robert E. Park on Race, Ethnicity and Urbanization: A Study of the Chicago School of American Sociology, 1914-1936.

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Charles R. Leinenweber

Sociology - CSU Los Angeles

Dissertation: Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class Movement, 1864-1919

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Stephen A. Longstaff

Sociology-York Univ. Canada

Dissertation: The New York Intellectuals: A Study of Particularism and Universalism in American High Culture

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Samuel P. Oliner

Emeritus-Sociology-Humboldt State

Dissertation: The Political and Social Attitudes of Black and Jewish Small Businessmen

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Gail M. Omvedt

Writer, Research, and Activist

I was born in Minneapolis, went to Carleton College, and came out to Berkeley only after my first year in India, in 1963-64, returning to India in 1970-71 to do my Ph. D. dissertation and then to finally ?settle? there in 1978. So I have taken something of the ?great years? of the 60s from Berkeley to India ­ and vice versa! When trying to combine living in India and teaching at San Diego didn?t work, I quit and went to India. I had married into a middle caste (?Bahujan?) ?rich peasant? farming family in western India and have ?settled? in the large ?village? of Kasegaon (my daughter calls it a ?town? in her poems but by Indian definition it?s a village) in southern Maharashtra, with Bharat and other members of an Indian joint family. I?ve been an Indian citizen since 1983.

The social movements I?ve been involved with included the Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental movements, farmers? and women?s movements, but at present I?m most active in the anti-caste movement. To tell the truth, I am a kind of ?mother figure? (along with one other American, Eleanor Zelliot) to many Dalits. One way of putting the problems people of my category has been expressed by one Indian friend ­ ?I don?t have an address.? I?ve had a variety of occupations, which might be described as ?upscale unorganized sector? jobs. Most recent is a three-year position as Senior Fellow at Teen Murti in Delhi (a prestigious place and it has the advantage that I don?t have to be there very much of the time but with no computer facilities).

My most important books include, most recently a forthcoming really wild book that falls in between ?activist journalism? and ?expert scholarship?, Buddhism in India; Challenge to Brahmanism and Caste; I?m also getting into translation from Marathi ­ Growing Up Untouchable: A Dalit Autobiography, you can use it for all kinds of introductory courses!

Dissertation: Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The NonBrahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-14

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Douglas A. Parker

Sociology-Cal State Long Beach

Dissertation: Educational Conflict: An Application of Theory to Struggle in a State University

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Jane E. Prather

Professor of Sociology, CSU Northridge

I've hesitated to write this because I have conflicting feelings about my years at Berkeley. On the one hand, they were very exciting and yet ,very traumatic times. While some professors were outstanding as lecturers (Blumer, Goffman, Smelser) others (unnamed) were arrogant, if not abusive towards students. The challenges of the various social movements meant we were sociology students in action not just students in the classroom.

I was originally not admitted to UCB and I went to see Blumer who was chair to see what I could do. He called every member of the graduate committee in front of me and asked "WHY?" Finally, he slammed the phone down and said,"That's no reason!" He said that some members didn't want to admit me because I was married! (This was 1964). Blumer not only admitted me but arranged for a reduced out-of-state tuition fee for my excellent academic record as an undergraduate and M.A. from Kansas. Isn't that a great story about the giant!

Sociology like other academic disciplines maintained a very traditional outlook which meant studying society from a masculine perspective. I never had a female professor of Sociology! There were no tenured women faculty at UCB. In 1968 I audited the first sociology undergraduate course dealing with women's issues taught by an adjunct faculty Pauline Bart. Nevertheless, I now recognize that my challenging experiences as a graduate student and as a mother of a young child,during those Berkeley years led to my career focusing on women's issues.

I am a professor (and former department chair) at California State University, Northridge, where I designed the courses in Sociology of Gender, Gender and Work and team taught the first women studies course "Sex Role Stereotypes" in 1971. My research and by political life have focused on women's issues, especially dedicated to assisting women in the professions. Hopefully, I have helped succeeding generations of women sociologists.

Dissertation: Customers vs. Tellers: An Analysis of the Setting, Players, and Issues of Banking Transactions

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-18

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Harriet B. Presser

Sociology-University of Maryland

Dissertation: Sterilization and Fertility Decline in Puerto Rico

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Robert D. Retherford

Senior Fellow - East-West Center-HNL

Dissertation: Analysis of Trends in Sex Mortality Differentials in Developed Countries

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Eliezer Rosenstein

Eliezer Rosenstein passed away in 1991

Obituary of Eliezer Rosenstein taken from Publication of Technion University


Eliezer Rosenstein was born in Israel (Palestine), was married to Yehudit and had one son. As a young man he participated in youth movement activities and in the Hagana, and fought during the War of Independence in the Gallil. After completing his B.A. studies he served as personal secretary to the Minister of Education, and with the completion of his M.A., he became Personnel Director of an industrial enterprise. This professional experience served him well when he joined the staff of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion as a Research Associate in 1961. He advanced through the academic ranks, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1986.

Eliezer Rosenstein was intensively involved in establishing the Area of Behavioral Sciences and Management at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, and especially in the field of Labor Relations and Human Resource Management. In these fields, he guided about twenty graduate students in their M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. Eliezer Rosenstein published extensively in the professional literature, focusing primarily on issues of participation, manpower management, industrial democracy, quality of work life, and labor relations. In these fields he was recognized internationally. He had particular interests in the maritime industry, and was involved in the benchmarking study of Israeli maritime manpower.

His professional expertise also came to expression in numerous consulting activities in the Israeli industry and in membership in various public committees.

Eliezer Rosenstein filled most of the administrative positions at the faculty, such as Head of the Graduate Committee, Associate Dean of Research, Head of the Behavioral Sciences and Management Area, and of the Industrial Management Area. He also served on major Technion-wide committees. Professionally he was highly active in the Industrial Relations Research Association of Israel, where he served as President during 1984-1986. He was a member of the Management Board of the Israeli Management Center and the Israeli Sociological Association.

Beyond his academic activities, Eliezer had wide cultural interests, loved art and literature. These contributed to his well-rounded, knowledgeable personality.

At the faculty, his integrity, human understanding, and commitment, made him a highly valued colleague, whose advice, support and negotiating skills were invaluable.

His premature death due to a long-lasting disease is deeply mourned by all who knew him.

Dissertation: Ideology and Practice of Workers' Participation in Management: Experience in Israel, Yugoslavia and England

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-08

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June L. Sklar

June L. Sklar has passed away.

Dissertation: European Nuptuality: Marriage Patterns in Perspective

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John Til

Professor of Urban Studies and Community Planning, Rutgers University, Camden.

I arrived in Berkeley in 1973 after living most of my life in the Illinois and Tennessee, having previously studied at Swarthmore, North Carolina, and the London School of Economics. I had never seen anything like the fog, the bay, the Free Speech Movement, and the arrests. Within the Department, Nat Glazer proved a careful adviser and I passed three of five required courses by exemption exam before classes began. Later that year, Leo Lowenthal let my skimpy German by for the second language.

I wanted to reform the theory of pluralism, and hung onto as many words as I could in a joint course offered by Kornhauser and Selznick. But as the year wore on, several of my mentors left for other positions, having taken the "wrong" side in the FSM conflict. And several others went through massive changes of political and personal life, rendering them of little use as doctoral advisers. I remember one grim summer in Berkeley when I worked on a dissertation proposal to absolutely no avail, finding solace in radio broadcasts of the games of my beloved baseball Giants. Like so many other students, my doctoral work was ultimately redeemed by the ever-solid support and counsel of Bob Blauner. In 1970, after a year of teaching at Purdue and five years at Swarthmore, I was awarded my Berkeley doctorate.

I went on to build a career in an urban studies department at the Camden campus of Rutgers University, to write or edit nine books (mostly in voluntary action research, which I helped develop as an interdisciplinary field), to edit the major journal in that field for 12 years, and to win a career award from ARNOVA. I use my sociology now in action research on youth as resources, both in the U.S. and in Northern Ireland.

Dissertation: Becoming Participants: Dynamics of Access Among the Welfare Poor

Website: www.crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-02

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Paul Wong

Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University

Dissertation: The Role of Radical Political Consciousness in Student Political Activism

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James L. Wood

James L. Wood passed away on 2007-04-18

James L. Wood A beloved husband, father, friend and mentor for many, died April 18, 2007 at the age of 65 with family at his side. Jim grew up in a vibrant, diverse North Oakland neighborhood where he attended Santa Fe Grammar School, Woodrow Wilson Junior High and Oakland Tech High. He had many fond memories of participating in Oakland police athletic leagues, swimming at Forest Pool, attending 49er and Cal football games with his father and brother, and spending summers at his family\'s cabin in Boulder Creek. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, with a major in sociology. He attended Berkeley throughout the \'60s which influenced his decision to specialize in issues related to social movements and political sociology. He formed many lifelong friendships during his time on campus. Upon completion of his doctoral studies he taught two years at UC Riverside before moving to San Diego State University, where he remained for 30 years. He was regarded as a very supportive teacher and mentor by his students, and encouraged many to pursue further graduate or professional education. He was the author of several influential books in his field including \"Sources of American Student Activism,\" \"Social Movements: Development, Participation and Dynamics,\" and \"Sociology: Traditional and Radical Perspectives.\" In addition to teaching, he served as chair of the Sociology Department from 1991-2000, served on the legislative committee for the California Faculty Association, and was a cofounder of the Faculty Coalition for Public Higher Education, a group dedicated to achieving funding stabilization for the state\'s public colleges and universities. Following retirement, Jim resettled in Berkeley with his wife Patsy. Jim was a wonderful father and husband who greatly enjoyed family life and always welcomed friends of his children into his home. Friends fondly recall his warm smile, terrific sense of humor, loyalty, tolerance, and how he cared so deeply about sociology, higher education, and social and political justice. He is survived by his loving wife; daughter, Ann of Berkeley; and son, Jeff of Los Angeles.

San Fransisco Chronicle, April 25, 2007



AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I have taught in the Department of Sociology at San Diego State University since 1975 and was Chair from 1991-2000. Until 1991 I taught and researched in the areas of social movements and political sociology, as well as taught statistics and methodology. I have written several books and articles, including The Sources of American Student Activism, and Social Movements: Development, Participation, and Dynamics (with Maurice Jackson), as well as articles on collective behavior for the Annual Review of Sociology (with Gary T. Marx), and the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This focus changed significantly in 1991, lasting to the present in 2002, when I became involved in the struggles of higher education. Whereas I still teach and do research in social movements and political sociology, my interests have become increasingly centered on problems of higher education, where I have focused on academic and applied - including legislative - solutions to such problems as budget cuts, reduction of tenure-track faculty, distance learning, copyright ownership of courses, and the increasing corporate influence over the university.

All of this has Berkeley origins. I was an undergraduate and graduate student in Sociology at Berkeley, taking courses with most of the well-known professors then, including Neil Smelser, Bob Blauner, Bob Somers, Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman, David Matza, Reinhard Bendix, and William Kornhauser. I was also exposed to the early-1960s protests over civil rights, the death penalty, and nuclear weapons, which gave me a political as well as academic education.

My first day of graduate school in Sociology, October 1, 1964, was the beginning of the Free Speech Movement. The lessons from the FSM ? and later Vietnam protests ? were invaluable in 1992 when I helped restore 9 academic departments which were targeted for elimination at SDSU in the budget crisis of the early-1990s, assisted by much appreciated support from Neil Smelser and several other members of the Berkeley faculty.

Dissertation: Political Consciousness and Student Political Activism

Biography submitted on: 2009-09-21

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Nigel J. Young

Peace Studies-Colgate Univrsity

Dissertation: The Nation State and War Resistance

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1965

Carlo Caldarola

Carlo Caldarola has passed away.

Dissertation: Non-Church Christianity in Japan: Western Christianity and Japan's Cultural Identity

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Ruth B. Dixon-Mueller

Consultant and Coffee Farmer, Costa Rica.
Former Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Berkeley in the sixties. What an amazing time that was for a politically naïve girl from Willowdale Ontario. I did my undergraduate work at Berkeley with some of the best: Smelser, Lipsett, Glazer, Matza, Kornhauser, Skolnick, and an honor seminar with Ken Bock. On to graduate school to study population and urbanization with Petersen, Davis, Blake, Goldscheider and others. Tempted by an international career in the population field, I chose marriage and teaching instead and spent the next 18 years at UC Davis. Then, in the midst of grading midterms one weekend, I realized I wanted to get another life. I resigned from Davis in 1988 and in 1992 moved to Costa Rica with Norma Wikler (Berkeley 1973) to grow coffee and organic pineapples for export.

My sociological obra (aka oeuvre) involves writing and consulting in the area of women?s rights and marriage/fertility/family planning; women?s employment; and sexual and reproductive health, with a special interest in South and Southeast Asia. A few books along the way, including Rural Women at Work: Strategies for Development in South Asia (1978); Women?s Work in Third World Agriculture (1985); and Population Policy and Women?s Rights (1993). I still consult with organizations such as the International Women?s Health Coalition in New York and, most recently, WHO, and have just finished a new book on Abortion and Common Sense. Toucans croak in the trees and an iguana waddles past the open door as I write. Costa Rica is pura vida.

Dissertation: The Social and Demographic Determinants of Marital Postponement and Celibacy: A Comparative Study

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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Fredric L. DuBow

Fredric L. DuBow has passed away.

Dissertation: Justice for People: Law and Politics in the Lower Courts of Tanzania

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William G. Duncan

Dissertation: Social Mobility and Economic Development in Latin America

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Stephen R. Geiser

Dissertation: The State of the Scientific Community: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on the Sociology of Contemporary Basic Science

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Terry R. Kandal

Sociology-CSU Los Angeles

Dissertation: The Sociology of Knowledge: A Restatement

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Glenn A. Lyons

Dissertation: From Gabriel's House: Dropping-Out and Chaos in an Urban Setting

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Joel S. Meister

Professor of Medical Sociology, Arizona College of Public Health, Tucson

Dissertation: Coming of Age in Counter-Culture: Case Study of a Free School

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Robert G. Michels

Dissertation: Interrogative Politics: Repertoires of Response to the House Committee on Un-American Activities

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David Minkus

ISSC-UCB

Dissertation: Regional Lives: Local Lives - A Look at Transportation and Life Routines of Bay Area Residents

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James P. Mulherin

User Services-UCSC

Dissertation: The Sociology of Work and Organizations: Historical Context and Pattern of Development

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Blanca Muratorio-Posse

Professor Emerita, Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Dissertation: From Peons to Smallholders: Peasant Social and Political Participation in a Bolivian Community

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Homer E. Price

Emeritus Professor, Western Carolina University

Dissertation: Right-Wing Politics and Racism in America: The Wallace Movement, 1968

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Masa'aki Takane

Masa'aki Takane has passed away.

Dissertation: Factors Influencing the Mobility of the Japanese Political Elite: 1860-1920

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Jean Guy B. Vaillancourt

Professor of Sociology, University of Montreal

I entered the Ph.D. program in sociology at Berkeley in September 1965, spent four exhilarating years there, left for Montreal in 1969, and finally got my Ph.D in 1975. My thesis was published in 1981 by U.C. Press under the title Papal Power. Vatican Control Over Lay Catholic Elites and received over 25 quite good reviews. Since 1979, I have been assistant (1969-1976), associate (1976-1983) and full professor (1983- ) in the sociology department at the University of Montreal, which I chaired from 1984 to 1987. I was a visiting professor in four other Quebec Universities over the years, and also at the University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1997) and at the Architectural University in Hanoi, Vietnam (2000 and 2001).

From 1976 to 1980, I was city councillor in the town of Dunham, Qué, where I had built my own house in the early seventies. I have a daughter, Véronique, who is now a practicing social worker and psychotherapist in Houston, Texas. My favorites activities consist of taking care of my tree farm in Dunham, writing in the areas of sociology of the environment and of religion, mentoring students and/or activists and travelling abroard to visit family and friends, to give papers at conferences and lectures at various universities.

My major fields of interest are political sociology, sociological theory, sociology of religion and especially sociology of the environment which I call ecosociology. Over the years, I have authored, edited or co-edited 25 books or special issues of journals, nearly all in French, mostly in the field of ecosociology. Although my original training was in organizational and political sociology, and sociology of religion, my more recent books have been on social movements (peace and especially green movements), and in ecosociology (sustainable development, human dimensions of climate change,energy, acid rain, water). I have remained quite involved in peace, environmental and international solidarity groups over the years, and I have labored to promote interdisciplinary and socially-relevant approaches in the social sciences. I have started thinking about retirement, but I am not quite ready for that yet, because I love my work and feel I have a few more productive years ahead of me.

My four years at Berkeley were among the best years of my life, and I remain deeply grateful to my professors (Glock, Schurmann, Selznick, Bendix, Vallier, Smelser, Somers, Lowenthal, Blumer and others) for their dedication, and to many students in my cohort who have also helped and inspired me, and whose friendship remains precious to me to this day. The Sociology Department at Berkeley was the place to be for a young sociologist in the late sixties, and by what I can now see and hear, I still think it remains to this day one of the best places in the world to get a graduate education in sociology.

Dissertation: Papacy and Laity: The Vatican's Control over Catholic Lay Elites at the Supra-Diocesan Leval

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-31

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Robin V. Wolf

Dissertation: The Value Change Theory of Female Educational Participation and Professional Employment: A Critique in the Light of the Evidence

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1966

Jeffrey L. Berlant

Psychiatrist, Boise, Idaho.

Dissertation: Medical Professionalism and Monopolistic Institutionalization in the US and Britain

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Ted K. Bradshaw

Ted K. Bradshaw passed away on 0000-00-00

Ted Bradshaw, a UC Davis professor of community development who helped California communities grapple with base closures, energy issues and creating healthy social systems, died Aug. 5 (2006) while jogging near his home in Oakland. He was 63.

Trained as a rural sociologist, Bradshaw came to the Department of Human and Community Devel-opment as an assistant professor in 1995 after a nearly 20-year career as a researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley. He made full professor in June.

Bradshaw was a leader in the areas of rural development, community development and energy policy. Most recently, he chaired the effort to establish the new Center for the Study of Regional Change and was appointed last year as director of the Gifford Center for Population Studies, which focuses on population issues in California\'s Central Valley.

Written by Susanne Rockwell for UC Davis, News and Information

Dissertation: The Impact of Education on Leisure: Socialization in College

Biography submitted on: 0000-00-00

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Elliott P. Currie

Legal Studies - UC Berkeley (?)

Dissertation: Managing the Minds of Men: the Reformatory Movement, 1865-1920

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Peter P. Ekeh

Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, SUNY, Buffalo

Dissertation: Dreams and Society: A Sociological Analysis of Nigerian Dreams

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M.E. E. Foster

Independent Contract Writer and Researcher. Ashland, Oregon

I entered the sociology graduate program in 1966 in my mid-30s. I had a law degree and had been working in law-related jobs for ten years. From law school on, I had been fascinated by the curious nature of law, and I was looking for an appropriate academic discipline from which to study it from the outside. Berkeley in the late 1960s was an exhilarating place for me, although I found myself a full half generation out of synch with the passionate young Marxists who seemed to make up most of my classmates.

My most interesting academic experiences were courses with Erving Goffman; two historical studies I did (law of early Puritan Massachusetts; law in the French Revolution); my struggle to put together coherently the wildly different perspectives in social theory; and the field work for my thesis. I owe a debt of gratitude to Philip Selznick, Philippe Nonet and Sheldon Messinger for guiding my work.

It took me an unconscionably long time to get my Ph.D.; I did not finish until 1981. By that time much of my interest in both law and sociology had drained away and I was moving my life in very different directions. I moved from Berkeley to Ashland, Oregon in 1976. I met my present wife here. We started a business together, doing editing, research and contract writing. One client has been the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, for which we have written articles for one of its publications for many years. I am currently at work coediting a long and absorbing novel.

We have two children, a boy and a girl, 19 and 15, both great kids.

In many ways, life began for me at age 50 and has continued to be happy and surprising for the 23 years since. I am proud of my Berkeley degree and feel remiss that I have made no professional use of my sociology training, but that is the way my life has gone

I would be delighted to hear from any graduate school contemporaries.

Dissertation: Regulatory Activism: A Socio-Legal Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Biography submitted on: 2003-09-17

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David E. Greenwald

Professor of Sociology, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania.

Dissertation: Emile Durkheim's Contributions to the Sociology of Formal Organizations

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Carol L. Huffine

IHD-UC Berkeley

Dissertation: Interpersonal Relations and Suicidal Behavior

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John L. Kelley

Dissertation: Social Mobility in Traditional Society: The Toro of Uganda

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Mark A. Lutz

Emeritus Professor of Economics at University of Maine, Orono

Dissertation: The Equilibrium Industrial Wage Structure: An Analysis in Terms of Wage Theory

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Maurice Manel

Maurice Manel passed away on 1975-07-22

On July 22, 1975, Maurice Manel died in Montreal at the age of 35. A fertile, scholarly, and ironical mind, he is greatly missed by his friends at the University of California, Berkeley where he had just received his Ph.D.; his colleagues at Atkinson College of York University in Toronto; and those who knew him at Johns Hopkins and McGill, where he also did graduate work in sociology.

