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I. Personal Information
Office Address
Department of Social Sciences
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, California 93407
Home Address
2325 Tierra Drive
Los Osos, California 93402
Phone: (805) 528-7259
Education
High School: Midwest City High School (Oklahoma) 1966
BA: University of Oklahoma, 1970
(Major in Sociology, Minor in Psychology)
MA: University of Oklahoma, 1972
(Sociology, MA Thesis on Welfare Recipient Attitudes)
Ph.D.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. August, 1975
(Sociology, Dissertation on Social Stratification Theory and the Sociology of
Knowledge)
II. Areas of Interest
1972-1975: Graduate Teaching Associate at Virginia Tech. Full responsibility for teaching two
courses each quarter (sociology of poverty and social movements).
1975-1977: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
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1977- to present: Professor (as of 1986) and Chair (1993-1998, 2002-2006)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
1983-1986: Summer lecturer, Sunshine Business and Welfare College, Tokyo, Japan. (Social
Welfare Institutions, Social Problems)
1988-1989: Fulbright Professor, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan. (Undergraduate
Lecturer-American Studies; Graduate Seminars-Social Stratification, Modern World
System.)
1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Law Faculty, Hiroshima Shudo University. (Undergraduate
Seminar: Japanese Political Economy)
1991: Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Duisburg, Germany.
(Undergraduate classes-American Studies, sociology: Graduate Seminars:
Comparative sociology, Japan and the United States; social stratification; the world
system and Asia)
1992 (summer, fall semester) Visiting Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Duisburg
University, Germany
1993-1999: Director and founder, Pacific Rim Group, California Polytechnic State University
(institute establishing and managing international study programs, faculty and student
exchanges, research)
1995 (summer) Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
1994-1996: (Summer months) Visiting Research Professor, Institute for Research and
Development, Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom and Bangkok, Thailand.
1996 (summer term): Visiting Professor, MBA Program, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai,
Thailand (June to Aug.)Graduate seminars on comparative societies.
1998 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
1999 (winter, spring semester): Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
Zurich (graduate courses; social stratification, Asian Political-economy)
1999 (fall semester): Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wales, Bangor
Campus, UK. (graduate courses; social stratification, comparative political policies,
Asian Political-economy)
2000 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2002 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2002 (fall term): Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma
2003 (winter, spring term): Distinguished Fulbright Professor, Institute for Political Science,
University of Vienna, Austria
2004 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2005 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand and Vietnam Study Program
2006 (fall term): Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma
2006 (beginning in October for several year term): Fellow at the Center for the Study of
Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University.
2007 (winter, spring): Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Stratification
and Inequality, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2008 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2009 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
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IV. Other Work Experience
1970-1971 Full-time employment as social case worker for the Oklahoma County
Department of Public Welfare (AFDC).
V. Awards
Faculty research grant at Cal Poly in 1978. Title of the research project, "Empirical
Study of Factors Influencing Education Achievement Among American Indian
College Students." The data collection involved questionnaires from approximately
200 native Americans and 150 white college students.
Faculty research grant (with Richard Shaffer) at Cal Poly in 1980. Title of the
research project, "An Historical Analysis of Welfare Spending and Lower Class
Protest: An Empirical Examination of Linkage." The data collection involved
content analysis of news articles from the New York Times from 1890 to 1940.
Almost 2,000 news articles were studied and coded along with many economic and
political variables from existing data sources.
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, an agency of the German Government,
Fall 1992. Director, project title of the research, "Japanese Corporations in Germany
and the United States: Corporate Structure and Foreign Employee Relations." The
data collection involved almost 100 hours of interviews with Japanese senior
managers, German managers, union leaders, and works councils from more than 30
large Japanese corporations in the Dusseldorf area. Detailed questionnaires were also
completed by approximately 600 German workers in these Japanese corporations.
Center for International Business and Education Research, San Diego State
University, and U.S. Department of Education. Summer and Fall 1993. To complete
interviews in Germany under the research project, "Japanese Corporations in
Germany and the United States: Corporate Structure and Foreign Employee
Relations."
Associate Editor: Studies in Culture and Politics (Senior editor, Patrick Chabal,
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Kings College, University of London)
Board Chairman: Give Back to the Children, NGO devoted to charity work in Africa.
Comparative Societies Series. General editor and creator of the 11 book series
published by McGraw-Hill, with first books appearing in late 1997. Duties as
General Editor of the Comparative Societies Series involve locating and signing
authors to write books in the Series, as well as extensive editing for each of the books,
and writing introductions for each book. The Series includes individual books on the
societies of Japan, Mexico, Iran, Brazil, Switzerland, China, Germany, Thailand,
India, Russia, and South Africa.
