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Faculty
Sarah Babb
Sev Bruyn
Charles Derber
Lisa Dodson
Bill Gamson
Eva Garroutte
Paul Gray
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
David Karp
Michael Malec
C. Shawn McGuffey
Stephen J. Pfohl
Catherine Riessman
Leslie Salzinger
Natalia Sarkisian
Paul G. Schervish
Juliet Schor
John B. Williamson
Sarah Babb, Associate Professor
Reviewed “A Brief History of Neoliberalism.” by David Harvey. Contemporary Sociology 35(5): 529-30. 2006
“The Banks and the Beltway: Three Decades of Washington Politics and Multilateral Development Institutions.” Presentation at Harvard University Department of Sociology (March 2006), Northwestern University Department of Sociology (May 2006), and Boston College Department of Sociology (September 2006.)
Sev Bruyn, Professor Emeritus
Professor Bruyn remains very productive. For the latest news, online articles, and current activities, see his home page: http://www2.bc.edu/~bruyn/
Charles Derber, Professor
“From Hegemony to Democracy.” Journal of Corporate Citizenship, London, U.K. 26, 2007
The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem and the American Dream, 4th edition. NY: W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, 2006.
Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy. SF: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005. (Selected in 2006 as one of three finalists by the Independent Publishers Association as Best Book of the Year in current event.)
Lisa Dodson, Research Professor
“Wage Poor Mothers and Moral Economy.” Social Politics: International Journal of Gender, State & Society 14(2) 2007
“Behind the Scenes.” A conversation about interpretive focus groups in Feminist Research Practices, Editors Hesse-Biber and Leavy, Sage Publications (with Schalazbauer & Piatelli) 2006.
“After Welfare Reform: My Children Come Before this Job.” Focus: Journal of the Institute for Research on Poverty University of Wisconsin 2006.
Bill Gamson, Professor
“Knowing Your Adversary: The Israeli Structure of Political Opportunity and the Inception of the Palestinian Intifada.” (with Eitan Alimi and Charlotte Ryan). Sociological Forum, 2006.
“Connecting Culture and Cognition” Cuadernos de Sociologia (Columbia) September, 2006.
“The Art of Reframing Political Debates” (with Charlotte Ryan) Contexts. Vol. 5, number 1 (Janurary, 2006), pp.13-18.
"The Gendering of Governance and the Governance of Gender" (with Myra Marx Ferree), pp. 35-63 in Barbara Hobson (ed), Recognition Struggles and Social Movements. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Reprinted in Hungarian translation in Replika, 2006.)
Eva Garroutte, Associate Professor
“Influence of Cultural Factors on Mammography Use among American Indian Women” (poster). Presented at the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research Annual Directors Conference. Los Angeles, CA. Feb. 2007
“Perceptions of Communication Behaviors: Differences between Providers and American Indian Patients” (poster). Presented at the Gerontological Society of America (Dallas) Nov. 2006.
“’The Story is a Living Being’: Issues in the Narrative Analysis of a Native American Patients’ Story.” Presented at the Conference on Research in Health and Social Care Bournemouth, England, Sep. 2006.
Reviewed “Going Indian.” by James C. Hamill, University of Illinois Press. Plains Anthropologist. 2006.
Reviewed “Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom.” by Tiya Miles, Journal of Anthropological Research 62(2) Summer 2006.
Caring for American Indian Patients: A Handbook of Research Studies (Submitted to Cherokee Nation IRB for use in tribal clinics)
“Perceptions of Communication Behaviors: Differences between Providers and American Indian Patients” (poster) Presented at the Gerontological Society of America (Dallas) Nov. 2006.
Paul Gray, Associate Professor
The Research Imagination (with John B. Williamson et al). Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Professor
Feminist Research Practice. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy, Editors. 2007.
Feminist Research: A Primer. (co-authored with Patricia Leavy ), Sage Publications, 2007
Handbook of Feminist Research. Editor, Sage Publications, 2007.
The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (editor). Sage Publications, 2007. Selected by American Education Studies Association, and AESA as a “Critics Choice” Award Winner for 2006.
Cult of Thinness. Oxford University Press, 2007
Am I Thin Enough Yet: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity 2006. Japanese Version.
“Becoming a Certain Body.” In Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings. David M. Newman and Jodi A. O’Brien, (Eds.) Sixth Edition. Mountain View, CA.: Sage Publications, Inc.
“The Mass Marketing of Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders: The Social Psychology of Women, Thinness and Culture” (with Leavy, P., Quinn, C.E.., and Zoino, J.) Women’s Studies International Forum. 2006.
David Karp, Professor
The Research Imagination: Qualitative And Quantitative Approaches. (with Paul Gray, John Williamson, and John Dalphin.) Cambridge University Press. 2007.
Michael Malec, Associate Professor
“College Sports.” in Higher Education: Open for Business (ed.Christian Gilde). Landham, MD: Lexington Books. 2007.
