The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Recent Publications

Jason Beckfield. "Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-Being in Less Developed Countries, 1980-2003," with David Brady and Yunus Kaya, Studies in Comparative and International Development 42: 1-35 (2007); "The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Advanced Democracies," with David Brady and Wei Zhao, Annual Review of Sociology 33: 313-34 (2007); "Power and Position in the World City System, 1981-2000," with Arthur S. Alderson, Cities in Globalization: Practices, Policies, and Theories, edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Piet Saey and Frank Witlox, London: Routledge (2007).

Mary C. Brinton. "Gendered Offices: A Comparative-Historical Examination of Clerical Work in Japan and the U.S.," Frances McCall Rosenbluth, editor, The Political Economy of Low Fertility: Japan in Comparative Perspective, Stanford University Press (2007); "Transformation and Persistence in Japanese Labor Market Institutions," review essay for A Nagging Sense of Job Insecurity: The New Reality Facing Japanese Youth by Yuji Genda, the Changing Japanese Employement System by Marcus Rebick, A Sociology of The Journal of Japanese Studies, 33, 2: 415-425. The Declining Significance of Gender? with Francine D. Blau and David Grusky, Russell Sage Foundation (2006).

Nicholas Christakis. "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," with J.H. Fowler, New England Journal of Medicine, 357(4): 370-379 (July 2007); "The Emotional Toll of Spousal Morbidity and Mortality," with K. Zivin, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(9):772-779 (September 2007); "Geographic Variation in Hospice Use in the United States in 2002," with S.R. Connor, F. Elwert, and C. Spence, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 34(3): 277-285 (September 2007).

Frank Dobbin. "Diversity Management in Corporate America," with A. Kalev and E. Kelly, Contexts, 6(4): 21-28 (2007); "The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning?" with B. Simmons and G. Garrett, Annual Review of Sociology, 33: 449-72 (2007); "The Architecture of Inclusion: Evidence from Corporate Diversity Programs," with A. Kalev, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, 30(2): 279-301 (Summer 2007); "How to Stop Harassment: The Professional Construction of Legal Compliance in Organizations," with E. Kelly, American Journal of Sociology, 112(4): 1203-43 (January 2007); "Economic Sociology," in Twenty First Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, pp 319-331, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (2007).

Filiz Garip. "Social Capital and Migration: How do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes?" Demography (forthcoming 2008).

Neil Gross. "Pragmatism and Phenomenology in 20th Century American Sociology" in Sociology in America: The American Sociological Association Centennial History, Craig Calhoun, ed., The University of Chicago Press (2007). "The Many Stripes of Anti-Americanism," Boston Globe, Ideas Section, January 14, 2007. Essay about a new edited volume on anti-Americanism in world politics, reprinted in the International Herald Tribune and the National Post (Canada).

Jason Kaufman: "Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States," American Sociological Review (June 2008); American Gemini: The Historical Origins of Modern Political Differences in the United States and Canada, Harvard University Press (2008). "So Bad It's Good: The Museum of Bad Art," Cultural Review, Contexts (Fall 2007); "Sacralizing Separatism," Invited commentary, Sociological Forum, 22(4) (December 2007).

Tamara Kay: "How Environmentalists 'Greened' Trade Policy Under NAFTA: Strategic Action and the Architecture of Field Overlap," American Sociological Review (conditional acceptance).

Michèle Lamont: "Successful Societies," talk at the Weatherhead Center for International Affiars, Harvard University, featured in the WCFIA publication Centerpiece (Fall 2007); "Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication," with Marion Small, background paper prepared for the World Report on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO; "Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions," with Mark Pachucki and Sabrina Pendergrass, Poetics 35(6) (December 2007); "What Makes a Society Succeed?" with Peter Hall, an adaptation from the introduction to the book Successful Societies: Institutions, Cultural Repertoires and Health, edited with Peter A. Hall, Reach: the Magazine of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Spring 2007).

Stanley Lieberson: "“The Changing Role of Nicknames: A Study of Politicians” (with Cathy Kenny), Names Vol. 55.4: 371-325, 2007. " The Frequency Distribution Mechanism: Accounting for Two Radically Different Changes in Names and Other Tastes" with Freda B. Lynn, to be published in Proceedings of ICOS Conference on Names in Time and Space; "Popularity as a Taste: An Application to the Naming Process," with Freda B. Lynn, Ph.D. 2005, ONOMA: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 38: 235-76; Forward to Marcia Layton Turner and Robbi Hess, The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names, Alpha Books (2006).

