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November 16, 2008

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Stephen Vaisey

Department of Sociology

University of California, Berkeley

410 Barrows Hall #1980

Berkeley, CA 94720-1980

vaisey (at) berkeley (dot) edu

 

Employment

 

2008-               Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

 

Education

 

2008                Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dissertation: Three Essays on Moral Culture

2004                MA in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thesis: “Overeducation in America, 1972-2002”

2001                BA in French (Literature) and BS in Sociology, Brigham Young University.

 

Principal Areas of Interest

 

  • The origins and consequences of different moral worldviews
  • Culture, cognition, and action theory
  • The culture of “Generation Y” (Millenials)
  • Statistical techniques for combinatorial and fuzzy-set analysis

 

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals1

 

Forthcoming    “Motivation and Justification: A Dual Process Model of Culture in Action.” American Journal of Sociology.

 

Forthcoming    “Unified Stratification Theory: Structure, Genome, and Status across Human Societies.” Sociological Theory. (Co-author, with Daniel Adkins.)

 

Forthcoming    “Parallel Public Spheres: Distance and Discourse in Letters to the Editor.” American Journal of Sociology. (Second author, with Andrew J. Perrin.)

 

Forthcoming    “Environmental Contingencies and Genetic Predispositions: Social Capital, Educational Continuation, and a Dopamine Receptor Polymorphism.” American Journal of Sociology. (Second author, with Michael J. Shanahan, Lance D. Erickson, and Andrew Smolen.)*

 

Forthcoming    “The Transformative Role of Religious Experience: The Case of Short Term Missions.” Social Forces. (Second author, with Jenny Trinitapoli.)

 

2008                “Control or Conviction? Objective and Subjective Religiosity and Adolescent Marijuana Use.” Journal of Drug Issues 38(3) (Co-author, with Kyle Longest.)

 

2008                “Socrates, Skinner, and Aristotle: Three Ways of Thinking about Culture in Action.” Sociological Forum 23(3):603-613.

 

2008                “Catholic Guilt among U.S. Adolescents—A Research Note.” Review of Religious Research 49(4):415-426. (First author, with Christian Smith.)

 

2008                “Fuzzy: A Program for Performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Stata.” Stata Journal. (Second author, with Kyle Longest.)*

 

2007                “Structure, Culture, and Community: The Search for Belonging in 50 Urban Communes.” American Sociological Review 72(6):851-873.*

      • Lead article

 

2007                “Helping Relationships and Genetic Propensities: A Combinatoric Study of DRD2, Mentoring, and Educational Continuation.” Twin Research and Human Genetics 10(2):285-298. (Third author, with Michael J. Shanahan, Lance D. Erickson, and Andrew Smolen.)*

 

2006                “Education and Its Discontents: Overqualification in America, 1972-2002.” Social Forces 85(2):835-864.

      • Summarized in “Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Research,” Contexts, Summer 2007.

 

2005                “Pathways to a Good Job: Perceived Work Quality among the Machinists.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 43:431-454. (Second author, with Arne L. Kalleberg.)*

 

Papers Under Review

 

“Position and Disposition: An Empirical Review of the Social Predictors of Human Values.” Revise and Resubmit to Social Forces. (Co-author with Kyle Longest and Steven Hitlin).

 

“Individualism Revisited: Moral Cultures and Civic Engagement.” Revise and Resubmit to Poetics. (Co-author, with Kraig Beyerlein.)

 

“Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition?” Revise and Resubmit to Social Forces. (Co-author, with Omar Lizardo.)

 

Book Reviews, Essays, and Other Publications

 

Forthcoming    Review of Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences, by Michael Smithson and Jay Verkuilen. Sociological Methods and Research.      

 

2009                “‘Biofantasy’ and Beyond: Genetics, Social Psychology, and Behavior.” Pp. 50-64 in Within the Social World: Essays in Social Psychology, edited by Jeffrey C. Chin and Cardell Jacobson. Pearson Education. (Third author, with Michael J. Shanahan and Scott M. Hofer.)

