Recent Faculty Publications

Forthcoming
Cassino, Daniel R. and Yasemin Besen. Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding and Youth Vote in America. Associated University Presses, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: New Jersey.


2009
Martin, George. 2009. "The Global Intensification of Motorization and Its Impacts on Urban Social Ecologies." in J. Conley & A. Mclaren, eds., Car Troubles. Ashgate.


2008
Kimmel, Michael S. and Yasemin Besen. 2008. The Jessie Bernard Reader. Paradigm Publishers: CO.

Besen, Yasemin. 2008. "Work as an alternative to School? Confidence in the Education System and Youth's Labor Market Entry Decisions." Education & Society 26(1).

Besen, Yasemin. 2008. "Cost of Being a Girl: Gender Wage Differentials in Teenage Employment." National Women's Studies Association Journal (NWSAJ) 20(1).

Rule, James B. and Yasemin Besen. 2008. "The Once and Future Information Society." Theory & Society 37(1).

Besen, Yasemin. 2008. "The Study of Youth Labor: Shift toward a Subject-centered Approach."
Sociology Compass 1(1).

Hadis, Benjamin. 2008. "El Mensaja Del Terror" in Los Laberintos de la Violencia. Edited by Leticia Glocer Fiorini. Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina & Lugar Editorial, Buenos Aires.

Martin, George and Peter Freund. 2008. "Fast Cars/Fast Foods: Hyperconsumption and its Health and Environmental Consequences." Social Theory and Health 6: 309-22

Martin, George. 2008. "All Climate Change is Local." UGEC Viewpoints 1: 14-17

Vermeylen, Saskia, George Martin, and Roland Clift. 2008. "Intellectual Property Rights Systems and the 'Assemblage' of Local Knowledge Systems." International Journal of Cultural Property 15: 201-21

Ruane, Janet M. and Karen Cerulo. 2008. "Second Thoughts on Presidential Politics." Sociological Forum 23(1)

Ruane, Janet M. 2008. "Social Control" In Vincent Parrillo (Ed) Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Sage Publications.

Ruane, Janet M. and Karen Cerulo. 2008. Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye (4th ed.). Pine Forge.

Carl W. Roberts, Cornelia Zuell, Juliane Landmann, and Yong Wang. 2008. "Modality Analysis: A Semantic Grammar for Imputations of Intentionality in Texts." Quality & Quantity 42.

Wang, Yong. 2008. "Agency: the Internal Split of Structure." Sociological Forum, 23(3).

Wang, Yong. 2008. "From the Sublime to the Obscene: Modalities of Totalitarianism and Jouissance." American Journal of Semiotics: Special Issue on Chinese Semiotics.


2007
Besen, Yasemin and Gilbert Zicklin. 2007. "Young Men, Religion and Attitudes towards Homosexuality." Journal of Men Masculinities and Spirituality 1(3).

Besen, Yasemin. 2007. "Young Men, Masculinities and Spirituality: An Introduction to the Special Issue of JMMS." Journal of Men Masculinities and Spirituality 1(3).

Besen, Yasemin. 2007. "Men at Work." Equal Opportunities International 26(3).

Freund, Peter and George Martin. 2007. "Hyperautomobility, the Social Organization of Space, and Health." Mobilities 2:37-49.

Martin, George. 2007. "Global Motorization, Social Ecology and China." Area 39:66-73.

Wang, Yong. 2007. "The Homosexual Subject: Coming Out as a Political Act." Journal of Man, Masculinity and Spirituality. 1(3).

2006
Besen, Yasemin. 2006. "Pay or Play? Labor Market Entry Decisions of Youth in the United States." Regional Labor Review 9(3).

Besen, Yasemin and Michael S. Kimmel. 2006. "At Sam's Club, No Girls Allowed: The Lived Experience of Sex Discrimination at Work." Equal Opportunities International 25(3).

Besen, Yasemin. 2006. "Fun or Exploitation: The Lived Experience of Work in Suburban America." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(3).

Wang, Yong. & Carl W. Roberts. 2006. "Schadenfreude: A Case Study of Emotion as Situated Discursive Display." Comparative Sociology. 2006, 5(1): 45-63.

2005
Besen, Yasemin. 2005. "Consumption of Production: Part-Time Student Employment in Suburban United States." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 49(1).

Besen, Yasemin. 2005. "It's Not like a Job: A Study of Part-Time Youth Labor in Suburban America." Contexts 3(4).

Hadis, Benjamin, 2005. "Why Are They Better Students When They Come Back? Determinants of Academic Focusing Gains in the Study Abroad Experience." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 11.

Hadis, Benjamin, 2005. "Gauging the Impact of Study Abroad: How to Overcome the Limitations of a Singe-Cell Design." Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 30(1).

Martin, George. 2005. "The Global Diffusion of Motorized Urban Sprawl: Implications for China and Shanghai," pp. 122-29 in H. Feng, L. Yu & W. Solecki, eds. Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change, Science Press, 2005.

Martin, George and Saskia Vermeylen. 2005. "Intellectual Property, Indigenous Knowledge, and Biodiversity," Capitalism Nature Socialism 16:273-86.

Ruane, Janet M. 2005. Essentials of Research Methods: A Guide to Social Science Research. Wiley-Blackwell

Wang, Yong. & Carl W. Roberts. 2005. "Actantial Analysis: Greimas's Structural Approach to the Analysis of Self-Narratives." Narrative Inquiry 15(1): 51-74.


2004
Ruane, Janet M and Karen A. Cerulo. Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye. Third Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press

Bird, Sharon, Jacquelyn Litt, and Yong Wang. 2004. "Creating Status of Women Reports: Institutional Housekeeping as 'Women's Work'." The National Women's Studies Association Journal, 16(1).