Faculty in the Department of Sociology at UNLV have recently published research on spousal bereavement, family income trends, gender differences in small business ventures, labor and consumer culture, welfare-to-work policies, race and market dynamics, recidivism and private prisons, second-hand tobacco policies, emerging trends in gaming industry, the politics of baseball business, the role of religion in culture wars, the transformation of self-identity in postmodern society, advertisement strategies in hypermodern era, white power movement, poverty patterns in heterosexual and same-sex couples, current trends in the interviewing process, interactions and identity-construction in virtual spaces, and biographical methods of research.
Submissions from 2012
Ethical Problems of Natural Experiment: Response to Andrey Alekseev, Dmitri N. Shalin
On Memoir Ethics and the Validity of Biographical Interview, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2011
The Sandwiched generation: Multiple caregiving responsibilities and the mismatch between actual and preferred work hours, Jennifer Reid Keene and Anastasia H. Prokos
In Search of a Narrative Identity: A Contribution to the Dialogue of Andrey Alekseev and Dmitri Shalin, Dmitri N. Shalin
"I Tried to Change This System Many Times". Interview with Igor Kon, Dmitri N. Shalin
The Impossibility of Living in Russia – That Was Our Tough Subject. Interview with Boris Grushin and Natalia Kartseva, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2010
Under one roof: A review of research on intergenerational coresidence and multigenerational households in the United States, Jennifer Reid Keene
Gendered disparities in take-ups of employee health benefits, Jennifer Reid Keene and Anastasia H. Prokos
Attitudes about affirmative action for women: The role of children in shaping parents’ interests, Anastasia H. Prokos, Chardie L. Baird, and Jennifer Reid Keene
Poverty among cohabiting gay and lesbian, and married and cohabiting heterosexual families, Anastasia H. Prokos and Jennifer Reid Keene
The Sexual double standard and gender differences in predictors of perceptions of adult-teen sexual relationships, Daniel Sahl and Jennifer Reid Keene
As One Matured, Moral Confrontation Developed into Political Struggle. Interview with A. Alekseev, O. Bozhkov, G. Saganenko, and L. Keselman, Dmitri N. Shalin
Hermeneutics and Prejudice: Heidegger and Gadamer in Their Historical Setting, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2008
Widowhood and the end of spousal caregiving: Wear and tear or relief?, Jennifer Reid Keene and Anastasia H. Prokos
Galina Saganenko and Valery Golofast: The Harvard Interview, Dmitri N. Shalin
Galina Saganenko, Valery Golofast: Conversations about Russian Intelligentsia, Dmitri N. Shalin
Phenomenological Foundations of Theoretical Practice: Biocritical Notes on Yuri Levada, Dmitri N. Shalin
The Public Man: The Harvard Interview with Yuri Levada, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2007
Comparing offers and take-ups of employee health insurance across, race, gender, and decade, Jennifer Reid Keene and Anastasia H. Prokos
Successful aging and gambling: Predictors of gambling risk among Las Vegas seniors, Frederick W. Preston, Paul D. Shapiro, and Jennifer Reid Keene
Signing in the Flesh: Notes on Pragmatist Hermeneutics, Dmitri N. Shalin
"This Time They Will Be Shooting on the Spot.” Interview with Galina Starovoitova, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2006
Symbolic interaction theory and architecture, Ronald W. Smith and Valerie Bugni
Submissions from 2005
Response to Lois Hembold, "Women’s Studies in Sin City: Reactionary Politics and Feminist Possibilities", Barbara G. Brents, Kate Hausbeck, Anastasia H. Prokos, Jennifer Reid Keene, Crystal Jackson, and Cristina Morales
The Job costs of family demands: Gender differences in negative family-to-work spillover, Jennifer Reid Keene and John R. Reynolds
The Long-term effects of spousal caregiving on survivors’ well-being in widowhood, Anastasia H. Prokos and Jennifer Reid Keene
Legal Pragmatism, an Ideal Speech Situation, and the Fully Embodied Democratic Process, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2004
Predictors of perceived work-family balance: Gender difference or gender similarity?, Jennifer Reid Keene and Jill Quadagno
Liberalism, Affect Control, and Emotionally Intelligent Democracy, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 2002
Sociology and the search for architectural design solutions: Discovering that the problem might be bigger than we thought, Ronald Smith
The Role of architecture and sociology in organizational development, Ronald Smith
Architectural sociology and post-modern architectural forms, Ronald Smith and Valerie Bugni
Connections, Ronald Smith and Valerie Bugni
Designed physical environments as related to selves, symbols, and social reality: A proposal for a humanistic paradigm shift for architecture, Ronald Smith and Valerie Bugni
Submissions from 2001
Emotion, Agency, and the Social Production of Affect. A Research Note, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1999
Multiple roles and well-being among midlife women: Testing role strain and role enhancement theories, Jennifer Reid Keene and Melissa Hardy
Submissions from 1996
Soviet Civilization and Its Emotional Discontents, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1995
Emotions and Democracy, Dmitri N. Shalin
Skazkobyl: Zametki o retsessivnykh genakh russkoi kultury (A True Fairy Tale: Notes on the Recessive Genes of Russian Culture), Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1994
O retsessivnykh genakh russkoi kultury, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1993
Modernity, Postmodernism, and Pragmatist Inquiry: An Introduction, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1992
Critical Theory and the Pragmatist Challenge, Dmitri N. Shalin
Introduction: Habermas, Pragmatism, Interactionism, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1991
The Pragmatic Origins of Symbolic Interactionism and the Crisis of Classical Science, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1990
Sociology for the Glasnost Era: Institutional and Substantive Change in Recent Soviet Sociology, Dmitri N. Shalin
The Impact of Transcendental Idealism on Early German and American Sociology, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1987
Socialism, Democracy and Reform: A Letter and an Article by George H. Mead, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1986
Pragmatism and Social Interactionism, Dmitri N. Shalin
Romanticism and the Rise of Sociological Hermeneutics, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1985
Housing in the Soviet Union, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1981
Behavioral and Post-behavioral Methodologies in Communist Studies, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1980
Marxist Paradigm and Academic Freedom, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1979
Between the Ethos of Science and the Ethos of Ideology, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1978
The Development of Soviet Sociology, 1956-1976, Dmitri N. Shalin
The Genesis of Social Interactionism and Differentiation of Macro- and Microsociological Paradigms, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1976
On Current Trends in Soviet Sociology, Dmitri N. Shalin
Submissions from 1971
K poniatiiu 'Rol' v Sotsiologii "Toward the Concept of 'Role' in Sociology", Dmitri N. Shalin and Edvard V. Beliaev