 

2007                “On Justification (and Motivation): A Dual-Process Model of Culture in Action.” Culture: Newsletter of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association 21(2):1-5.

 

2007                Review of Emerging Moral Vocabularies: The Creation and Establishment of New Forms of Moral and Ethical Meanings, by Brian M. Lowe. Contemporary Sociology 36(3):259-260.

 

2004                Review of Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution, by Jonathan H. Turner. Social Forces 83:432-3.

 

Conference Presentations

 

2008                “The Cultural Consequences of Modernity: Individualization, Rationalization, and Subjective Well-Being.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston. (Co-author, with Andrew Payton).

 

2007                “Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Formation? A Longitudinal Investigation.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York.

 

2006                “Whatever Works? Cultural Justification and Moral Motivation Among Young Americans.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Portland, OR.

 

2006                “Spiritual Capital in Urban Communes.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Portland, OR.

 

2006                “Talk in a Mediated Public: Letters to the Editor as Democratic Deliberation.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal. (Second author, with Andrew J. Perrin).

 

2006                “Can Reasons Be Causes?: Culture, Moral Languages, and Civic Engagement.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal. (Co-author, with Kraig Beyerlein).

 

2006                “Studying Environmental Contingency in Gene-Environment Interactions and Correlations.” NIMH Workshop on Gene-Environment Interactions and Developmental Psychopathology: Research Challenges and Opportunities (June 27-28), Washington, DC. (Second author, with Michael J. Shanahan and Lance D. Erickson).

 

2006                “Neurogenetic Polymorphisms and the Educational Career.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Behavioral Genetics Association (June 20-25), University of Connecticut. (Second author, with Michael J. Shanahan and Lance D. Erickson).

 

2006                “Linking System and Practice: A Dual Process Approach to Culture.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston.

 

2005                “The Moral Foundations of Social Capital: Evidence from 50 Urban Communes.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Rochester, NY.

 

2005                “College, Culture, and Class: The Declining Symbolic Value of a College Degree.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.

 

2004                “Overeducation in America, 1972-2002.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

 

Invited Presentations

 

2007                “Motivation and Justification: Toward a Dual Process Theory of Culture in Action.” Talk given at: Washington State University, University of Chicago, Indiana University, University of Michigan, UC Irvine, Cornell University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Kellogg School of Management.

 

2007                “Toward a Dual-Process Theory of Culture in Action.” Talk given at the 5th Annual Conference of the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology.

 

2006                “The Moral Worlds of American Youth: Consequences for the Transition to Adulthood.” Presentation given at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Royster Society of Fellows, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

2006                “Critical Realism and Cultural Sociology.” Talk given at the Center for Human Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

2005                “Moral Cultures and Moral Intuition.” Talk given at Brigham Young University.

 

2005                “The Foundations of Community: Evidence from 50 Urban Communes.” Talk given in the Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Awards and Distinctions

 

2007-2008       Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)

2007-2008       Howard W. Odum Award for Excellence (given yearly to most outstanding graduate student by the UNC Sociology faculty)

2006-2008       Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

2003-2006       National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2002-2008       Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster, Jr. Fellowship (Graduate School, UNC Chapel Hill)

 

Courses Taught

 

2008                Sociology of Culture (graduate), University of California, Berkeley

 

2008                Sociology of Culture (undergraduate), University of California, Berkeley

 

2008                Fuzzy-Set and Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Introduction and Applications (two-day short courses taught at Family Health International, University of Missouri, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame)

 

2003                Social Theory (classical and contemporary), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Professional Service

 

Editorial Board, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

 

Ad hoc reviewer: American Journal of Sociology (3), American Sociological Review (3), British Journal of Sociology (1), Contemporary Sociology (1), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2), Organization Science (1), Review of Religious Research (2), Social Forces (4), Sociological Methods and Research (1), Sociological Theory (1)

 

1 * = paper uses fuzzy-set or Qualitative Comparative Analysis; “forthcoming” = conditionally accepted, accepted, or in press. setstats