Recent Publications
2013
Saïd Arjomand & Nathan J. Brown. 2013. The Rule of Law, Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran. State University of New York Press.
Josh Murray, Arnout van de Rijt and John M. Shandra. Forthcoming. "Why They Juice: The Role of Social Forces in Performance Enhancing Drug Use among Professional Athletes." Sociological Focus
Arnout van de Rijt, Eran Shor, Charles Ward and Steven Skiena. 2013. "Only Fifteen Minutes? The Social Stratification of Fame in Printed Media." American Sociological Review 78(2):266-89.
Arnout van de Rijt. “Selection and Influence in the Assimilation Process of Immigrants.” Conditionally accepted to Advanced in Group Processes
Bogdan Vasi, David Strang and Arnout van de Rijt. “Tea and Sympathy: The Tea Party Movement and Republican Pre-commitment to Radical Conservatism in the 2011 Debt Limit Crisis.” Forthcoming in Mobilization
2012
Afife Idil Akin, Carlos Encina, Michael Restivo, Michael Schwartz and Juhi Tyagi. 2012. "Old Wine in a New Cask? Protest Cycles in the Age of the New Social Media." 13(1):89-130.
Saïd Arjomand. 2012. "A Decade of Reformists and Islamists in Power in the Islamic Republic of Iran." Pp. 205-19 in Samer S. Shehata (Ed.), Islamist Politics in the Middle East, New York: Routledge.
Diane Barthel-Bouchier. 2012. "Exportability of Films in a Globalizing Market: The Intersection of Nation and Genre." Cultural Sociology 6:75-91, DOI:
David Brady and Rebekah Burroway. 2012. “Targeting, Universalism and Single Mother Poverty: A Multi-Level Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies.” Demography 49: 719-46, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0094-z
Rebekah Burroway. Forthcoming, 2012. “A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women’s Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries." International Journal of Sociology 42(2): 47-67, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/IJS0020-7659420204
Ivan Chase. 2012. "Life Is a Shell Game." Scientific American 306:76-9, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0612-76
Bethany Coston and Michael Kimmel. 2012. "Seeing Privilege Where It Isn't: Marginalized Masculinities and the Intersectionality of Privilege." Journal of Social Issues 68(1):97-111.
Toller Erausquin, Jennifer, Monica Biradavolu, Elizabeth Reed, Rebekah Burroway, and Kim M. Blankenship. 2012. “Trends in Condom Use Among Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: The Impact of a Community Mobilisation Intervention.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2011-200511
Crystal Fleming. 2012. “White Cruelty or Republican Sins? Competing Frames of Stigma Reversal in French Commemorations of Slavery.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(3): 448-505, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.589526
Crystal Fleming, Michèle Lamont and Jessica Welburn. 2012. “African Americans Respond to Stigmatization: The Meanings and Salience of Confronting, Deflecting Conflict, Educating the Ignorant and 'Managing The Self'.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(3): 400-417, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.589527
Gabriela Gonzales, Michael Kimmel, Farshad Malekahmadi and Juhi Tyagi. 2012. "The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking About Gender in Violent Resistance Movements." Pp. 55-78 in Linda Åhäll & Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.) Gender, Agency and Political Violence. Basingstoke: Palgrave Publishers.
Laura Hirshfield and Tiffany D. Joseph. 2012. “ ‘We Need A Woman, We Need A Black Woman’: Gender and Cultural Taxation in the Academy.” Gender and Education 24:213-27, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2011.606208.
Michèle Lamont, Jessica S. Welburn and Crystal M. Fleming (eds.). 2012. "Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso and Micro Dimensions." Du Bois Review: Social Science Review on Race 9(1): 43-9. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X12000033.
Gary Maynard, Eric Shircliff, and Michael Restivo. 2012. "IMF Structural Adjustment, Public Health Spending, and Tuberculosis: A Longitudinal Analysis of Prevalence Rates in Poor Countries" International Journal of Sociology 42(2). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/IJS0020-7659420201
Ian Roxborough. 2012. "Building other Peoples' States: The Sociology of State-Building." Comparative Sociology 11(2):179-201, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156913312X631289
Christopher Sattler and John M. Shandra. 2012. "Do Health Nongovernmental Organizations Improve Child Mortality?" International Journal of Sociology 42(2):28-46, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/IJS0020-7659420202
Carrie L. Shandra and Afra R. Chowdhury. 2012. “The First Sexual Experience among Adolescent Girls
With and Without Disabilities.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 41(4):515-532, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-011-9668-0
Carrie L. Shandra, John M. Shandra and Bruce London. 2012. "The International Monetary Fund, Structural Adjustment, and Infant Mortality: A Cross-National Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Poverty 16(2):194-219, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2012.667059.
John M. Shandra. 2012. "Health in a Cross-National Context: A Collection of Quantitative Studies." International Journal of Sociology 42(2):3-4, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/IJS0020-7659420200
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
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