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Selected Authored and Co-Authored Faculty Publications

 

The faculty in our department are outstanding teachers with a primary commitment to student learning.  At the same time, they are active and involved researchers and scholars.  In short, we are a community of teacher-scholars.  The list of publications below illustrates the range of scholarly interests among the faculty in all three department concentrations. 

 

  • “Declining Odds: Kinship, Women’s Employment and Political Economy in Rural Mexico,” American Anthropologist.

  • A Sociology of Sport.  Wadsworth Publishing Company. 

  • “Strain Theory: A Preliminary Test of Broidy and Agnew’s Gender/GST Hypotheses,” Justice Quarterly. 

  •  “From the Doctor’s Workshop to the Iron Cage?: Evolving Modes of Physician Control in the U.S.,” Social Science and Medicine. 

  •  “Ratings and Rankings: Reconsidering the Structure of Values and their Measurement,” International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory & Practice. 

  • Unspeakable Acts: Why Men Sexually Abuse Children.  New York University Press. 

  • “Self Initiated Status Transfer: A Theory of Status Gain and Status Loss,” Small Group Research. 

  •  “Corporeal Labor at the Virtual Library: Information, Transparency and Inequality At the Library of Congress,” Journal of American Studies. 

  •  “The Dimensions of Racial Inequality: Occupational and Residential Segregation Across Metropolitan Areas in the United States,” City and Community. 

  • “Social Determinants of Adolescent Fatherhood,” Sociological Analysis. 

  • “Gender, Sport, and Aggressive Behavior Outside Sport,” Journal of Sport & Social Issues. 

  • Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care.  University of Chicago Press. 

  •  “Globalization and South Korea’s Middle Class: A Review Essay,” Anthropology of Work Review

  •  “Unraveling Bias in Arrest Decisions: The Role of Juvenile Offender Type-Scripts,” Justice Quarterly. 

  • “Rights and Ratios?: Evaluating the Relationship between Social Rights and Immigration,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 

  • “Hot Courses in Cultural Anthropology,” Anthropology News. 

  • “Adolescent Polydrug Use and Violence in the United States,” International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. 

  •  “Constructing, Destroying, and Reconstructing Difference: The Mexican Nation and Cultural Difference,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 

  •  “Social Structure and the Duration of Acts,” Social Psychology Quarterly. 

  • “Confronting the Social Context of the Classroom: Media Events, Shared Cultural Experience, and Student Response,” Teaching Sociology. 

  • “The Glass Ceiling Effect,” Social Forces. 

  •  “Taking Control: Toy Commercials and the Social Construction of Patriarchy,” in Masculinities and Violence

  • “Bisexuals at Midlife: Commitment, Salience, and Identity,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 

  •  “Studying Sport from a Social Network Approach,” in Theory, Sport and Society

  •  “Sample Selection Bias in Analyses of the Political Democracy-Income Inequality Relationship,” Social Forces. 

  • “The Misalignment of Institutional ‘Pillars’: Consequences for the U.S. Health Care Field,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 

  • “Color Code,” Brain Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. 

  • “Generalizing General Strain Theory: An Examination of an Offending Population,” Justice Quarterly. 

  •  “Sail On!  Sail On!: Anthropology, Science Fiction, and the Enticing Future,” Science Fiction Studies. 

  •  “Suggestions of the Postmodern Self: Value Changes in American High School Students, 1976-1996,” Sociological Perspectives. 

  • “Do Women Engage in Less Task Behavior than Men?” Sociological Perspectives. 

  • “GI Joe,” in Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. 

  • Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality.  Oxford University Press. 

  •  “Sport and Disability,” in Handbook of Sport Studies

  • “Flexible Employment and Postmodern Culture: The Impact of Globalization on Work and Culture in Rural Mexico.,” Anthropology of Work Review. 

  • “Drug Treatment for Juvenile Offenders: Some Good and Bad News,” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 

  • Safe Schools Indicator Study.  U.S. Department of Education. 

  • “Challenging Consumption Theory,” Critique of Anthropology. 

  • “Principles of Visual Anthropology,” Visual Anthropology Review. 

  • “Cognitive Balance Theory,” in Encyclopedia of Sociology. 

  • “Colonies on the Moon/Cyborgs on the Earth: Evolution and Emergence in Anthropological Futures,” International Journal of the Humanities. 

  • “Acute Care,” in Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8th Edition. 

  • “John Marshall’s Kalahari Family,” American Anthropologist. 

  • “Do Bad Boys Really Get the Girls?: Delinquency as a Cause and Consequence of Dating Behavior Among Adolescents,” Justice Quarterly. 

  • “A Multilevel Analysis of Tolerance,” Social Forces. 

  • “Scientifically Valid and Artistically True: Chad Oliver, Anthropology and Anthropological Science Fiction,” Science Fiction Studies. 

  • “Gated Communities,” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture. 

  • “Women and Current U.S. Immigration Policies,” Fact Sheet for Sociologists for Women in Society Network News. 

  • Delinquency, Schools, and the Social Bond.  LFB Publishing. 

  • For Better or For Worse: Globalization in Rural Mexico.  University of Texas Press. 

  • “No Anthropologist Aboard the Enterprise: Science Fiction and the Future in the Anthropology Classroom,” Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 

 

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