Mission Statement
The Political and Economic Sociology area at Rutgers brings together a wide array of faculty with diverse substantive interests. We are linked, however, by our shared concern with large-scale patterns of social organization, transformation, and inequality. We see political and economic domains and processes as interconnected, and we use a variety of methods—comparative-historical, case-study, qualitative, quantitative, and l network analysis, to name a few—to study them. Our objectives are to train graduate students in these methods, to introduce them to the most important debates and topics of research in our fields, and to mentor them in the pursuit of their own research interests through the department's qualifying paper and dissertation requirements. We also actively support the department’s Networks, Culture, and Institutions Workshop as a forum for the presentation of faculty and student research in progress. It is our goal to see our students become colleagues, because we emphasize collegial learning, professional writing, and critical thinking. And our students become professionally visible, because we help them to produce publishable papers and scholarship that is important and interesting.
Current faculty research focuses on a variety of important topics including: migration and immigration (Gerson, Lee, Rodriguez); globalization, and especially critical reappraisals of world systems theory and of representations of ‘others’ in the global political economy (Böröcz, Brooks, Salime); multiple social networks, elites, and political mobilization (McLean, Mische); environmental hazards and organizational catastrophes (Cerulo, Clarke, O'Neill, Rudel); and enduring forms of inequality in the United States (P. Carr, Friedman, Hirschfield, Phillips, Roos, Smith). We also regularly work together across our specific research interest groupings to offer students instruction and direction according to their needs and the unique qualities of their projects.
Affiliated Faculty
József Böröcz [also, http://borocz.net]
Ethel Brooks
Patrick Carr
Karen A. Cerulo
Lee Clarke [also, http://www.leeclarke.com]
Ira Cohen
Judith Friedman
Judith Gerson
Paul Hirschfield
Catherine Lee
Paul McLean
Ann Mische
Karen O'Neill
Julie Phillips
Robyn Rodriguez
Patricia A. Roos [also, http://patroos.com/]
Thomas Rudel [also, http://humanecology.rutgers.edu/documents/cv/rudel.pdf]
Zakia Salime
D. Randall Smith
Graduate Courses Taught in the Core Area
Comparative Ethnicity and Nationalism
Comparative/Historical Methods
Comparative Social Structures
Crime and Deviance
Democracy and Violence
Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
Economic Sociology
Global Structures, States, and Nationhood
Globalization: Nationhood & Markets
Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
Ideology, Social Control, and Punishment
Inequalities
Labor and Globalization
Organizations
Political Sociology
Race and Ethnicity
Social Change
Social Inequality: Political and Economic Dimensions
Social Movements
Social Network Analysis
Socialisms: Utopias and Geopolitics
Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Economic Development
Sociology of Sport: Culture, Gender, Globalization
Sociology of Work
Space, Place, and Community
Technology and Society
Recent PhDs in Political and Economic Sociology (in alphabetical order)
Mahasti Hashemi, Immigrants and Exiles: Iranian Women in the United States, 2006 (currently Assistant Dean for Advising and Administration,Rutgers University)
Courtney Bangert Jackson, Attending Birth: Inter-Professional Competition Between Midwives and Physicians, 2005 (currently Charlotte Ellertson Postdoctoral Fellow at Ibis Reproductive Health, Boston, MA)
Eric Kaldor, Advancing Corporate Capitalism in Hungary, 2005 (currently Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY-Brockport)
Kevin Keogan, Policing the Boundaries Between "Us" and "Them": Immigrants, Narrative Identity, and the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion, 2006
Dmitry Khodyakov, Trust and Control in Counterpoint: A Case Study of Conductorless Orchestra, 2008 (currently a Behavioral/Social Scientist at RAND Corporation)
John Lang, Acceptable Trust? The Public Perception of Organizations Involved in Genetically Modified Food, 2007 (currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Occidental College)
Vanina Leschziner, Recipes for Success: Culinary Styles, Professional Careers, and Institutional Patterns in the Field of High Cuisine, 2007 (currently Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto)
Baris Mucen, A Study of the Doxa of Modernization as the Limit of Political Reality in Turkey, 2008
