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- The Department of Sociology at
Cal State LA is active in professional activities. These include
publications as well as presentations at sociology conferences. A
representative listing of professional activities for each faculty
member is included below.
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Mohammed Abdelhamid
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(With Philip Corrado and Harold
Gottlieb), "The Effect of Biofeedback and Relaxation Training on
Anxiety and Somatic Complaints in Chronic Pain Patients." The
American Journal of Pain Management, 2003.
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(With Philip Corrado, Harold
Gottlieb, and Clayton Varga), "The Effect of Intrathecal Morphine
Infusion on Pain Level and Disability in Pain Patients with Chronic
Intractable Low Back Pain." The American Journal of Pain
Management, 2000.
Cristina
Bodinger-deUriarte
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Ethical Issues &
Contracted Dilemas in Applied Research. (PSA): Portland 2008.
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“The Cryptomnesia of Mark Mothersbaugh:
Beautiful Mutants in Einfall and Shadow” in Beautiful Mutants by
Mark Mothersbaugh. Grand Central Press. (sociology of art analytic
essay--sole essay in the book). 2007
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Doing Social Research Instructor’s
Manual. Rowman & Littlefield (114 pages). 2007
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“Harry Potter & the Question of
Merit“ Contexts Vol 5:3 Summer (pp 67-69) 2006
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A Sociological Reading of Harry Potter: False
Consciousness among House Elves. (PSA): Hollywood. 2006.
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Diversity Disconnects: From Newsroom to
Classroom (with journalists M. L. deUriarte and J. L. Benevides). Ford
Foundation grant-funded, 101-page monograph with national
distribution--(adopted text by Columbia School of Journalism) 2003.
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"Addressing Diversity Disconnects," one of
three guest speakers invited by the National Press Cub, Washington DC
and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 2003.
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Hate Crime: Sourcebook for Schools.
Philadelphia: RBI. (with Hispanic Health Center Manager, A.
Sancho). It won the Rising Star Book Award from the national
Council for Education Development & Research. 1992

Bradley Campbell
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Campbell, Bradley. Forthcoming.
"Genocide as Predation." International
Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.
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Campbell, Bradley. 2011. "Genocide as a
Matter of Degree." British
Journal of Sociology 62(4): 586-612.
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Campbell, Bradley. 2011. "Plea
Bargaining." Pages 187-199 in Courts, Law, and Justice, edited
by William Chambliss. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
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Campbell, Bradley. 2010. "Contradictory
Behavior During Genocides."
Sociological Forum 25(2): 296-314.
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Campbell, Bradley. 2009. "Genocide as Social
Control." Sociological
Theory 27(2): 150-172.

Elaine Draper
o The
Company Doctor: Risk, Responsibility, and
Corporate Professionalism. New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 2003; 2005
paperback edition.
o Risky
Business: Genetic Testing and Exclusionary
Practices in the Hazardous Workplace.
New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1991; recipient of the Robert K. Merton Book Award,
American
Sociological Association, Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and
Technology; the Phi
Kappa Phi Honor Society Book Award; and the C. Wright Mills Book Award
Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
o “Lawyers
and the Professional Project.” Law and Society Association
Annual Meeting, Honolulu
(June 2012).
o “Cultivating
Professionalism in a World of Divided Loyalties.” Pacific
Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, San
Diego
(March 2012).
o “Occupational
Health Nursing and the Quest for
Professional Authority” (with Joseph LaDou and Dan J.
Tennenhouse). New
Solutions 21 No. 1 (March 2011):57-88.
o “Review
of Generations of Exclusion by Edward
Telles and Vilma Ortiz, Police
Interrogation and
American Justice by
Richard Leo, and The Permanent Tax Revolt by Isaac
Martin.” Pacific
Sociologist 17 No.
2 (June 2009).
o “Difficult
Reputations and the Social Reality of Occupational
Medicine.” New
Solutions 18 No. 3 (September 2008):299-316.
- “Review
of Deflecting Immigration by Ivan Light, Differences
That Matter by Dan Zuberi, and Just Don’t Get
Sick by Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman.” Pacific Sociologist No. 2 (May 2008).
o “Walking the Tightrope of Conflicting
Loyalties: The Dilemmas of The Company Doctor.” ACOEM
eNews
(January 2007).
o “Reproductive
Hazards and Fetal Exclusion Policies After Johnson Controls.”
Stanford
Law and Policy Review 12 (Winter 2001):117-142.
o “Competing
Conceptions of Safety: High-Risk Workers or High-Risk
Work?” In Illness
and the Environment, edited by Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, and
Valerie
J. Gunter. New York: New YorkUniversity Press, 2000.
o “Genetic
Secrets: Social Issues of Medical
Screening in a Genetic Age.” In Life
Choices: A Hastings Center Introduction
to Bioethics (second edition), edited by Joseph H. Howell and
William
Frederick Sale. Baltimore, Maryland: Georgetown
University Press, 2000.
o “Preventive
Law by Corporate Professional Team Players: Liability and
Responsibility
in the Work of Company Doctors.” Journal of
Contemporary Health Law
and Policy 15 (Spring 1999):525-607.
o “The
Screening of America: The Social and Legal
Framework of Employers’
Use of Genetic Information.” Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
20 (Fall 1999):286-324.
o “Deviance
and Conformity in the Work of Company
Doctors.” Research in
the Sociology of Work 8 (1999):39-72.
o “Science
and Technology.” Contributing Editor
of Special Issue of International Journal of Sociology and
Social Policy 18 Nos. 5/6 (1998).

