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I. Personal Information

Name: Harold R. Kerbo

Date of Birth: August 9, 1948
Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Marital Status: Married
Children: two

Office Address
Department of Social Sciences
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, California 93407

Office Phone: (805) 756-2260 or 1150

Fax: (805) 756-7019
e-mail: hkerbo@calpoly.edu

Home Address
2325 Tierra Drive
Los Osos, California 93402
Phone: (805) 528-7259

Education
High School: Midwest City High School (Oklahoma) 1966
BA: University of Oklahoma, 1970
(Major in Sociology, Minor in Psychology)
MA: University of Oklahoma, 1972
(Sociology, MA Thesis on Welfare Recipient Attitudes)
Ph.D.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. August, 1975
(Sociology, Dissertation on Social Stratification Theory and the Sociology of
Knowledge)
II. Areas of Interest

American and Comparative Social Stratification, American and Comparative Political-

Economy, Comparative Analysis of Southeast Asia, Modern Japan, Modern Thailand.

III. Teaching and Research Positions

1972-1975: Graduate Teaching Associate at Virginia Tech. Full responsibility for teaching two
courses each quarter (sociology of poverty and social movements).
1975-1977: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

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 1977- to present: Professor (as of 1986) and Chair (1993-1998, 2002-2006)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
1983-1986: Summer lecturer, Sunshine Business and Welfare College, Tokyo, Japan. (Social
Welfare Institutions, Social Problems)
1988-1989: Fulbright Professor, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan. (Undergraduate
Lecturer-American Studies; Graduate Seminars-Social Stratification, Modern World
System.)
1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Law Faculty, Hiroshima Shudo University. (Undergraduate
Seminar: Japanese Political Economy)
1991: Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Duisburg, Germany.
(Undergraduate classes-American Studies, sociology: Graduate Seminars:
Comparative sociology, Japan and the United States; social stratification; the world
system and Asia)
1992 (summer, fall semester) Visiting Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Duisburg
University, Germany
1993-1999: Director and founder, Pacific Rim Group, California Polytechnic State University
(institute establishing and managing international study programs, faculty and student
exchanges, research)
1995 (summer) Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
1994-1996: (Summer months) Visiting Research Professor, Institute for Research and
Development, Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom and Bangkok, Thailand.
1996 (summer term): Visiting Professor, MBA Program, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai,
Thailand (June to Aug.)Graduate seminars on comparative societies.
1998 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
1999 (winter, spring semester): Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
Zurich (graduate courses; social stratification, Asian Political-economy)
1999 (fall semester): Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wales, Bangor
Campus, UK. (graduate courses; social stratification, comparative political policies,
Asian Political-economy)
2000 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2002 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2002 (fall term): Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma
2003 (winter, spring term): Distinguished Fulbright Professor, Institute for Political Science,
University of Vienna, Austria
2004 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2005 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand and Vietnam Study Program
2006 (fall term): Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma
2006 (beginning in October for several year term): Fellow at the Center for the Study of
Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University.
2007 (winter, spring): Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Stratification
and Inequality, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2008 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program
2009 (spring term): Resident Director, Thailand Study Program

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IV. Other Work Experience

1970-1971 Full-time employment as social case worker for the Oklahoma County
Department of Public Welfare (AFDC).

V. Awards

Fulbright Professor, 1988-1989. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan.

Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad, U.S. Department of Education, Thailand, 1990.
Outstanding Alumni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Department of Sociology, 1991.
Outstanding Alumni, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, 2000
Distinguished Fulbright Chair, University of Vienna, 2003
Senior Fulbright Specialist, 2004-2009 (New Fulbright Award for senior,
experienced Fulbright Grantees, involves lecturing any where in the world from 2 to
6 weeks.)
Abe Fellowship, 2006-2007. In residence at the Center for Social Stratification at
Tohoku University, Japan. Field work on poverty reduction in Thailand, Cambodia
and Vietnam.

VI. Research Grants

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, research associate, "Virginia

Study of Veterinarians," Hatch Funds, USDA, May 1973 through August 1973.
Assisted in instrument development and data collection and analysis. Project
Directors: Clifton Bryant and William Snizek.

Faculty research grant at Cal Poly in 1978. Title of the research project, "Empirical
Study of Factors Influencing Education Achievement Among American Indian
College Students." The data collection involved questionnaires from approximately
200 native Americans and 150 white college students.

Faculty research grant (with Richard Shaffer) at Cal Poly in 1980. Title of the
research project, "An Historical Analysis of Welfare Spending and Lower Class
Protest: An Empirical Examination of Linkage." The data collection involved
content analysis of news articles from the New York Times from 1890 to 1940.
Almost 2,000 news articles were studied and coded along with many economic and
political variables from existing data sources.

Department of Education, International Curricula Development, 1985. Development

of international courses for undergraduates. Course development,"The Modern
World System" (Diane Long, Political Science Department, California Polytechnic
State University, grant coordinator)

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 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, an agency of the German Government,
Fall 1992. Director, project title of the research, "Japanese Corporations in Germany
and the United States: Corporate Structure and Foreign Employee Relations." The
data collection involved almost 100 hours of interviews with Japanese senior
managers, German managers, union leaders, and works councils from more than 30
large Japanese corporations in the Dusseldorf area. Detailed questionnaires were also
completed by approximately 600 German workers in these Japanese corporations.

Center for International Business and Education Research, San Diego State
University, and U.S. Department of Education. Summer and Fall 1993. To complete
interviews in Germany under the research project, "Japanese Corporations in
Germany and the United States: Corporate Structure and Foreign Employee
Relations."

