Sociology Department

Faculty Publications

2001-2002

Faculty
Patricia Chang
Charles Derber
William Gamson
Eva Garroutte
Paul Gray
Jeanne Guillemin
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Lynda Lytle Holmstrom
David Karp
Robert Kunovich
Michael Malec
Stephen Pfohl
Catherine Riessman
Kerry Ann Rockquemore
Paul Schervish
Juliet Schor
Diane Vaughan
John Williamson

Patricia Chang

The Effects of Organizational Variation in the Employment Relationship on Gender Discrimination in Denominational Labor Markets. In H. Z. Lopata & K. D. Henson (eds.), Current Research on Occupations and Professions. JAI Press/Ablex Publishing/ Elsevier Science, 2001.

Escaping the Procrustean Bed: A Critical Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 1930-2001. In M. Dillon (Ed.), Handbook for the Sociology of Religion. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

“The Professional Life of Clergywomen.” Invited speaker for the Studies in Liberation Theologies Lunch Series organized by the Episcopal Divinity School. October 7, 2002.

“Clergy Supply and Demand in the 21st Century” and “Clergy Careers in the Protestant Churches.” Invited speaker for “Pulpit and Pew” meeting of the Pastoral Leadership study organized by the J.M. Ormond Center, Duke Divinity School. April 3, 2002.

“Cinderella's Stepsister: Religious Institutions and Organizational Theory.” Session on “The Sociology of Religion in the 21st Century.” Eastern Sociological Society Meetings, March 7, 2002.

Charles Derber

People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis. New York: St Martin's Press, 2002.

The Wilding of America (2nd ed.), New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Corporate Power in the New Gilded Age. In H. Tam (ed.), The New Progressivism. London: Polity Press, 2001.

Greed. In Newsday, July. An extended opinion piece also reprinted in numerous newspapers around the country, 2002.

Politics, Social Movements and the State. Contemporary Sociology, 30.6 (2001): 609-10.

Invited Lectures: Colby College; Center on Corporate Citizenship; Council on Foreign Policy; Conference Board and Council on Philanthropy (keynote speaker).

William Gamson

With Ferree, M. M., Gerhards, J., & Rucht, D. Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Civic Renewal and Inequality. The Good Society, 11.

With Ferree, M. M., Gerhards, J., & Rucht, D. Four Models of the Public Sphere in Modern Democracies. Theory and Society, 31(2002): 1-36.

With Ferree, M.M., Gerhards, J., & Rucht, D. Abortion Talk in Germany and the United States: Why Rights Explanations are Wrong. Contexts, 1, 2002.

The Gendering of Governance and the Governance of Gender. In M.M. Ferree & B. Hobson (eds.), Recognition Struggles, 2002.

Collective Identity and the Mass Media. In G. Borgida, J.L. Sullivan, & E. Riedel (eds.), The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship.

Media and Social Movements. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier, 2001.

How Story Telling Can be Empowering. In K.A. Cerulo (ed.), Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition (pp. 187-198). New York: Routledge, 2001.

With Reese, S.D., Gandy, O.H., Jr., & Grant, A.E. Forward. Framing Public Life. Mahway: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Promoting Political Engagement. In W.L. Bennett & R. Entman (eds.), Mediated Politics (pp. 56-74). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Eva Garroutte

The Racial Formation of American Indians: Negotiating Legitimate Identities within Tribal and Federal Law. American Indian Quarterly, 25.2 (2001): 224-39.

The Positivist Attack on Baconian Science and Religious Knowledge. In C. Smith (ed.), The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life (pp. 197-215). California: University of California Press , 2002.

Art and Authenticity: American Indian Creativity and Identity. Cowboys Indians and the Big Picture (2002): 45-49.

Jeanne Guillemin

Miasma, Malaria, and Method. Molecular Interventions, 5 (2001): 246-249.

The 1979 Anthrax Epidemic in the USSR: Applied science and political controversy. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 146 (2002): 18-36.

Choosing Scientific Patrimony: Sir Ronald Ross, Alphonse Laveran, and the Mosquito Vector Hypothesis for Malaria. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 22 (2002): 28-46.

The Deliberate Release of Anthrax Spores through the US Postal System. Public Health Responses to Biological and Chemical Weapons: WHO Guidance (2002): 48-52.

“The Threat of Biological Weapons.” IPPNW and Physicians for Social Responsibility Town Meeting on Terrorism, Faneuil Hall, Boston, January 15, 2002.

“The Political Determinants of Delayed Diagnosis.” Los Alamos National Laboratory Conference on Confronting Terrorism, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March 24, 2002.