IX. Books
Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in the United States. McGraw-Hill,
1983.
American Society and Welfare Programs in the United States: An Introduction for Japanese
Students. (Sunshine Business and Welfare Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1984. with John McKinstry)
Who Rules Japan?: The Inner-Circles of Economic and Political Power in Japan. (Second
author, John McKinstry). The Greenwood Group, Praeger, 1995.
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Modern Thailand: A Volume in The Comparative Societies Series, McGraw-Hill, 2000,
(Robert Slagter first author).
Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (forth, revised edition) McGraw-Hill, Sept. 1999.
Social Problems 8th edition, Prentice-Hall. (New second author of the 8th edition of the
Coleman and Cressey Social Problems book with the major task of adding comparative and
global material throughout.) (James W. Coleman first author, Harold Kerbo new second
author), 2001.
Social Problems: A Brief Introduction 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall. (New second author of the
2nd edition of the Coleman Social Problems book with the major task of adding comparative
and global material throughout.) (James W. Coleman first author, Harold Kerbo new second
author), Fall, 2002.
Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (fifth, revised edition; major revision with two new chapters) McGraw-Hill,
2003.
Social Problems 9th edition, (James W. Coleman first author, Prentice-Hall, 2006).
World Poverty: Global Inequality and the Modern World System. (McGraw-Hill, 2006).
Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (Sixth, revised edition; McGraw-Hill, 2006).
Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (Seventh, revised edition; McGraw-Hill, 2009).
Social Problems 10th edition, (James W. Coleman first author, Prentice-Hall, 2009).
World Poverty: Global Inequality and the Modern World System. (2nd edition in progress,
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Oxford University Press).
Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (8th, revised edition; McGraw-Hill, 2011).
"The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Deviance," co-author, John Kroll. In Proceedings of
Alpha Kappa Delta, April, 1975.
"The Stigma of Welfare and a Passive Poor," Sociology and Social Research, 1976,
60:173-187.
"Welfare Recipients and System Blaming for Poverty," Western Sociological Review.
Co-Authors, Fred Silberstein and William Snizek, 1977, 8:113-133.
"The Empirical Side of the Power Elite Debate: An Assessment and Critique of Recent
Research." Co-Author, L. Richard Della Fave in Sociological Quarterly, 1979, 20:5-22.
"Work and Welfare: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Deviance," Free Inquiry, 1980,
8:27-36, (first author, John Kroll).
"College Achievement Among Native Americans: A Research Note." Social Forces, 1981,
59:1275-1280.
"Characteristics of the Poor: A Continuing Focus in Social Research." Sociology and Social
Research, 1981, 65:323-331.
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Resource Mobilization Theories." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1982, 26:645-663.
"Intercorporate Linkage and Control of the Corporate Economy: New Evidence and a
Reinterpretation." Sociological Quarterly, 1983, 24:201-218. (Second author, L. Richard
Della Fave.).
"Social Structure and White Collar Crime in Japan: Recruit Cosmos and Beyond." Deviant
Behavior. 1990. 11:139-154. (Second author, Mariko Inoe)
"Corporate Structure and Modernization: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and the United
States." International Review of Sociology. 1991. no. 3:149-174. (Second author, Keiko
Nakao)
"Lower Class Insurgency and the Political Process: The Response of the U.S. Unemployed,
1890-1940." Social Problems. 1992. 39:401-416.(Second author, Richard A. Shaffer)
"Soziale Ungleichheit und Gesellschaftliche Integration. Ein Vergleich von USA, Japan und
Deutschland." Berliner Journal Fur Soziologie. 1993. Heft 2:215-226. (with Brigitte Hamm,
Deiter Holtman, and Hermann Strasser)
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"A Sociology of Higher Education: The Japanese University in the Context of Japanese
Culture, Social Organization, and Social Stratification." Sociological Viewpoints. vol 10,
1994.
“Japan’s Political Class.” (English translation)in Politics as a Vocation: The Political Class
in Western Democracies. Edited by Jens Borchert; Oxford University Press. 1999. (Claudia
Derichs first author)
“The Asian Economic Crisis and the Decline of Japanese Leadership in Asia.” (Robert
Slagter second author) in The Asian Economic Crisis, edited by Frank-Jürgen Richter,
Quorum Press, 2000.
“Thailand, Japan, and the ‘East Asian Development Model:’ The Asian Economic Crisis in
World System Perspective.” (Robert Slagter second author) pp.119-140 in The East Asian
Development Model: Economic Growth, Institutional Failure and the Aftermath of the
Crisis, edited by Frank-Jürgen Richter, UK: MacMillan Press, 2000.