Keumjae Park , In our Different Names: Korean Immigrant Women and the Challenges of Post-Migration Identity Renegotiation, 2005 (currently Assistant Professor of Sociology, Willliam Paterson University)
King-To Yeung, Suppressing Rebels, Managing Bureaucrats: State Building During the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864, 2007
Opportunities for Graduate Students in Political and Economic Sociology
Center for African Studies: In addition to sponsoring Africa-focused lectures and cultural events, the center offers a certificate program in African Studies for graduate students within departments and professional programs who would like to pursue a concentrated course of study on Africa. [http://ruafrica.rutgers.edu/]
Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA): An interdisciplinary culture studies institution at Rutgers . Fellowships, seminars, lectures. [http://cca.rutgers.edu]
Center for European Studies (CES): The umbrella organization for studies of European Union enlargement and European post-state-socialist societies. Year-long seminars, fellowships, lecture series. [http://ces.rutgers.edu]
Center for Humanities and Social Science Research (CHaSeR): The center of the department's research and educational development endeavors. Research assistantships and other funding possibilities, as well as opportunities of close collaboration with faculty. [http://chaser.rutgers.edu]
Center for Middle Eastern Studies: faculty from many FAS departments are affiliated with the center. It sponsors distinguished guest speakers and cultural events. [http://mideast.rutgers.edu]
The Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (Newark) [http://cghr.newark.rutgers.edu/]
Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR): An interdisciplinary research center focusing on the study of U.S. cities. Lectures and research opportunities. [www.policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/]
Center for Women and Work (CWW: An interdisciplinary group of faculty interested in issues relating to gender and work (constituent group of the Institute for Women's Leadership). [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cww/]
Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations: Opportunities for intellectual exchange and cooperation, as well as course offerings. [http://www.smlr.rutgers.edu]
The Eagleton Institute, Program on Immigration and Democracy group [http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/programs/immigration/index.php]
Institute for Hungarian Studies (IHS): A part of the CCES, the Center provides a home for Hungarian-related scholarly activities at Rutgers. Lecture series. [http://hi.rutgers.edu]
Institute for Research on Women (IRW): Promotes innovative scholarship on women and gender. Interdisciplinary seminars, lectures, symposia and conferences that bring together Rutgers researchers with top visiting scholars (constituent group of the Institute for Women’s Leadership). [http://irw.rutgers.edu]
Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (WISEM): A resource office serving women in science (including the social sciences; constituent group of the Institute for Women’s Leadership)
[http://sciencewomen.rutgers.edu/]
RU-FAIR: Advancing women through institutional change; focus on science (including social science), engineering and mathematics through programs, outreach, and research (NSF ADVANCE grant, RU FAIR, 2008-2013)
[http://rufair.rutgers.edu/]
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA): An interdisciplinary forum of historical scholarship at Rutgers . Fellowships, lecture series. [http://rcha.rutgers.edu]
Rutgers Global Initiative: The Global Initiative is a nascent faculty-driven collaborative initiative to promote global studies, international studies, and area studies at Rutgers. The initiative sponsors several working groups that bring together faculty and graduate students across different departments, units, and schools to conduct research on shared themes. The Global Initiative also serves as a clearinghouse for information about things global at Rutgers through our listserv, shared calendar of events, and meetings to share information. [http://ruafrica.rutgers.edu/global_initiative/index.html]
South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers: An interdisciplinary program at Rutgers involving faculty from many FAS departments. The program sponsors an annual conference with distinguished guest speakers. [http://southasia.rutgers.edu]
A Selection of Recent Faculty Publications
[Note: this is a partial listing. For a more complete listing of faculty publications, consult individual faculty webpages.]