Maurice?s sociological interests were diverse. During the last few years of his life he was beginning a series of papers on what might be called the sociology of the extreme emotions. He was interested in the structural underpinnings of ecstasy, depression, feelings of vulnerability and intimidation, shyness, loneliness, etc. In contrast, his dissertation, which reflected an earlier concern with politics and survey methods, dealt with the conditions that would promote loyalty to the moral order of laissez-faire capitalism on the one hand and welfare-oriented capitalism on the other.

For all the complexities of his mind, Maurice remained loyal to certain passions of his Montreal boyhood ? Grade B movies, Borscht Belt comedians, hockey, football, chess, and the like. Similarly, although he never married, Maurice liked children and they responded to his warmth.

Maurice?s wit and humor enlivened many social gatherings. He was able to see absurdities and foibles in both himself and others ? truly a rare quality. It is thus with sadness that we make these remarks about this open, ardent, restless spirit who was our friend. Certainly our lives were enriched by having known him.

From: Footnotes (November, 1976) of the American Sociological Association, written by Ayad Al-Qazzaz, S.A. Longstaff, Samuel P. Oliner, and James L. Wood

Dissertation: Interpretations of the Changing Moral Order

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-19

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Alberto Martinelli

Dean and Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of Milan.

In 1966, with a Masters in Economics from the Bocconi University of Milan, I won a two-year Harkness fellowship that had several appealing features (it was prestigious and hard to get, it required foreign students to make a three months trip all around the U.S., and let winners choose where to study). I chose Berkeley because it had an impressive sociological faculty, an active student movement, and I wished to discuss with Smelser my translation and my introduction to the Italian edition of Parsons'-Smelser's Economy and Society. I had planned to spend the second year at Harvard, but I was so happy in Berkeley that I spent all the time there.

I finished my introduction to Economy and Society, I took a Masters Degree in Sociology and the Ph.D.orals and started working for my Ph.D. dissertation on Structural Contradictions and Organizational Response in American Higher Education. I did many other things, such as getting to know the complexities of American society, participating in antiwar marches, making several good friends among Berkeley students and professors, writing the first essay on Gramsci's thought ever to appear in a U.S. sociological journal -- the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, etc.

I came back to Berkeley, San Francisco and the Bay Area with my wife and son in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1981,1990 for a few months each year -- as visiting scholar at the Institute of International studies -- and a few other times on shorter trips. Berkeley's intellectual style left an imprint on my way of teaching and the way I conduct research and on my continuous effort to combine scholarly rigor and social responsibility.

My committment to international scientific cooperation in the International Sociological Association, my research interests, the academic path I took (Professor of Sociology and Political Science, and Dean of the School of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Milan), have all been in various degrees influenced by my experience at Berkeley.

Dissertation: Structural Contradictions and Organizational Response in American Higher Education

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-19

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Thomas H. Moore

Professor, Asbury College, Kentucky.

Plotting to avoid Vietnam, I went to U. Michigan where recent Berkeley graduate John Lofland convinced me to switch to Berkeley. I spent most of 1966-1968 on a spiritual/psychedelic journey, and was an indifferent student at best. After a year of world travel I returned briefly, but since I didn?t ?love? America I left it. Four years in South America, farming, and abusing my body, propelled me to a missionary hospital where, rather than dying, I was reborn. So I returned to Berkeley in 1974 and finished up with a study of ways Americans adapted to life in Ecuador under the amazing guidance of Arlie Hochschild. Still skeptical of the value of intellectual pursuits, I worked in K-12 education for 12 years in California, Oregon and Peru.

Returning from Peru, I spent three years researching and writing several books on Christian missions. My sociology (of religion and knowledge) was beginning to pay off! Then a four year stint as an intercultural communication trainer (experiential sociology!) led me back to academia.

I have invented my own sociology, (major influences: Dooyeweerd, Goudswaard, Girard, Ritzer, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Derrida, Ellul, Taoism, and of course Goffman, Durkheim and Weber ? not to forget the Bible and Alcoholics Anonymous) written an intro textbook (none of my books are published), and labor at prying students away from the postmodern condition (nothing) so they can be useful to their fellow humans. They have been! It has been rewarding! I?ll probably do this until I die.

Reading the other bios, I?m not that different. I teach with slides, music and video clips (documentaries, feature films, Simpsons) to avoid lectures. That way they pay attention. I never test; rather students have to perform ?experiments? using their sociological knowledge.

Being present at the birth of the culture war was the most profound way Berkeley affected me. The up-close observation of the quintessential Leftists has been invaluable for my teaching and writing. (I realize that their descendents deny that there is a culture war.)

The ?sociology? I have invented seems to click with my students, who come to Asbury College seeking a way to make the world a better place but, before they can become co-opted by conventional ?solutions? to human problems, form a new identity and commitment to being real and living real. But let me ask you, whom do you serve? Bob Dylan sang, ?you?re gonna have to serve somebody.? And we all do.

Dissertation: Americans in Equador: A Study of Adjustment

Biography submitted on: 2005-02-25

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John R. Sevier

John R. Sevier passed away on 2002-02-26

Obituary taken from The Arizona Engineer (University of Arizona)


John Sevier, former University of Arizona associate dean for external affairs at the College of Engineering and Mines, died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002. He was 67.

A celebration of John's life was held on March 4, in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building Auditorium. Sevier's wife, children, and many of his friends from the college and industry attended.

Sevier served as associate dean at UA for 10 years. In that role he worked closely with industry and helped coordinate numerous university/research partnerships involving faculty in the college.

The Industrial Advisory Council of the college expanded significantly in scope and size during his tenure. He was instrumental, with Charles Elliott at ASU, in developing the JACMET program, which provides continuing education opportunities for working engineers.

Sevier earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in petroleum engineering from Stanford University, received his masters in business administration from Harvard in 1961 and a doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974.

He retired from the UA in June 2000, and lived in Tucson with his wife, Peggy.

Dissertation: The Founding of the Cavendish Laboratory: A Case Study in the 19th Century Rise of Science

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-08

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Norma J. Wikler

Norma J. Wikler passed away on 2002-05-01

Norma arrived in Berkeley in the mid-sixties with an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan in nursing, which she hated. Having never taken a sociology course, she plunged into graduate school to study social movements and social change, inspired especially by Herbert Blumer. Active in the anti-war movement, Norma wrote her dissertation on ?Vietnam and the Veterans? Consciousness? with William Kornhauser and Arlie Hochschild as committee members.

Norma taught at UC Santa Cruz from 1971 to 1990. Her co-authored book Up Against the Clock: Career Women Speak on the Choice to Have Children (1979) and her articles on reproductive technology are still timely. Combining her sociological skills and activist concerns, she became founding director from 1980-82 of the National Judicial Education Program on Gender Bias in the Courts, a project of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and wrote extensively on women in the courts. She continued speaking, organizing conferences, and consulting with state task forces after moving to Costa Rica in 1992 to grow organic pineapples.

Norma was an intense, vital, funny person and a brilliant organizer. She never flagged in her commitment to the ?class struggle.? In 2001 she moved to New York to search for a place for herself in the cause, but it wasn?t there. Refusing to compromise, she took her own life on May 27, 2002. A bench in Central Park is dedicated to her memory. The plaque reads ?Norma Juliet Wikler. Outraged and Outrageous.?

Dissertation: Vietnam and the Veterans Consciousness: Pre-Political Thinking among American Soldiers

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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Will H. Wright

Sociology-University of Southern Colorado

Dissertation: Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of a Modern Myth

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Nadia H. Youssef

Researcher

Dissertation: Women Workers and Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Latin America and the Middle East

Biography submitted on: 2003-09-26

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1967

Christopher F. Beattie

Christopher F. Beattie has passed away.

Dissertation: Minority Men in a Majority Setting: Middle-Level Francophones at Mid-Career in the Anglophone Public Service of Candada

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Lois Benjamin

Hampton University

Dissertation: An Analysis of the Battle of the Sexes in the Black Community

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Joel G. Best

Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware

I arrived in Berkeley in 1967. I felt I had little in common with the other graduate students: I had just turned 21, while they seemed much older; I had spent my life in the Midwest, but they all seemed to come from one coast or the other; and they dismissed my liberal politics as wrongheaded. I had a fellowship in John Clausen's NIMH training program, which became my home within the department. Changes in the draft law had made my situation precarious; I rushed to complete my course work and my oral exams. In 1969, I resigned my fellowship and started teaching full-time.

The Berkeley department had been admitting dozens of graduate students each year, but graduating only a handful of Ph.D.s. It allowed great freedom--if you loved sociology and had a sense of direction, there were tremendous opportunities. The disadvantage, of course, was that you were on your own; most of us did not get much mentoring.

I have followed a fairly standard academic career. While at Berkeley, I became interested in deviance, and most of my research has centered around deviance and social problems. Currently, I am working on what I expect will be my 14th book. In working with my graduate students, I try to give them the sort of freedom I was granted, yet provide considerably more coaching than I received.

Dissertation: Moral Change: A Study of the Invention and Vindication of Deviance

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-13

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William C. Cockerham

Professor of Sociology,Medicine and Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Like many of us, my time at Berkeley was a watershed experience. My life course at this time took a direction into academia which has proven very satisfying, although I was uncertain in the beginning if this was what I really wanted. I arrived in Berkeley after four years as an Army officer and started off doing course work at Stanford as an exchange student. Given my military background and the political posture of the campus in the late 1960s and early 70s, I kept a relatively low profile as a student. I essentially just did my work mostly in sociology, but also jointly in a program with education and psychology with a specialization in social psychology. This was a time when structural-functionalism was slipping into decline and I became a strong symbolic interactionist believing this perspective contained the "truth" about social behavior. I took everything Herbert Blumer and Norman Denzin taught and Denzin chaired my dissertation committee. Anselm Strauss at UC San Francisco also helped considerably with my dissertation. I enjoyed courses with Phil Selznick and Neil Smelser has been an important influence as well. My time at Berkeley was well spent.

While in school, the sociology department at the University of Wyoming offered me a job and I took it because I wanted to live in the Mountain West. I volunteered to teach a course in medical sociology and having put a course together, found I had the basis for a book. I went on to publish a medical sociology textbook with Prentice-Hall in 1978. Fortunately, this book became the most widely-adopted text in the world on the subject, has been translated into Chinese and Spanish, and the ninth edition will be published in the summer of 2003. In the meantime, I joined the sociology department and medical school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975. In 1991, the University of Alabama at Birmingham offered me a great salary and the resources to pursue my research interests in return for helping build a Ph.D. program in medical sociology. We have over a dozen graduates and they all have good jobs.

My intellectual orientation has changed dramatically to embrace more of a macro view and apply it to structural influences on health lifestyles. Most of my research has been in Europe and more recently in the former socialist states of the old Soviet bloc. I have found the downturn in life expectancy under state socialism to be an important question and due more to social causes (unhealthy lifestyles of middle-age, working-class men) than medical factors. I have a book (Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe, Routledge, 1999) and several articles on the topic, and am now working with new data from several former Soviet republics from the Living Conditions, Lifestyles, and Health project funded by the European Union.

Dissertation: Status Passage and Cultism in the Military

Biography submitted on: 2003-04-01

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Howard S. Erlanger

Sociology-Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation: The Autonomy of Violence: An Empirical Examination of Sociological Theories of Aggression

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Simon W. Frith

Professor of Music, School of Arts, Culture, and Environment, University of Edinburgh

My first academic job was in the new and rapidly expanding Department of Sociology at Warwick University--I was appointed specifically to develop a joint history and sociology degree. After 15 years at Warwick I moved to Glasgow, at first to co-direct the John Logie Baird Centre for the Study of Film, Television and Music, and then to chair the Department of English Studies. After 12 years there, in 1999, I moved to Stirling University as Professor of Film and Media, which is where I am now. I still regard myself as a sociologist, though I haven't been in a sociology department--or journal--for 15 years now. Berkeley did two things for me: it gave me a proper grounding in European social thought (not something I'd got from Oxford); and it meant I was in the right place at the right time to become a rock critic. Much of my academic career (at least the most enjoyable part) has been devoted to the development of popular music studies.

Dissertation: Education, Industrialisation and Social Change: the Development of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Leeds, A Case Study in Historical Sociology

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-04

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Susan B. Garfin

Professor of Sociology, CSU, Sonoma

As a college freshman I made three vows: never to earn a Ph.D., never to study Sociology, and never to teach. With the help of UC, Berkeley, I violated all three. After completing my AB from Stanford in History in 1964 and my MA in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1965, I returned to my hometown, Berkeley, searching for a career. I took a job as a research assistant at the Institute of International Studies, working for the late Ivan Vallier and becoming close friends with sociology graduate students, Jim Wood and Norma Wikler, before I even considered earning a Ph.D. myself. In this environment I learned that Sociology was the field that would allow me to synthesize my love for history, my fascination with religion, and my interest in comparative societies and world politics. In 1967 I entered the Berkeley Ph.D. program which I completed in 1973. I owe much to the many faculty members who gave me time and inspiration?John Clausen, who lent me his office to write in, Robert Bellah, Leo Lowenthal, Ivan Vallier, and Neil Smelser who helped me through all stages of my Ph.D. (I must mention, too, David Mandelbaum from Anthropology and Joseph Levenson from History who also guided my comparative studies.) Herbert Blumer sent me to Sonoma State to apply for a teaching position in early 1970. Miraculously, Sonoma State hired me, and I have been teaching (in all of my beloved areas) there ever since.

Dissertation: Ecumenism and Modernization in American Protestantism

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-22

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Howard P. Greenwald

Professor of Management and Policy, University of Southern California

After finishing my Ph.D., I became Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, then Research Scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute, and finally Professor of Management and Policy at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. I'm also Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health. I have a nation-wide consulting practice in health care, policing policy, and minority issues. I commute between USC campuses in Los Angeles and Sacramento, and live in Seattle.

I've published two books on cancer treatment and survival. My most recent book, Health For All: Making Community Collaboration Work, is based on my experience as a practitioner and evaluator of community organization. I'm now completing a textbook on organization theory.
br> Berkeley provided me with the tools of the trade: Hal Wilensky, how to write scholarly narrative and grant proposals; Charles Glock, how to do surveys; Art Stinchcombe (by providing opportunity for practice), how to withstand criticism. For life-long perspective, I owe my fellow students: Ann Swidler for the dialectic; Richard Apostle for cool commentary on America; Russ Neuman for appreciation of empirical research; Steve Hart for general genius. The atmosphere of Berkeley in the 60s impressed me with the power of collective behavior over the individual. The outlook through which I see the world today, one of social, economic, and cultural competition, matured at Berkeley.

I believe I have helped bring the sociological perspective to unaccustomed precincts: hospital board and operating rooms; police headquarters; the city council; the business pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Sociology affects my family life. It informs (inflames?) discussions I have with my wife, a psychoanalyst, about the sources of human consciousness. It impacts my children, to whom I am teaching survey research techniques by assigning them jobs in my various projects. It provides my kids with a term they believe expresses the character of this work: "exploitation."

Dissertation: Economic Insecurity, Professional Values, and Political Ideology: A Study of Engineers and Scientists in California

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-29

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Stephen Hart

Frontier Science Technological Research

Dissertation: The Social Meanings of Faith

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El B. Hermassi

Minister of Culture, Tunisia

Dissertation: Leadership and Development: A Comparative Study of North African Societies

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S. S. Hetzler

Legal Secretary

Dissertation: Havoc and Mental Hospitalization Among Twenty Married Psychotics

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Reuven Kahane

Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Since completing of my Ph.D. in 1970, I have been affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

The main impact of Berkeley on me has been in both its radical, liberal mood and its academic discipline.

My main fields of research are: social change and modernization (particularly India), universities in non-western countries and youth cultures.

Dissertation: Higher Education and Integrative Entrepreneurship: The Case of India

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-24

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Peter D. Miller

Visual Artist,Kamakura, Japan

After graduating from Columbia College in 1967, I entered the Berkeley Sociology Department under a Ford Foundation Fellowship. In my first year there, I was attracted to the work of Erving Goffman and Nathan Glazer. Erving Goffman, perhaps best known as the author of 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,' was one of the most articulate lecturers I have ever heard. His ability to communicate complex ideas in plain English was a welcome relief from the jargon-ridden prose of many sociologists. And his sociology of everyday encounters and exploration of what we mean by common sense and shared understandings was a revelation of the richness of ordinary life. Nathan Glazer, in the very different field of public policy, offered an equally down-to-earth and common-sense approach to advancing understanding. I found a congenial atmosphere at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, where Philip Selznick and Sheldon Messinger assembled a fine inter-disciplinary group of scholars from law, political science, sociology, criminal justice, and other fields. Sheldon Messinger's death earlier this year was profoundly saddening.

My early years at Berkeley (1967 - 1969) coincided with the Vietnam War, which I opposed and in which I refused to serve. Students' occupation of 'People's Park' provoked University lawyers to advise violent confrontation with them, leading to riots and several days of helicopter-based tear-gassing of the campus. As a teaching assistant, I taught several classes at home when the atmposphere of the campus became too noxious. I volunteered for alternative service in 1969 and worked at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic and the San Francisco Health Department, first as a statistical clerk tabulating punch cards, then in the Environmental Health area. The latter was a fancy term for the bureau that supervised garbage collection, which was performed by the Sunset Scavenger Company. I received complaints from the public about garbage service and about various real or imagined threats to public health arising therefrom. These ranged from neighbors tossing garbage into one anothers' yards to interpretations of the rules for placement of garbage cans, to citizens claiming they were being gassed by unseen enemies. One organizational innovation that I am particularly proud of is the invention of a hearing procedure designed to listen to the complaints of aggrieved citizens. This enabled them to be heard with more gravitas than they would otherwise have been accorded.

Just days after completing my alternative service, while walking on the sidewalk on Bancroft Way, I was struck by a Buick driven by a well-known Berkeley heroin dealer. My leg was shattered and would have been lost save for the fine work done by surgeons at Cowell Hospital. There have since been a series of surgeries, and it is only last year that I have been able to walk normally. Nevertheless I completed the Ph D at Berkeley, served on the Board of the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, and wrote a dissertation on the gatekeeping functions of legal doctrine in the context of cases driven by social advocacy. The horrible injury I suffered, combined with other excesses of the time, inevitably influenced my political and social views, which over time evolved into a rejection of the prevailing ideologies. Already in the 1970s, incipient political correctness in the leading sociology departments made it clear to me that my parents had endowed me with the wrong skin color (white) and gender (male) for an academic career. Accordingly I embarked on a research and consulting path with Stanford Research Institute.

There I found that sociology was much in demand as a source of insight and knowledge that was novel from the perspective of governmental and private clients. The National Science Foundation, the EPA, the Department of Energy all wanted to know the social impact of their policies. Economic agencies, dissatisfied with traditional economic indicators, sought social indicators of success. Companies wanted to know what consumers were thinking, what values they should be pursuing or representing, how to address new markets, what the future held. I was not at all convinced that 'social science' had the tools necessary to satisfy these demands. But those with more confidence and perhaps less methodological scruple led the way, and the consulting business grew. I traipsed through the coal country of Wyoming and West Virginia in search of 'Energy Independence' for America, and helped the Brits, the Scots, the Canadians, the Kuwaitis, and the Arkansans with economic development. Who would have thought sociology was good for so many things?

Eventually Honda Motor Company sought advice on where to locate their first American factory. By chance this inquiry came to me, I wrote a proposal, was interviewed for the project by a Honda executive, and was awarded the contract within two weeks. I looked at numerous sites in the Midwest and recommended Columbus Ohio on the basis of a carefully constructed set of indicators. On my first visit to Japan I fell in love with the place and with my wife-to-be. We married, lived in California for a while, then relocated ourselves to Tokyo. There I started a consulting group for the Bank of America, helping companies in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries set up operations in Japan. While Japan was (and is) radically different from America, I found the transition to be manageable. I think my education in sociology was excellent preparation for integrating social change into everyday experience, and for putting observations of experience to practical use. Unlike those who made themselves miserable by trying to force everything into a mono-cultural mold, I found -- and still find -- the change refreshing and interesting.

My current occupation is artist/printmaker. I am the founder and proprietor of The Kamakura Print Collection (www.kamprint.com), a workshop dedicated to photogravure etching, printmaking, and publishing. The technique, developed in England and France in the 1830s, produces a unique range of tonality from the variable depth of etch and variety of inks and papers available. The original prints are in many museum and private collections, and may be seen (and purchased) at Japonesque in San Francisco, and at the other galleries and dealers listed at my website. The prints may also be ordered from me. (End of commercial.) My research interests these days involve the composition of inks used in 17th-century European workshops, and I am starting to mix some of these myself as an alternative to those that are commercially available.