“Class and Nonvoting in Comparative Perspective: Possible Causes and Consequences for
the United States.” Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 12:177-198. 2003.
“Japan: Political Careers Between Bureaucracy and Hereditary Constituencies.” Pp. 245-258
in The Political Class in Advanced Democracies, 2nd revised edition, ed. by Jens Borchert
and Jurgen Zeiss, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (First author Claudia Derichs)
“Inequality and Divergence in the Modern World System: Historical Forces and the
Reduction of Global Inequalities in East and Southeast Asia.” Pp 273-308 in Mark
Herkenrath et. al. (edited) The Future of World Society. Zurich: Intelligent Press, 2005.
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“Paradigms of Comparative-Historical Methodologies: Durkhiemian vs. Weberian
Approaches and Their Outcomes.” Pp 184-206, in Gerd Nollmann (editor), Sozialstruktur
und Gesellschaftsanalyse. VS Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2007.
“Social Problems.” (With James Coleman second author), in Cliff Bryant and Dennis Peck
(editors), Encyclopedia of Sociology. Sage: 2006.
“Employee Commitment in U.S. and Japanese Firms in Thailand.” Asian Social Science. Vol
3, 11: 16-32, 2007 (with Richard Colignon, Chikako Usui, and Robert Slagter).
Review of the Ecology of Welfare by George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik, in Contemporary
Sociology, 1975, 1:519-520.
"Poor People's Movements," by Piven and Cloward in Western Sociological Review, 1979,
10:108-110.
"Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence." Ed. by Allen Batteau,
Sociology and Social Research, Spring, 1984.
“Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan’s Economy.” By Richard Colignon and Chikako
Usui, Contemporary Sociology, 2004. 33:474-476.
“Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan.” By Junesuke Hara and Kazuo
Seiyama. International Journal of Japanese Studies, 2007.
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XII. Papers and Manuscripts
"System Blaming for Poverty as a Function of Density, Relative Deprivation, Ideology and
Ethnicity." Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1972.
"Paradigms of Social Stratification: The Case of the Power Elite Controversy." Ph.D.
Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aug. 1975.
"Welfare Recipients and System Blaming for Poverty," paper read at the Annual Meetings of
the American Sociological Association in Montreal, Canada, August 1974 (co-authors, Fred
B. Silberstein and William E. Snizek).
"Paradigms of Social Stratification." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Southwestern
Social Science Association in Dallas, Texas, April 1976.
"Pluralism or Ruling Class?: A Case of Paradigm Conflict." Paper read at the Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association in New York City, August 1976.
"The Radical Therapy Movement." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Mid-South
Sociological Society in Monroe, LA, in November, 1976.
"Foreign Involvement in Internal Political Violence: New Realities and Current Theories."
Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in Chicago,
September, 1977.
“The Empirical Side of the Power Elite Debate: An Assessment and Critique of Recent
Research." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in
San Francisco, September 1978. (Co-Author, L. Richard Della Fave.)
"Institutional Investors, Stock-voting, and Control of the Corporate Economy: New Evidence
and a Reinterpretation." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association in New York, September 1980. (Co- Author, L. Richard Della Fave.)
"Unemployment and Protest in the United States, 1890-1940; Another Look at Deprivation
Theories of Social Movements." (Richard Shaffer second author.) Paper presented at the
meetings of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston, Texas, March 1983.
"The `Second Function' of Public Welfare: Lower Class Rebellion and Welfare Development
in the United States, 1890-1940." (Richard Shaffer, first author.) Paper presented at the
meetings of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston, Texas, March 1983.
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"Hardship, Political Environment, and Industrial Conflict in the United States." Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit,
September 1983. (Richard Shaffer, First Author)
"Political Environment and Social Protest: The Response of the U.S. Unemployed
1890-1940." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological
Association. Detroit, September 1983. (Richard Shaffer, Second Author)
"A Multidimensional Perspective for Conflict Theory: Class and Party Positions of the U.S.
Working Class." Paper presented at the International Sociological Association committee on
Social Stratification, Duisburg, West Germany, May 8, 1985. (Richard Shaffer, Second
Author)
"Language and Social Stratification in Japan." (Meika Clucus, Second Author) Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Association, Boston, April
1987.
"Welfare Development in the United States, 1890 to 1940: An Empirical Test of Competing
Theories." (Richard Shaffer, First Author) Paper presented at the meetings of the Research
Committee on Social Stratification of the International Sociological Association, Berkeley,
California, August 1987.
"Class and Politics in the 1988 Presidential Election". Shikoku-Chugoku Association For
American Studies meetings, Izumo, Japan, October 1988.
"Social Structure and White Collar Crime in Modern Japan: Recruit Cosmos and Beyond"
(Mariko Inoue, Second Author) Paper presented to American Society of Criminology, Reno,
Nevada, November 1989.
