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Stephen Vaisey
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall #1980
Employment
2008-
Assistant Professor of Sociology,
2008-
Faculty Affiliate, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
Education
2008
Ph.D. in Sociology,
2004
MA in Sociology,
2001
BA in French (Literature) and BS in Sociology, Brigham Young University.
Principal Areas of
Interest
Published Articles
2010 “What
People Want: Rethinking Poverty, Culture, and Educational Attainment.” Annals
of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. (Forthcoming.)
“Can
Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition?” Social Forces.
(Co-authored with Omar Lizardo; forthcoming.)
2009
“Motivation and Justification: A Dual-Process Model of Culture in Action.” American Journal of Sociology
114(6): 1675-1715.
“Unified Stratification Theory: Structure, Genome, and Status across Human
Societies.” Sociological Theory
27(2): 99-121. (Co-authored with Daniel Adkins.)
“The Transformative Role of Religious Experience: The Case of Short Term
Missions.” Social Forces.
(Second author, with Jenny Trinitapoli; forthcoming in September issue.)
2008
“Parallel Public Spheres: Distance and Discourse in Letters to the Editor.” American Journal of Sociology
114(3): 781-810. (Second author, with Andrew J. Perrin.)
“Environmental Contingencies and Genetic Predispositions: Social Capital,
Educational Continuation, and a Dopamine Receptor Polymorphism.” American Journal of Sociology
114(S1): S260-S286.
(Second author, with Michael J. Shanahan, Lance D. Erickson, and Andrew
Smolen.)
“Control or Conviction? Objective and Subjective Religiosity and Adolescent
Marijuana Use.” Journal of Drug
Issues 38(3): 689-715 (Co-authored with Kyle Longest.)
“Socrates, Skinner, and Aristotle:
“Catholic Guilt among
“Fuzzy:
A Program for Performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Stata.” The Stata Journal 8(1): 79-104.
(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.
“Helping
Relationships and Genetic Propensities: A Combinatoric Study of
2006
“Education and Its Discontents: Overqualification in America, 1972-2002.” Social Forces 85(2): 835-864.
2005
“Pathways to a Good Job: Perceived Work Quality among the Machinists in North
America.” British Journal of
Industrial Relations 43: 431-454. (Second author, with Arne
L. Kalleberg.)
Book Reviews,
Essays, and Other Publications
2009
Review of Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences, by
Michael Smithson and Jay Verkuilen. Sociological
Methods and Research 37(3): 455-457.
“‘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).” Culture:
Newsletter of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
21(2): 1-5.
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 (since 2005)
2009 “The
Contingent Nature of Social Capital and Educational Continuation.” Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco. (Co-author, with Michael J. Shanahan.)
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,
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,
“Spiritual
Capital in Urban Communes.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
“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.)
“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.)
“Linking
System and Practice: A Dual Process Approach to Culture.” Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society,
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,
“College,
Culture, and Class: The Declining Symbolic Value of a College Degree.” Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association,
Invited
Presentations
2009
“What People Want: Poverty, Aspirations, and Educational Attainment.”
Department of Sociology, University of California-San Diego.
“Moral
Cultures and Successful Societies.” Meeting of the Successful Societies Program
of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, San Francisco.
2008
“Imagination and Desire: Poor/Non-Poor Differences in Future Aspirations.”
Miniconference on Culture and Poverty (sponsored by the Ford Foundation),
National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago.
2007
“Motivation and Justification: Toward a Dual Process Theory of Culture in
Action.” Washington
“Toward
a Dual-Process Theory of Culture in Action.” 5th Annual Conference
of the
2006
“The Moral Worlds of American Youth: Consequences for the Transition to
Adulthood.” 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Royster Society of
Fellows, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Critical
Realism and Cultural Sociology.” Center for Human Science, University of
2005
“Moral Cultures and Moral Intuition.” Brigham
Grants and Awards
2009-2012
Co-Investigator (with Christian Smith, PI). "Stimulating Innovative Global
Research in the Science of Generosity: RFP & Primary Research Initiative on
Origins, Manifestations, and Consequences." John Templeton Foundation.
$4,999,360.
2007-2010 Co-Investigator (with Christian Smith, PI). “Tracking the
Religious Lives of American Youth into Early Adulthood: NSYR Wave 3."
Lilly Endowment Inc. $1,096,631.
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 (
Courses Taught
Sociology
of Culture (graduate), University of California, Berkeley
Sociology
of Culture (undergraduate), University of California, Berkeley
Social
Theory (classical and contemporary), University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Fuzzy-Set
and Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Introduction and Applications (two-day course)
Professional
Service
Editorial
Boards: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociological Theory
Consulting
Editor: American Journal of Sociology
Ad
hoc reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological
Review, British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Organization Science, Review of Religious Research,
Social Forces, Social Psychological Quarterly, Sociological Methods and
Research, Sociological Theory
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