Dissertation: Social Advocacy and the Legal Process

Website: www.kamprint.com

Biography submitted on: 2003-06-04

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Robert W. Miller

Robert W. Miller has passed away.

Robert William Miller arrived in Berkeley in 1967; he held a fellowship in John Clausen's NIMH Training Program in Social Structure and Personality. Bob's fellow students appreciated his insights and his wry sense of humor. He completed his dissertation-an ethnography of elementary school classrooms- in 1975. He taught at Coe College, and later at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Being located close to Three Mile Island made him interested in what he liked to call "man-made disasters." He joined Missouri's State Department of Health, and studied social responses to and medical effects of the dioxin poisoning of the town of Times Beach. Bob had struggled with health problems throughout his life, but died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1984. He was survived by his wife, Jackie, and two sons, Adrian and Aaron.

Dissertation: Elementary Schooling

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-04

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William R. Neuman

Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Let?s see, I arrived at Berkeley in 1967, which is just after the Free Speech Movement and just before the People?s Park era and the peak of the Vietnam protests. A good time to study sociology. I studied with Charlie Glock, Jeff Paige, Bill Kornhauser and Arthur Stinchcombe, and with a number of the faculty in political science at Berkeley and in communication at Stanford. I worked at the Survey Research Center on the NSF sponsored political alienation project which managed unknowingly to hire Emily Harris as a staff assistant for her secretarial skills. As I understand it Emily and her SLA associates actually kidnapped Patty Hearst (two blocks from the Center on Benvenue Ave) while Emily was still on the Center payroll. I don?t believe she managed to return to pick up her last paycheck. Interesting times.

I am currently the John D. Evans Professor of Media Technology at the University of Michigan on leave and serving as a senior advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy working on broadband policy and digital rights management issues.

My first job out of graduate school was in sociology at Yale. I left New Haven for MIT where I taught public policy and media technology in the Media Lab and department of political science for many years and then moved to Penn where I taught in the Annenberg School for Communication and Annenberg Public Policy Center in media policy.

My research and writing focuses on the twin areas of public opinion and communication policy. While I was at Berkeley I got interested in the dynamics of how the public manages to pay attention (or not) to fundamental political and policy issues. I guess I?m still at it. If I ever get this figured out, I?ll let you guys know.

Dissertation: Political Sophistication and Political Beliefs in Mass Publics

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-24

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Lillian B. Rubin

Psychotherapist, Writer, Public Sociologist

My entry into Berkeley?s graduate program in sociology when I was already a well-formed forty-two-year old adult proved to be a transforming event in unexpected ways. Until then I had lived the public life of a political activist and organizer, managing political campaigns in Southern California. And although the tumultuous political climate of my graduate student years (1968-72) gave me plenty of opportunity for political action, all of which I took, the years of study opened up the more private, scholarly part of myself that I hadn?t known very well before.

Seeing the world through the sociological lens came naturally to me, since, as a child of poverty, I understood very early how powerfully the social context determines life?s chances. But it was only in graduate school that I came to understand fully how closely the development of the self is tied to the institutional structures that frame our lives. That knowledge, however, left me with a series of questions: If that?s true, how does social change come about? Why and how do some people manage to break free of those structural forces? And how free are they? Questions that led me to enter a course of study and training in clinical psychology.

I?m probably one of the few people in the world who thought that the year spent writing her dissertation was one of life?s great moments because, in that private process of thinking and writing, I found a calling. In the ensuing years, I?ve taught from time to time, lectured all over the world, spent 12-15 hours a week doing psychotherapy, but my heart work has been in writing. I?ve produced eleven books, each in its own way an attempt to bridge the gap between sociology and psychology, to fill in the blanks that each discipline leaves to the other.

Dissertation: The Politics of Rage: School Desegregation and the Revolt of Middle America

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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Donald C. Stone

Academic Counselor and Sociology Teacher, Moraga/Rheem Extended Education Center

Dissertation: Enlightenment American Style: The Personal and the Social Significance of EST and the Human Potential Movement

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Ann Swidler

Professor of Sociology, UC, Berkeley

Berkeley shaped me even more after I left than while I was there as a graduate student. Robert Bellah, Reinhard Bendix, Arlie Hochschild, Neil Smelser, along with Leo Lowenthal?s informal seminar on culture and an inspired group of fellow graduate students, taught me that culture and ideas can reshape history. I arrived at Harvard to find that the ?sociology of culture? was just coming into being. I moved to Stanford only to be told that it didn?t exist. This confrontation with the world-outside-Berkeley led me to think about culture more clearly, leading to ?Culture in Action? (ASR 1986), and, after I returned to Berkeley, my second book, Talk of Love: How Culture Matters (2001). My other good fortune was collaboration and sustaining friendship with what became the Habits-of-the-Heart group (Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, Bill Sullivan, Steven Tipton, and myself). Berkeley style, we allowed ourselves to think as deeply as we could about failures of American culture and institutions and about rebuilding the basis for a more just and inclusive society. An all-Berkeley group of colleagues wrote Inequality by Design (1996), examining how America?s policy choices amplify inequality. Now, pursuing similar interrelations of culture, institutions, and collective capacities, I am investigating variations in response to the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dissertation: Organization without Authority: A Study of Two Alternative Schools

Website: sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/swidler/

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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David T. Wise

Dissertation: Dharma West: A Social-Psychological Inquiry into Zen in San Francisco

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Robert E. Wood

Professor Sociology, Rutgers University, Camden

My graduate years in residence at Berkeley (1967-72) were an exciting time, and I?ve always felt lucky to have been part of a generation that experienced both the thrill and efficacy of collection action. As part of a quite outstanding graduate student cohort, I was probably more shaped by my fellow graduate students--and by the study groups and debates we had--than by the faculty. In retrospect, I feel that I failed to take full advantage of the strengths of the Berkeley faculty. Wisdom, as they say, comes too late in life.

Nonetheless, my Berkeley experience set me on an intellectual and professional trajectory that I?ve found very satisfying. My interests in the political economy of development led to From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis: Foreign Aid and Development Choices in the World Economy, and from there onto the study of globalization. Always an inveterate traveler--I left Berkeley in 1972 to travel around the world (including Afghanistan just before the monarchy was overthrown)--I developed along the way an interest in the complex changes being wrought by international tourism. Subsequently, the French anthropologist Michel Picard and I edited Tourism and Ethnicity in Asian and Pacific Societies, and I?ve explored these and other connections in a range of articles.

A less predictable thing that happened is my fascination in the past decade with the pedagogical possibilities of the internet and instructional technologies. Teaching has always been my first love as a sociologist, and somehow I morphed into something of a instructional technology guru. It?s been a lot of fun, and has brought a kind of recognition that has meant a lot to me.

Dissertation: Foreign Aid and Social Structure in Underdeveloped Countries: U.S. Economic Aid Polities and Programs

Website: www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-13

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Richard A. Apostle

Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Dalhousie University

Berkeley, for me, was the late 1960s and early 1970s. My earlier undergraduate experience in Canada was an inspiring trip through the classics, and the movements, guided by a unique constellation of European and American scholars, temporarily gathered in British Columbia. Berkeley was a continuation, but with a tough political and academic edge. At one level, Berkeley was People?s Park across the street, and Vietnam etched in veteran eyes. At another, grand theory was in decline, and big narratives were beginning to surface. Bob Blauner and Leo Lowenthal demonstrated the value of critical perspectives, and the courage to be as unconventional as necessary. Charles Glock taught me a wary respect for things empirical. He also showed me how to organize complex projects and, equally importantly, how to finish them. Michael Rogin gave me excellent advice on the independent character of American progressives. And, most of all, Berkeley was an incredibly rich set of graduate student affiliations, ranging from Leo?s informal seminar on culture, to a very important dissertation drafting and support group.

I?ve had the good fortune to work in a joint department (with anthropologists), and a setting which is conducive to following autonomous intellectual agendas. I?ve been encouraged to work on interdisciplinary initiatives throughout, and have enjoyed a relatively easy transition, both geographically and intellectually, to Europe. My major projects, primarily in the area of economic sociology, have been Berkeley-inspired explorations of marginal labour markets, the persistence of small-scale primary production, and post-industrial professions. Lately, I?ve been making tentative forays into the cultural domain, investigating the social networks of some influential Canadian painters. I?ve also had the opportunity to work on a Royal Commission called to consider flaws in a provincial justice system, following on the wrongful murder conviction of an aboriginal youth, Donald Marshall, Jr. I hope my mentors would find their influence throughout my endeavours.

At an institutional level, I?ve been involved in some modest disciplinary advances. These include creating a doctoral program in a part of Canada which is not terribly hospitable to the newer social sciences, and helping to increase social science research capacity in the Faroes. The latter venture has been associated with some interesting academic projects, and the expansion of a circle of friends in the north Atlantic.

Dissertation: White Racial Perspectives in the United States.

Website: www.dal.ca/~sosawww/faculty/apostle.html

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-29

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Albert W. Black

Sociology-Univ. of Wash.

Dissertation: Black Ideology: Its Substance and Focus, 1863 to the Present

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Fred L. Block

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Both what I received and what I failed to receive from my six years in the Sociology program at Berkeley have had lasting consequences. I learned a tremendous amount from faculty and peers, but probably because of the political struggles of that period, I was spared the ?disciplining? that is often thought to be indispensable for graduate ?training?. Nobody taught me that I could only address certain questions and must ignore others. This was an extraordinary gift?the freedom to explore those issues at the intersection of sociology and economics that have always excited my imagination.

My undisciplined direction did have its risks. When I first went on the job market and explained that my dissertation was about the rise and fall of Bretton Woods, interviewers looked at me as though I was from another planet. When I did get a job, I had a hard time keeping it. I had a long, difficult battle for tenure at the University of Pennsylvania.

But I have also been lucky because in the 1980's, economic sociology suddenly emerged as a legitimate and trendy new subfield within sociology. I found myself no longer at the margins but part of an effort to reclaim the core of the sociological tradition. Yet old habits die hard; I get nervous amidst too much agreement. So I continue to work at developing a heterodox and critical economic sociology ?one that I still dream could have real and progressive political consequences.

Dissertation: The Political Economy of United States International Monetary Policy, 1941-71.

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-26

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Robert K. Boggs

Dissertation: The Political Basis of Socioeconomic Development: The Case of Nepal

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John A. Coleman

Loyola-Marymount

Dissertation: The Evolution of Dutch Catholicism 1958-1973

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Douglas V. Davidson

Sociology - Western Michigan University

Dissertation: Sociological Theory, Black Culture, and the Black Middle-Class: A Black Sociological Perspective

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Hilda M. Ferguson (Suelzle)

Chair, Department of Sociology, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA

Dissertation: Social Indicators of White Racial Attitudes

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Hardy T. Frye

Peace Corps

Dissertation: The Rise of a Black Political Party: Institutional Consequences of Emerging Political Consciousness

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Judith P. Gaffin

Dissertation: Manifestation of Gender Stratification in Interaction Between Single Adults

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Elizabeth F. Garnsey

Reader in Innovation Studies, Department of Engineering and Business School, Cambridge University, UK.

My first degree before I went to Berkeley, was in economics at Oxford. When I returned to Cambridge, UK, I worked as a research associate in the Labour Studies Group of the Department of Applied Economics. My doctorate on occupational structure in the Soviet Union had showed that the Soviet economy was incapable of making the transition from industrial to post-industrial economy and was on the way to internal collapse. Comparative work on occupational structure led me to take an interest in employment structure (at a time when unemployment was very high in Britain) and in women's employment. I worked on projects for the UK government and on European Union on "non-standard employment." The work of our team was used to draw up the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty.

By the late 80s I wanted to move beyond remedial policy to seeing how new employment could be created and became increasingly interested in the rise of new industries, first from a job generation perspective and to see how new technologies were creating opportunities for enterprise and propelling new industries. In Cambridge UK, as in the Bay Area, new high tech companies were springing up in the 1980s, as yet largely unnoticed. This seemed to be the way of the future, in the face of the disintegration of the old systems of capitalism and communism. In the Soviet Union there were no mechanisms to encourage innovation. I began to research into innovation in high tech Cambridge and on clusters of new activity. As a result of my work on new technologies I was appointed to a teaching post in a division of the Faculty of Engineering. At Cambridge UK, the Institute for Manufacturing resembles Stanford¹s Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. We put on courses on industry for engineers and placements for engineering students in companies - a great base for research. I have been here since 1984. I am now what is called a Reader (in Innovation Studies), a joint appointment in the Business School at Cambridge (Judge Institute) and the Engineering Department.

If I have to define my discipline, I view myself as an economist rather than a sociologist. I wanted to learn some sociology to counter the narrowness of the economics paradigm and my experience at Berkeley moved me out of orthodox economics into 'alternative' political economy. I have published more in economics and business journals than in sociology journals.

The impact of my work? My research has influenced policy measures in Brussels and in London. In Cambridge I have been active in promoting links between industry and the university through technology transfer. I have helped young companies to start up and grow, working at the local Innovation Centre. I place students with them on projects to help solve business development and technical problems. I have taught and advised Russians and Armenians among others on innovation - on the basis of my experience of scientists using their knowledge to address industrial problems.

In the engineering school where I teach, the few of us who are not engineers are all viewed together as in the soft sciences. From this perspective, all the disciplines dealing with people have much in common. My current work on the resource based theory of the firm and on evolutionary economics covers ground that is of interest to both sociologists and economists, while work on clustering of high tech activities encompasses business studies, economics and geography. In applied work of the kind I do, the relevance of continuing divisions between the social sciences is in question. Rigorous concepts and evidence are needed but these can cross disciplinary boundaries, as applications of evolutionary theory show.

Dissertation: Societ Educational and Manpower Policy During the Seven-Year Plan, 1959-1965: A Sociological Analysis of Policy Formation

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-10

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Dair L. Gillespie

Sociology-University of Utah

Dissertation: The Effects of Status Differentiation on Selected Nonverbal Behaviors at Settled Distances

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Carole E. Joffe

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Like many others who came to graduate school in the 1960s, my sociological education was inextricably bound up with the turbulence and excitement of those times. Inevitably, the intellectual questions I engaged with as a grad student reflected the political issues of the period. My thesis work (mentored by Arlie Hochschild and Sheldon Messinger) was on childcare programs­something I, as a young childless woman, would not have been interested in had not the women?s liberation movement introduced the idea of the political aspects of ?private life,? and raised the question of the state?s responsibility for such services.

My first job after graduate school was at Bryn Mawr College, in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. In 1990, I joined the sociology department at UC Davis. I also have developed a very productive relationship with the Center for Reproductive Health Policy and Research at UCSF, where I am an adjunct professor.

While in Philadelphia, I continued my interest in the state, family and social services­this time in the field of reproductive health. I studied a Planned Parenthood clinic in the late 1970s, and have remained engaged in studying reproductive health services and reproductive politics ever since. My most recent book, Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v Wade, was very deliberately written as a ?cross over? book, intended to be read by an audience beyond academia. I also frequently write op-eds and do interviews with journalists about various aspects of reproductive health. I attribute this commitment to ?public sociology? as a natural outgrowth of the ?engagee sociology? that captured the imagination of many of us in the 1960s.

Dissertation: Marginal Professions and Their Clients: The Case of Childcare.

Website: http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/cejoffe/

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-27

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Ann Leffler

Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Maine

Dissertation: Toward a Sociological Model of Proxemic Behavior

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John R. Logan

Professor of Sociology and Director of Lewis Mumford Center, SUNY, Albany

I entered the PhD program in the spring of 1968, graduating a little early with a BA from Berkeley and taking advantage of Dave Nasatir's offer to work as his assistant at the Survey Research Center. I ran through all his computing money very quickly, but he had the good grace not to take it out of my salary. I accepted a fellowship at Columbia, but after completing my MA working with Paul Lazarsfeld and Immanuel Wallerstein (not a typcial combination) I was brought back to the Bay Area with a community organizing job that fulfilled my conscientious objector alternate service. Art Stinchcombe gave me free rein to do my dissertation on the Spanish working class in the last years of the Franco regime (finally finished in 1974). But my grassroots work on urban development and housing questions eventually pulled me more toward urban sociology.

My professorial career has been entirely in the SUNY system, first at Stony Brook (1972-1980), then Albany. One turning point was collaborating with Harvey Molotch on our book Urban Fortunes (1987), which brought together my interests in urban inequality and politics. In the early 1990s I had a chance to do research in China, which continues today. And while spending a year at the Russell Sage Foundation (1996-97), I was seduced by walking through a built environment that housed successive waves of newcomers from the 19th Century to the present, and much of my recent research deals with urban history.

Of all the kinds of work I have done, the most satisfying is the public-oriented research that I have been doing in the last three years as Director of the Lewis Mumford Center in Albany -- analyzing data from Census 2000 as it came out, preparing reports on the social issues that I am most concerned about, getting the word out through the media, and providing data resources to other scholars and community groups. I do have a sense of coming back around to the activities that brought me into sociology in the first place.

Dissertation: Industrializaton, Repression, and Working Class Militancy in Spain

Website: www.albany.edu/mumford

Biography submitted on: 2003-09-17

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Edeltraud C. Lukoschek

Dissertation: Zaire: A Study in Ideologies and Social Change

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Carl C. Mack

Retired Superintendent Del Paso Heights School District

Dissertation: Mental health Consultation and Head Start: Evaluative Research Study of the Role of the Psychologist as a Community Psychology Consultant

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Kenneth E. Noel

Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of the Interdependence of Sport, Ideology, and Social Structure in the United States and the People's Republic of China

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Mark Traugott

Affiliated - Sociology - UCSC

Dissertation: Rebellion in the Kwilu: Case Study in the Analysis of Agrarian Social Movements

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Wen-Hui Tsai

Professor of Sociology, Indiana-Purdue University At Fort Wayne

I met Professor Wolfram Eberhard in Taiwan in 1967who offered me a research assistantship to study with him. For the next 6 years, I focused my study mainly on comparative sociology under Professors Eberhard, Smelser, and Swanson. It was not an easy time during the late 60s and early 70s for a student like me coming from a different country; Berkeley was a normless community.

When I got my Ph.D. in 1974, the economy was in terrible shape and there were very few job openings. Fortunately, I was able to land a teaching position at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana (also known as IPFW). I remember I asked Professor Swanson what kind of reputation IPFW had before I went for interview. Prof. Swanson told me that if I published anything while at IPFW, I would not be accused of stealing research work from someone else. Well, I have been here for 27 years and I have published 20 some books and 60+ journal articles on comparative and cross-cultural studies. I have also been elected as President of American Association of Chinese Studies and President of Association of Chinese Social Scientists in North America.

I valued my years at Berkeley and have talked about what I had experienced as a graduate students to students in my classes. Most of all, it is the drive to carry out research and find publications which was the core of the spirit of Berkeley graduate program that has made my career a successful one. In 2 years, I will retire. But I am confident that I will continue to do research and write after my retirement.

Dissertation: Patterns of Political Elite Mobility in Modern China, 1912-1949

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-31

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Fernando Uricoechea

Dissertation: The Patrimonial Foundations of the Brazilian Bureaucratic State.

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Nick C. Vaca

Vaca & Vaca, Walnut Creek, CA

Dissertation: Sociology through Literature: The Case of the Mexican-American

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Ortiz M. Walton

Jazz Bassist, Author of "Toward a Non-Racial Society"

Dissertation: Music: Black, White and Blue

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Mitchell Zeftel

Dissertation: Disaffected Selves: Symbolic Interaction in Suicide, Madness, and Bohemianism

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1969

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Professor of Sociology, Yale University

When I came to Berkeley in 1969, I was one of two or three students NOT given any financial assistance -- my academic record at Harvard was that bad! In fact, I was fortunate simply to have been admitted. My first two years at Berkeley revolved mainly around becoming a true Marxist intellectual, learning as much from Fred Block and the journal then called "Socialist Revolution" (later "Socialist Review") as from my courses. As my politics moved from revolutionary to democratic socialist (and eventually to left liberal), however, I became aware that I had, in fact, experienced several key intellectual episodes during those first years -- these were the courses from Neil Smelser, Robert Bellah, and Leo Lowenthal. I managed to corral all three to work with me on my grandiose dissertation, which became even more so in the four years after its completion, and have kept closely in touch with Smelser and Bellah ever since.

So, my Berkeley years were an intense education in high theory, starting from the culture of classical and New Left Marxism and moving from there into the classical and modern more strictly sociological domain. It was an experience that formed me, and removed me from "mainstream" sociology, for the rest of my academic life.

After leaving Berkeley, I spent 25 years as an assistant to full Professor at UCLA. I published lots of theory there, tried to start an intellectual movement or two, learned a great deal at the beginning from the microsociology that flourished there, and helped to build up, through my years of administration, one of our discipline's better, and certainly most balanced departments. Two years ago I moved to Yale, where I have reluctantly become a Chair once again, resuming institution building in a very interesting academic and disciplinary milieu.

