Highlights of Berkeley
Faculty Activity for 2008:
BOOKS (Partial Listing)
Irene Bloemraad -- Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press. Co-edited with S. Karthick Ramakrishnan.
Michael Burawoy -- The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformation and One Theoretical Tradition. University of California Press. (In Press)
Laura Enriquez -- Reacting to the Market: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China. Pennsylvania State University Press. (forthcoming)
Claude Fischer – More American: A Social History of the American Character [tentative title], forthcoming (University of Chicago Press)
Neil Fligstein – Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe. Oxford University Press.
Marion Fourcade – Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Great Britain and France, 1890s-1990s. Princeton University Press. (In Press)
John Lie -- Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity. University of California Press.
John Lie (ed.) --. Diaspora without Homeland. Berkeley: University of California Press. (With Sonia Ryang )
Samuel Lucas – Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice. Temple University Press.
Kristin Luker – Salsa Dancing Into the Social Sciences: An Irreverent Guide to Doing Research in an Era of Postmodernism and Info-Glut. Harvard University Press.
Raka Ray -- Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India. Stanford University Press. (With Seemin Qayum) (In Press).
Dylan Riley -- The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Interwar Europe: Italy, Spain and Romania in Comparative Perspective. Accepted at Johns Hopkins University Press.
Martín Sanchez-Jankowski – Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods. University of California Press.
Cihan Tugal -- Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism. Stanford University Press. (In Press)
Kim Voss -- Rallying for Immigrant Rights. University of California Press (Editor with Irene Bloemraad) (forthcoming)
Loïc Wacquant –Punishing the Poor: The New Government of Social Insecurity, in press (Duke University Press, and seven translations).
ARTICLES (Partial Listing)
Irene Bloemraad -- Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and
Challenges to the Nation-State. Annual Review of Sociology 34: 8.1-8.27. (With Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul)
Claude Fischer -- “Is America Fragmenting?” Annual Review of Sociology (forthcoming with Gregor Mattson)
------------------"The 2004 GSS Finding of Shrunken Social Networks: An Artifact?" American Sociological Review (forthcoming)
Cybelle Fox -- “ Repeat Tragedy: Rampage Shootings in American High School and College Settings 2002-2008,” American Behavioral Scientist (Forthcoming with Katherine Newman)
Leo Goodman -- “To split or not to split the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: A simple
statistical argument, counterargument, and critique," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol.138: 2681-2687.
-----------------"David Gale: The man who had a special love affair with mathematics," Games
and Economic Behavior, Vol. 64 (forthcoming).
Leo Godman -- "A conversation with Leo Goodman," Statistical Science, Vol. 24 (2009).
Neil Fligstein -- "Alfred Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations". Business History Review.
----------------- "Fields, Power, and Social Skill: A Critical Analysis of the New Institutionalisms." International Public Management Review
Marion Fourcade -- "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies
of Economics and Business in Twentieth-Century America." Forthcoming in Making, Evaluating, and Using Social Science Knowledge: The Underground of Practice, edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross and Michèle Lamont. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (With Rakesh Khurana)
--------------------- "The United States: An Economists' Economy." Forthcoming in John Markoff and Veronica Montecinos (eds.) Economists in the Americas. Edward Elgar.
Michael Hout -- “How Class Works in Popular Conception: Most Americans Identify with the Class Their Income, Occupation, and Education Implies for Them.” In Social Class: How Does It Work?, edited by Annette Lareau and Dalton Conley. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks -- "Demographic transitions and modernity." Annual Review of Anthropology. 37: 301-315.
Trond Petersen -- ``Discrimination: Conscious or Nonconscious.'' Pp. 780-785 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender inSociological Perspective, edited by David B. Grusky (in collaboration with Manwai C. Ku and Szonja Szelenyi). Westview Press.
--------------------``Opportunity.'' Forthcoming in Peter Bearman and Peter Hedstrom (Eds.), Handbook of Analytic Sociology. Cambridge University Press.
Dylan Riley – “The Historical Logic of Logics of History: Language and Labor in William H. Sewell Jr.” Social Science History 32 (4): 555-565.
Ann Swidler -- “‘Teach a Man to Fish’: The Sustainability Doctrine and its Social Consequences.” World Development (forthcoming with and Susan Cotts Watkins,)-----------------“Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi.” American Sociological Review (forthcoming with Iddo Tavory)
Stephen Vaisey -- "Environmental Contingencies and Genetic Predispositions: Social
Capital, Educational Continuation, and a Dopamine Receptor Polymorphism." American Journal of Sociology 114(S1): S260-S286. (With Michael J. Shanahan, Lance D. Erickson, and Andrew Smolen.)
--------------------"Socrates, Skinner, and Aristotle: Three Ways of Thinking about Culture in Action." Sociological Forum 23(3):603-613.
Margaret Weir -- “Collaboration is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in
Transportation Policy,” (with Jane Rongerude and Christopher K. Ansell). Urban Affairs Review.
---------------------“Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State:
Consequences for Regionalism in the United States.” Regional Studies (with Christopher Niedt).
Robb Willer -- “Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem.” American Sociological Review.
-----------------“The Threat of Terrorism and Support for the 2008 Presidential Candidates:
Results of a National Field Experiment.”Current Research in Social Psychology. 14:1-22. (with Nick Adams)
---------------- “Altruism and Indirect Reciprocity: The Interaction of Person and Situation in Prosocial Behavior.” Social Psychology Quarterly. 71: 37-52 (With Brent Simpson)
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, HONORS
Irene Bloemraad -- Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award, given in recognition of “outstanding commitment to the mentorship of graduate students”
Victoria Bonnell -- Carnegie Visiting Fellows Program in Field Development at the University of California, Berkeley, with the Centers for Advanced Studies and Education (CASE) in Russia, and the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) in the South Caucasus ($300,000) 1/09-1/11 (with Yuri Slezkine and Edward Walker)
Neil Fligstein -- Invited participant, Nobel Symposium on Organizations, Stockholm, Sweden. Keynoter Addresses to conferences in Germany, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, and Chicago
Marion Fourcade -- Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 2008-2009. Charles E. Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
Mike Hout -- Grants: "Rationing Opportunity: Explaining the Slowdown in American Higher Education" $83,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. "Berkeley Population Center: Population Research Infrastructure Program" $1,150,625 from National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Sandra Smith -- Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 2008-2009.
Barrie Thorne -- Appointed as a Professor II (adjunct) in the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, 2009 and 2010. She is also a member of the social science research team, headed by Hanne Haavind and Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, selected to be in residence at the Norwegian Centre for Advanced Study at the Academy for Science and Letters in Oslo, in 2010-2011. The group will do collaborative and comparative research related to personal development and socio-cultural change.
Margaret Weir -- Elected to National Academy of Social Insurance.
Rob Willer -- Invited to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