“Anthrax, Smallpox, and Biological Weapons Programs.” Hastings Center for the Study of Ethics, Garrison NY, invited speaker, Annual Fellows meeting, May 12, 2002.

“The 1979 Sverdlovsk Outbreak.” Ft. Detrick, Maryland, US Army Institute of Infectious Diseases, invited speaker, June 3, 2002.

“Bioterrorism and the Media.” Marine Biological Laboratory, Science Fellows program, invited speaker, July 12, 2002.

“The Origins of State Biological Weapons Programs: Sir Frederick Banting and Sir Paul Fildes.” Dibner Institute for the Study of the History of Science and Technology November 21-22, American Anthropology Meetings, New Orleans, session organizer, Biol ogical Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Public Health Problems, about the conflict between real and imagined epidemics; commentator in a session on “Plagues of the Future.”

Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Feminism and Interdisciplinarity. In J. DiGeorfio-Lutz (ed.). Women in Higher Education: Empowering Change. Westport, CT: Praeger Publications, 2002.

HyperRESEARCH version 2.5 for qualitative data analysis [Computer Software]. ResearchWare.com Inc, 2002.

Lynda Lytle Holmstrom

With David Karp and Paul Gray. “Why Laundry, Not Hegel? Social Class, Transition to College, and Pathways to Adulthood.” Symbolic Interaction. 25.4 (2002): 437-462.

With David Karp and Paul Gray. “‘Good-bye Susie,' ‘Good-bye Seiji': Parental Letting Go of the Collegebound Child” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Meetings in Anaheim, CA, 2001.

With Paul Gray and David Karp. “How's My Essay?” Parental Involvement in the College Application Process. Roundtable Presentation at the American Sociological Association Meetings. Chicago, Illinois, 2002.

David Karp

Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness, Family Life, and Moral Responsibility. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness. Portuguese edition, 2001. Originally published New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

An Unwelcome Career. In N. Casey (ed.), Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression. New York: Morrow, 2001.

Recovery in a Therapeutic Culture, review essay. Qualitative Sociology. (Spring) 24: 107-115.

With Lynda Holmstrom and Paul Gray. “Why Laundry, Not Hegel? Social Class, the Transition to College, and Pathways to Adulthood.” Symbolic Interaction. 24.4: 437-462.

Both Sides Now. An Interview in Boston College Magazine. (Winter 2001): 62-65.

Author Meets Critic Session: The Burden of Sympathy. Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2001.

With Lynda Holmstrom and Paul Gray. How's My Essay? Parental Involvement in the College Application Process. Roundtable Presentation at the American Sociological Association Meetings. Chicago, Illinois, 2002.

With Lynda Holmstrom and Paul Gray. “‘Good-bye Susie,' ‘Good-bye Seiji': Parental Letting Go of the College-Bound Child” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Meetings in Anaheim, CA, 2001.

Keynote Speech. Mental Health Awareness Week in Maine. University of Maine, Presque Isle, 2001.

Lecture on The Burden of Sympathy. Manic Depressive and Depressive Association, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, 2001.

Robert Kunovich

With Hodson, R. (Spring). Ethnic Diversity, Segregation, and Inequality: A Structural Model of Ethnic Prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia. The Sociological Quarterly, 43.2 (2002): 185-212.

Social Structural Sources of Anti-immigrant Prejudice in Europe: The Impact of Social Class and Stratification Position. International Journal of Sociology, 32.1 (2002): 39-57.

With Slomczynski, K.M. (Guest Eds.) Pro-democratic Values in Cross-national Perspective. International Journal of Sociology, 32.1 (2002): 3-13.

Throwing the Rascals Out: Macroeconomic Conditions, Personal Economic Hardship, and Protest Voting in Poland. In K.M. Slomczynski (Ed.), Social Structure: Changes and Linkages — The Advanced Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland (pp. 201-220). Warsaw, Poland: IfIS Publishers.

Michael Malec

“Comments of the State of the Society.” Presidential Address presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (Nov.).

“Sport and ‘the Moral.”' Paper presented at the 35th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland (July).

Stephen Pfohl

O Delirio Cibernético de Norbert Wiener. Revista Famecos, Porto Alegre, 15 (2001): 105-121.

Images of Deviance and Social Control. In R. Weitzer (ed.), Deviance and Social Control: A Reader, (pp. 5-8) New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.

“Magic and the Machine: Cybernetics, Social Control, and the Power of Fascination.” Mixed media text with slides, sound and video. Presented at Sociology in the Age of Intelligent Machines Conference, Buffalo State College and Albright-Knox Art Galler y, Buffalo, New York, April 23, 2002.

