The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Selected Publications

Jason Beckfield. "The Social Structure of the World Polity," American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming, 2010); "The Dual World Polity: Fragmentation and Integration in Intergovernmental Organizations." Social Problems 55(3): 419-442 (2008); "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).

Lawrence D. Bobo. "A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency."with Michael C. Dawson, Du Bois Review 6(1): 1-14 (2009).

Mary C. Brinton. Ushinawareta ba o sagashite:  'Lost generation no
shakaigaku (Searching for the Lost Place: The Sociology of
the 'Lost Generation'), NTT Press, Tokyo (November 2008); "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. Connected: The Suprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (Little, Brown & Co., 2009); "Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study," with J.H. Fowler, British Medical Journal 2008;337:a2338 (December 2008); "The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network," with J.H. Fowler, New England Journal of Medicine 358(21): 2249-2258 (May 2008); "Wives and Ex-Wives: A New Test for Homogamy Bias in the Widower Effect," with F. Elwert, Demography 45(4): 851-873 (November 2008).

Frank Dobbin. Inventing Equal Opportunity, Princeton University Press (2009); The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy, edited with B. Simmons and G. Garrett, Cambridge University Press (2008); "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).

Filiz Garip. "Social Capital and Migration: How do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes?" Demography45(3): 591-617 (2008).

Tamara Kay: "How Environmentalists 'Greened' Trade Policy Under NAFTA: Strategic Action and the Architecture of Field Overlap," American Sociological Review 73(6): 970-991 (2008).

Michèle Lamont: How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2009). "Looking Back at Bourdieu," Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy: Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives, Elizabeth Silva and Alan Warde (eds). London: Routledge (forthcoming); "Complementary Rather than Contradictory: Diversity and Excellence in Peer Review and Admissions in American Higher Education" with Graziella Moraes Da Silva, 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Science, 4 (1): 1-15 (2009).

Stanley Lieberson: "Implication Analysis: A Pragmatic Proposal for Linking Theory and Data in the Social Sciences," Sociological Method 38(1): 1-50 (December 2008); "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: "The Analysis of Social Networks," Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 8(4): 222-269 (December 2008); "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).

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: "Neighborhood Social Capital as Differential Social Organization: Resident and Leadership Dimensions," American Behavioral Scientist, 52(11): 1579-1605 (2009); "Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure," American Journal of Sociology 114: 189-231 (2008); "Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 845-853 (2008)' 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).

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:“Women in El Salvador: Continuing the Struggle," with Irina Silber, Women and Politics around the World: A Comparative History and Survey, edited by Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley, ABC-CLIO (February 2009); “Democratization, Women’s Movements, and
Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison." with Kathleen M. Fallon, American Sociological Review 73 (4): 668-689 (2008); “How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy, and Women's Political Representation," with Kathleen M. Fallon and Jason Beckfield, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 49 (6): 455-477 (2008).

Mary C. Waters: Inheriting the City: The Second Generation Comes of Age, with Jennifer Holdaway, Philip Kasinitz, and John Mollenkopf, Harvard University and Russell Sage Press (2008); 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 Black Family and Mass Incarceration,” with Christopher Wildeman, Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science 621: 221–242 (2009); "From Prison to Work: A Proposal for a National Prisoner Reentry Program," Hamilton Project Discussion Paper 2008-16. Washington DC: Brookings Institution (2008); "The Prison Boom and the Decline of American Citizenship," Society, 44: 30-37 (2007).

Martin Whyte: "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); "Views of Chinese Citizens on Current Inequalities," Sociological Research (in Chinese), 1: 96-120 (2009); "Paradoxes of China's Economic Boom," Annual Review of Sociology, 35: 18.1-18.22 (2009); "Popular Attitudes Toward Distributive Justice: Beijing and Warsaw Compared," with Chunping Han, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13: 29-51 (2008).

William Julius Wilson: More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009); 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 California 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 Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research) (with Stephen L. Morgan, Cambridge University Press, 2007); "What Can Cities Do to Prevent Serious Youth Violence?" with Anthony Braga in Criminal Justice Matters 75: Perspectives from North America (2009); "Social Interactions, Groups and Scheduling Constraints," The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology (2009); “Losing Faith? Police, Black Churches, and the Resurgence of Youth Violence in Boston,” with Anthony Braga and David Hureau, Ohio State Law Journal (2009); “A Mechanism Based Approach to the Identification on Age-Period-Cohort Models,” with David Harding, special issue of Sociological Methods and Research on Age- Period-Cohort models, Vol. 36(3):362-401 (2008).

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Updated: October 2009