Louis
Edgar
Esparza
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“Grassroots Human
Rights Activism in Contemporary Colombia” Winner of the 2010
Latin American Studies Association Martin Diskin Outstanding
Dissertation Award. Honorable Mention, Peace & Justice Studies
Association 2011 Dissertation Award. Finalist, 2011 American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Outstanding Dissertation
Award.
- Shandra, John, Louis Edgar Esparza & Bruce London.
Accepted. “Non-Governmental Organizations, Democracy, and
Deforestation: A Cross-National Analysis” Society & Natural
Resources.
- Esparza, Louis Edgar. 2011. “Ensuring Economic
& Social Rights in the US Constitution” in Sociology and
Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-first Century by Judith
Blau and Mark Frezzo (eds). Pine Forge. Pp. 35 -56.
- “The Medium is Not the Message: Political Grievance
in the Information Age” w/ Haider Khan. International Studies
Association. 3 April 2012.
“The Rise and Fall of the ‘Little Red Book’ in
Colombia.” American Sociological Association CBSM Panel. Las
Vegas, NV. August 2011.

Gabriela
Fried
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“Collective Memories of the Trauma of
Political Disappearance: Reflections on the Case of the Disappeared
Political Detainees in the Aftermath of Uruguay’s State Terror
(1985-2001).” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, New York, (August 2007)
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“Piecing Memories
Together. The Female Political Prisoners’ Testimonial Project
after State Terror and Policies of Oblivion in Uruguay
(1997-2004).” Special Issue of Social Identities,
“Emerging Subjectivities Under Neo-liberal Global
Capitalism” (September 2006)
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“The Traumatic
Memories of the Disappeared and the Paradoxes of Transitional Politics
of Memory and Oblivion in Uruguay (1973-2001),” Patricia
Schiaffini (ed.) Oldenborg Center for International Relations
Working Paper Series (May 2006)
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“Memorias que insisten: La
intersubjetividad de la Memoria y los Hijos de Detenidos Desaparecidos
por la Dictadura Militar Argentina (1976-1983).” in Flier and
Groppo (eds). La Imposibilidad del Olvido: Recorridos de la memoria
en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (August
2001)

Roseann
Giarrusso
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Silverstein, M. and
Giarrusso, R. (Eds.). (Forthcoming) From Generation to Generation:
Continuities and Discontinuities in Intergenerational Relationships.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Silverstein, M.,
Giarrusso, R., and Lendon, J. (Forthcoming). Ethnic and Cultural
Diversity in Aging Families: Implications for Resource Allocation and
Well-Being Across Generations. Handbook of Families and
Aging, 2nd Edition, Santa Barbara CA: Greenwood.
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Silverstein, M., &
Giarrusso, R. (2011). Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies:
Micro–Meso–Macro Linkages in the Life Course. Handbook of the
Sociology of Aging. New York:
Springer.
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Silverstein, M., Gans, D., Lowenstein, A.,
Giarrusso R., & Bengtson, V. L. (2010). Older parent-child
relationships in six nations: The intersection of affection and
conflict. Journal of Marriage and Family,
72:
1006–1021.
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Silverstein, M. & Giarrusso, G. (2010).
Aging and family life (Decade Review). Journal of Marriage and
Family 72,
1039–1058.
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The
Sociology Writing Group. (2008). R. Giarrusso (ed.). A Guide
to Writing Sociology Papers. 6th edition. New York:
Worth Publishers.

