Associate Professor s1

December 2006

JAMES J. CHRISS

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

Cleveland State University

ADDRESS

Cleveland State University

Department of Sociology

Cleveland, OH 44115

Tel: 216-687-2573

EDUCATION

1994 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation: “Goffman, Parsons, and Contemporary Sociology: Working Towards Integration.” Committee members: chair, Dr. Harold Bershady, University of Pennsylvania; readers, Dr. Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Douglas Porpora, Drexel University.

1993 M.A. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

1990 M.S. in Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

1988 B.A. in Sociology/Math, Texas A&I University, Kingsville

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

Forthcoming. “The Functions of the Social Bond.” Sociological Quarterly.

2006a. “Giddings and the Social Mind.” Journal of Classical Sociology 6 (1):123-144.

2006b. “The Place of Lester Ward among the Sociological Classics.” Journal of Classical Sociology 6 (1):5-21.

2004. “The Perils of Risk Assessment.” Society 41 (4):52-56.

2002. “Gouldner’s Tragic Vision.” The Sociological Quarterly 43 (1):81-96.

2001. “Alvin W. Gouldner and Industrial Sociology at Columbia University.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 37 (3):241-259.

2000a. “Alvin W. Gouldner and the Tragic Vision in Sociology.” Social Thought and Research 23:199-225.

2000b. “Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice.” In Erving Goffman, four vols., edited by G.A. Fine and G.W.H. Smith. London: Sage. (Reprint of Chriss 1995b)

1999. “Management and Supervisory Practice in the Organization: The Relevance of Goffman and Habermas.” Sociological Imagination 36 (4):217-237.

1997. “Public Harassment, Sexual Harassment and the ‘Reasonable Woman’ Standard: Some Limitations of Legal Rationality.” Pp. 121-141 in Perspectives on Social Problems, v. 9, edited by C.B. Gardner. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

1996a. "Toward an Interparadigmatic Dialogue on Goffman." Sociological Perspectives 39:333-339.

1996b. "The Young Parsons and the Mature Habermas." American Sociologist 27 (4):38-40, 58-59.

1995a. "Testing Gouldner's Coming Crisis Thesis: On the Waxing and Waning of Intellectual Influence." Pp. 33-61 in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, vol. 15, edited by B. Agger. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

1995b. "Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice." American Sociological Review 60:545-565.

1995c. “Durkheim's Cult of the Individual as Civil Religion: Its Appropriation by Erving Goffman.” Pp. 238-255 in Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments, vol. vi, edited by P. Hamilton. London: Routledge. (Reprint of Chriss 1993)

1993. “Durkheim's Cult of the Individual as Civil Religion: Its Appropriation by Erving Goffman.” Sociological Spectrum 13 (2):251-275.

Books

Forthcoming. Social Control: An Introduction. Oxford, UK: Polity Press.

(ed.) 2007. Current Perspectives – Readings from InfoTrac College Edition: Juvenile Justice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

1999. Alvin W. Gouldner: Sociologist and Outlaw Marxist. London: Ashgate.

(ed.) 1999. Counseling and the Therapeutic State. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Flora, Jan, James J. Chriss, Eddie Gale, Gary P. Green, Frederick Schmidt, and Cornelia B. Flora. 1991. From the Grassroots: Profiles of 103 Self-Development Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture (AGES 9123).

Book Chapters

Forthcoming. “Networks.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Forthcoming. “Norm of Reciprocity.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Forthcoming. “Recognition.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

2007. “Lester Ward.” Pp. 192-195 in Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists, edited by J. Scott. London: Routledge.

2007. “Albion Small.” Pp. 156-159 in Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists, edited by J. Scott. London: Routledge.

2007. “William Sumner.” Pp. 171-174 in Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists, edited by J. Scott. London: Routledge.

2007. “Alvin W. Gouldner.” Pp. 119-122 in Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists, edited by J. Scott. London: Routledge.