C. Shawn McGuffey, Assistant Professor
“Engendering Trauma: Race, Class and Gender Reaffirmation after Child Sexual Abuse.” Gender & Society 19 (5): 621-643. 2005. * 2006 Sally Hacker Award Winner, Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association*
“It’s a White Thing: Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence.” Presented at Smith College, Department of Afro-American Studies, Northampton, MA. 2006.
“It’s a White Thing: Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence.” Presented at Boston College, African and African Diaspora Studies. 2006.
Diversity and Cross-Cultural Issues: Power, Privilege, and Gender Oppression.” Presented at Boston College, Graduate School of Social Work. 2006.
Stephen J. Pfohl, Professor
“Introduction: Culture, Power and History,” (with Aimee Van Wagenen) in Stephen Pfohl with Aimee Van Wagenen, Patricia Arend, Abigail Brooks and Denise Leckenby, eds., Culture, Power and History: Studies in Critical Sociology, Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill Publishers, 2006, pp. 1-20.
“Feedback, Fear and Fascination: Cybernetic Social Control and Global Capitalist Power,” Plenary Address to the Research Committee on Deviance and Social Control, World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 28, 2006.
Left Behind: Religion, Technology and Flight from the Flesh. Victoria, Canada: CTheory Electronic Books, November 2006, 93 pp. http://www.ctheory.net/articles
Left Behind: Religion, Technology and Flight from the Flesh with Arthur Kroker, Born Again Ideology: Religion, Technology and Terrorism. Victoria, Canada: CTheory Books/ New World Perspectives, 2007, 200 pp.
Born Again Ideology: Religion, Technology and Terrorism. Victoria, Canada: CTheory Books/ New World Perspectives, 2007, 200 pp.
“Images of Deviance,” Chapter 1 in Alex Thio and Thomas C. Calhoun, eds., Readings in Deviant Behavior, Fourth Edition, Boston: Pearson Education Inc., 2006, pp. 11-14.
“Feedback, Fear and Fascination: Cybernetic Social Control and Global Capitalist Power,” Plenary Address to the Research Committee on Deviance and Social Control, World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 28, 2006.
“Left Behind: Religion, Technology and Flight from the Flesh.” Presented at Conference on Technology, Religion and Terrorism, Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Victoria, British Columbia, October 19, 2006.
Catherine Riessman, Visiting Research Professor
“Narrative Analysis and Bob Dylan: What’s the Connection?” Keynote address, presented at the Symposium on Confounding Narrative and Ethics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QUE, Australia. 2007.
Workshop on narrative analysis, Health and Discourse Conference, Dept. of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia. 2007.
“Looking Back to Look Forward: Narrative Research for the Human Sciences.” Lecture presented at the Humanities Research Seminar Series, Division of Humanities, Curtin University. 2006.
“From talk to text: Constructing Narratives for Analysis.” Paper given at annual meetings, American Sociology Association, Montreal, Canada. 2006.
Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor
“From Gender as Object to Gender as Verb: Rethinking how Global Restructuring Happens.” Critical Sociology 30:1 (April 2004): 43-62. Reprinted in Culture, Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology. Stephen Pfohl et al, eds. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
“Follow that Man! Finding Fractals at Work in the Global Economy.” Presented at Sociology Department, University of California at Davis. May 18, 2006.
Presided over, “Walking the Identity Line” at the “Frontiers in Qualitative Sociology: Berkeley Sociologists in the World,” conference in Honor of Arlie Hochschild. Berkeley, CA. October 27, 2006.
“From High Heels to Swathed Bodies: Gendered Meanings under Production in Mexico’s Export Processing Industry.” Feminist Studies 23:3 (Fall 1997): 549-574. Reprinted in Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2nd edition). Anne Hermann and Abigail Stewart, eds. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001). Reprinted as “De los tacones altos a los cuerpos cubiertos: significados generizados en (la) producción de la industria maquiladora para la exportación de México,” debate feminista (Mexico City: April 2007).
“Structures and Subjects in the Global Economy: What Gender Helps Us See.” Presented to the Sociology Department, University of California at Berkeley. March 5, 2007.
“The Disassembly of Production and the Taming of Lady Luck: Masculinity as Cause and Consequence in the Contemporary Transnational Economy.” Presented to the Women’s Studies Department, San Francisco State University. February 20, 2007.
“The Disassembly of Production and the Taming of Lady Luck: Masculinity as Cause and Consequence in the Contemporary Global Economy.” Presented to the Sociology Department, University of California at Berkeley. September 28, 2006.
Natalia Sarkisian, Assistant Professor
“Extended Family Integration among Mexican and Euro Americans: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class.” (with Mariana Gerena, and Naomi Gerstel.) Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 1, 40-54. Feb. 2007.
“‘Doing Family Ambivalence’: Nuclear and Extended Families in Single Mothers’ Lives.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 4 (November), 804-811, 2006.
“Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy.” (with Gerstel, Naomi) Contexts, 5, 4 (November), 16-21, 2006.
“The Disassembly of Production and the Taming of Lady Luck: Masculinity as Cause and Consequence in the Contemporary Global Economy.” Presented at Sociology Department, University of California at Berkeley. September 28, 2006.