Lawrence K. Hong,
Professor Emeritus
- "Hidden
Treasures of Little Tokyo, Eye-Ai, May 2007.
(with R. Duff),
"The Costs of Going Global: The Cases of Shanghai and Bangkok." Proteus:
A Journal of Ideas, Spring 2006.
(with M. Hong),
"Shanghai's Lilong and Longtang: Through the Eyes of a Sociologist."
Asian Profile, vol. 34(3), June, 2006.
(with R. Duff),
"Transgenderism in Cabaret and Culture: From Bangkok to Las
Vegas." Popular Culture Review, August, 2004.
(with
R. Duff), “Modulated Participant-Observation: Managing the
Dilemma of Distance in Field Research.” Field Methods, 14(2),
May 2002.

Terry
R. Kandal, Professor Emeritus
- "From
Egalitarian Sexual Ethics to Gender Politics? An Evaluation of Michels'
Contribution," Introduction written for Sexual Ethics: A Study of
Borderland Questions [1914] by Robert Michels, Transaction Books,
2002.
- "Gender, Race
& Ethnicity: Let's Not Forget Class" in Race, Sex &Class in
the World Cultures: An Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Journal,
Winter 1995.
- Introduction to
"Teaching Sociology in the CSU: Its Attractions, Constraints, and
Values," Special Issue of California Sociologist, Winter/Summer
1993.
- Co-editor, Studies
of Development and Change in the Modern World, Oxford University
Press, 1989.
- The Woman
Question in Classical Sociological Theory, University Press of
Florida, 1988.

Delos
Kelly, Professor Emeritus
Books:
- 2003
Deviant Behavior, Sixth Edition (Worth Publishers)
- 1980
and 1990 Criminal Behavior (St. Martin's Press)
- 1978
Delinquent Behavior (Dickenson)
- 1980
Critical Issues in Juvenile Delinquency (with D. Shichor)
- How
the School Manufactures "Misfits"
- Creating
School Failure, Youth Crime, and Deviance
- The
Organizational Creation of Deviance
Some
representative articles include:
- "Seriousness
of Delinquent Behavior: An Alternative Perspective," The British
Journal of Criminology (1970)
"School Failure,
Academic Self-Evaluation, and School Avoidance and Deviant Behavior,"
Youth and Society (1971)
- "Social
Origins and School Failure: A Re-examination of Cohen's Theory of
Working-Class Delinquency," Pacific Sociological Review (1971) (With R.
Balch);
- "School
Commitment and Student Career Flows," Youth and Society (1971);
- "Social
Origins and Adolescent Success Patterns," Education and Urban Society
(1972)
- "Academic
Failure, Social Involvement, and High School Dropout," Youth and
Society (1972) (With W. Pink)
- "Social
Origins, School Status, and the Learning Experience: A
Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Two Competing Viewpoints,"
Pacific Sociological Review (1972) (With W. Pink)
- "School
Commitment, Youth Rebellion, and Delinquency," Criminology (1973) (W.
Pink)
- "Track
Assignment and Student Mobility Patterns as Barriers to Equality of
Educational Opportunity: A Review of Recent Research,"
Contemporary Education (1973)
- "High
School Dropout: A Longitudinal Analysis of Post-School Career
Flows," Contemporary Education (1974) (With W. Pink)
- "Reactions
to Deviance in a Junior High School: Student Views of the
Labeling Process," Instructional Psychology (1974) (With R. Balch)
- "Track
Position and Delinquent Involvement: A Preliminary Analysis,"
Sociology and Social Research (1974)
- "Student
Perceptions, Self-Concept, and Curriculum Assignment," Urban Education
(1974)
- "Status
Origins, Track Position, and Delinquent Involvement: A
Self-Report Analysis," The Sociological Quarterly (1975)
- "Tracking
and Its Impact Upon Self-Esteem: A Neglected Dimension,"