Peter V. Marsden: "Voluntary Physician Switching by Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals: A National Study of Patient, Physician, and Organizational Factors," with Hector P. Rodriguez, Ira B. Wilson, Bruce E. Landon, and Paul D. Cleary, Medical Care 45(3): 189-198 (March 2007); "The Impact of a Quality Improvement Program on Systems, Processes, and Structures in Medical Clinics," with D. Keith McInnes, Bruce E. Landon, Ira B. Wilson, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Faye Malitz, Magda Barini-Garcia, and Paul D. Cleary, Medical Care 45(5): 463-471 (May 2007); "Factors Affecting Influential Discussions Among Physicians: A Social Network Analysis of a Primary Care Practice," with Nancy L. Keating, John Z. Anayian, and Paul D. Cleary, Journal of General Internal Medicine 22(6): 794-798 (June 2007).

Orlando Patterson: Review of Logics of History by William Sewell Jr., American Journal of Sociology, 112(4) (January 2007); "About Public Sociology," in Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty First Century," edited by Dan Clawson, et al., University of California Press (2007); "Slavery, Gender and Work in the Pre-Modern World and Early Greece," in Slave Systems, Ancient and Modern, edited by Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari, Cambridge University Press (2007).

Robert J. Sampson: Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Perspective, edited with Tom Tyler, Anthony Braga, Jeffrey Fagan, Tracey Meares, and Chris Winship, New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2007); "Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability Among African-American Children," with Patrick Sharkey and Stephen Raudenbush, proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), early edition; "Social Control and Adolescent Development: A View from Life-Course Criminology," with John H. Laub and Elaine Eggleston Doherty, Approaches to Postive Youth Development, edited by Rainer K. Silbereisen and Richard M. Lerner, p 173-188, London, UK: Sage Publications (2007).

Theda Skocpol: "A Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard," lead author of internal Harvard report of the FAS Task Force on Teaching and Career Development (January 2007); "What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality," with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (2006); "Coming Home: Can America Repeat the Success of the GI Bill?" Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, No. 2 (Fall 2006).

Jocelyn Viterna, "Development, Democracy and Women's Legislative Representation: Re-Visiting Existing Explanations of Cross-National Variation," Working Papers on Women in International Development #288, Women and International Development Program, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI (2007)

Mary C. Waters: The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, edited with Reed Ueda and Helen Marrow, Harvard University Press (2007); "Introduction," with Reed Uueda, pp 14-29, Intermarriage and Multiple Identities, with Joel Perlmann, pp 110-123; "America's Immigration Success Story," Forbes Magazine online oped (May 29, 2007); "The Challenges of Immigration to Race Based Diversity Policies in the United States," with Zoua Vang, in Keith Banting and Thomas Courchene, and F. Leslie Seidle, eds., Belonging?: Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada, Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy Press (2007).

Bruce Western, "The Prison Boom and the Decline of American Citizenship," Society, 44: 30-37; "The Political Consequences of Mass Imprisonment," with Josh Guetzkow, in Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality, edited by Jacob Hacker, Suzanne Mettler, and Joe Soss, pp 228-242, New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2007); "The Penal System and the Labor Market," in Barriers to Re-Entry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Postindustrial America," edited by Shawn Bushway, Michael A. Stoll, and David F. Weiman, pp 335-359, New York: Russell Sage Press (2007).

Martin Whyte: "Popular Attitudes Toward Distributive Justice: Beijing and Warsaw Compared," with Chunping Han, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13: 29-51 (2008); "The Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feelings in Contemporary China," with Chunping Han, in Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post-Socialist China, edited by D. Davis and Wang Feng, Stanford: Stanford University Press (forthcoming); "The Legacy of 'Socialist Serfdom': Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China," in China in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics, Business, edited by Fan Hong and Joren Gottwald, Lond: Routledge (forthcoming).

William Julius Wilson: There Goes the Neighborhood with Richard Taub, Random House (2006); Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context with D. Elliott, S. Menard, A.C. Elliott, B. Rankin and D. Huizinga, New York: Cambridge University Press (2006); "Speaking to Publics" in Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas L. Anderton and Michael Burawoy, pp 117-123, Berkeley: University of Calivornia Press (2007); "A New Agenda for America's Ghetto Poor" in Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream, eds. John Edwards, Marion Crane and Arne L. Kalleberg, pp 88-98, New York: The New Press (2007).

Christopher Winship: Counterfactuals and Casual Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research, with Stephen L. Morgan, pp 298, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (August 2007); "Black Students' Graduation from Elite Colleges: Institutional Characteristics and Between-Institution Differences," with Mario Small, Social Science Research.

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