2007. “Preface: Issues in the Juvenile Justice System.” Pp. vii-xii in Current Perspectives – Readings from InfoTrac College Edition: Juvenile Justice, edited by J.J. Chriss. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

2005. “Gouldner, Alvin Ward (1920-1980).” Pp. 965-967 in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, edited by J.R. Shook. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes.

2005. “Mead, George Herbert.” Pp. 486-491 in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by G. Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2005. “Alvin W. Gouldner.” Pp. 340-342 in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by G. Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2003. “Goffman as Microfunctionalist.” Pp. 181-196 in Goffman’s Legacy, edited by A.J. Trevino. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

2002. “The Drug Court Movement: An Analysis of Tacit Assumptions.” Pp. 189-213 in Drug Courts in Theory and in Practice, edited by J.L. Nolan, Jr. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

1999. "Role Distance and the Negational Self." Pp. 64-80 in Goffman and Social Organisation, edited by G.W.H. Smith. London: Routledge.

1999. “Introduction.” Pp. 1-29 in Counseling and the Therapeutic State, edited by J.J. Chriss. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

1999. “The Family Under Siege.” Pp. 187-198 in Counseling and the Therapeutic State, edited by J.J. Chriss. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Review Essays, Comments, and Invited Publications

2006. “Review of Lester Ward: A Life’s Journey.” A film by Gale Largey. Teaching Sociology 34 (2):202-203.

2002. “Bogen on Social Theory, Rules, and Order.” Human Studies 25:241-249.

2000. “Social Justice and Alvin Gouldner’s Reflexive Sociology.” Newman Review 1:20-41.

1998. “Review essay of Jurgen Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms.” Theory and Society 27 (3):417-425.

1995. "Some Thoughts on Recent Efforts to Further Systematize Goffman." Sociological Forum 10 (1):177-186.

1994. "Spain on Status and Space: A Comment." Sociological Theory 12 (1):106-109.

1993. "Looking Back on Goffman: The Excavation Continues." Human Studies 16 (4):469-483.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the International Social Theory Consortium in Roanoke, Virginia on May 20, 2006 entitled “Beyond Marx? Lester Ward’s Concept of the Sociocracy.”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association in Indianapolis in March, 2006 entitled “Informal Control, Social Capital, and the Code of the Street.”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia in August, 2005 entitled “The Self in Early American Sociology.”

Organized and presided over a session entitled “The Continuing Relevance of Early American Sociology” at the annual meeting of the American Sociology Association in Philadelphia in August, 2005.

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco in August, 2004 entitled “Giddings and the Social Mind.”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association in Cleveland in April, 2004 entitled “The Concept of Proactivity in Social and Criminal Justice Policy.” Also organized the paper session, entitled “Crime, Deviance, and the New Penology.”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in Chicago in November, 2002 entitled “Self-Esteem and School Violence: Toward a Research Agenda”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) in Chicago on August 15, 2002 entitled “Goffman, Self, and Identity”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, CA on August 20, 2001 entitled “Is Violence a Disease?”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society in St. Louis on April 7, 2001 entitled “Gouldner’s Tragic Vision.”

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Washington, DC on August 15, 2000 entitled “Gouldner’s Nightmare Marxism.”

Organizer and Presider of special session “Counseling and the Therapeutic State,” at the American Society of Criminology annual conference, Washington, DC, November 12, 1998. Also presented a paper in that session entitled “The Problems of Mandatory Therapy.”

Presider and respondent in the paper session “Race, Medicine, and the War” at the World War I and the Twentieth Century conference held on November 2, 1998 at Newman University.

Presented a paper before the University of Kansas Department of Sociology entitled “What Can We Learn From Gouldner?” on October 22, 1998.

Member of the Board of Directors, Adult Halfway House of Wichita, Inc. (1997 - 1999)

Hired by Newman University to conduct a feasibility study for their proposed Master of Social Work program. My responsibilities were to document levels of support for the program in the community, the level of interest among targeted student populations, and to determine the nature of the agency environment (i.e., how many potential MSW positions would be available for the program to service). This research contributed to Newman’s reaching third stage candidacy, with permission from CSWE to begin admitting students into the program beginning in Fall 1998.