Education (1975)
- "Status
Origins, Youth Rebellion, and Delinquency: A Re-examination of
the Class Issue," Journal of Youth and Adolescence (1975) (With W.
Pink)
- "Track
Position, School Misconduct, and Youth Deviance: A Test of the
Interpretive Effect of School Commitment," Urban Education (1976)
- "Analysis
of the Expected Correlates of Curriculum Assignment Patterns in a High
School," Contemporary Education (1976)
- "Comparing
College-Bound and Non-College-Bound Students in Terms of Deviant
Behavior," College Student Journal (1976)
- "The
Role of Teachers' Nominations in the Perpetuation of Deviant Adolescent
Patterns," Education (1976)
- "The
Effectiveness of a Rural Group Home for Boys: A Descriptive
Analysis," Juvenile Justice (1977)
- "Labeling
and the Consequences of Wearing a Delinquent Label in a School
Setting," Education (1977)
- "Conceptions,
Diagnostic Stereotypes and the Processing of Delinquents," National
Council of Crime and Delinquency's Volume on School Crime (1977)
- "Conceptions,
Definitions, and the Measurement of Delinquency and Delinquent
Involvement," in Delinquent Behavior (1978)
- "Track
Position, Peer Affiliation, and Youth Crime," Urban Education (1978)
- "School
Failure and Delinquency: Which Causes Which," Criminology (1979)
(With J. Phillips)
- "The
Educational Experience and Evolving Delinquent Careers: A
Neglected Institutional Link," in Critical Issues in Juvenile
Delinquency (1978)
 Hyojoung Kim
-
(with Steven Pfaff) “Structure and
Dynamics of Religious Insurgency: Students and the Spread of the
Reformation.” American Sociological Review. 2012
(forthcoming).
-
(with Namhee Lee) “Establishing the
Korean Language and Culture Program at California State University, Los
Angeles.” Grant ($760,000) awarded by Korean Education Center of
Los Angeles to establish minor, major and teaching credential programs
in Korean. Grant Period: 2010-16.
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(with June H. Sun) “‘Umma Mak Dae
Gi!’: Parenting Styles and Intergenerational Sexual Socialization
Among Second-Generation Korean Americans.” Studies of
Koreans Abroad 21 (2010): 191-241.
-
(with Eui-Young Yu, Kyeyoung Park, and
Moonsong Oh) (eds.) Korean American Economy and Community in the
21st Century. Los Angeles, CA: Korean American
Economic Development Center. 2009.
-
(with Changung Park). Confucian Values
and Their Correlates in Contemporary Korea: The Final
Report and Source Book of the National Survey of Confucian Values in
Korea. Asia Research Fund (Seoul, Korea) and the Center for
Korean American and Korean Studies (Los Angeles, CA). 2009.
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“Micromobilization and Suicide Protest
in South Korea, 1970-2004.” Social Research: 75
(2008): 543-578.
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Korean American Identities: A Look Forward. Seattle, WA: Seattle-Washington State Korean
American Association. 2005.
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(with Steven Pfaff) “Exit-Voice Dynamics
in Collective Action: An Analysis of Emigration and Protest in the East
German Revolution.” American Journal of Sociology 109
(2006): 401-444; recipient of the American Sociological
Association’s Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section
Award for the First Place Winner of 2004 Best Article Competition.
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(with
Peter S. Bearman) “The Structure and Dynamics of Movement
Participation.” American Sociological Review
62 (1997):70-93.