In the more recent decades, the half life of the Berkeley "bomb" have continued to illuminate and charge my intellectual life. I've been trying to elaborate a cultural sociology, which has started off from Bellah's "symbolic realism," and I have been trying to develop a performative turn, which continues to be influenced by unyielding resistances to structural logics of Herbert Blumer, who was a kind of negative pole for me during my graduate student years. I have just completed editing a festschrift for Neil Smelser (with other Berkeley graduates, Christine Williams and Gary Marx). Neil and I worked closely together even over the last five years, developing at CASBS at Stanford, where he was Director, a collaborative theory of cultural trauma and collective identity.

So, "Berkeley" continues to be formative in my life, even as I have moved away from the notions of anti-capitalism and public intellectualism that formed my graduate life in the early 70s. There was a burning intensity to political, ethical, historical, and above all theoretical questions that made an indelible impression me, and that I hope continues to inform my work and intellectual identity today.

Dissertation: Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Biography submitted on: 2003-04-30

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Faruk Birtek

Professor of Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

My Berkeley experience was most formative and most gratefully acknowledged. I feel loyal to the institution and most grateful to the then faculty and to fellow-students. I experienced great days on the editorial board of Berkeley Journal of Sociology and learned so much as a teaching assistant. Berkeley is my second home, and I am most attached to the memory of the town but now avoid visiting as I feel aliens have taken over my "habitus" !! Berkeley changed hence the world has changed !! I published very little yet still full of "almost finished" writing projects on theory and history. Approaching sixty but still feeling very youthful thanks to the "unconservative mind-set" acquired at Berkeley. We are the Dorian Grey's and the aging population only succeeded us!

Dissertation: The State and the Transition to Capitalism in England and Turkey: A Social Structural Model

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-26

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Esdras Borges-Costa

Dissertation: Protestantism, Modernization and Cultural Change in Brazil

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Jacques F. Brissy

Dissertation: Managerial Ideology: A Theoretical Essay

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Debra D. David

Director, Center for Service-Learning, Professor of Health Science, San Jose State University

My career path at Berkeley and beyond was neither linear nor traditional, reflecting departmental and social discontinuities during the early 1970?s. The first two years were very intense. As I took classes with Neil Smelser, Norm Denzin, Herbert Blumer, Bob Blauner, and others, my life was also directly touched by events related to the Vietnam War, radical movements, and the ?counterculture.? My academic experience changed abruptly when the three faculty members with whom I worked most closely all left Berkeley in Fall, 1971 - two permanently and one (Smelser) on sabbatical. Searching for new mentors, I found the interdisciplinary program in Human Development across the bay at UCSF. I also dropped out for more than a year to explore alternative careers, but a recession led me back to complete my courses and preliminary orals. (br>
Now ?ABD? and married, I bounced around the country with my first husband, an erstwhile academic. We went first to Kansas City, where I taught sociology at UMKC and wrote my dissertation proposal, then to Cleveland, where I was a research analyst in a gerontology organization, the Benjamin Rose Institute, and collected dissertation data. Last, in Chicago, I directed an NIMH-funded project to create a community college gerontology program, analyzed the data, divorced, and wrote my dissertation, in about that order. Neil Smelser and Arlie Hochschild guided my dissertation by mail and my brief annual visits to Berkeley.

During the 1980s and 90s, I identified mainly as a gerontologist and a program developer, creating and working with interdisciplinary gerontology programs. With doctorate in hand and remarried, I worked first in Evanston (National College of Education and Northwestern University), then moved to head the Gerontology Program (Health Science Department) at San José State University. I?ve been settled in San José, with my husband and our two daughters, since 1987. My research has focused on practice and policy related to eldercare services, health ethics, and ethnogerontology. In January 2000, I changed career paths to become Director of the SJSU Center for Service-Learning. This has brought me closer to my sociological roots.

The Sociology Department at Berkeley influenced my career by enabling me to see the ?big picture? and grounding me in theory, especially political economy and interactionist perspectives. I attribute my interdisciplinary interest in the life course to the Human Development Program at UCSF. And I learned how to apply sociology to policy and practice in my subsequent wanderings.

If my sociology has ?shaped the world,? it has been through the courses and programs I?ve developed and taught in human development and gerontology, the applied research I?ve conducted in ethics and eldercare, and my current work to infuse sociological awareness across the disciplines by connecting undergraduate students with community issues through service-learning. In working with colleagues, students, practitioners, and policy-makers, I have tried to help them see the links between ?personal troubles? and ?public issues? that I learned as a student of the sociological imagination.

Dissertation: The Uses of Memory: Social Aspects of Remininscence in Old Age

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-14

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Jualynne E. Dodson

Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University

Dissertation: Women's Collective Power in the A.M.E. Church

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John P. Fernandez

Dissertation: Black Managers in White Corporations

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Stuart W. Gardner

Pediatrician, Branford, Connecticut

Dissertation: Ethnicity and Work: Occupational Distribution in an Urban Multi-Ethnic Setting: George Town, Penang, West Malaysia

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Sydney A. Halpern

Sociology-University of Illinois

Dissertation: Segmental Professionalism Within Medicine: The Case of Pediatrics

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David M. Hummon

Sociology and Anthropology-College of the Holy Cross

Dissertation: Community Ideology: Popular Interpretations of Urban, Suburban and Small Time Life.

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Jeffrey S. Johnson

School of Public Health, JHU???

Dissertation: Evolutionary Genetics and the Symbolic Construction of Human Social Order: Neo-Darwinian Biology & Individualism Reassessed

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Paul I. Joseph

Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

I am now a political sociologist at Tufts University with a speciality on the influence of US domestic politics on military policies. I examine the impact of social movements, public opinion, and various business and bureaucratic interests particularly with regard to the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons policy. I am now writing a book on public opinion and military interventions during the period bookended by the two wars in Iraq. I wrote my Ph.D. thesis with Franz Schurmann on the Pentagon Papers and my interest in the organization of social violence remain with me to this day. Recently my teaching and administrative activities have been extended into the interdisciplinary field of peace studies. I have been fortunate to parlay these interests into some wonderful travel opportunities in Europe and especially Asia, including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Japan, and a year-long sabbatical in New Zealand.

I have fond memories of UC Berkeley in the early 1970s, particularly of my fellow graduate students who provided enormous intellectual stimulation and personal friendships. There were many interesting classes and also beer, other substances, poker, potlucks, a men's group, and softball games behind Barrows Hall on Friday afternoons. I was also lucky to have three or four faculty members who taught me alot and became friends. The Bay Area was a very stimulating place to live in those days and one of the strengths of the Sociology Department was to encourage different links between the campus and the surrounding political/cultural events. Over the years it has been a pleasure to recommend Berkely to my better students - even more when they ended up enrolling. Another fond memory: I met my wife while I was a graduate student. We now have three children with two in college.

Dissertation: A Study of Vietnam Decision-Making

Biography submitted on: 2003-09-17

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Harry Levine

Sociology-CUNY-Queens

Dissertation: Demon of the Middle Class: Self Control, Liquor, and the Ideology of Temperance in 19th Century America

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Gloria C. Lindsey

Dissertation: The Assimilaton of Rwandese Tutsi into Ugandan Society with Special Emphasis on the Role of Education in the Process

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Anita L. Micossi

Dissertation: Executing Ideals: A Re-Appraisal of Urban Communalism

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Ida R. Mukenge

Assoc. V.P. for Academic Affairs

Dissertation: The Black Church in urban America: A Case Study in Political Economy

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Yong-Shin Park

Sociology-Yonsei University

Dissertation: Protestant Christianity and Social Change in Korea

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Thomas Piazza

Manager Statistical Svc-UCB

Dissertation: The Sources of Support for Feminism

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Jeffrey Prager

Sociology-UCLA

Dissertation: Democratic Stability in Ireland: Strategies of Crisis Resolution in the Irish free State, 1922-1932

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Pamela J. Utz

Regulatory Compliance Manager, Gap Inc., San Francisco

Dissertation: Justice and Negotiation in the Criminal Courts

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James C. Wendt

Dissertation: Theoretical Domains, Measurement, and Dimensionality: The Case of Political Alienation

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Robert J. Wuthnow

Professor, Princeton University

I began graduate studies at Berkeley in 1969 and received my Ph.D. in 1975. While at Berkeley I worked mostly at the Survey Research Center under the supervision of Charles Glock, becoming a Project Director for the 1973 Bay Area Survey on which my dissertation was based. In 1974 I became an instructor at the University of Arizona and was promoted to assistant professor the following year. In 1976 I moved to Princeton University as assistant professor and William Paterson Bicentennial Preceptor in sociology. I have remained at Princeton ever since. My teaching and research have focused mainly on sociology of religion, cultural sociology, and civil society. I am currently director of the Center for the Study of Religion, an interdisciplinary center spanning the humanities and social sciences which I helped initiate in 1999, subsuming an earlier center founded in 1991.

Berkeley's influence on my use and development of sociology was decidedly a product of the events in the wider world that impacted so heavily on the Berkeley campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I arrived shortly after the People's Park and Third World mass demonstrations, routinely found my way to Barrows Hall through clouds of tear gas, lived near Black Panther headquarters, took courses in black nationalism and heard lectures by a professor who made periodic junkets to North Vietnam, participated in anti-war protests, served as a campus liaison for an East Asian religious group, and was employeed in the same office as Emily Harris the day she kidnapped Patty Hearst. Insofar as sociology was concerned, Charles Glock taught me how to do survey research, Neil Smelser sparked my interest in sociological theory, Robert Bellah imprinted me with indelible normative concerns, Guy E. (Ed) Swanson saved me from despair, and Gertrude Selznick kept me humble. Needless to say, I was drawn in multiple directions, and through this creative tension came to be oriented more toward trying to think outside the box than adhereing too closely to the norms of the discipline. In retrospect, I have greatly appreciated the flexibility of the Berkeley program in that era and the faculty's commitment to large-scale questions.

If my own research and teaching has had any impact on the world, I would be the last one to describe it accurately and fairly. All I can say is that I have tried to keep important questions in mind as guiding principles in the selection of topics for inquiry. These have included such tensions in our culture as those between religion and politics, between individualism and altruism, and between diversity and cultural tradition, as well as such perennial concerns as the meanings of work and money, virtue, the self, community, and the human quest for transcendence. I have been privileged to have opportunities to write about these topics and even more privileged to work closely with students who will make contributions beyond anything I have been able to do myself.

Dissertation: Consciousness and the Transformation of Society

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-09

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1970

Philip Armour

Social Sciences-Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Dissertation: The Cycles of Social Reform: Community Mental Health legislation in the United States, England and Sweden

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Jeffrey M. Blum

Civil Liberties Attorney, Buffalo, NY

Dissertation: A Critical Analysis of the Development of Psychometrics and Its Influence on American Society

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Marilyn M. Chou

Dissertation: China's Demographic Transition: From Acceptance, Through Awakening to Accountability

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Edward F. Church

Consultant for Community Foundations, East Bay

Dissertation: Acquiring the Language World: A Study in Socialization and Cognition

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Richard M. Coughlin

Sociology - University of New Mexico

Dissertation: Ideology and Social Policy: A Comparative Study of the Structure of Public Opinion in Eight Rich Nations.

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Ronald M. De La Cruz

Dissertation: The Fundamental Paradigm of Deviance and Its Processes: The Study of the Dynamics of Myth Making and Its Consequences Through a Dialectical Analysis

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Lucy G. Du

Writer and Musician

Dissertation: Meditation and Sacralized Interaction Among Western Followers of an Indian Guru

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Carlos A. Hasenbalg

Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos

Dissertation: Race Relations in Post-Abolition Brazil: The Smooth Preservation of Racial Inequalities

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Donald J. Hernandez

Sociology/Ctr for Social Demog-SUNY-Albany

Dissertation: Policy Versus Other Factors in Fertility Decline After 1950

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Jerome Himmelstein

Sociology/Anthropology-Amherst College

Dissertation: From Killer Weed to Drop-Out Drug: The Marihuana Problem in America

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Robert E. Kapsis

Sociology-CUNY-Grad School & Queens

Dissertation: Delinquency and Riot Patterns in Black Residential Areas: An Emprical Test of Theories of Racial Conflict and Change

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Magali Larson

Emeritus Professor, Temple University

I came to graduate school at Berkeley late, in October 1970. I arrived from France, on election day 1964, to work as a researcher in David Apter?s Politics of Modernization project. I had never thought I would stay in the United States, but marriage decided otherwise. In the meantime, I had also written two books on Latin America, and taught for two years at San Francisco State. When it appeared that I could exchange my ?F? visa for a green card (and it was not easy!), I applied to Berkeley. I gravitated toward the Latin American Studies institute, and the faculty I had met in my earlier passage: Art Stinchcombe, in particular, Bill Kornhauser, Bob Blauner, and, later, David Matza, Troy Duster and Russell Ellis. But the experience of the anti-war movement, and the Third World Strike at San Francisco State (where I was the faculty adviser of the Latino students) had turned my work from Latin America to the United States.

Many of us were thinking at the time about the ?new working class? ?a resurgent topic, even today. Since my husband was trying to organize a union of employed architects, I thought I would look into what it meant to be an employed professional. It did not turn out that way: my book, The Rise of Professionalism, I am led to believe, re-wrote the sociology of professions at least for a while, but it also locked me into a series of theoretical and historical articles on lawyers, architects, teachers, nurses, proletarianization, and so on.

A long time passed before I could return to architects. I was more interested then in the cultural impact an organized profession can have. Behind the Postmodern Façade is about the structural bases of cultural influence, and I was very proud to get the Sociology of Culture book award for it. I wish architects read it!

The academic labor market was not easy for older foreign women. There were many disappointments, but I started at the University of Pennsylvania, stayed two years, and then accepted an associate professorship at Temple University in 1978. I stayed twenty years, and I taught, and learnt, and administered, a lot! I must say that as a European and a Latin American, I always was deeply committed to public higher education, the private being a very foreign concept indeed.

In 1998, I took early retirement from Temple to accept a chair in Italy, at Urbino. The idea was that I would go for a semester every year, and I would learn to live in my native country, where I had never lived for any length of time It was probably too late to adjust. Italy is fascinating and maddening, and, above all, the university system is something to which I could not adjust. I resigned in 2001, and I go back for an occasional graduate seminar. It is my first year of retirement, and I am trying to do other things than editing journals, and doing research and writing on political culture. Work with Latino immigrants, and political work, and sometimes teaching, and trying to keep together all the very scattered parts of my existence, here, in Europe, in Argentina ? that is hard to organize. Sociology has been the center of my intellectual and even my social life, but I always saw it as a political activity. I would like for it to become more so, and to give more to it. That?s about all.

Dissertation: The Development of Modern Professions: Monopolies of Competence and Bourgeois Ideology

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-01

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Paul M. Lewis

Dissertation: Family, Economy and Polity: A Case study of Japan's Public Pension Policy

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R. P. Lewis

Dissertation: Referent Groups: Measurement and Meaning of Scope, Distance, and Evaluative Content of Social Perceptions

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Carl Milofsky

Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University

I am Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University and I?ve been here since 1982. Before that I taught at Yale in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and in sociology and before that at Richmond College-CUNY. I also completed post-doctoral study in Education at the University of Chicago. My early research involved issues in educational policy with a focus on special education. At Yale I was one of the founding members of the Program on Nonprofit Organizations and most of my research for the last twenty years has involved nonprofits, especially community-based organizations. I came to Berkeley with an interest in community organizing and policy studies and while there I worked at the Childhood and Government Project and in the Graduate School of Public Policy. Policy studies has remained the main focus of my teaching, my research, and my community work. Being able to focus on community-based organizations continued my involvement in community organizing.

I think of Berkeley as my ?ethnicity?. It involves a way of life that includes activism, eating strange foods, and bringing rich social theory to bear on everything from bread baking to social conflict in Northern Ireland. The intellectual legacy I most identify with is institutional analysis in the style of Phil Selznick, Art Stinchcombe, and Chic Perrow. I think it contrasts sharply with the ?new? institutionalism so I call it the ?orthodox? institutionalism. For me it takes the internal activity of institutions and organizations seriously and emphasizes comparing social life across institutional cultures.

Dissertation: Organization for Failure: Growth and Stabilization in Special Education

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-08

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Stacey J. Oliker

Sociology-Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dissertation: Women's Friendships and Marriage

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Margaret R. Polatnick

Lecturer, Vista Community College, Berkeley

Passionately involved in the new women?s liberation movement in the late ?60s (in NYC), I decided to go to sociology graduate school to deepen my understanding of sexism. Graduate student life in the early ?70s was exciting intellectually and politically, with an active Women?s Caucus, Radical Caucus, and ethnic caucuses. Within sociology I studied the just-approved area of ?sex roles? as well as family, sexuality, and class and racial stratification, and I also audited every newly emerging course in other departments that addressed women?s lives (history, anthropology, psychology, economics, etc.) Yet I remember being told in my M.A. evaluation that my interests were too narrow! The Berkeley Journal of Sociology published my early article ?Why Men Don?t Rear Children,? which has been anthologized repeatedly and still is requested for course readers. Through the ?70s I gained valuable teaching experience in the Department and in Strawberry Creek College, a liberatory/humanistic ?college within the college.? In the latter ?70s, I was a core member of the groundbreaking campus group Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment. I stretched out my graduate student years with community-based social justice activism, travel, and teaching, including a stint in the early ?80s at Friends World College?s North American Center, back in New York.

With mentoring from Professors Hochschild, Blauner, Duster, and Barbara Christian (African American & Women?s Studies), I did my dissertation on Strategies for Women?s Liberation: A Study of a Black and a White Group of the 1960s. By then quite rooted in Berkeley, I taught sociology and women?s studies courses in Bay Area colleges, had a daughter, and then landed a tenure-track position at San Jose State in the Women?s Studies Program of the Social Science Department. In 1995, I participated in the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women, in Beijing, a peak experience that continues to inspire me. Increasingly, I have globalized my curriculum.

After ten consuming years of commuting, I ?retired? from San Jose State and spent two years as a Senior Researcher at Professors Hochschild and Thorne?s stimulating Center for Working Families, investigating care issues in the middle-school years and children?s views of their full-time employed parents. I began teaching sociology at Vista Community College in downtown Berkeley and led a successful effort to establish a Women?s Studies Program there, which I continue to coordinate. This spring I was appointed to the City of Berkeley?s Commission on the Status of Women.

The Sociology Department provided me with some faculty and peer models of outstanding thinkers/teachers/writers committed to progressive social change and liberatory education. I have made those commitments central to my own life. Sustaining them despite powerful counter-pressures within academia has been a challenge. I trust that the Department?s graduate students will continue to take up that challenge.

Dissertation: Strategies for Women's Liberation: A Study of a Black and a White Group of the 1960s.

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-10

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Lawrence A. Rosenthal

Dissertation: The Invention of Fascism: italy, 1919-1922

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Will D. Tate

Dissertation: The New Black Urban Elites

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Alexander Y. Yamato

Asian American Studies-San Jose State

Dissertation: Socioeconomic Change Among Japanese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Leonarda Ybarra

Executive Director, Center for Talented Youth, Baltimore

Dissertation: Conjugal Role Relationships in the Chicano Family

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1971

Eliane Aerts

Research Sociologist, UC Berkeley

I love sociology

Dissertation: Organizational and Interpersonal Patterns in Whole Families

Biography submitted on: 0000-00-00

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Tomas Almaguer

Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

I became a graduate student in the Sociology Department at Berkeley in 1971 and ultimately received my doctorate in 1979. A postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford and then a stint as an Assistant Professorship at UCB followed. Then came tenured appointments at UCSC and the University of Michigan. At the latter,I cut my teeth on administrative work as Director of both the Latino Studies Programand the Center for Research on Social Organization. The publication of my book Racial Fault Lines and being awarded a named chair as the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor were the high points of my stay at the UM. In June 2000, however, I made my way back to the more welcoming environs of the San Francisco bay area.

In my current life form, I have become a full time administrator committed to dramatically redefining what was the first and still remains the only College of Ethnic Studies in the country. It has been a tough row to hoe. But thirty years of engagement with Ethnic Studies via the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity has made this daunting challenge managable. In all of these professional incarnations I have remained deeply identified first and foremost as a sociologist. It was the foundational experience at Berkeley that shaped that core identity. I remain deeply indebted to Bob Blauner, Troy Duster, and Michael Burawoy for helping to forge the sociologist within and for igniting my sociological imagination.

Dissertation: Class, race and capitalist development: the social transformation of a Southern California County, 1949-1902

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-08

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James Beniger

Associate Professor of Communications and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

Dissertation: Interorganizational Response to Social Change: Professional Control of Drug Abuse by Youth in Two ?

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-28

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Federico A. D'Agostino

University of Rome

Dissertation: Images of Death and Symbolic Construction of Reality in a Southern Italian Town

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Margaret Fay

Margaret Fay has passed away.

Dissertation: The 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of Karl Marx: A Cultural Commentary and Interpretation

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Kathleen Gerson

Professor of Sociology, New York University.