Books in Print or Forthcoming (alphabetically by Rutgers faculty member):
József Böröcz, The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis (Routledge, 2009)
[http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/The-European-Union-and-Global-Social-Change-isbn9780415481021]
Ethel Brooks, Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work (Minnesota, 2007)
Patrick J. Carr, Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism (NYU Press, 2005)
Karen A. Cerulo, Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (Chicago, 2006)
Lee Clarke, Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination (Chicago, 2006) [http://worstcases.com]
Judith M. Gerson and Diane Wolf, eds., Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas (Duke, 2007)
Paul McLean, The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Duke, 2007)
Ann Mische, Partisan Publics: Multiple Networks and Communicative Styles in Brazilian Youth Politics (Princeton, 2007)
Karen O’Neill, Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control (Duke, 2006)
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World (Minnesota, 2010)
Thomas K. Rudel, Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late 20th Century (Columbia, 2005)
Articles and Book Chapters (alphabetically by Rutgers faculty member):
József Böröcz, “The Rise of China and the Changing World Income Distribution.” Chapter 5 (pp. 86-108) in Ho-fung Hung (ed.) China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Ethel Brooks, “The Ideal Sweatshop? Gender and Transnational Protest,” The Journal of International Labor and Working Class History 61 (Spring 2002) [Reprinted in Richard Greenwald and Daniel Bender, editors, Sweatshop USA (Routledge 2003)]
Patrick J. Carr, “The New Parochialism: Implications of the Beltway Case for Arguments Concerning Informal Social Control,” American Journal of Sociology 108(6): 1249-91 (2003)
Karen A. Cerulo, “Individualism Pro Tem: Reconsidering U.S. Social Relations,” in Karen Cerulo, editor, Culture In Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition, pp. 135-171 (Routledge, 2002)
Lee Clarke and Caron Chess, “Elites and Panic: More to Fear Than Fear Itself,” Social Forces 87(2): 993-1014.
Barbara Tempalski, Peter L. Flom, Samuel R Friedman, Don C. Des Jarlais, Judith J. Friedman, Courtney McKnight, and Risa Friedman, “Social and Political Factors Predicting the Presence of Syringe Exchange Programs in 96 Metropolitan Areas in the United States,” American Journal of Public Health 97 (3): 437-447 (2007)
Judith M. Gerson, “Family Matters: Jewish Masculinities among Nazi Era Refugees,” in Ben Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner, eds. Jewish Masculinities in Germany. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009
Catherine Lee, "The Value of Life in Death: Multiple Regression and Event History Analyses of Homicide Clearance in Los Angeles County,” Journal of Criminal Justice 33, 6:527-534 (2005)
Paul D. McLean, “Widening Access While Tightening Control: Office-Holding, Marriages and Elite Consolidation in Early Modern Poland,” Theory and Society 33:167-212 (2004)
Ann Mische, “Cross-Talk in Movements: Reconceiving the Culture-Network Link,” in Mario Diani and Doug McAdam, editors, Social Movement Analysis: The Network Perspective, pp. 258-80 (Oxford, 2003)
Julie A. Phillips and Megan M. Sweeney, “Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Disruption among White, Black and Mexican American Women,” Journal of Marriage and Family 67: 296-314 (2005)
Julie A. Phillips, “White, Black, and Latino Homicide Rates: Why the Difference?” Social Problems 39(3): 349-373 (2002)
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez. “(Dis)unity and Diversity in Post-9/11
America.” Sociological Forum 23: 379-389 (2008)
Patricia A. Roos and Mary L. Gatta, “Gender (In)Equity in the Academy: Subtle Mechanisms and the Production of Inequality,” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 27:177-200 (2009)
Patricia A. Roos, “Interconnecting Work and Family: Race and Class Differences in Women’s Work Status and Attitudes,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 37:103-120 (2009)
Thomas K. Rudel, “How Do People Transform Landscapes? A Sociological Perspective on Suburban Sprawl and Tropical Deforestation,” American Journal of Sociology 115,1 (July 2009): 129-54
Zakia Salime, “The ‘War on Terrorism:’ Appropriation and Subversion by Moroccan Women.” Signs: The Journal of Women in Society and Culture 33(1):1-24 (2007)
Zakia Salime, “Mobilizing Muslim Women in Africa: Multiple Voices, the Shari`a and the State,” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28(1):200-211 (2008)
D. R. Smith, “College Football and Student Quality: An Advertising Effect or Culture and Tradition?” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 68: 553-579 (2009)
D. R. Smith, “Big-Time College Basketball and the Advertising Effect: Does Success Really Matter?” Journal of Sports Economics 9:387-406 (2008)
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