Janet
Lever
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Since 2002, Dr. Lever
contributes to annual surveys
posted on msnbc.com and elle.com--topics include: Office Sex and
Romance; Sex and Body Image; CyberSex and Romance; Gender, Work and
Power; Love, Lust and Loyalty; and Gender and Money. Her students are
exposed to survey development and analysis at all stages.
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Soccer Madness: Brazil's
Passion for the World's
Most Popular Sport, Waveland, 1995, and with new third preface,
2009.
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(with Kim M. Elsesser)(2011)
Does gender bias against
female leaders persist? Quantitative and qualitative data from a
large-scale survey? Human Relations 64: 1555-1578.
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(With C.Grov, B.J. Gillespie,
and Tracy Royce), (2010).
Consequences of Casual Online Sexual Activities on Committed
Relationships: Quantitative and Qualitative Results from a National
Online Survey. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(2): 429-39.
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(With D. E. Kanouse and S. H.
Berry), "Racial and
Ethnic Segmentation of Female Prostitutes in Los Angeles County,"
Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 2005. "Sex Differences in
the Games Children Play," Social Problems, July 1976.

- Sharon
Oselin
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Oselin, Sharon S. (Forthcoming).
“Exiting Street Prostitution: A Combination of Internal and
External Factors.” In Deviance Today, edited by Alex
Thio, Thomas Calhoun, & Addrain Conyers. Boston, MA: Pearson.
- Cobbina,
Jennifer and Sharon S. Oselin. 2011. “It’s Not Only for the
Money: An Analysis of Adolescent versus Adult Entry into Street
Prostitution” Sociological Inquiry 81(3): 1-24.
- Oselin,
Sharon S. 2011. “Prostitution.” In Key Issues in Crime
and Punishment Series (Volume I), edited by William Chambliss.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Oselin,
Sharon S. 2010. “Weighing the Consequences of a Deviant Career:
Motivations and Opportunities for Leaving Prostitution.” Sociological
Perspectives 53(4): 527-549.
- Oselin,
Sharon S. and Catherine Corrigall-Brown. 2010. “A Battle for
Authenticity: An Examination of the Constraints on Anti-Iraq War and
Pro-Invasion Tactics.” Mobilization 15(4): 511-533.
- Gretchen Peterson
Peterson,
Gretchen. 2012. “The Generalized Exchange of
Punishments in Adult Recreational Softball: The Case of ‘Going
Middle’.” Current Research in Social Psychology,
19(3):25-34. http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp19_3.pdf
- Peterson,
Gretchen. 2006. “Cultural Theory and
Emotions.” Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions.
New York: Springer.
-
(With Linda Molm
and Nobuyuki Takahashi), "In The Eye Of The Beholder: Procedural
Justice In Social Exchange." American Sociological Review,
February 2003.
-
(With Linda Molm
and Nobuyuki Takahashi), "The Value of Social Exchange," Social
Forces, 2001.
-
(With Linda Molm
and Nobuyuki Takahashi), "Risk and Trust in Social Exchange: An
Experimental Test of a Classical Proposition," American Journal of
Sociology, 2000.

Jon Snodgrass
Books
- Peace
Knights of the Soul: Wisdom in ‘Star Wars,’ 2004.
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Follow Your Career Star: Career Quest Based on
Inner Values, 1996.
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The Jack-Roller at Seventy: A Fifty Year
Follow-up of ‘A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story,’ 1982
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For Men Against Sexism: A Book of Readings, 1976
Recent Articles available
for free download at: http://www.scribd.com/jon%20snodgrass
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“How to Pick a Satisfying Career”
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“On Becoming a Jedi Knight”
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“Spiritual Psychology and
Psychotherapy”
-
“Psychological Healing in ACIM”
-
“Freud’s Counter Transference"

Molly
Talcott
-
2011. New
Directions in Feminism and Human Rights (co-edited with Dana Collins,
Sylvanna Falcón, and Sharmila Lodhia). New York and
London: Routledge. Originally published as a special double issue of
the International Feminist journal of Politics (2010), Volume 12,
Issues 3 & 4.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415610308/ http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfjp20/12/3-4
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2011.
“Interconnections and Configurations: Toward a Global Feminist
Ethnography” (co-authored with Kum-Kum Bhavnani), in The Handbook
of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (2nd edition). Edited by
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book234499/toc
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2011. “‘A New
Language that Speaks of Change Just As It Steps Toward It’:
Transnationalism, Erotic Justice, and Queer Human Rights Praxis”
(co-authored with Dana Collins). Sociology Compass, 5 (7):
576-590.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00386.x/abstract
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2010. “As
Neoliberal Crises Persist, Indigenous-led Movements Resist: Examining
the current social and political-economic conjuncture in Southern
Mexico.” Pp. 131-148 in Richard A. Dello Buono and David
Fasenfest (eds.), Social Change, Resistance, and Social
Practices. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers.
http://www.brill.nl/social-change-resistance-and-social-practices
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2004. “Gendered
Webs of Development and Resistance: Women, Children, and Flowers in
Bogotá.”Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society
29 (2): 465-489. http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/378107

Ron
Tsukashima
-
“Ethnic-Collective
Action, Inter-group Competition and Social Networks: Formation of
Ethnic-Trade Guilds,” Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 30
No. 5 September 2007 pp.845-874.

Gunnar
Valgeirsson
- (With Thorolfur Thorlindsson
and Runar Vilhjalmsson),
“Sport Participation and Perceived Health Status: A Study of
American Adolescents,” Social Science in Medicine,
1990.
- (WithEldon Snyder) “A Cross-Cultural
Comparison of
Newspaper Sports Sections: A Content Analysis,” International
Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1986.
-
“On the Sociology of
Sport & the Participation of Women in Sports,” Samfelagstidindi,
1984.

K.
William Wasson
- (With Nadine Koch), The
Transfer Student's Guide to
the College Experience, Houghton-Mifflin, Spring 2002.

Eui-Young Yu,
Professor Emeritus
- “Koreans:
Entrepreneurs par Excellence,” in Eric Lai & Dennis
Arguelles, eds., The New Face of Asian Pacific
- America: Numbers, Diversity &
Change in the 21st Century
, 2003.
-
“Korean Dreamers Celebrate
Their Centennial History,” in Pyong Yong Min, ed., Korean
Centennial: 1903-2003, 2003.
-
(With Peter Choe and Sang-il Han), “Korean
Population in the United States, 2000: Demographic
Characteristics and Socio-Economic Status,” International
Journal of Korean Studies, 2002.

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