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Professor
Professor Burris received his B.A. in Economics from Rice University in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 1976. He taught at Queens College of the City University of New York from 1974 to 1977 and joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1978. His scholarship has focused mainly on corporate power structure, right-wing movements, gender inequality, and theories of the middle classes. In his research he employs a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods; however, he has a special interest in social network analysis and much of his recent work is been concerned with extending the application of network methods to new topics and questions.
Courses Taught
Selected Articles2008 "From Vietnam to Iraq: Continuity and Change in
Between-Group Differences in Support for Military Action," Social
Problems,
Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 443-479.
2008 "The Interlock Structure of the Policy-Planning Network and the
Right Turn in U.S. State Policy," Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 17,
pp. 3-42.
2005
"Interlocking Directorates and Political Cohesion among Corporate
Elites" American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 1, pp. 249-283.
2004
"The Academic Caste System: Prestige Hierarchies in Ph.D. Exchange Networks." American Sociological
Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 239-264.
2001
"The Two Faces of Capital: Corporations and Individual Capitalists as Political Actors."
American Sociological Review, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 361-381.
2001
"Small Business, Status Politics, and the Social Base of New Christian Right Activism."
Critical Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 1 pp. 29-55.
2000
"The Myth of Old Money Liberalism: The Politics of the Forbes 400 Richest Americans."
Social Problems, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 360-378.
2000
"White Supremacist Networks on the Internet" (Val Burris, Emery Smith, and Ann Strahm).
Sociological Focus, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 215-235.
1999
"The Old Middle Class in Newly Industrialized Countries." Pp. 435-454 in Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, ed.,
The East Asian Middle Classes in Comparative Perspective. Taipei: Academia Sinica Press.
1999
"Class Structure and Political Ideology." Critical Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 2/3, pp. 308-332.
1995
"The Discovery of the New Middle Class." Pp. 15-54 in Arthur J. Vidich, ed., The New Middle
Classes. London: Macmillan Press.
1992
"Elite Policy-Planning Networks in the United States." Pp. 111-134 in Gwen Moore and J. Allen Whitt, eds.,
Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 4. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.
1992 "PACs, Interlocks, and Regional Differences in Corporate Conservatism." American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 1451-1456.
1992
"Late Industrialization and Class Formation in East Asia." Pp. 245-283 in Paul Zarembka, ed.,
Research in Political Economy, Vol. 13. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.
1991
"Director Interlocks and the Political Behavior of Corporations and Corporate Elites."
Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 537-551.
1990
"The Politics of Capitalist Class Segments: A Test of Corporate Liberalism Theory" (Val Burris and James Salt).
Social Problems, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp.
341-359.
1987
"The Political Partisanship of American Business: A Study of Corporate Political Action Committees."
American Sociological Review, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 732-744.
1987
"The Neo-Marxist Synthesis of Marx and Weber on Class." Pp. 67-90 in
Norbert Wiley. ed., The Marx-Weber Debate. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
1983
"The Social and Political Consequences of Overeducation." American
Sociological Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, Pp. 454-467.
EducationPh.D. -- Princeton |
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