"The Status of Sociology Within the Context of Japanese Culture and Higher Education".
Paper presented to the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Association, Louisville,
KY., March, 1990.
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Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and the United States." (second author, Keiko
Nakao) Paper presented at the meetings of the Research Committee on Social Stratification,
International Sociological Association, Prague, June, 1991.
"Social Stratification in Asia: Max Weber and the Western Theoritical Bias." (second
author, Elke Wittenhagen) Paper presented at the annual meetings of Asian Studies on the
Pacific Coast, June, 1992, San Luis Obispo, California.
“Cultural Contrasts: The Affects of Japanese and American Management on Thai Workers.”
(second author, with Robert Slagter and Ben Moncrief) Midwest Conference on Asian
Affairs, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 1998.
“The Foreign Boss: Employee Commitment and Management Styles in Japanese and
American Corporations in Thailand.” (Robert Slagter first author) Paper presented at the
Annual meeting of the National Association of Social Sciences, New Orleans, Oct. 1998.
“Asian Economic Crisis, Decline of the ‘Asian Model’ of Economic Development, and the
Decline of Japanese Leadership in Southeast Asia.” (Robert Slagter second author) Paper
presented at the 4th ASIAN Conference on Social Development, Pattani, Thailand, June,
1999.
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2000.
“Foreign Investment and Economic Development in Southeast Asia.” Paper presented to the
Asian Economic Conference, University of Oklahoma, March, 2001.
“The Modern World System, Multinational Corporate Investment, and Asian Economic
Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Southeast Asia as Exception.” Paper
presented at meetings of the International Sociological Association, Committee on Social
Stratification (RC 28), Berkeley, August, 2001.
“A Global Capitalist Class: Nation-State, Domestic Class Conflict, and Non-Core Resistance
in Southeast Asia.” paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Anaheim, August, 2001.
“Inequality and Divergence in the Modern World System: Historical Forces and the
Reduction of Global Inequalities in East and Southeast Asia.” Conference on World Society,
Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2004.
“Employee Commitment in American and Japanese Firms in Thailand.” (with Chikako Usui,
Richard Colignon, and Robert Slagter). Joint meeting of Association of Japanese Business
Studies and Academy of International Business, Quebec, Canada, July, 2005.
“Historical Conditions, the State, and Poverty reduction in Southeast Asia.” Paper presented
at “Rethinking Mainland Southeast Asia” at the Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap,
Cambodia, Feb. 2006.
“Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in the New Global Economy: Cambodia in
Historical-Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Socio-
Cultural Research Congress on Cambodia, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
November, 2006.
"Changes in the U.S. Occupational Structure and Increasing Income Inequality." Seminar
presentation to faculty of Taiwan National University and Academia Sinica (National
Research Institute), Taipai, Taiwan, November 4, 1985.
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"Class and Special Education Programs in the U.S." Presented to the Research Foundation
for Early Childhood, Hiroshima University, June, 1988.
"Political Economy and Inequality: Japan and the United States." presented to the Social
Sciences Faculty and graduate students, Hochschule der Bundeswehr-Munchen, Munich,
Germany, May 28, 1991.
"Who Rules Japan?" a paper and university wide lecture presented to students and faculty of
the University of Zurich, Switzerland, May, 1992.
"Interrelations Between Elites in Japan: Keibatsu Intermarriage, Amakudari, and Old School
Ties." Institut Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen, German, Aug. 1993.
"Nippon's Inner Circles: Elite Ties in Modern Japan." University wide lecture presented to
students and faculty of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 1994.
"Japan's Inner Circles and the Future of Japan." University lecture, faculty and students of
Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany, Feb. 1996.
"U.S. Corporate Performance and Inequality." University lecture to faculty and students of
University of Sussex, England, April 1997.
"Political and Economic Scandals in Japan: Corruption and the Nature of Japanese Elites."
Tom Paine Society, Lewes, England, April 1997.
“The Asian Economic Crisis and the Decline of Japanese Economic Leadership.”
Paper/lecture to faculty of sociology, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia,
Madrid, Spain, Feb. 1999.
“Trends in US Social Stratification Theory and Research: Where we have been and where
we should be going.” Lecture to Faculty of Sociology, Universidad Nacional de Educaion a
Distancea, Madrid, Nov. 1999.
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“The Modern World System and Comparative Social Stratification: USA, Germany, and
Japan.” TV lecture to 5 campuses of Universidad Nacional de Educaion a Distancea, Madrid,
Nov. 1999.
“Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in the New Global Economy.” Special
lecture to faculty and students at Tohoku University, May, 2007.
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