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.

Richard Alba

• Socioeconomic Attainments of Second Generations in Immigration Societies: An Analysis of Canada, Germany, and the U.S.
• Disadvantaged second generations: Mexicans in the United States and Maghrebins in France

Angie Y. Chung

• Carrying Culture A Study on Marriage, Family and Culture Among Asian Immigrants and Their Children
• The Dynamics of Famiy and Ethnic Identity Formation Among South Asian
  Americans in the New York Metropolitan Area

Glenn Deane

• Model Selection Methods in Sociology
• Model Selection in Behavioral Research
• Nest Egg or Goose Egg? Race, Class, & Housing in America

Nancy Denton

• Newcomer Children in California
• Nest Egg or Goose Egg? Race, Class, & Housing in America
• Geography of Economic Opportunity of America's Children

Donald J. Hernandez

• Newcomer Children in California
• Geography of Economic Opportunity of America's Children

Hayward D. Horton

• Critical Demography Project
• Capitalize on Community

Marvin D. Krohn

• Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior
• Life Course Continuity and Change in Antisocial Behavior
• Explaining Serious, Chronic, and Violent Delinquency: A Panel Study of a Reciprocal Causal Model of Delinquency
  

Richard Lachmann

• The Decline of Dominant Powers: Early Modern Europe and the Contemporary United States

Zai Liang

• 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
  

Karyn Loscocco

• Gender, Work and Family: The Upstate New York Small Business Project
• The Social Construction of Race among Children
• Appointed Policy Makers in State Government: Gender and Agenda Setting

Steven F. Messner

• Criminal Victimization in Contemporary Urban China
• Multi-level Analyses of Proactive Policing and Violent Crime
• Lynching and Contemporary Southern Homicide

Gwen Moore

• 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

Lawrence Raffalovich

• Model Selection in Behavioral Research
• Nest Egg or Goose Egg? Race, Class, & Housing in America
• Does Economic Inequality Promote Economic Growth? A Cross-National
  Time-Series Analysis
• Race and the Distribution of Family Income

Scott South

• Racial and Ethnic Patterns of Residential Mobility
• Residential Mobility and Adolescent Risk Behavior

Glenna Spitze

• Adult Sibling Relationships
• Social Network Influences on Illness Self-Management
• Aging Parents and Adult Children

Katherine Trent

• Women's Status and Reproductive Issues in India
• Adult Sibling Relationships

David Wagner

• 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

Russ Ward

• Aging Parents and Adult Children