“A Sociological Perspective on Families and Work: The Import of Gender, Class, and Race.” (with Gerstel, Naomi) Pp. 237-266 in M. P. Catsouphes, E. Kossek, & S. Sweet (Eds.), The Work and Family Handbook: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Methods, and Approaches. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2006.
“Race, Class, and Extended Family Involvement.” (with Gerstel, Naomi) National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Report: Family Focus, 52, 1 (March), 14-15. http://www.ncfr.org/pdf
“Marriage Reduces Social Ties.” (with Gerstel, Naomi) Briefing Paper for the Council on Contemporary Families (CCF), January 2007. http://www.contemporaryfamilies
“Extended Family Integration among Latinos/as and Euro Americans: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class.” (Mariana Gerena and Naomi Gerstel.) Presented at the American Sociological Association, Montréal, Canada. 2006.
Paul G. Schervish, Professor
“It Is Better to Receive and to Give.” With John J. Havens and Albert Keith Whitaker. Philanthropy, XX, No. 4 (July/August 2006): 10-12.
“The Moral Biography of Wealth: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of Philanthropy.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 35, no. 3 (September 2006): 477-492.
“Philanthropy’s Janus-Faced Potential: The Dialectic of Care and Negligence Facing Donors.” Pp. 218-236 in Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving, edited by William Damon and Susan Verducci. Indiana University Press. 2006.
“Charitable Giving: How Much, By Whom, To What, and How?” With Mary A. O'Herlihy and John J. Havens. Pp. 542-567 in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook. Second Edition. edited by Richard S. Steinberg and Walter W. Powell. Yale University Press. 2006.
Juliet Schor, Professor & Chair
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York: Scribner), September 2004. (excerpted in Brain, Child magazine, Summer 2004, Newark Star-Ledger, September 2004, Boston College Magazine, Fall 2004). Paperback edition 2005. Italian Edition 2005. Korean edition 2005. Spanish edition 2006. Chinese edition 2006. Forthcoming foreign editions: Japanese, Indonesian.
“In Defense of Consumer Critique: Re-visiting the Consumption Debates of the 20th Century,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 611:16-30, May 2007.
“From Tastes Great to Cool: Children’s Food Marketing and the Rise of the Symbolic,” Journal of Medicine, Law and Ethics, 35(1):10-21, Spring, 2007.
“Conspicuous Consumption,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer (Oxford: Blackwell), 2006.
“Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure,” Handbook of Leisure Studies, eds., Chris Rojek, Susan Shaw and Tony Veal, (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) 2006.
“Consumer Culture,” entry for International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski, (London: Routledge), 2006.
“Interview with Juliet Schor,” in Global Values 101: A Short Course in Progressive Ideas for the 21st Century, editors Brian Palmer, Kate Holbrook, Ann Kim and Anna Portnoy (Boston: Beacon Press), 2006.
“When Childhood Gets Commercialized, Can Children Be Protected?” in Ulla Carlsson, ed;, Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age (Goteborg, Sweden: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media) 2006:101-122. Also reprinted in In the Service of Young People? Studies and Reflections on Media in the Digital Age, eds., Ulla Carlsson and Cecilia Von Feilitzen (Goteborg, Sweden: The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media) 2006: 27-48 and in Below the Line Marketing—Concepts and Cases (Hyderabad, India: Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis, 2006).
“Why Do We Consume So Much?” in Joseph R. Desjardins and John J. McCall, Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, Fifth Edition, (Thomson/Wadsworth: Belmont, CA): 2004:373-378. Reprinted in The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing, Second Edition (Thomson Learning) 2006.
“A Cleaner, Greener Christmas,” Boston Globe, Sunday, December 10, 2006.
John B. Williamson, Professor
“The Necessity, Feasibility, and Potential Social Benefits of an Old-Age Universal Non-Contributory Social Pension Scheme for Rural China.” (with Shen, Ce) Chinese Rural Economy. 8 (260): 50-55. 2006. (This is a Chinese journal and the article is published in Chinese.)
“Do Universal Non-Contributory Old-Age Pensions Make Sense for Rural Areas in Low-Income Nations?” (with Johnson, Jessica K. M.) International Social Security Review 59 (4): 47-65. 2006. This article has was published in English, French, German, and Spanish versions of the journal. The page numbers given are for the English Version.
“Does a Universal Non-Contributory Pension Scheme Make Sense for Rural China?” (with Shen, Ce) Journal of Comparative Social Welfare 22 (2): 43-153. 2006.
“Social Security Reform: Does Partial Privatization Make Sense for China.” (with John B. and Catherine Deitelbaum.) Social Security Studies (2006, 2): 52-66. 2006. (This is a Chinese journal and the article is published in Chinese. It is a translation of our 2005 article with the same title).
"The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Russia: Why Partial Privatization?" (with John B., Stephanie A. Howling, and Michelle Maroto.) Journal of Aging Studies 20 (2): 165-175, 2006.
“The Generational Equity Debate.” (with John B. and Diane M. Watts-Roy.) Pp. 191-194 in Aging: Concepts and Controversies, Fifth edition, by Harry R. Moody. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. 2006.