Sociology Department
Faculty Research Projects
Below is a list of ongoing projcects conducted by UAlbany Sociology Department faculty members. If you click the faculty member's name you will be directed to more information.
- New Immigrant Growth Machines: The Politics of Development in Koreatown and Monterey Park
- Carrying Culture: A Study on Marriage, Family, and Culture among Immigrants and Their Children
- “Globalizing” Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy: A Case Study on Universities in South Korea
- Model Selection Methods in Sociology
- Model Selection in Behavioral Research
- Nest Egg or Goose Egg? Race, Class, & Housing in America
- Newcomer Children in California
- Nest Egg or Goose Egg? Race, Class, & Housing in America
- Geography of Economic Opportunity of America's Children
- Critical Demography Project
- Capitalize on Community
- The Decline of Dominant Powers: Early Modern Europe and the Contemporary United States
- Media Depictions of War Casualties
- China International Migration Project
- Complex Interactions among Policies, People, and Panda Habitat in the Wolong Nature Reserve Landscape
- Interrelationships between Population and Environment
- Market Transition and Migration in China
- Cultural constructions: The gendered context of marriage
- Gender, Work and Family: The Upstate New York Small Business Project
- Theorizing Social Institutions and Crime
- Crime and Social Control in Contemporary China
- Community Context and Criminal Offending
- Spatial Analyses of Crime in Germany
- Gendering Elites
- Trends in Elite and Mass Foreign Policy Attitudes in the United States: 1975-2004
- Elite Interlocks in Three U.S. Sectors: Nonprofit, Corporate and Government
- Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
- How Policymakers Use Economic Ideas: Three Policy Debates
- Model Selection in Social Research
- Inequality, Investment, and Growth
- Variable-parameter models for pooled and panel data
- Models of Social Contagion
- Resources and Opportunities for Neighborhood Attainment
- Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Effects
- Sex Ratios and Family Life in China
- Family and Health Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios in India
- Adult Sibling Relationships
- Social Network Influences on Illness Self-Management
- Aging Parents and Adult Children
- Women's Status and Reproductive Issues in India
- Adult Sibling Relationships
- Sex Ratios and Family Life in China
- Daring Modesty: The Generation, Analysis and Development of Sociological
Ideas. - The Attribution of Instrumental and Expressive Task Roles
- Characteristics, Objects, and Information: An Integrated View of Instrumental Task Behavior
- Aging Parents and Adult Children
- Innovation and Revitalization Movements in Medicine
- The Inter-Speciality Diffusion of Surgical Technologies in Medicine
- The Stabilization of Work Identities in Intra-Occupational Divisions of Labor