Although my experiences at Berkeley were a mix of exhilaration and struggle, I can?t imagine a more intellectually invigorating place to develop a sociological imagination. Like others, I drew great support and inspiration from my fellow students and the environment of engagement they provided. Working on large research projects, most notably Hal Wilensky?s comparative study of modern welfare states and Claude Fischer?s study of urban social networks, allowed me to learn the craft of sociology by doing it. These apprenticeships taught me how to discover and develop large ideas through careful research. They also gave me faith that sociology mattered. All of my professors, including Arlie Hochschild as well as Hal and Claude, gave me the room to find my own sociological voice.

My research has sought to combine the deep understandings developed through qualitative interviews with the rigor of systematically collected samples and carefully situated comparisons. At both Berkeley and my subsequent home, the NYU Sociology Department, my main focus has been on understanding the link between processes of social and individual change, with a special focus on gender inequality and the institutions of family and work. My books ? Hard Choices (1985), about women?s efforts to resolve the conflicts between work and family in the context of institutional contradiction and flux; No Man?s Land (1993), about the transformation in men?s family and work choices in the wake of the women?s revolution; and now Children of the Gender Revolution (in progress), about how a new generation of young women and men are responding to blurring gender boundaries, shifting domestic arrangements, and persisting work-family conflict as they fashion gender, work, and family strategies ? seem to form a kind of trilogy. They have also provided the opportunity to participate in the public debate on these critical issues.

Interviewing hundreds of people about their public and private lives has given me a great appreciation for my own good fortune. I have been able to combine meaningful work with a gratifying family life, and I still wake up every day eager to ?do sociology? (even if I now enjoy the none-too-enviable position of being department chair).

Dissertation: Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood

Website: www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/socio/faculty

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-15

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Jane A. Grant

Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University

My graduate education in Sociology and my experiences at U. C. Berkeley were profound influences on my life and work. Having grown up in the dense, congested, and largely humanly-constructed environment of New York City, the sheer beauty, color, and quality of life in Berkeley intrigued me from my first moments there. It did not take long for a group in the class of 1971 to begin meeting regularly; we grappled, of course, with the big questions of sociology and life. And many of us from that group, started over thirty years ago, are still friends in frequent contact today. The thought-provoking, critically-incisive, and substantively rich environment in which we posed questions, did our research, and worried about the world, are formative still.

Questions that emerged for me at Berkeley are still central concerns: the nature of community in America, how to understand our common interests, the role of discussion, participation, and deliberation in discovering our values, and how democratically-derived ethics can be translated into policy commitments. This culminated for me in a forthcoming book, Community, Democracy, and the Environment: Learning to Share the Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.) I have spent almost all of my professional life at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. SPEA is a multi-disciplinary school located on six campuses of Indiana University. From here I have been fortunate enough to be involved in local, regional, and national issues related to the concerns I developed in graduate school, which still motivate me today.

Dissertation: National Policy, Citizen Participation, and Health System Reform: The Case of Three Systems Agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area

Website: http://www.ipfw.edu

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-12

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Elinor Lerner

Social and Behav. Sci - Stockton

Dissertation: Immigrant and Working Class Involvement in the New York City Woman Suffrage Movement, 1905-1917: A Study in Progressive Era Politics

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Clarence Lo

Sociology-University of Missouri

Dissertation: The Truman Administration's Military Budgets During the Korean War

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John F. Maguire

Teacher, Jurisprudence Center, Richmond, California

Dissertation: The Legal Organization of Civil Discourse: A Sociological Critique of the Fairness Doctrine

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Robert Mayer

Professor of Family and Consumer Studies, Universitry of Utah

As an undergraduate major in sociology at Columbia, I had feasted at the table of sociological theory, and my diet of graduate courses at Berkeley beginning in 1971 was similarly rich in theory. At the end of my second year, I attempted to balance my diet by enrolling as an intern in a San Francisco-based consumer advocacy organization. This experience inspired me to blend sociology and consumer movement activism, which I managed to do with the help of several supportive professors and my fellow graduate students in the ?Dope Caucus.?

In 1977, I accepted a job in a new department, Family and Consumer Studies, at the University of Utah. I anticipated staying in Salt Lake City for a year while finishing my dissertation and then moving to a ?real? university in a ?real? state. Surprisingly, the person-environment fit was perfect for me and my spouse, and I have now spent 25 years here.

From my sinecure at the University of Utah, I have been allowed to (even rewarded for) bring my sociological research skills to the service of consumer organizations around the world. In particular, I have worked closely with Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports), the National Consumers League (the world?s oldest consumer group), and Consumers International (the umbrella organization for the world?s consumer organizations). I have presented my research to policy makers at the Federal Trade Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and I like to think I have played a small role in increasing the power of consumers vis-à-vis sellers. I have also enjoyed seeing the field of sociology gravitate toward the serious study of consumption. In my case, science has definitely not spoiled my supper.

Dissertation: The Social Bases of Enviornmental Opinion

Website: www.fcs.utah.edu/faculty/mayer/

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-01

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Steven M. Millner

Professor of African American Studies, San Jose State University

Sociology captured my intellectual fancy in the 1960s when I discovered its adherents tended to support radical change in America's South. Being a fourth generation ancestor of Freed Blacks from Ohio who had been Underground Railroad supporters that was all I needed to grasp. Going to Berkeley in the early '70s was as good as it got. Those were heady days filled with the competing ideas of Bob Blauner, Neil Smelser, Troy Duster, Hardy Frye, Harry Edwards, Herbert Blumer and so many others. I sat in on some of the early Women's Studies classes and gradually purged myself of my sexism. As importantly I learned from other graduate students such as Jualynne Dotson, Rob Meyer, Jane Grant, Herb Holman, and Al Black. Leaving campus I often ran through and away from circles that included flaming out activists such as Huey Newton. I couldn't graduate soon enough.

Having read everything that Marx, Mao, Blauner, St. Clair Drake, Hortense Powdermaker and Talcott Parsons wrote I was ready to become a working sociologist. I turned down a job from the Ohio State University and signed on to become one of the very first Blacks to teach sociology at the University of Mississippi. In my first class twelve rednecks walked out. As one got up he spat on the floor and muttered that he'd die in hell before he'd accept a "nigger sociologist" from California. I knew then that Berkeley had prepared me for the real world. I stayed at Ole Miss on and off for twelve years. Eventually I earned tenure and became a full professor of African-American Studies at San Jose State University. My career has allowed me to do more than a dozen documentaries from William Buckley's Firing Line to HBO specials on the rebellion of Black athletes at Mexico City in the late 1960s. My most important work has probably been with the students of the South who were in the first generation after the Movement and needed to understand why their White and Black worlds had changed so much.l also did five years teaching sociology behind seven steel doors while on staff at Soledad prison.Those "students" loved the study of social change. I now teach the children of a California that has changed utterly from the one I first encountered when I got off a Santa Fe Chief train at eleven years of age and began walking through the streets and alleys of South Central Los Angeles. Berkeley helped get me ready to understand every social realm my life has offered.

Dissertation: Montgomery Buss Boycott: Case Study in the Emergence and Career of a Social Movement

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-26

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David Milton

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon

Sociology has been a second career for me. Before I enrolled for graduate work at Berkeley, I sailed as a merchant seaman during World War II, then worked for more than fifteen years as a union activist in the steel, meat packing, electrical and construction industries. During the mid-sixties, I spent five years in China teaching American Studies and English to students under the Foreign Ministry.

When I entered the sociology graduate program, I worked closely with Professor Franz Schurmann, one of the leading China scholars in the country. During this period I co-edited the Random House China Reader - People's China - with Franz Schurmann and Nancy Milton and was co-author with my wife Nancy Dall Milton of The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China 1964-1969. This was an eye-witness description and political analysis of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. My dissertation was on the birth of the CIO and the relation of the American labor movement to Roosevelt's New Deal. A revision appeared as a book: The Politics of U.S. Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal.

I learned a great deal about macro historical analysis from Professors Reinhard Bendix, Neil Smelser, and Visiting Professor Gertrude Lenzer. The Berkeley sociology department proved to be very congenial for a person who had spent many years outside academic life.

I was hired by the University of Oregon in 1978 and spent nearly twenty years teaching there. The sociology department at Oregon was unique in its emphasis on work, organized labor, social movements and environmental studies and I established many close friendships with my faculty colleagues. In the early eighties, I was chair of the university Asian Studies Committee and over the years taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses, specializing in modern China, American society, the U.S. labor movement, sociological theory and international relations.

During my retirement I have renewed my interest in history and have just published a book on international aspects of the American Civil War: Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network.

As for the influence of sociology on society ... At a time when the United States is emerging in the world as the new Rome and the current government is hard at work constructing a police state at home, I would suggest that the discipline has a challenging future.

Dissertation: The Politics of Economism: Organized Labor fights Its Way Into the American System under the New Deal

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-22

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Bobby J. Neeley

Dissertation: Contemporary Afro-American Voodooism (Black Religion): The Retention and Adaptation of the Ancient African-Egyptian Mystery System

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Juan Oliverez

Activist Scholar, and Instructor at CSU,Monterey Bay

When I first attended Berkeley in 1971, I was teaching part-time in Sociology at San Jose State University. Later I became the Head Counselor in the Chicano EOP. In 1975, I was hired by the Chicano Studies Program to direct the Raza Recruitment Program. I was honored to work with Tomás Almaguer, Mario Barrera and Carlos Muñoz. In 1980, I was hired by Hartnell College to teach Chicano Studies but in my nearly 22 years, I have also taught Sociology, History, Political Science and Ethnic Studies. Since the spring of 1996, I have also taught at Califoirnia State University, Monterey Bay in the Social and Behavioral Science Center.

Berkeley?s Sociology program helped me see the interconnectedness of the individual and society. For me the professors who influenced me most were Robert Blauner, Troy Duster and Herbert Blumer. I also want to thank Neil Smelser and Kenneth Bock from whom I gained an appreciation for the big picture.

Since arriving in Salinas in 1980, I have been involved in the civil rights and social justice struggles of the community. I served five and one half years as a city council member to empower my community and to address social problems such as the large number of youthful homicides in our community, housing and jobs. My proudest effort was using my sociological knowledge and skills in the redistricting movement in the Salinas Valley. Today most school districts, city councils and even the Monterey County Board of Supervisors are redistricted. Now Chicanos are represented politically throughout the Salinas Valley where for many years they were not. I hope that I have proved I can be an activist/scholar.

Dissertation: Chicano Student Activism at San Jose State College, 1967-1972: An Analysis of Ideology, Leadership and Change

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-30

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Beatriz Pesquera

Chicana/Chicano Studies, UC, Davis

Dissertation: Work and Family: A Comparative Analysis of Professional, Clerical and Blue-Collar Chicana Workers.

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Maxine Spencer

Writer and visual artist, Berkeley

Dissertation: Social Power and the Capacity for Innovation: An Exploratory Study of Adult Socialization in the Context of the Women's Movement

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Jerrold H. Takahashi

Asian American Studies-UCB

Dissertation: Changing Responses to Racial Suordination: An Exploratory study of Japanese American Political Style

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T. G. Thompson

Dissertation: Inequality in American Society: Socio-Economic Relationships in Marin County, California

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Jeff Weintraub

Visiting Research Scholar-Lehigh University

Dissertation: Virtue, Community, and the Sociology of Liberty: The Notion of Republican Virtue and Its Impact on Modern Western Soc[ial?] Thought.

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Erik O. Wright

Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

During my time as a graduate student in Sociology at Berkeley from 1971 to 1976 the Berkeley department provided a setting for free-wheeling exploration of politically-charged social theory through student-initiated seminars and study groups, many of which included students from throughout the Bay Area. While there were faculty involved in these things and their encouragement was important, the impulse and intellectual vigor came almost entirely from students. We ran a multi-semester seminar on current controversies in Marxist theory, organized the publication of new radical journals, ran conferences of academics and activists in the Sierra foothills. The intellectual agenda that I have followed since that time, as well as my academic style as a teacher, were forged through these activities. The central preoccupation of my intellectual work has been the reconstruction of the Marxist tradition of social theory and research, trying to give it more coherent analytical foundations and greater relevance for rigorous sociological research. My empirical work linked to the agenda of reconstructing Marxism has mainly revolved around the problem of analyzing class structure and its transformation in developed capitalism. More recently I have directed the Real Utopias Project, exploring the normative and practical properties of designs for alternatives to existing institutions. At the University of Wisconsin, where I have taught since 1976, I teach a course called ?Class, State and Ideology? which is a direct descendent of the seminar on current controversies I helped run at Berkeley, and I organize an annual conference called RadFest: a weekend conversation between activists and academics, which is the descendent of the conference of the Union of Marxist Social Scientists held every spring in the early 1970s near Nevada City, California. I continue to believe that the Marxist tradition provides essential intellectual tools for grounding a critique of capitalism, but also feel that for a variety of historical reasons Marxism has lost much of his compelling theoretical and political power. My hope is that my writing and teaching have contributed to sustaining -- and, perhaps, strengthening ? the relevance of Marxism both in the academy and in the world at large.

Dissertation: Class Structure and Income Inequality

Website: www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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1972

Joyce A. Bird

Researcher, Cancer Prevention, UCSF

Dissertation: The Bifurcation of Higher Education: The Effect of Nontraditional Programs on the Perpetuation of Inequality

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Elwood D. Carlson

Professor of Sociology, Florida State, University

Dissertation: Social Influences on the Timing of Marriage for American Women

Website: mailer.fsu.edu/~ecarlson/

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Hisauro A. Garza

Director, Southwest Center for Humsan Relatiomns Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman

Dissertation: Nationalism, Consciousness, and Social Change: Chicano Intellectuals in the United States

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Charlene A. Harrington

Professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

After I packed my bags in my yellow mustang and headed from the University of Kansas Medical Center to UC Berkeley to enter the doctoral program in 1970, I was swept away by the excitement of the antiwar demonstrations, the women?s movement, the freedom to study Mao and Marx, and the intellectual atmosphere. Building on my nursing degrees from KU and UW, I completed my qualifying exams in higher education with Dale Tillery, and then found a real home in Sociology studying with Hal Wilensky, Howard Waitzkin, Arlie Hochschild and others. In 1975, I received a dual degree in sociology and higher education, with an emphasis on medical sociology, and became an assistant to the director of the California Department of Health in Governor Jerry Brown?s administration. My excitement with politics was soon dampened after I was fired by the Governor from my appointed position in charge of regulating all health care facilities in California. I learned that closing down poor quality nursing homes and state hospitals was unpopular with the Governor and the Legislature. In 1980, I joined the faculty at UC San Francisco in Social & Behavioral Sciences, and began my teaching and research career in medical sociology. As a full Professor at UCSF, my focus is on health policy and medical sociology with an emphasis on long term care organizations. Sociology continues to be my passion and I am fortunate to be able to study and write about important health and political issues while continuing to live in Berkeley with my family.

Dissertation: Ideologies of Physician Groups Contending for Power Within the Medical Profession

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-27

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Robert M. Jackson

Sociology NYU

Dissertation: A Right to a Job: a Sociological History of Carpentry and Printing Craft Labor Markets in the United States

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Patrick J. O'Shea

Dissertation: Land Invasions in Peru

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Robert S. Palacio

Sociology, CSU, Fresno

Dissertation: Revolutionary Breaktrhough and National Development in Mexico: An Historical Study of Strategies and Dilemmas of Statecraft and Social Change

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David C. Plotke

Political and Social Science - New School

Dissertation: The Democratic Political Order, 1932-1972

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Ron Roizen

Dissertation: The American Discovery of Alcoholism, 1933-1939

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Anthony Soto

Dissertation: The Chicano and the Church in Northern California, 1848-1978: A Study of an Ethnic Minority Within the Roman Catholic Church

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Ann Van de Pol

Practising Juvenile, Criminal, and Family Law in Oakland

Dissertation: From Mothers' Pensions to ADC: The Origins of the Aid to Dependent Children Program

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1973

Mark G. Baldassare

Affiliated-Sociology-UC-Irvine

Dissertation: Residential Crowding in Urban America

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Robert K. Bell

Senior Analyst, Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation

My graduate school application said something to the effect that I was interested in the relationship between knowledge and ideas, on the one hand, and power and authority, on the other. Berkeley didn?t change that, but it helped me get it to the level of researchable problems. Philip Selznick and Philippe Nonet showed me that law was a logical focus for someone interested in culture in action and the role of rationality in modern life. Though I came to Berkeley prepared to acquire marketable skills and make my peace with positivist sociology, both my teachers and my student colleagues tempted me to continue my liberal education instead, and I succumbed.

I taught for thirteen years, first at Northwestern and then at Georgetown. I published a book (The Culture of Policy Deliberations) about the social conditions affecting intellectual integrity in a government organization. When I left academia, through some complex mixture of choice and circumstance, I was ready to risk being an intellectual in the world of action rather than a pragmatist in the world of thought. I got a job in NSF?s Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Of course, bureaucracy, even in an office of inspector general (the OIG is a federal agency?s internal cop), and not just at NSF, is a world of thought, as I knew from my academic research. Far from being an ethereal, professorial issue, intellectual integrity turned out to be the most practical possible organizational concern, and my sociological knowledge and perspective were constantly in play. Whether in working to construct a legal order adequate to investigating crimes against science or in elucidating the dilemmas of purposive action in NSF-funded organizations, I found myself translating sociology into ordinary action and ordinary English.

Organizational cultures are fragile (venerable sociological wisdom), and I was fortunate to leave the OIG as a new IG was moving to dumb it down. I am now redesigning NSF?s survey on public attitudes toward and understanding of science and technology, experiencing new variations on the ironic interplays of pragmatism and positivism, thought and action, liberal education and technical skill, and (always) knowledge and ideas, on the one hand, and power and authority, on the other.

Dissertation: Constructing the Public Interest: A Sociological Analysis of Administrative Deliberation and the Interpretation of Federal Subsidized Housing Policy

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-21

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Mary A. Colwell

Lecturer and Activist. Organizer and Consultant to Non-Profit Groups

I was an older student with an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science from San Francisco State when I arrived at Berkeley. As a married woman, with a big family, and many years of experience in volunteer work and paid work, I was not in sync with the other students who came in at my time. While I was there, I also worked part-time as the Executive Director of a small philanthropic fund which gave money away both locally and nationally to nonprofit activist organizations working on civil rights, environmental issues, peace, women's issue, and other social justice causes. That introduced me to the many organizations founded by the radical students of the 1960s who had gone on to try to do something worthwhile with their ideals. The faculty were all bemoaning the lack of activism on campus without really knowing anything about all these groups. For that, and other reasons I was not really in sync with the faculty, either. However, I struggled through and finally finished.

I will never forget two experiences. My first interview with a faculty person I explained that a lot of my interests arose from my work in the civil rights movement and research I had done on white ethnic groups and the backlash to the poverty program. This distinguished professor literally looked down his nose at me and said being at Berkeley would cause me to have a broader perspective. And when the time came to do my dissertation on philanthropic foundations my first, logical, choice for an advisor told me to read a set of exposé articles in Ramparts magazine about the Rockefellers and if I agreed with their political analysis and approach he would be willing to be on the dissertation committee but not otherwise! I did not continue that effort.

The book which resulted, Private Foundations and Public Policy: The Political Role of Philanthropy, was published in 1991, 10 years after the dissertation. Since Berkeley, I have continued to be involved in the nonprofit world - as foundation staff, consultant to donors, fund raiser, interim director of an activist organization sending volunteers to Nicaragua in the 1980s. I did major research on the peace movement in the 1980s and many articles and some student dissertations have been written using the unique data I gathered. I taught several courses at the Nonprofit Organization Management Institute at the University of San Francisco. I still serve as senior faculty adviser for the M.A. thesis work of a few students at the same USF program. Over these years I have taught one course at a time (social psychology, social movements, peace movements) at three UC campuses: Santa Cruz, Davis, and Berkeley. My last teaching at Cal was in the Peace and Conflict Studies Department. I am now essentially retired, although I have had a small research project focusing on environmental activists in the Arcata region of Humboldt County underway for several years. My husband died in the second year of this effort which caused a hiatus in that work. I have recently moved to a retirement community in Oakland and hope to at least finish that project.

Dissertation: Philanthropic Foundations and Public Policy: The Political Role of Foundations

Website: http://www.myway.com

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-02

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William A. Edwards

University of San Francisco

Dissertation: Garveyism: An Ideology and a Movement

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Daniel L. Finnegan

President, Quality Planning Corporation, San Francisco

The Berkeley Sociology Department gave me the freedom to do almost anything I wanted. I wrote my dissertation on the history of physics, studied statistics and the philosophy of science, and ignored mainstream sociology. Today, I consider myself much more a statistician than a sociologist. Since graduation, I have directed over 200 research projects with total budgets of approximately $75 million.

After completing my PhD I moved to Washington D.C. and served as a Division Director at Applied Management Sciences. In that role I directed public policy studies in disability rights, governmental financial management, and social welfare programs. In 1985 I returned to the Bay Area and founded Quality Planning Corporation. Quality Planning provides technical services to the insurance industry. I took a leave from Quality Planning in 1989 to serve on the US Senate staff assisting with passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 1993 I founded Qestrel Claims Management. Qestrel and Quality Planning provide employment for over 150 people.

