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Paul Allison

University of Pennsylvania.  Titles include
"Multiple Imputation for Missing Data: A Cautionary Tale";
"Fixed Effects Methods for Non-Repeated Events";  and
"Fixed-Effects Negative Binomial Regression Models."

 

Howard Aldrich

University of North Carolina.   Titles include
"Can't Buy Me Love (But I Know Where You Can Rent It): The Emerging Organizational Community Around Web-based Application Service Providers";
"The Organizational Advantage? Social Capital, Gender, and Small Business Owners' Access to Resources";
"Many are Called, but Few are Chosen: An Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Entrepreneurship";
"Responses to Dependence: How Dependence on Key Employees Affects Employment Practices in Entrepreneurial Firms";
"Its Up in the Air: Using a Classroom Simulation to Teach the Sociological Imagination";  and
"The Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer's McDonaldization Thesis to Teach Weber."

 

Rebecca Blank

Joint Center for Poverty Research.  Titles include
"What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?" (2000);  and
"Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families" (1999).

 

Michael Burawoy

University of California, Berkeley. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Titles include
"The Great Involution: Russia's Response to the Market";
"Domestic Involution: How Women Organize Survival in a North Russian City";
"Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism";
"Neoclassical Sociology: From the End of Communism to the End of Classes";
"Sociological Marxism";  and
"Transition without Transformation: Russia's Descent into Capitalism."

 

Edmund Chattoe

University of Oxford.  Scroll to the middle of the page.   Titles include
"The Role of Agent-Based Modeling in Demographic Explanation";
"Good Times and Old Clothes: The Importance of Time Planning and Time Use in Consumption";  and
"A Co-Evolutionary Simulation of Multi-Branch Enterprises."

 

Norbert Elias and Process Sociology

University of Sydney. A shared space of different authors' papers. Topics include the civilizing process, cultural genocide, regime change in the Netherlands, and the sociology of regimes.

 

Kieran Healy

University of Arizona.  Titles include

"Sacred Markets and Secular Ritual in the Organ Transplant Industry";  and
"The Ecology of Open-Source Software Development."

 

Michael Hout

University of Berkeley.  Titles include
"Educational Progress for African Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950's to the 1990's: The Interaction of Ancestry and Class."

 

Michael Kearl

Department of Sociology, Trinity University.   Essay categories include
Sociology of Death and Dying;
A Sociological Social Psychology;
Social Gerontology;
Social Inequality;
Gender & Society;
Race & Ethnicity;  and
Sociology of Knowledge.

 

John Padgette

University of Chicago. Titles include

"Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence," (2005).

 

Howard Richards

Earlham College.  Book titles include
"Understanding the Global Economy";  and
"Dilemmas of Social Democracies."

Jason Rutter   

Center for Research on Innovation and Competition. Titles include

“The Gendering of Computer Gaming: Experience and Space” (2003);
"Killing Like a Girl: Gendered Gaming and Girl Gamers’ Visibility" (2003);
"Ethnographic Presence in Nebulous Settings: A Case Study" (2000);  and
"Presenting the Off-line Self in an Everyday, Online Environment" (1999).

 

Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu, and Xun Wang

The global social reports located on this site include "Major demographic trends," which are a summary of the main demographic trends of the past several decades and changes in population size, population growth, infant mortality rates, age distributions;  "Major social trends," which are a summary of  the main socio-demographic trends of the past several decades and changes in urbanization, education and ethnolinguistic fractionalization;  and "Major political trends," which are a summary of the trends in freedom and conflict of the past several decades and changes in political governance, freedom, armed conflict, refugees and terrorism.

 

Alois Stutzer

University of Zurich.  Titles include

"The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being, (2001);
"Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?" (2003);

"Testing Theories of Happiness" (2003);

"Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility" (2002);

"Stock Options: The Managers' Blessing, Institutional Restrictions and Executive Compensation" (2001);
"Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox. Institute for Empirical Research in Economics" (2003);  and
"Reported Subjective Well-Being: A Challenge for Economic Theory and Economic Policy" (2003).

 

Loic Wacquant

University of California, Berkeley.  Titles include
"The Penalization of Poverty and the Rise of Neoliberalism";
"Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Meh";
"Busy Louie in the Ring: A Sociologist Among Prizefighters";
"Whores, Slaves, and Stallions: Languages of Exploitation and Accommodation Among Professional Fighters";
"From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: Rethinking the ‘Race Question’ in the United States";
"Ghetto, banlieue, favela: tools for rethinking urban marginality";
"Taking Bourdieu into the Field";
"Neoliberal Newspeak";  and
"The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration."

 

Barry Wellman

University of Toronto.   Titles include
"Changing Connectivity: A Future History of Y2.03K";
"Computer Networks As Social Networks";
"Computer Networks as Social Networks: Virtual Community, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Telework";
"Designing the Internet for a Networked Society";
"Examining the Internet in Everyday Life";
"How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital";
"Living Networked On and Off Line";
"Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Community as Community";
"The Persistence and Transformation of Community: From Neighborhood Groups to Social Networks";
"Studying Online Social Networks";  and
"The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World."

Herman van de Werfhorst

University of Amsterdam.  Titles include
"Fields of Study, Acquired Skills, and the Wage Benefit from a Matching Job";
"A Detailed Examination of the Role of Education in Social Class Mobility";
"Social Class, Ability, and Choice of Subject in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Britain";
"Social Background, Credential Inflation, and Educational Strategies";
"The Sources of Political Orientations in Post-Industrial Society: Social Class and Education Revisited"; 
"Trends in the Effects of Education on Occupational Outcome 1972-2000. Differences across Measurements and across Time Periods" (2004);  and
"Systems of Educational Specialization and Labor Market Outcomes in Norway, Australia, and the Netherlands."

 

Meir Yaish

University of Haifa.  Titles include
"Alchemies of Altruism."

Departments of Sociology

Lancaster University

Papers fall under the following topics: computer supported cooperative work;  consumption;  conversational analysis;  disability;    economic sociology;  ethnicity,  identity, migration;  ethnomethodology;  feminist theory;  globalization;  health and medicine;  higher education;  mobility;  new reproductive technologies;  organization theory;  political economy;  political philosophy representation;  science, technology and society;  social theory;  spatiality;  state theory;  work and technology.

 

Notre Dame

Papers begin in 1999. Topics vary, but religion, civil disorder, and feminism are general themes.

 

Oxford

Divorce in the UK, students as rational decision makers, meritocracy and occupational merit, ethnic differences in the labor market, class analysis, and socio-political values, and the mafia are topics considered on this site.

 

Rutgers, Dept. of Sociology for Undergraduates

This site is devoted to student papers and the overall theme of sociological Internet.

 

University of Surrey

Papers with the theme of distributed artificial intelligence simulation of budgetary decision making.

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