“Memories of Overdevelopment: Cybernetic Capitalism and Ultramodern Power.” Mixed media text with slides, sound and video. Invited presentation, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, April 24, 2002.

“Theorizing the Spectacle/ Theorizing the Social.” Invited presentation, Department of Sociology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, April 25, 2002.

Catherine Kohler Riessman

Accidental Cases: Extending the Concept of Positioning in Narrative Studies. Narrative Inquiry 12 (2002): 37-42.

Doing Justice: Positioning the Interpreter in Narrative Work. In W. Patterson (ed.), Strategic Narrative: New Perspectives on the Power of Personal and Cultural Storytelling (pp. 195-216). Lexington Books, 2002.

Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context. In M.C. Inhorn and F. van Balen (eds.), Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies (pp. 152-170). Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2002.

Analysis of Personal Narratives. In J.F. Gubrium & J.A. Holstein (eds.), Handbook of Interview Research (pp. 695-710). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.

Personal Troubles as Social Issues: a Narrative of Infertility in Context. In I. Shaw & N. Gould (eds.), Qualitative Research in Social Work: Method and Context (pp. 73-82). Newbury Park CA: Sage, 2001.

Performance of Narrative Identities in Research Intervi ews: a Comparison of Men with Chronic Illness. Paper given at Wall Interdisciplinary Conference, Narratives of Disease, Disability and Trauma, Univ. of British Columbia, May 2002.

Invited participant, plenary panel, Narratives of Disease, Disability and Trauma, Wall Interdisciplinary Conference, May 2002.

Illness Narratives: Positioned Identities. Annual lecture, University of Cardiff, Health Communication Centre, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, May 2002.

Narrative Identities: Masculinity and Multiple Sclerosis. Keynote speech at Narrative-Based Medicine Conference, British Medical Association, Homerton College, Cambridge UK, Sept. 2001.

Kerry Ann Rockquemore

What Does “Black” Mean?: Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization. Critical Sociology, 25: 101-122.

Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity Among Biracials. The Sociological Quarterly, 43 (2002): 335-356.

With David Brunsma. Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2001.

With David Brunsma. The New Color Complex: Phenotype, Appearances, and (Bi)racial Identity. Identity 3.1 (2001):225-246.

Opening Pandora's Box. Public Perspectives. 12.3 (2001):17-18.

Negotiating the Color Line: The Gendered Process of Racial Identity Construction Among Black/White Biracial Women. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 7-9, 2002, Boston, MA.

Interracial Families: Exploring the Effects of Social Network Structure and Socialization on Racial Identity Choice Among Black/White Biracials. Paper presented with David L. Brunsma, University of Alabama at the Annual Meetings of the National Counci l on Family Relations, November 7-11, Rochester, NY.

Negotiating the Color Line in the Twenty-First Century: Patterns and Prospects of Racial Identity among Black-White Biracials. Paper presented with David L. Brunsma, University of Alabama, at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Associatio n, August 17-19, 2001, Anaheim, CA.

Beyond Black: The Deviance of Biracial Identities. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 16-18, 2001, Anaheim, CA.

What Does Black Mean?: Rethinking Racial Categories in a Fluid Social World. Paper presented with David. L. Brunsma, University of Alabama, at the Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, August 15-18, Anaheim, CA.

Deconstructing Tiger Woods: The Promises and Pitfalls of Multiracial Identity. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association of Black Sociologists, August 15-18, 2001, Anaheim, CA.

Paul G. Schervish

With Havens, J.J. The New Physics of Philanthropy: The Supply-Side Vectors of Charitable Giving—Part 1: The Material Side of the Supply Side. The CASE International Journal of Higher Education Advancement, 2.2: 95-111.

With Havens, J.J. The New Physics of Philanthropy: The Supply-Side Vectors of Charitable Giving—Part 2: The Spiritual Side of the Supply Side. The CASE International Journal of Higher Education Advancement, 2.3: 221-241.

With Havens, J.J. The Boston Area Diary Study and the Moral Citizenship of Care. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations 13.1: 47-71.

With Havens, J.J. The Mind of the Millionaire: Findings from a National Survey on Wealth with Responsibility. (E.R. Tempel, Ed) New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising: Taking Fundraising Seriously, 32: 75-107.

“The Identification Theory and the Allocation of Transfers Between Family and Philanthropy Organizations.” With John J. Havens. Paper presented at the Conference on The Role and Impact of Gifts and Estates. Center for Retirement Research at Boston Col lege. Woodstock, Vermont. October 22, 2001.