I have conducted a wide variety of major disability rights related studies for the Senate, the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Collectively these studies have helped advanced this important movement. I have developed cost management and fraud control systems for the Department of Treasury, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Education, Social Security and numerous insurance companies.

Showing true diversity, the Berkeley Sociology Department even produced a capitalist.

Dissertation: Social Foundations of Classical Physics

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-08

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Juan L. Gonzales

Sociology-Cal State - Hayward

Dissertation: Social Mobility Among Mexican-American Agricultural Workers in Northern California

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Phillip B. Gonzales

Professor, University of New Mexico

I became a Berkeley graduate student at a time when the sociology department was admitting large groups of students at a time. Many of us found the place bewilderingly impersonal, super competitive, and alienating. But stick it out most of did, and in my case, an important reason was the support provided by a large cohort of Chicano and Chicana graduate students on campus from different disciplines. Still, for a working-class Chicano it was a great opportunity just being at Berkeley studying sociology full-time, learning so much from the Duster, Glock, Kornhauser, Blauner, Fischer, and Selznick seminars.

I went to Berkeley knowing I would focus on Mexican Americans, although I had no idea what kind of sociologist I would become. One time I wrote a paper on a historical topic, and that set me on a path toward historical sociology of a sort. It's been rewarding, thus far authoring one book, co-authoring another, doing the articles.

In 1987, a year after finishing my dissertation, I was appointed assistant professor in sociology at the University of New Mexico where I have been ever since and where I teach in the race-ethnic track and a course called the Sociology of Mexican Americans. For the last seven of the years I was also director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. In collaboration with many colleagues from throughout the university, the work of the Institute involved quite varied administrative and research activities. I am most proud of the research which produced not only academics, but assisted the current-day heirs of the old Spanish and Mexican community land grants in their efforts to gain political recognition and resources so as to realize to the extent possible their own cultural and economic sustainability in New Mexico.

Dissertation: A Perfect Furor of Indignation: The Racial Attitude Confrontation of 1933

Biography submitted on: 2003-07-16

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Paul M. Gurwitz

Marketing Research Consultant, Renaiassance Research and Consulting, New York

Dissertation: Antecedents of Participation in Psychotherapy in the Middle Years: A Longitudinal Study

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Gail A. Kligman

Professor, UC, Los Angeles

Berkeley marked the beginning of an intellectual and professional odyssey that has resonated positively and negatively in all aspects of my life. I transferred to Berkeley from Reed in 1968 for an unforgettable sophomore year, the sociological lessons of which were learned more in the streets than in classrooms. That year and my subsequent years in the department undoubtedly shaped my commitment to studying social change and how people made sense of it in their everyday lives. A summer trip through the Balkans motivated by political and cultural interests cemented my research trajectory in graduate school. Geo-political constraints, however, compelled me to pursue dissertation research in Romania rather than in the former Yugoslavia. Since then, I have done extensive ethnographic research on topics ranging from ritual traditions during state socialism to an ethnography of the state analyzed through the Ceausescu regime's reproductive politics, to comparative research on the politics of gender and of poverty since the collapse of communism in Central East Europe. In consequence of such research, my academic identity has often been questioned: am I a sociologist? An anthropologist? The rhetorical celebration of interdisciplinary studies notwithstanding, transgressing borders (international or disciplinary) has repeatedly proven problematic. Not surprisingly, much of my research focuses on the relationship between discourse and practice in socialist and postsocialist states, and on gender and political cultures. My experiences at Berkeley as a student and thereafter have also contributed importantly to my dedication to teaching students and mentoring junior colleagues here and abroad.

Dissertation: Calus: Ritual Reversal in Romania

Biography submitted on: 2003-05-14

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Elizabeth P. Morgan

Dissertation: The Process of Parenting Among Twenty-Four Black Families in Berkeley, California

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Joseph M. Palacios

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgetown University

My journey to the Ph.D. in Sociology at Berkeley began in 1973 and ended in December 2001?28 years with many detours. My first detour was in the mid-1970?s when I worked in the corporate sector doing Affirmative Action management. By the early 1980?s I ended up doing political consulting, which became very disillusioning. After trying to figure life out, I entered seminary and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1987 and worked in Los Angeles doing pastoral work in the African American and Latino communities. This work reinvigorated my academic interest in sociology, particularly in community organizing and the role of religion in social change?interests that go back to my early activism in Chicano and peace movement politics at both UCSC and Berkeley.

In 1992 I entered the Jesuits, which allowed me to go back to Berkeley in 1996. Robert Bellah has been my intellectual mentor throughout the 28 years and helped me finish the doctorate. Fellow ?Bellahite? Ann Swidler directed my dissertation. In those final years Bellah, Swidler, Michael Burawoy, Margaret Weir, Jim Stockinger, Kim Voss and my fellow grad students?formed my sociological imagination and tradition. Today at Georgetown University, where I am an Assistant Professor, I am passing on that Berkeley spirit (a subversive one at that) to undergrads in the Sociology Department and grad students in the Latin American Studies. I am also a Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in DC, which is the US Jesuit think tank regarding social justice issues.

Dissertation: Locating the Social in Social Justice: Social Justice Teaching and Practice in the American and Mexican Catholic Churches

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-23

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Martin K. Roysher

Dissertation: Policy and Bureaucracy: The Case of Children's Health

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Mary Ruggie

Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

I find myself telling students all the time that my graduate work at Berkeley gave me the tools for learning. I never took courses in what later became my fields of specialization, but my academic roots are clearly reflected in my approach to each of them. After my dissertation was published in 1984 as The State and Working Women: A Comparative Study of Britain and Sweden, I turned to a newly evolving interest in health care. It took me several years to learn the field and to place myself in it. My second book, Realignments in the Welfare State: Health Policy in the United, States, Britain and Canada was published in 1996. The book I have just finished came more quickly, even though I once again became immersed in totally new areas of social thought. From Quackery to Legitimacy: Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine (or something like this?the title is still tentative) should see the light of print in 2003.

I have moved from coast to coast a few times (Barnard College, UCSD, Columbia University, and now the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University), teaching courses on social theory, gender, comparative welfare states, health care and health policy. I?m still married to John, my high school sweetheart, and our son Andreas has been a joy to us both.

Dissertation: Women and Work in Britain and Sweden: the Role of the State in Social Change

Biography submitted on: 2003-01-25

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Jerry Sanders

Dissertation: Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Legitimization of Containment Militarism in the Korean and Post-Vietnam Periods.

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Gini Scott

Director, Changemakers

Dissertation: Social Structure and the Occult: A Sociological Analysis and Comparison of the Social Organization, Patterns, and Beliefs of Two Occult Groups: A Spiritual Growth Group and a Witchcraft Group

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Susheela Singh

Researcher, Alan Guttmacher Institute for Reproductive Health

Dissertation: The Demography of Social change In Guyana

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Charlotte A. Stueve

Columbia University

Dissertation: What's To Be Done About Mom and Dad? Daughters' Relations With Elderly Parents

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Deborah A. Woo

Community Studies-UCSC

Dissertation: Social Support and the Imputation of Mental Illness: Chinese Americans and European Americans

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Barbara W. Worthing-Jones

Database Administrator and Systems Programmer

Dissertation: Effects of Maternal Employment on Parental Childbearing Practices and Children's Competence: A Longitudinal Study

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1974

Barry Barnes

Dissertation: Personality and Social Solidarity

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Kenneth Christman, Jr.

International Tax Lawyer, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Dissertation: Internal and External Control of Demeanor During Social Interation: Testing Two-Process Theory

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John D. Dombrink

Criminology,Law and Society & Sociology-UC Irvine

Dissertation: Outlaw businessmen: Organized Crime and the Legalization of Casino Gambling

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Doris Fine

Dissertation: Civil Rights, Uncivil Schools: Disarray and Demoralization in the Public Schools of San Francisco.

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Yiannis Gabriel

Professor, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London

Whenever I look back at my years as a graduate student at Berkeley, I feel a surge of excitement along with a liberal dose of nostalgia. For me, like for so many others, these were years of discovery, exploration and hope, years in which I met some of my best friends, I developed some of the ideas that have stayed with me longest, and experienced some of the moments of greatest emotional happiness and intellectual exhilaration that I have ever experienced.

Many of the professors left a lasting impact on me -- Neil Smelser, David Matza, Gertrude Jaeger, Robert Blauner and not least the late Paul Feyerabend, whose philosophy of science classes were among the most stimulating experiences of my life. Yet, a great deal of the learning was initiated by fellow-students who organized a variety of cutting-edge courses in Marxist controversies, Freudian theory and others. I will not forget working on the Berkeley Journal of Sociology in 1974, a life-enhancing group experience. Much of my work at the time focused on labor process and psychoanalytic theories, although I found myself becoming familiar with a wide range of ideas. Apart from making a great number of friends with extraordinary people, I remember my second year at Berkeley for a mad escapade to Reno, Nevada, where I got married with Jane, my companion since then.

My years at Berkeley were followed by a year in the Greek military -- a mind-destroying experience, as Berkeley had been a mind-expanding one. There followed years of teaching in a variety of British universities, in which the birth and first steps of my two children offered much more significant memory landmarks than my expanding research interests in the sociology of organizations and psychoanalysis. Those were years when, under the influence of Margaret Thatcher?s ?There is no such thing as society,? sociology became almost a pariah in British universities. Very few job and research opportunities. Like many other social scientists, I found myself working for a number of business schools, with my research focusing increasingly on work organizations and the labor process.

In 1989, I moved to Bath University which had and continues to have a very vibrant Management School. Surrounded by several unusual thinkers (mostly of a social constructionist hue), I developed two areas of research interests. One was in storytelling and narratives. I came to view these as elements of an ?unmanaged organization,? and used them to study some aspects of organizations which had not been adequately recognized -- fantasy, emotion, dream. The study of stories and narratives allowed me, at last, to bring together the two core research interests that had stayed apart in my thinking, psychoanalysis and labour process. I realized that many stories could be analysed as though they were dreams, without losing sight of their political and cultural dimensions. This also allowed me to exorcise my experience in the military by allowing me to interpret and finally resolve many of the stories that I had picked up there. The other new area of interest has been in studying the consumer, something very important for the study of organizations, but also indispensable in understanding contemporary higher education, as students come to view themselves through the prism of consumerism.

Three years ago, I had the great privilege of being appointed Professor of Organizational Theory at Imperial College London, the university where I had started my studies as an undergraduate 30 years earlier. I have continued to research storytelling and narratives, but have also developed a critique of the dissemination of management ideas and concepts as fads and fashions, and more generally a critique of what I call ?the hubris of management?, the belief that everything can be forecast and controlled by management.

I am currently teaching courses on leadership, organizational theory and psychoanalysis of organizations. I am associate editor of ?Human Relations? and editor emeritus of ?Management Learning.?

When people ask me what I am, I rarely say ?Sociologist? these days. I am more likely to call myself ?social psychologist? or ?organizational theorist?. All the same, my years at Berkeley were the basis on which much of my thinking, and maybe even my identity, are based. They are a part of my past that I particularly cherish.

Dissertation: Freud and Society

Biography submitted on: 2003-06-04

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Todd Gitlin

Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University

Lucky me: I had no sooner landed my Ph. D. than Berkeley decided to create an undergraduate Mass Communications program and Sociology decided to house it. I got the job, doubling up, and stayed at Berkeley 1978-1994. After an interim year in Paris, I moved to New York?original home was calling?and taught for seven years at NYU, chiefly in the departments of Culture and Communication (media studies) and journalism. In September 2002 I moved to Columbia, where I profess journalism and sociology. In journalism, my prime responsibility is a new Ph. D. program in communication. As always, I write in all sorts of venues?books (most recently Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, Metropolitan, 2002, and the forthcoming Letters to a Young Activist, Basic, 2003), articles mostly for the popular press and magazines, and increasingly on-line (mostly www.openDemocracy.net, a remarkable experiment in cross?national disputation, which I serve as North America editor).

Berkeley taught me theory and the limits of theory. Arlie Hochschild?s thinking about emotion came back to me years later, and entered into my last book. I lurched into graduate school in 1974 with grand historical-theoretical ambitions, and was not unhappy to see them drift away. The department renewed my respect for rigor?a renewal I hope to relay to students now.

I don?t see that sociology, mine or anyone else?s, is succeeding in shaping the world nowadays, but as ever, consider that every piece of writing, every talk, every act of teaching is a prayer in behalf of reason in a world that needs all it can get.

Dissertation: The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media and the New Left, 1965-70

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-22

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Helena H. Hershel

Psychotherapist and Professor, Center for Psychological Studies, Berkeley

Since my first reading of Freud at age eleven something inside of me said that I was destined to be a psychotherapist. But psychology alone was not enough ? so where could one study race, alienation or phenomenology, not to speak of psychoanalytic theory? Sociology at Berkeley permitted all these fields to be subsumed under the title ?the sociology of...? and the Department became a good home to me.

Grad school at Berkeley was a time of high excitement. Some of us thought we could affect the world by understanding grand theory and ideas and passion became inextricably bound. My dissertation led me to worked with patients at mental institutions in France and in the Bay Area to gather research on cross-cultural contrasts between French and American psychiatric wards and their treatment of patients. Postdoctoral fellowships at the Schools of Medicine in Hawaii and at UCSF in medical anthropology continued to widen my interests in ethnopsychiatry.

A professorship at an Ivy League college (Dartmouth) offered me a position that held promise for a few years. However, living in an isolated New England town was culturally challenging for my family and me. Moreover, I missed the immediacy of working with people not just from the head but also from the heart. So, I returned to the Bay Area, got additional clinical training and licensing and put out a shingle as a psychotherapist in Oakland.

I have had the good fortune to have a full and rewarding practice. My work incorporates a cross-cultural sensitivity with insights gained as a student of human nature across many disciplines. I also teach and mentor graduate students in clinical and cross-cultural psychology. When I have a sociological imagination, it finds expression in my writings on internalized oppression, biracial identity formation, and developmental issues.

Dissertation: The Internal Timebomb: An Interactonal Study of Emotion, Communication, and Ideology in Mental Illness

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-22

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Michael S. Kimmel

Professor of Sociology, SUNY, Stony Brook

I came to Berkeley in 1974 to study how multinational corporate investment had transformed cultures and identities in French West Africa. I left in 1981 with a dissertation on revolutions in 17th century France and England. Since finishing, I?ve developed an expertise in the Sociology of Gender, and have been instrumental in developing the subfield of Men and Masculinities.

While this may strike one as a textbook case of sociological dilettantism, I prefer to see the ways in which Berkeley sociology ? with its emphasis on being theoretically informed, comparative and historically grounded, and politically engaged ? underlies each of these moves. In the first case, I was captivated in the late 1970s by the new synthetic works that sought to explain the rise of modern society (Moore, Tilly, Wallerstein, Skocpol, Bendix, Anderson) ? that seemed to return to original sociological questions raised by the classical theorists.

By the time I arrived at Rutgers in 1982, I had split my interests, and worked on both gender and comparative social movements. I?ve sustained those interests both separately and together since arriving at Stony Brook, my home since 1987. (I returned to Berkeley in 1992-3 as a Visiting Professor, and was voted ?Best Professor? on campus that year by the Daily Cal.) My work on the history of American manhood has been coupled with books and articles that represent my intellectual and political engagement with various issues raised by feminism: pornography, the ?men?s movements,? homophobia and aggression. That distinctly Berkeley sensibility ? a sociology that brings together history, theory, and political commitment - has, I believe, guided all my work.

My Berkeley years also committed me to public education, and I have spent my entire career at large, public universities, educating the next generation of Americans, who have little sense of entitlement.

A New Yorker by both birth and temperament, I could not be happier than living in a turn of the century brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn -- a community that is rivaled, perhaps, only by Lake Merritt for the vitality of multiculturalism.

Dissertation: Absolutism and Its Discontents: Fiscal Crisis and Political Opposition in Seventeenth Century France and England

Website: www.michaelkimmel.com

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-16

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Ellen L. LeVee

Dissertation: Rationality: American Jewry's False Messiah

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Edward McNair

Chief Deputy Commissioner, Board of Prison Terms, State of California

Dissertation: Changing Sex Roles and Masculine Role Strain

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Richard A. Morales

CEO Morales-Associates, San Diego, California

I discovered sociology at San Diego State University, inspired by Nicos Mouratides’ stories of the Greek resistance and how a sociological perspective might offer a way of engaging in the world with purpose and clarity. After graduation, and a two-year stint in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve with an honorable discharge and conscientious objector status, I arrived in Berkeley. To be honest my interest was as much about having an adventure and finding myself, as it was about pursuing a particular intellectual focus or academic direction. My father had arrived at CAL as a grad student in 1939 to demonstrations against Hitler; I arrived just weeks after Nixon’s resignation when everyone seemed to be searching for Patty Hearst. I was searching too.

I began to find my way with the support of new friends both within and outside the University. Berkeley’s critical and historical approach to sociological issues provided me a framework to explore my interests, vague as they were in that first year.

It was a true privilege to work with David Matza, Bob Blauner, Troy Duster and Harry Edwards throughout my graduate experience. Their research and teaching pointed me toward studies of outsiders, race, ethnicity, social change, and power. David Montejano’s course on the political economy of the Southwest planted a seed that would later sprout into my dissertation topic. It was clear that my fellow Chicano / Latino students and me had an opportunity to add new stories to the “obra sociologica.�

Apart from my graduate student life, I also worked as a waiter in Lafayette and Walnut Creek where the tips were abundant. One night I heard some Mexican ranchera music coming from a kitchen radio and discovered my dissertation topic – undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry. I returned to San Diego, found work in a restaurant, plugged into the local immigrant networks and began my fieldwork. Soon afterward I joined a team of energized researchers at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD, exploring the labor market impact of immigrants on the California economy. It was relevant work with a policy focus on a hot topic. Post-graduate work followed in the form of more research and lecture positions at UCSD and San Diego State.

By the late 1980’s I was married with a young daughter and at a career crossroads; gratified by my foray into sociology but not happy with my options, and not interested in whining about it. As luck would have it I was asked to join the faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership, a unique research and training not-for-profit. For eight years I designed and delivered leadership development experiences for people from every field. A sort of praxis began to emerge.

Fifteen years ago I started an organizational development consulting business. I love being my own boss and helping decision makers facilitate change, find their focus and, sometimes, re-discover their purpose. Especially gratifying has been the opportunity to apply my background and experience to working with people of color in diversity/ inclusion and cross-cultural development initiatives. A book on Latino leadership is in the works.

I look back on my time at Berkeley with gratitude for the people and experiences that shaped my journey, and helped me gain the confidence to define success on my own terms – with perhaps just a bit of sociological imagination.

Dissertation: Under One Roof: Mexican Immigrant and Native-born Workers in the Non-Union Restaurant Industry of San Diego County

Website: www.morales-associates.com

Biography submitted on: 2009-06-23

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Bruce C. Nordstrom-Loeb

Sociology & Anthropology-St. Olaf

Dissertation: Men's Lives

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Steven A. Schneider

Dissertation: International Rivalries and the Oil Price Revolution

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Gershon Shafir

Sociology - UC San Diego

Dissertation: Intellectuals and the Popular Masses: An Historical and Sociological Study of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks

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Carol J. Silverman

Director of Research, Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management, University of San Francisco

I came to Berkeley?s department of Sociology to learn a sociologically sophisticated way of theorizing the role of the spatial environment in human social life.

Unfortunately, I entered graduate school too soon. The current large post-modern and Marxist relevant literature had not been translated or even written. I changed emphasis, studying the then current urban literature with Claude Fischer. I also began studying the theoretical assumptions behind the use of various methodologies ? in practice this means that I took or audited every methodology, theory of methodology and statistics course that I could.

While that had not been my initial intent, it proved to help shape my work career since my graduate degree. I have worked as a full-time researcher since that time. After the degree, I extended my doctoral work on how cultural understandings of private property help shape how people organize community by studying common interest developments. Because of what happened to a family member, I changed research interests and worked for a number of years as the Research Director and Co-Principal Investigator for The Center for Self-Help Research. Steve Segal, the Principal Investigator, and I worked collaboratively with some of the major figures in the mental health consumer rights movement to understand the effectiveness of consumer run organizations for people with mental health and substance abuse problems.

I currently am the Research Director at the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management at the University of San Francisco. We do applied research in service to nonprofit sector.

While I continued teaching for several years after my degree at Berkeley, I have not taught there for some time. Instead, I have taught on an adjunct basis at USF, San Francisco State and at one of the few remaining local alternative colleges: New College of California.

Is this the career I envisioned for myself when I entered Berkeley? No. I don?t get to engage in the critical theoretical perspective that Berkeley teaches, except in my own teaching. There are, however, a number of personal rewards in doing applied and policy based research.

