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

• Space, Politics, and the New Ethnic Economy: A Study on Asian American Enclaves and Suburbs in the NY and LA metropolitan region
• Carrying Culture A Study on Marriage, Family and Culture Among Asian Immigrants and Their Children

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 depiction of war deaths in the United States during the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, in Russia during the Afghan and Chechen wars, and in Israel during the 1967 Six Day War and the 2006 Lebanon War.
• 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
• Social Construction of Race and Gender at Work
• Cultural Constructions of Love in Marriage: Gender and Race Patterns

Steven F. Messner

• Cross National Trends In Homicide Rate in the Latter Decades of the 20th Century
• Immigration And The Recent Violent Crime Drop In The U.S.
• The Crime Drop in comparative perspective: The Impact of the Economy and Imprisonment on American and European Burglary Rates

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

Elizabeth Popp Berman

• Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
• How Policymakers Use Economic Ideas: Three Policy Debates

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

• Resources and Opportunities for Neighborhood Attainment
• Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Effects
• Sex Ratios and Family Life in China

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
• Sex Ratios and Family Life in China

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