“The Spiritual Secret of Wealth: The Inner Dynamics by which Fortune Engenders Care.” With Mary A. O'Herlihy and John J. Havens. Paper presented to the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy's Fourteenth Annual Symposium, Faith and Philanthropy. In dianapolis, October. 25, 2001.

“The Philanthropic Strategies of High-Tech Donors: Findings from Personal Interviews.” With Mary A. O'Herlihy and John J. Havens. Presentation to the 2001 annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Miami. November 29 - December 1, 2001.

Juliet Schor

With Taylor, B. (Eds.). Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2002.

Understanding the New Consumerism: Inequality, Emulation and the Erosion of Well-Being. Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 23.1 (2002): 10-20. (in Flemish translation).

Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic. Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century (pp. 45-59). Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

Een wegenkaart voor de 21ste eeuw: arbeidstijd en duurzame consumptie, Oikos 21.2 (2001): 76-90.

“Understanding the New Consumerism: Inequality, Emulation, and the Erosion of Well-Being” Invited Lecture, Flemish Sociological Association, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, March 2002.

“Consuming Conscientiously: Are Mature Consumers at the Cutting-Edge?” Colloquium on The Demographic Revolution: Prospects for a Maturing World, Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, Harvard University, May 2002.

“Is the Mouse Eating the World? Culture and Consumption in the Global Economy,” Public Lecture, International Studies Program Series on Globalization, Boston College, April 2002.

“Materialism and Wellness,” Workshop Presented at Project Wellness: Creating Connections, Acton-Boxborough School District Conference, Merrimack College, March 2002.

“Toward Sustainable Consumption,” Public Lecture, Green Party of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2002.

“Sustainable Consumption in the Urban Environment,” Seminar, Vrij University of Brussels, Brussels, March 2002.

Diane Vaughan

Media Launch. Contexts, 5.2 (2002).

Signals and Interpretive Work: The Role of Culture in a Theory of Practical Action. (K. Cerulo, ed.). Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition (pp. 28-54). New York: Routledge, 2002.

Criminology and the Sociology of Organizations: Analogy, Comparative Social Organization, and General Theory. In special Issue, J. Savelsberg (ed). “Mutual Engagement,” Law, Crime, and Social Change 37.2 (2002): 117-136.

An Ethnographic Excursion. Review of Johan M. Sanne, Creating Safety in Air Traffic Control, Sweden: Arkiv Forlag, 1999, in Social Studies of Science December, 2001.

“Air Traffic Control: Research Obstacles as Findings.” Conference, “Field Methods in Contemporary Society,” Leroy Neiman Center for American Culture, UCLA, May 16-17, 2002.

“The Mason's Apron: The Invention of Tradition in 20th Century England.” Workshop, English Culture and History, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, May 3-4, 2002.

“Organizational Rituals of Risk and Error.” Conference on “Encounters with Risk.” Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics, April 12-14, 2002.

“Technology and Terrorism,” Panel, ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, November 4, 2001.

“Dead Reckoning: Technology, Culture, and Ethnocognition in Air Traffic Control,” Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-3, 2001, Boston, MA.

Discussant, “How To Profit from Uncertainty” Panel, Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-3, 2001, Boston, MA.

John B. Williamson

With Pampel, F.C. Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective. (Chinese Translation, 2002), Ma Shengjie and Liu Yanhong (Trans.) (Beijing, China: Law Press) Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1993.

With McNamara, T.K. Cadrer le débat sur l'équite générationnelle auz États-Unis. Retraite et Société, 35: 50-81.

Future Prospects for Notional Defined Contribution Schemes. CESinfo Forum, 2.4: 19-24.

With McNamara, T.K. Welfare State. In David J. Ekerdt (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Aging (pp. 1483-1488). New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002.

With Pampel, F.C. Age Patterns of Suicide and Homicide Mortality Rates in High Income Nations. Social Forces, 80.1 (2001): 251-282.

Social Security Reform, Privatization, and Political Ideology. The Gerontologist, 41.2 (2001): 280-284.

Privatizing Public Pension Systems: Lessons from Latin America. Journal of Aging Studies, 15.3 (2001): 285-302.

With Ce S. Cross-National Differences in Infant Mortality Decline (1965-1991) among Less Developed Countries: Effects of Women's Status, Economic Dependency, and State Strength. Social Indicators Research, 53 (2001): 257-288.

With Kingson, E.R. Economic Security Policies. In R.H. Binstock & L.C. George (eds.) Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, (Fifth Ed.) (pp. 369-386). San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001.

“The Pros and Cons of Notional Defined Contribution Schemes.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, DC. January 25, 2002.

Session Organizer at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, DC. January 25, 2002.