Dissertation: Neighbors and Nighbors: A Study in Negotiated Claim

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-03

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1975

Marybeth F. Ayella

Sociology, St. Joseph's University

Dissertation: Insane Therapy: Case Study of the Social Organization of a Psychotherapy Cult

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Kenneth S. Chew

Social Ecology-UC Irvine

Dissertation: Metroplitan Differences in the Level of Nonfamily Households: A cross-Sectional Look at the United States in 1970

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Sylvia J. Flatt

Organizational Studies - USF

Dissertation: The Innovative Edge: How Top Management Team Similarities Make a Difference

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Linda O. Fuller

Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon and Director, International Studies Program

Going to graduate school was something I?d never really planned to do, but after getting my degree in 1985 I got a job at University of Southern California. Another sociology graduate student (Greg McLauchlan) and I were together by then, and so began our 5-year saga looking for two tenure-track jobs in the same place. With the help and counsel of literally about 70 people, we finally landed two jobs at the University of Oregon, where we?ve been since 1989.

I?ve taught 20+ courses ranging from theory to philosophy and epistemology of social research to courses on ?development? in the South and alternatives to it. Teaching has been the major way my sociology has shaped the world. I?ve written two books on Cuba and the German Democratic Republic, but I?m not especially pleased with the impact these academic studies have had on the world. So, a principal goal of my next project on luxury products and global inequalities is to write something accessible to a wider audience.

The Berkeley department, in particular Michael Burawoy and my fellow graduate students, influenced my sociology a lot. Had I not gone to Berkeley, I don?t think I?d have connected sociology and activism nearly as well. (It may not even have occurred to me to do so.) I recall Claude Fischer once warning graduate students that, coming out of the Berkeley department we wouldn?t have a clue what sociology was really like. I remember being puzzled. I thought I was learning sociology at Berkeley! But now I know Claude was right. And I?m convinced there should be more Berkeleys among the US sociology programs.

Dissertation: The Politics of Workers' Control in Cuba, 1959-1983: The Work Center and the National Arena

Biography submitted on: 2002-11-26

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Jeffrey M. Haydu

Professor of Sociology, UC, San Diego

I arrived at Berkeley in 1975 with a strong interest in social theory. By the time I left, after the customary ten years, I much preferred labor history. One of the strengths and weaknesses of Berkeley's program was to nurture both interests without much regard for careerist considerations. After a three year layover at Syracuse University, I settled at UC San Diego, where the department has that same strength and weakness and, not coincidentally, a large enclave of Berkeley Ph.D.s.

I have retained my interest in the history of labor relations, slowly writing what will eventually be a trilogy. The first part focused on the role of trade union institutions in shaping factory politics (Between Craft and Class, 1988) and the second on the role of the state (Making American Industry Safe for Democracy, 1997). My current project takes on employers. In different ways, each of these applies my Berkeley-bred conviction that the best sociology is comparative history.

Hanging out in archives studying dead workers, bureaucrats, and employers keeps me some distance from contemporary labor struggles. Over the last several years, however, I have tried to follow the good example set by more activist mentors, colleagues, and family members. My modest participation in campus organizing efforts and in San Diego's Labor Academic Network has contributed more to my own education than to worker rights, but it rests the soul -- and helps me keep my head up as a Berkeley alumnus.

Dissertation: Factory Politics in the British and American Metal Trades: Changing Agenda for Protest, 1890-1922

Website: weber.ucsd.edu/~jhaydu/home.htm

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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Karen F. Hembry

Executive Analyst at Dallas Independent School District

Dissertation: Little Women: Repeat Childbearing Among Blacks, Never-Married Adolescent Mothers

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Anne T. Lawrence

Professor of Organization and Management, San Jose State University

After graduating from Berkeley, I took a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. After an unsuccessful search for a faculty position in sociology in the Bay Area (where my husband?s career was rooted), I accepted a job teaching in the college of business at San Jose State. While that was not what I had envisioned for myself while in graduate school, it proved to be a very positive move for me. I have been very happy in a public university business school setting, with its emphasis on applied research and excellent teaching. I have carved out a role for myself as the resident expert on ?social issues,? teaching popular undergraduate courses in business and society, labor relations, managing environmental issues, and global business and human rights. I have twice been named outstanding undergraduate instructor at the college. My McGraw-Hill textbook, Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, Ethics, is the market-leader in its field. I am also active as a writer of teaching cases for use in business schools, and my cases have been widely used in management education. Last year, I served as president of the North American Case Research Association, and I am a member of the board of the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management. Although I no longer participate in the professional community of sociologists, I feel that my training at Berkeley profoundly influenced my approach to the issues I study.

Dissertation: Organizations in Crisis: Labor Union Responses to Plant Closures in California Manufacturing 1979-1983

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-30

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Marilyn J. Little

Dissertation: Family Processes in the Determination of Child Custody

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-13

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Timothy McDaniel

Sociology - UC San Diego

Dissertation: Autocratic Capitalist Industrialization, Tsarist Labor Policy, and the Labor Movement in Russia, 1961-1917.

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Ruth Milkman

Professor of Sociology, UC, Los Angeles

For me, becoming a sociologist was from the outset linked to a commitment to social change. I was attracted to the Berkeley department because I presumed that it would be hospitable to that orientation, and that indeed proved to be the case, if not always in quite the ways I had expected. As a student my intellectual agenda was driven by feminism and Marxism; only much later did I develop an appreciation of sociology as a discipline. In fact, despite a very privileged employment history (first at CUNY from 1982 to 1988 and since then at UCLA) for many years I felt deeply alienated from the profession. That has been less true recently, thanks to the revival of labor sociology, which has long been the focus of my own research and writing. I started off studying job segregation by gender and U.S. women?s labor history; later turned to examine the transformation of factory work and industrial unionism in the late twentieth century, and am currently working on a project about contemporary union organizing among Latino immigrants. At this writing I am privileged to serve as director of the two-year-old UC Institute for Labor and Employment, a statewide unit that aims to be a bridge between the university and the labor movement. In that capacity I have been able to pursue the intellectual and political concerns I?ve been engaged ever since I was a student at Berkeley on more spacious terrain.

Dissertation: The Reproduction of Job Segregation by Sex: A Study of the Changing Sexual Division of Labor in the Electrical Manufacturing Industries in the 1940's.

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-06

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James Mori

James Mori has passed away.

Dissertation: Dance is Art--Dance is Work: A Study of the Careers, Work, and Lives of Modern Dancers

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Robert E. Rosen

School of Law-University of Miami

Dissertation: Lawyers in Corporate Decision-Making

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Susan R. Takata

Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin, Parkside

I have been here at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside since Fall 1984. I Moved up the ranks from assistant to associate to full professor. I spearheaded the creation of a Criminal Justice Department on campus and moved from the Department of Sociology/Anthropology to the Criminal Justice Department in 1999.

My research is well integrated with my teaching and service; for example, in the mid-1980s, I had several teams of undergraduate students researching the local gang problems in Kenosha and Racine. I replicated the undergraduate student operated research center here at UWP (originally a part of the Cal State Dominguez Hills student research center, which was recognized by Hans Mauksch as one of the innovative ASA teaching projects). Since my undergrad days at CSUDH, I've kept in touch with Professor Jeanne Curran and we continue to experiment with teaching/learning approaches (check out our Dear Habermas website: http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas) We team teach long distance and our students work on various projects together and then we meet at conferences to present out work.

While at Berkeley, I worked with wonderful people like Troy Duster, David Matza, Herbert Blumer, Harry Edwards, and Bob Blauner. While a grad student, I was associated with the Institute for the Study of Social Change with my National Institute of Corrections grant to examine alternatives to jail incarceration. I was given the freedom and yet gentle guidance, to think "outside the box."

I share with my students, the community and colleagues my excitement for interactive process of teaching/learning. I challenge student to think about real world problems and issues and how they relate to "theory, policy, and practice" and to come up with creative answers/solutions. We did this with the Racine Gang Project. And this semester, I have a small group of students examining alternatives to jail incarceration and the jail overcrowding problems in Racine. (In September, I was appointed to the Racine County Citizens Criminal Justice Task Force). On a much broader level, we are doing this with the Dear Habermas website focusing on issues of social justice and peace.

Dissertation: Discretionary Justice Within Local Parole Systems in California: A Comparative Organizational Analysis Between Los Angeles and San Francisco Counties

Website: http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas

Biography submitted on: 2002-01-21

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Anita Weiss

International Studies Program-University of Oregon

Dissertation: The Emergence of an Industrial Bourgeoisie in Punjab, Pakistan: Case Studies of Three Industries

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Laurie A. Wermuth

Cal State - Chico

Dissertation: Wife Beating: The Crime Without Punishment

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Alison E. Woodward

Professor of Sociology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Berkeley?s sociology was full of people who knew that the best sociology is comparative ? Smelser, Wilensky, Castells, Schurman, Burawoy. Coming to Berkeley via Sweden, I found among both fellow students and faculty appreciation for the challenge of doing comparative research in a critical framework across disciplines. I also discovered I was happier in Europe. Thus I probably take up a rather strange position among the graduates of being an American working in Europe. Doing field work for the dissertation in Sweden, I went native, and worked as a researcher on policy projects in housing and energy for the government and the Royal Institute of Technology before finally finishing the dissertation. Berkeley continued to affect me however, as it was the Swedish arm of E.O. Wright?s International Class Project of that got me interested in gender and class.

Gender became my claim to fame upon moving to Belgium where I am now Professor at the Free University of Brussels, teaching comparative politics, policy and sociology. I helped start women?s studies in Belgium and write mostly on gender issues, doing consulting for the European Union, the Belgian government and the Council of Europe. The focus has been on elites in the EU and in Belgium and policies to engender and diversify the elite. Doing policy research and advocacy probably only indirectly shapes the world, but thanks to Claude Fischer, my knowledge of networks helps keep my expectations realistic.

Dissertation: Social Ambitions: Planning for Community in Sweden and America

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-06

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1976

Jorge Chapa

Latino Studies - Indiana University

Dissertation: The Increasing Significance of Class: Class, Culture and Chicano Assimilation

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Elaine Draper

Professor, Law and Society Program, Department of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles

Dissertation: Risky Business: Genetic Testing and Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace

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Susana Gubkin

Dissertation: A Movement Towards the Emergence of a Planetary Consciousness: The Case of the San Francisco Bay Area

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Lisa M. Heilbronn

Public Affairs officer, US Embassy, Moldova

Dissertation: Domesticating Social Change: The Situation Comedy as Social History

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Annette Lareau

Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

My first graduate seminar, in the fall of 1976, was in the area of Sociology of Education. The course examined the influence parents’ social origins have on children’s academic outcomes. At the time, while the pattern was incontrovertible, the mechanisms through which these patterns were sustained were very unclear. I found this question engaging and ultimately pursued it in my dissertation. This work, a revised version of which was published as a book, Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education, examined the social processes though which social class shapes parents’ relationship to school.

When I finished my dissertation I became a post-doctoral fellow in1984 in the Sociology Department at Stanford University. The contrast helped me see the distinctive aspects of the training at UC Berkeley: at Berkeley the training was more theoretical, longer in duration, less statistical, and more “laissez faire.� After Stanford I spent four years as a faculty member at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois (a tremendous cultural shift from the Bay Area) before coming to Temple University in Philadelphia in 1990. I also worked at University of Maryland before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2008.

Though it is over 20 years since I left Berkeley, I believe that my research continues to reflect the distinctive nature of my graduate training. For example, my 2003 book, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (University of California Press), attempts to ask a “big picture question� (i.e., how does social class influence daily routines of family life) using ethnographic methods. It would have been much more expedient to break my research into smaller and narrower questions. My hope is that, in keeping with the Berkeley tradition, my focus on more theoretical “broad-minded� questions using ethnographic methods will be seen as more worthwhile.

Dissertation: Social behavior and the family-school relationship in two communities

Biography submitted on: 2009-06-01

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Gregory McLauchlan

Sociology, University of Oregon

Dissertation: Nuclear Weapons and the Formation of the National Security State

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Susan S. Phillips

Executive Director and Professor, New College Berkeley, Graduate Theological Union

When I arrived at U.C. Berkeley I came with a desire to learn, and no clear idea about career. Studying with Ed Swanson, John Clausen, Bob Bellah, Gertrude Jaeger, Michael Burawoy, Burt Dreyfus, Dick Lazarus, Arlie Hochschild, and others at Cal was a privilege beyond measure. Working and studying in both the sociology and psychology departments, dabbling in philosophy and theology, participating in the NIMH Fellowship group on Personality and Social Structure, and volunteering with the "northside" Amnesty International chapter gave full vent to my multiple passions and interests. Focusing all those passions into a single career, while at the same time, with my husband, raising two sons with disabilities, has been the challenge.

Following a few years as Academic Dean, I've now served for 8 years as Executive Director of New College Berkeley, an institute of the Graduate Theological Union, offering programs for those eager to integrate their faith with their daily lives. I teach there and as a regular adjunct at seminaries in the U.S. and Canada, in the areas of caring ethics and practices, and spirituality. I'm also on the clinical faculty of U.C.S.F.'s nursing school. A book I edited, The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions (with Patricia Benner, and the recipient of the CHOICE award for best academic book of 1994) reflects the unusual way in which my faith, sociological imagination, and commitment to caring practices come together. I remain grateful to learn, and never quite sure about career.

Dissertation: Lay Counseling in the Evangelical Christian Church: A Case Study

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-02

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Denise A. Segura

Sociology - UCSB

Dissertation: Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Market: A Study of Occupational Mobility and Stratification

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James W. Stockinger

Lecturer-Sociology-UCB

Dissertation: Locke and Rousseau: Human Nature, Human Citizenship and Human Work

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Andrew J. Treno

Research Scientist, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley

Andrew J. Treno is a Research Scientist at the Prevention Reseach Center in Berkeley, CA, a National Alcohol Research Center. He has worked in the area of environmental prevention for the past 12 years. During that period he has worked on two major projects, the Community Trials Project (Harold D. Holder, Principal Investigator) and the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project, a project designed to reduce alcohol access, drinking, and related problems in two low income largely minority neighborhoods in Sacramento, California (Paul J. Gruenewald, Principal Investigator). As a member of the research team on the Community Trials Project he assumed responsibility for the evaluation of community mobilization and media advocacy and developed a surrogate measure for alcohol involved injury. He currently serves as project director on the SNAPP project and maintains management, budgetary, and scientific responsibility for the daily conduct of the project. Additionally, he has served as Project Director on a project funded by the National Institutes of Health investigating the effects of Alcohol Advertising on Youth (Joel Grube, Principal Investigator), which has involved conducting both focus groups and self-administered questionnaires in school settings and has published using those data. His c.v. lists over 35 publications primarily in the areas of environmental interventions, community evaluation, and alcohol-involvement in injury.

Dissertation: Primitivism as Social Fact: The Cult of Nature in Contemporary America

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-05

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Kenneth H. Tucker

Sociology/Anthropology-Mt. Holyoke College

Dissertation: Ideology and Social Movements: A Comparative Analysis of the Action Francaise and Revolutionary Syndicalism

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Ronald J. Weitzer

Professor of Sociology, George Washington University

In the past 20 years, I have done field research on the topic of police-minority relations in various contexts--Northern Ireland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the United States. Although I took no criminology courses at Berkeley (none were offered in the Sociology Dept!), it is fair to say that my interest in this topic originated at Berkeley. First and foremost, I am interested in "conditions of transformation", i.e., the conditions under which racialized and repressive policing in America can be changed. For instance, racial profiling is not inevitable, and already some progress has been made in reducing it in various states and cities. I have recently been involved in both city-specific and nationwide studies examining various policing problems, and I expect to continue working on these issues.

A secondary research interest centers on the sex industry, which resulted in my book, Sex For Sale (Routledge). Other recent books include Current Controversies in Criminology and Deviance & Social Control.

Dissertation: The Internal Security State: Political Change and Repression in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-18

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1977

Kathleen L. Barry

Professor Emerita, Pennsylvania State University

Kathleen Barry is Professor Emerita of the Pennsylvania State University and an internationally known feminist and sociologist. She is the author of the landmark book Female Sexual Slavery (1979) which has been translated into six languages and launched an international movement against sexual exploitation. She is the founder of the United Nations NonGovernmental Organization, The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, and collaborated with UNESCO to develop new international law that makes sexual exploitation a violation of human rights which is the subject of her 1995 book, Prostitution of Sexuality: Global Exploitation of Women, (New York University Press). It has been translated and published in Chinese and Korean.

She is a biographer and author of Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist (1stBooks, Ballantine, 1989) and was featured in the movie for television "One Woman, One Vote." She appeared in the 1999 Ken Burns PBS special "Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony." She was the editor of Feminist Crosscurrents, a book series for New York University Press.

Kathleen Barry’s international work led her to Vietnam in 1991. She developed a project on women and the family with the Institute of Social Science in Ho Chi Minh City in 1993 which led to her edited volume, Vietnamese Women in Transition (Macmillan and St. Martins Press, 1996). This book is recognized as the first published social science collaboration between the Americans and Vietnamese since the war in Vietnam.

Kathleen Barry lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad. She has appeared on OPRAH WINFREY, LARRY KING LIVE, and numerous other national and local talk shows for over two decades. In 1995, Dr. Barry was honored with a ten-city lecture tour in France on Susan B. Anthony and the Womans Rights Movement at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy in Paris. She previously held positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifque and L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales as well as various visiting professorships in the US and in Dublin and Belfast. She was awarded a Fulbright in Ireland to launch the subject of her next book based on interviews with mothers, daughters and grandmothers, over three generations living through the Northern Ireland "Troubles." She is writing Viola, a fictionalized memoir, and Sociology of Spirit, a book that combines social theory and spirituality.

Dissertation: Social Origins of the Nineteenth Century American Feminist Movement

Biography submitted on: 0000-00-00

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Nicole Biggart

Professor of Management and Sociology, UC, Davis

I came to Berkeley in the 1970s totally unhip. I had worked in ? management! ? for six years and wanted to study organizations. After feeling the power of corporations to shape lives, and having lived through a massive reorganization, I wanted to learn more and take a break from wearing suits. Todd Gitlin told me one day that I looked ?suburban,? and it wasn?t a compliment. It was also true. But Berkeley couldn?t have been a better place to develop the skills I have used for the last 25 years studying Asian business groups, working class women involved in direct selling organizations, and most recently, the commercial building industry and its failure to embrace energy-efficient technologies. Although the topics have varied widely, I have always been concerned with the intersection of power, interests, and meaning in economic organization, lessons I learned from Philip Selznick and Reinhard Bendix.

I have spent my entire career at UC Davis with a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Management and in Sociology. It has been a perfect situation for me. I typically teach classical theory to Sociology graduate students and organization and technology classes to MBAs. We have a very activist MBA cohort at UCD and I am the advisor to the pro-bono consulting program we run for non-profit organizations. We?re helping a coffee cooperative in Nicaragua now.

Professionally, I have been active in promoting Economic Sociology as an alternative to neoclassical accounts of markets and economic action. I?ve had the good fortune to travel around the world promoting an institutional and historical understanding of economies.

Dissertation: The Magic Circle: A Study of Personal Staffs in the Administrations of Governors Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown

Website: www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Biggart/

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-08

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Theresa L. Cordova

Com/Reg. Plng./Arch./Plng.-UNM

Dissertation: Local Communities and National Organizations: Land Use and Social Conflict in Southern Colorado

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Jon D. Cruz

Sociology - UCSB

Dissertation: The Politics of Popular Culture: Black Popular Music as "Public Sphere"

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Gary Delgado

arc@arc.org

Dissertation: Organizing the Movement: A Case Study of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

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Geoffrey Gilbert-Hamerling

Homeless Advocate

Dissertation: Exitus Acta Probat: George Washington and the American Civil Religion, 1775-1787

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Elaine Kaplan

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California

I grew up in Harlem, or as it was called at that time, ?The Ghetto.? By the time I was 15, I was a mother and a school dropout. After spending a few years working in factories and offices, I decided to return to school. I arrived at Berkeley in the summer of 1979, eager to learn more about people like me and to learn from people like Blumer and Blauner. There were so few students and faculty of color in the sociology department that I began to feel lonely and frustrated. That sense of alienation forced me to become actively involved in organizing the Women of Color Collective study group (our resolve to bring about change was strengthened by the activistic environment at Berkeley). I also read, and was moved by, the works of Sennet and Cobb, Rubin, Goffman, and especially by Mills? Sociological Imagination. I learned from Hochshild, Duster, Edwards, Blauner and Burawoy. All of these experiences helped shape my ideas about race, class and gender inequalities. I left there in 1988 to work at Temple University. While at Temple, I began working to turn my dissertation that examines black teenage motherhood using a race, gender and class analysis, into an ethnography. After two years, I moved onto San Jose State University, finally landing at USC where I teach social inequality, race relations, childhood and qualitative methods. Currently, I am developing a course exploring race/ethnic relations from a global perspective. What I learned from the Berkeley experience (and lessons I try to pass on to my students), is to appreciate the complexity of people?s lived experiences and to present only the most thoughtful and nuanced analysis of those lives.