Guest editor for a special issue of the journal Sociological Perspectives (v. 39, n. 3, 1996) on the topic “Theoretical Perspectives on Goffman.”

“Law and the Colonization of the Lifeworld.” Paper presented at the “And Justice for All” conference in Omaha, Nebraska, September 2, 1996. Also chaired a session on the Fourth Amendment.

"Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action." Paper presented at the annual ASA conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 1994.

Organizer and presider of Special Session, "Theoretical Perspectives on Goffman," at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA, August 1994.

"The Construction of General Sociological Theory: From Parsons to Goffman...and Beyond." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, August 23, 1992.

"Durkheim's Cult of the Individual as Civil Religion: Its Appropriation by Erving Goffman." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh, PA, November 10, 1991.

Presider of session, "The Individual and Religion in Everyday Life," at the Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1991.

"Parsonian Theory in the 1990s." Leader of roundtable talk at the August, 1990 meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:

Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Texas A&I University, Dec. 1988.

Teaching assistantship and one-half tuition scholarship, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Jan. 1989 to May 1991.

Teaching assistantship and full-time tuition scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 1992 through Dec. 1993.

Awarded summer internship as evaluator with Pew Charitable Trusts, One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street, Suite 1200, Philadelphia, PA 19103-2012 (June 2 - August 13, 1993).

Awarded non-service fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1994.

Received nomination from the Southern Sociological Society for best article published in Sociological Spectrum, 1993, for "Durkheim's Cult of the Individual..."

Member Phi Kappa Phi, National Honors Society.

Member Alpha Kappa Delta, National Sociology Honors Society.

Member Pi Gamma Mu, International Social Science Honors Society.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

American Sociological Association

American Society of Criminology

Midwest Sociological Society

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
ASA Theory Section

ASA Deviance and Crime Section

TEACHING POSITIONS:

Fall, 1999 to present at Cleveland State University:

Spring 2007 Criminological Theory and Graduate Criminological Theory

Fall 2006 Sociological Theory and US Criminal Justice Systems

Summer 2006 Sociological Theory, US Criminal Justice Systems, and

Sociology of Law

Spring 2006 Sociological Theory and Sociology of Policing

Fall 2005 No classes (sabbatical)

Summer 2005 US Criminal Justice Systems

Spring 2005 Sociological Theory and Juvenile Delinquency

Fall 2004 Sociology of Policing and Sociology of Law

Spring 2004 Sociological Theory and Juvenile Delinquency

Fall 2003 Sociological Theory and Social Control

Summer 2003 US Criminal Justice Systems

Spring 2003 Social Control and Sociological Theory

Fall 2002 Criminology and Graduate Sociological Theory

Summer 2002 Sociological Theory

Spring 2002 Juvenile Delinquency and Social Control

Fall 2001 Sociological Theory and Sociology of Law

Summer 2001 US Criminal Justice Systems and Social Control

Spring 2001 Deviance and Social Control (graduate level)

Fall 2000 Juvenile Delinquency and Social Control

Summer 2000 US Criminal Justice Systems

Spring 2000 Sociological Theory and Sociology of Law

Fall 1999 Criminology and Juvenile Delinquency

Fall 1995 to Summer 1999 Sociology and criminal justice at Newman University. Courses included:

Sociological Theory, Principles of Sociology, American Minorities, Research and Writing (senior seminar), Deviant Behavior, Social Problems, Comparative Criminal Justice, Criminology, Sociology of Law, Research Methods, Police Operations, Criminal Investigation, Corrections, Social Interaction, Juvenile Delinquency, Graduate Research Methods for Social Work, and Sociology of the Family.

Spring 1992 through Summer, 1995 Taught a variety of sociology and criminology courses at:

- Drexel University

- University of Pennsylvania

- Penn State, Delaware County Campus

- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science (PCPS)

- Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster)

1989-1991 Virginia Tech Teaching assistant in a number of courses

CURRENT RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS:

Crime and Delinquency

Sociology of Law

Sociological Theory

Mental Health