Dissertation: The Lure of Motherhood: A Study of Black Teenage Mothers.

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-11

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Anthony J. Lemelle

Sociology/Athropology-Purdue

Dissertation: Racial Oppression and School Delinquency: A Reconsideration of Deviance

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Mark G. Lupher

Dissertation: Concentration, Control, and Conflict in China and The Soviet Union: A Comparative-Historical Interpretation

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Andrea L. Press

Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign

I came to Berkeley after being inspired in my undergraduate education (at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) by some brilliant sociologists and dedicated teachers in sociology and anthropology. The Berkeley program was sufficiently interdisciplinary, and permitted such a degree of intellectual freedom, that it enabled me to learn enough about critical thinking (and a basic amount about research) to allow me to pursue projects that I hope will make a difference in people?s lives. I think the program is tough ? but also more rewarding than most, if you survive ? precisely because of the demanding degree of freedom students have, and because the emphasis on innovative scholarship that matters places an enormous responsibility on students to produce work that is not only politically meaningful but also methodologically innovative, challenging categories accepted in the profession. After teaching at several other universities (University of Michigan and now University of Illinois, where I am a Research Professor) I see that most graduate programs are extremely different in precisely these respects, and I?ve come to value my experience at Berkeley enormously.

In my own work I have used ethnographic and interpretive methods to study media and culture in the U.S., and comparatively, from a feminist perspective. Studying with Todd Gitlin, Michael Burawoy, Arlie Hochschild, and Robin Lakoff ? and taking courses in several other fields, allowed by the flexibility of our program ? prepared me to use this kind of methodology in an interdisciplinary way. I am now employed primarily in a Communication and Cultural Studies program (Institute of Communications Research), and have always been allied with Women?s Studies. My work focuses on examining communities of women and how they use popular culture to make sense of their lives ? my first book, WOMEN WATCHING TELEVISION, looked at women?s lives generally, my second book, SPEAKING OF ABORTION, examined their interpretive practices around the issue of abortion. Both emphasize social class and generational comparisons. Currently I am looking at adolescents and the media they use, with an emphasis on internet practices, and also am writing about sexuality and social class in Hollywood film. I am becoming increasingly involved in program development at the University of Illinois, as we expand Media Studies (which I direct), begin a Film Studies curriculum, and produce a yearly film festival. Also I have been co-editing the journal Communication Review and a book series in Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture.

Dissertation: Deconstructing the Female Audience: Class Differences in Women's Identification with Television Narrative and Characters

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-29

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Dana Takagi

Sociology - UCSC

Dissertation: Community Action in San Francisco: Class Structure and Ethnic Politics

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Susan D. Toliver

Women's Studies-Iona College

Dissertation: The Black Family in Slavery, The Foundation of Afro American Culture: Its Importance to Members of the Slave Community

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Roy E. Xavier

Associate Dean, School of Film and Television, Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles

Like all sociologists, my occupational history has a context. It began with my entrance to Berkeley. Looking back, my acceptance as a graduate student was one of the few times I remember feeling that a world of possibilities had suddenly opened before me. Those possibilities began first and foremost with the friendships I made with fellow students and faculty during my first year on campus.

I can?t help but smile when I recall the graduate student orientation in the Barrows lounge in September 1977. During the course of the evening I was welcomed as a member of the Department ?family?, then met my new ?brothers? and ?sisters? who would make up my cohort and became fellow editors on BJS. They included Jon Cruz, Theresa Cordova, Elaine Kaplan, Susan Toliver, Andrea Press, and Gary Delgado, and later Brian Rich, Margarita Decierdo, Dana Takagi, and Andrew Treno. I also remember the generosity of several veteran grad students in the Department who calmed our fears and encouraged our research interests, including Michael Kimmel, Jerry Himmelstein, Tomas Almaguer, Greg McLauchlan, Lisa Heilbronn, Jorge Chapa, Ken Tucker, Elaine Draper, and Ken Chew.

I also have fond memories of several faculty members who shared their time and infinite patience over the years, including Troy Duster, Todd Gitlin, Russell Ellis (Architecture), Arlie Hochshield, Vicky Bonnell, David Montejano, Leo Lowenthal, Ron Takaki (Ethnic Studies), Herbert Blumer, Phillip Selznick, Henry Glock, and visits by Perry Anderson and Talcott Parsons.

To each of them, and several others who entered the Department after me, I owe a debt of gratitude for opening my eyes to the possibilities of a truly public sociology.

Despite their influence, I chose a non-traditional approach to sociology in general, and communications in particular. During the research phase of my dissertation on the history of cable television in the United States, I was hired by a state funded non-profit organization in San Francisco to manage a fundraising and grants program. My charge was to invest state money in innovative educational and community groups using cable technology to improve curriculum and employment development. A few years later I began working with municipal governments as an advisor and manager (in both Northern and Southern California) developing television stations, web sites, and other technology ventures.

Most of those ventures were start-ups, during which I attempted to test theoretical models and ideas based on my studies of communications at Berkeley. I also was given the opportunity to evaluate those models empirically during operational phases over several years under varying conditions involving different populations. Looking back, I remember thinking how fortunate I was to have access to what, in effect, were social laboratories when communications and technology were having such profound effects on what was rapidly becoming a global culture.

But nothing lasts forever, especially during fiscal crises. Beginning in 2000 I founded a consulting firm to advise community colleges, local governments, and commercial clients on technology issues. More recently my career has come full circle. In 2004 I was appointed Associate Dean of the School of Film and Television at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. I view this new position as an opportunity to reconnect with many of my colleagues and their students who share an interest in communications, culture and technology.

I could go on, but I?ve already exceeded my word limit. Let me conclude by saying that it?s great to be back in the academic world, and I encourage anyone who reads this meandering account of my time since graduation to contact me at exavier@lmu.edu or at exavier@socal.rr.com.

Peace and Solidarity.

Dissertation: Distant Signals: A History of Cable Television in the United States

Biography submitted on: 2004-06-11

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1978

Linda Blum

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Hampshire

1978: I arrive at Berkeley, 21 years old, with little cultural capital, some political idealism, and the shakiest hopes of succeeding in graduate school. I relied throughout on Michael Burawoy and Arlie Hochschild and my warm, funny, brilliant fellow students for the recognition to reimagine myself. I became set on showing that the social world too could be reimagined.

Breathtaking moments: Gertrude Jaeger?s last seminar on Freud; Habermas? seminar on Weber. Picketing to name and sanction sexual harassment. The incredible privileges of TAing for Jim Stockinger, twice, of discussing Michael?s early drafts of ?Painting Socialism? and Arlie?s early fieldwork for The Second Shift. Fighting among our dissertation group over Habits of the Heart, listening to women of color find their voices in Arlie?s gender seminar.

Since leaving, I have written two books, moved around, survived some pretty cynical days, finally learned how to teach, and now am wrestling with a new project. I try to use the critical qualitative methods I felt so inspired by to puzzle out issues of changing gender and class relations. I?ve chosen issues I was ambivalent about, and then worked hard to decenter myself and learn from those I interview. I also work hard at writing accessibly ? following what an ex-senior colleague once snidely labeled, ?the Berkeley School of Pop Sociology.? A breathtakingly ironic moment: a Christian memoirist?s suggested reading list starts with my At the Breast: ?It?s a work of sociology, but it?s so well written you won?t mind? (Debra Reinstra, Great With Child.)

Dissertation: Reevaluating Women's Work: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement.

Website: pubpages.unh.edu/~lmblum

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-10

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Basil R. Browne

Sociology-CUNY-Queens

Dissertation: Winners and Losers: Emotion Work in Commercial Gambling

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Joan Fujimura

Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton NJ

Dissertation: Bandwagons in Science: Doable Problems and Transportable Packages as Factors in the Development of the Molecular Genetic Bandwagon in Cancer Research

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Steve Gold

Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Doing graduate work at Berkeley was a positive experience for a number of reasons, including the cultural richness of the Bay Area, the brilliant and dedicated students, the renowned faculty, and a policy that encouraged students to develop their own intellectual agendas. In addition to taking courses in sociology, I spent a lot of time outside of the Department. I worked as a research assistant for five years at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and took courses in the Department of Anthropology where, during the early 1980s, students and faculty interested in international migration congregated.

Since completing my Ph.D., I have taught sociology and done research -- involving international migration, ethnic economies and qualitative methods -- at a liberal arts college in Los Angeles and currently, at a Big Ten University. My years at Cal provided with me a sound education, the ability to work independently, and a basis on which to establish relations with Berkeley alums.

Dissertation: Refugee Communities: Soviet Jews and Vietnamese in the San Francisco Bay Area

Website: http://www.soc.msu.edu:80/faculty/Gold.h

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-28

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Thomas Janoski

Professor of Sociology, University of Kentucky

I received my Ph.D. in sociology of Berkeley in 1986 working with Harold Wilensky, the late Reinhard Bendix, Neil Smelser, Claude Fischer and Michael Wiseman (economics). My work is at the intersection of work and politics with what I call a left or optimistic Weberian approach to political economy. My dissertation was published as "The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labor market Policy in West Germany and the United States" in 1990 with the University of California Press. It won the "Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship" award of the political sociology section of the ASA. Other books include "Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes" (1998, Cambridge University Press), and "The Comprative Political Economy of the Welfare State (co-edited 1994 with Alexander Hicks and also published by Cambridge). I am currently working on an NSF project and manuscript entitled "Strangers into Citizens: A Comparative/Historial Analysis of Naturalization Processes in 18 Countries," and am co-editor of "A Handbook of Political Sociology" with Alexander Hicks, Mildred Schwartz and our fellow Berkeley colleague Robert Alford (who passed away last month and to whom the hand book is dedicated). I was a post-doctoral fellow at Michigan State University, served on the faculty of Duke University for nine years, and have been at the University of Kentucky for the last seven years.

The Berkeley sociology department was in a transition from the faculty who had built its excellent reputation over the years to its present reincarnation. During our cohort's time at Berkeley, we saw many retirements and a few hires. We had many good times from WOASH demonstrations to parties at the old church. And we had many battles. Having traveled around the world for two years, going through military service, and working in numerous factories, Berkeley was one of my more interesting secondary socialization experiences.

Dissertation: The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labor Market Policy in West Germany and the United States

Biography submitted on: 2003-03-30

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Louise A. Jezierski

Sociology-James Madison College-Michigan State University

Dissertation: The Poltics of Urban Decline: Accumulation and Community in Cleveland and Pittsburgh

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Shigeru Kojima

Professor of Administration and Informatics, University of Shizuoka, Japan

I have been engaged in teaching, research, creating, and beyond at University of Shizuoka in Japan since 1987. I owe a lot to Berkeley, so that I have contributed donations to I-House and UC Alumni Association almost every year. I am most grateful to late Professor John.A.Clausen, my thesis advisor as well as ex-head of the Institute of Human Development. I translated his book, Sociology of the Lifecourse, into Japanese in 1987, and it is now the sixth printing. I visited him at home or in his office whenever I visited Berkeley and we had a good time. I also invited him to Japan in 1989 and we had lecture campaigns together in Tokyo, Shizuoka, and Kyoto. I am also grateful to other faculty members including Bob Blauner, Claude Fisher, and Ann Swidler. Bob Blauner was helpful as one of my thesis committee members; Claude Fisher taught us how to make papers stronger; Ann Swidler's seminar at Stanford was most impressive. My experiences at Berkeley were quite valuable and I am proud that I studied there for several years to obtain a Ph.D. I hope the Department of Sociology will continue to prosper.

Dissertation: Career Change and the Life Course: The Case of Modern Japanese Writers

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-05

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Barbara A. Owen

Dissertation: Working in the Pen: Elements of Occupational Subculture

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Brian A. Powers

Adjunct - Sociology - UCSF

Dissertation: Second Class Finish: The Effects of Rituals and Routines of a Working-Class High School

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Rumi K. Price

Psychiatry Dept. - Washington University in St. Louis

Dissertation: Kicking the Habit: A Social Network Approach to Recovery from Opiate Addiction

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Susan F. Roberts

Dissertation: Consciousness Shifts to Psychic Perception: The Strange World of new Age Services and Their Providers

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Judy Rothschild

Dissertation: Mediation as Social Control: A Study of Neighborhood Justice

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1979

Teresa J. Arendell

Colby College

Dissertation: Lives of Quiet Desperation: Divorced Women with Children.

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Judith Auerbach

Director, Behavior and Social Science Program, National Institutes of Health

I decided to do my graduate sociology work at UC Berkeley because Michael Burawoy told me I?d never get in! I got my undergraduate degree in sociology at Cal, and was much inspired by Michael, notwithstanding his assessment of me. I thought I?d be focusing on social theory and culture studies, but instead, got caught up in early feminist scholarship and found it more compelling. My dissertation work landed me in the realm of social policy, and at the time, it was difficult to find anyone on the faculty specializing in this area, so I didn?t have a real mentor. Also, being totally self-supporting, I spent much of my time working at multiple jobs each semester (I used to joke that I didn?t work ?with? any faculty members, but I worked ?for? plenty of them). Indeed, one of my proudest moments came when, fighting to unionize the graduate student employees at Cal, I was called to testify before the board that was adjudicating the unionization drive, and discovered I had the unique distinction of having held nearly every graduate student job category at the university! Anyway, my policy interests led me away from academia after teaching for a couple of years. Through a circuitous path, I entered the realm of federal science policy, and now work at the NIH in social and behavioral research on HIV/AIDS. On this pathway, I had a stint at the White House science office, which, for a while, made me the ASA?s poster child for non-academic careers! The critical sociology training I had at Berkeley (chiefly acquired from my classmates) has allowed me to be more of a public intellectual than a mere bureaucrat. I get to help shape a science agenda, defend sociology to the biomedical crowd, and direct lots of money to where it belongs!

Dissertation: Working Parents and Child Care Responsibility in the United States: The New Role of the Employer

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-10

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Jimmy J. Christiana

Chaminade University, Honolulu

Dissertation: Human Nature Theory and the Natural Law Tradition

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Elisa Facio

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

I arrived at Berkeley in 1979 anxious and eager to become a sociologist. However, the department was not quite prepared for a dark-skinned Chicana raised by working class parents. There were no safe spaces for my language, values, experiences, or transformations. Working with Michael Burawoy, Arlie Hochschild, Bob Blauner, Tomas Almaguer, Troy Duster and a core group of Chicanas in the department provided me with valuable skills, as I experienced unpredictable states of self-doubt and confidence, to negotiate a relatively safe space to develop critical race and gender perspectives on Chicana feminism and older Mexican women.

After graduating, I received a post-doctoral fellowship in medical sociology at UCSF then I was off to Boulder, where I joined the sociology faculty at the University of Colorado. However, I moved tot he Department of Ethnic Studies where critical studies of anti-racist discourse and Chicana feminisms were welcomed. During my transition, I completed my first book Understanding Older Chicanas (SAGE, 1996). My teaching, research, and activism continue to focus on age and aging in the Chicana community. Being a student of Berkeley sociology, the commitment to social change or desalinization, lead me to Cuba where I?ve conducted research on Women and the Revolution during the last several years. I?m currently completing my second book on Cuban sex workers.

Despite the alienation experienced at Berkeley, I developed an identity as a Chicana sociologist, not a sociologist who happens to be Chicana. I have taken skills and values learned at Berkeley into interdisciplinary areas of research, teaching, and community activism in the Denver/Boulder area.

Dissertation: Constraints, Resources, and Self-Definitions: A Case Study of Chicano Older Women

Biography submitted on: 2003-10-07

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Alessandro Ferrara

Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome, "Tor Vergata," Italy

I came to Berkeley in 1977 on a Harkness Fellowship. Initially I circled around the Philosophy Department, much too analytical for my European background at the time, and in 1979 I got on the Ph.D. program offered by the Department of Sociology. This has been the best educational experience of my life: I still remember with great nostalgia the passionate climate of discussion in the theory class taught by Michael Burawoy for us incoming graduate students. There I met my friends and companions of my graduate studies: Brian Powers, Chuck Stephen, Neal Aponte, Luciano Costa Neto and many others. And later the intellectual encounters with Neal Smelser, my thesis supervisor, Ken Bock, and Jürgen Habermas ? who was visiting professor in 1980 ? shaped my professional life. On Habermas?s invitation, I finished writing my dissertation on Rousseau?s ethics of authenticity in Frankfurt, in 1984. The same year I returned to Italy and got my first teaching position in Rome. I kept writing my books in English -- Modernity and Authenticity in 1993, Reflective Authenticity in 1998 and Justice and Judgment in 1999 -- ever since. After a 4 year parenthesis of teaching in Parma, since November 2002 I?m a professor of political philosophy (but I also continue teaching social theory) at the University of Rome ?Tor Vergata?.

Berkeley has nourished my own inclination for theory (where else is sociological theory so much cherished?) but above all has given me a mental habitus and a set of standards that I regard as the most precious resource for salvaging what one of my friends used to call ?a sense of purpose? amidst the less edifying aspects of academic life and professional involvement.

As for the impact of my thoughts, I?m happy enough if my ideas somehow have been shaped by the world around me, as opposed to being totally idyosyncratic, and I?m happy to see that in some contemporary developments in social and political theory corroboration can be found of the basic idea I got from Berkeley, namely that the source of normativity is ultimately to be located in identity.

Dissertation: Autonomy and Authenticity: Rousseau's Contribution to the Development of Western Rationalsim After the Protestant Ethic and to the Rise of Contemporary Modernity

Biography submitted on: 2002-12-30

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James Jasper

Writer and Scholar

I am a moralist and a hedonist, and went to Berkeley in 1979 because it promised serious political analysis and a luxurious environment (the Bay Area, not Barrows Hall). I was attracted to the Frankfurt tradition?s combination of politics and culture, the same intersection that all of my books have explored in one way or another. At the same time, observing Leo Lowenthal at close range helped me see the underside of that tradition. The authoritarian personality in the flesh!

Friends from that period?Judy Auerbach, Vicki Smith, Mary Waters, Chris Williams and many others?remain the central reason I attend the ASA meetings (almost) every year.

I had a fairly normal junior-faculty career at NYU until the tenure process, the breathtaking pathologies of which persuaded me to leave the academy altogether. Being a writer is a lot like being unemployed, except it doesn?t pay as well. I also spent the late nineties doing some consulting for nonprofit theaters, speculating in the fevered stock market, joining the rentier class?and digging for buried treasure near Palmyra.

Currently I am at work on a sociological theory of strategic interaction, a kind of cultural and institutional answer to game theory. I am also trying my hand at writing fiction and doing stand-up comedy. (I get easy laughs just from announcing I am a sociologist.)

Dissertation: The Politics of Nuclear Energy in France, Sweden, and the United States

Biography submitted on: 2002-10-16

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Michael A. Messner

Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California.

I arrived in Berkeley in 1979 as part of a very large cohort of graduate students, many of whom are leaders and important researchers today. We were immediately immersed in a quirky and exciting seminar, co-taught by Michael Burawoy and Neil Smelser. In retrospect, I can see that my main experience as a grad student was benign neglect; I received little direction with my work, and almost no ?professional socialization.? In some ways, this laissez-faire context ended up serving me well; I connected with several talented grad students, learned a great deal from them, and was mostly free to pursue my interests.

Radical sociology drew me to the UCB sociology department. By the late 70?s, I had become involved in networks of men who were grappling with questions related to the theory and practice of feminism. I wasn?t sure if anybody at the University was doing that sort of work, but I did know that some men in the Berkeley community were doing anti-rape organizing. Hooking up with Bob Blauner aided me in getting in the ground floor of what eventually developed into a multidisciplinary network of scholars who study the social construction of gender and men. A highlight of grad school for me was being a TA in Bob?s course on men and masculinity?one of the first such courses taught in the nation. Bob was a brilliant discussion facilitator?even in a very large class. His course became the template from which I developed my own course. The interests that I developed at UCB?on men and feminist politics, and on gender and sports?provided a foundation for much of my subsequent work on these topics.

Dissertation: Masculinity and Sports: An Exploration of the Changing Meaning of Male Identity in the Lifecourse of the Athlete

Website: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~messner

Biography submitted on: 2003-02-02

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Alanna Mitchell-Hutchinson

Dissertation: In Cahoots: The Anti-Authority Sentimrent in Friendship

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Suava Salameh

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Haverford College

The clear sign of changes in socialist Poland of 1970s was the reopening of sociology departments, dismantled in the earlier, socialist phase. Staggering numbers of students, myself among them, flocked to analyze what type of society we lived in. Study there failed to provide me with insightful answers to that question, nor prepared me for such sociological exploration. For that I had to tap into Western Sociology, rendered by the Berkeley Sociology Department.

While in Berkeley, I was undergoing simultaneous adaptations -- to graduate studies, to marriage and double parenthood, to an immigrant life in the American society. In my first year there, I encountered a young Michael Burawoy who was intensely pondering on the very questions at the center of my interest?the nature of rea