California State University Summer Fellowship, Summer 1994. Fellowship

awarded for 5 weeks in Thailand to establish exchange programs and make
preliminary arrangements for research on Japanese and American corporations in
Thailand and relations with Thai employees.

World Society Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland. Director, project title, Core

Transplant Corporations, Employee Relations, Work Organization, and Cultural
Conflicts: Japanese, German, and American Corporations in Thailand. Funded from
1995 through summer of 1996.

California State University Summer Fellowship, Summer 1997. Fellowship awarded

for 5 weeks in Japan to establish exchange programs and make preliminary
arrangements for research on American corporations in Japan and relations with
Japanese employees.

Abe Foundation. Comparative poverty reduction in Thailand and Vietnam 2006-

2007. Field work in Thailand and Vietnam, plus 4 months residence at the Center for
Social Stratification, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

VII. Professional Associations

American Sociological Association

International Sociological Association
ISA Stratification Research Committee
Association for Asian Studies

VIII. Editorial and Organizational Boards

Associate Editor: Studies in Culture and Politics (Senior editor, Patrick Chabal,

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 Kings College, University of London)

Associate Editor: Encyclopedia of Sociology: Sociology in the 21st Century. (Sage,

2006)

Advisory Board: Southeast Asian Studies Institute, University of Vienna.

Board Chairman: Give Back to the Children, NGO devoted to charity work in Africa.

Comparative Societies Series. General editor and creator of the 11 book series
published by McGraw-Hill, with first books appearing in late 1997. Duties as
General Editor of the Comparative Societies Series involve locating and signing
authors to write books in the Series, as well as extensive editing for each of the books,
and writing introductions for each book. The Series includes individual books on the
societies of Japan, Mexico, Iran, Brazil, Switzerland, China, Germany, Thailand,
India, Russia, and South Africa.

IX. Books

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in the United States. McGraw-Hill,
1983.

American Society and Welfare Programs in the United States: An Introduction for Japanese
Students. (Sunshine Business and Welfare Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1984. with John McKinstry)

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical and Comparative

Perspective. (Second, revised edition) McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Sociology: Social Structure and Social Conflict, Macmillan, 1989.

Who Rules Japan?: The Inner-Circles of Economic and Political Power in Japan. (Second
author, John McKinstry). The Greenwood Group, Praeger, 1995.

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical and Comparative

Perspective. (Third, revised edition) McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Three books in the Comparative Societies Series coauthored by Harold Kerbo:

Modern Japanese Society: A volume in The Comparative Societies Series, McGraw-Hill,

1998, (John McKinstry second author).

Modern Germany: A volume in The Comparative Societies Series, McGraw-Hill, 2000,

(Hermann Strasser second author).

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Modern Thailand: A Volume in The Comparative Societies Series, McGraw-Hill, 2000,
(Robert Slagter first author).

Estratificacion social y desigualdad. El conflicto de clases desde una perspectiva historica y

comparada. (Revised Spanish translation of Social Stratification and Inequality, with a new
chapter and revisions throughout.) McGraw-Hill; Madrid, Spain, 1999. Translated by
Professors Miguel Requena and Juan J. Gonzalez.

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (forth, revised edition) McGraw-Hill, Sept. 1999.

Social Problems 8th edition, Prentice-Hall. (New second author of the 8th edition of the
Coleman and Cressey Social Problems book with the major task of adding comparative and
global material throughout.) (James W. Coleman first author, Harold Kerbo new second
author), 2001.

Social Problems: A Brief Introduction 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall. (New second author of the
2nd edition of the Coleman Social Problems book with the major task of adding comparative
and global material throughout.) (James W. Coleman first author, Harold Kerbo new second
author), Fall, 2002.

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (fifth, revised edition; major revision with two new chapters) McGraw-Hill,
2003.

Estratificacion social y desigualdad. El conflicto de clases desde una perspectiva historica y

comparada. (2nd edition of Revised Spanish translation of Social Stratification and
Inequality, with a new chapter and revisions throughout.) McGraw-Hill; Madrid, Spain,
2003. Translated by Professors Miguel Requena and Juan J. Gonzalez.

Social Problems 9th edition, (James W. Coleman first author, Prentice-Hall, 2006).

World Poverty: Global Inequality and the Modern World System. (McGraw-Hill, 2006).

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (Sixth, revised edition; McGraw-Hill, 2006).

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (Seventh, revised edition; McGraw-Hill, 2009).

Social Problems 10th edition, (James W. Coleman first author, Prentice-Hall, 2009).

World Poverty: Global Inequality and the Modern World System. (2nd edition in progress,

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 Oxford University Press).

Social Stratification and Inequality: Class Conflict in Historical, Global, and Comparative
Perspective. (8th, revised edition; McGraw-Hill, 2011).

The Tragedy of Cambodian Poverty: Economic Development Trajectories in the Buddhist

Countries of Southeast Asia Compared. (Forthcoming, McFarland Press)

X. Journal Publications, Book Chapters

"The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Deviance," co-author, John Kroll. In Proceedings of
Alpha Kappa Delta, April, 1975.

"The Stigma of Welfare and a Passive Poor," Sociology and Social Research, 1976,
60:173-187.

"Marxist and Functionalist Theories in the Study of Stratification: A Comment." Social

Forces, 1976, 55:191-192.

"Welfare Recipients and System Blaming for Poverty," Western Sociological Review.
Co-Authors, Fred Silberstein and William Snizek, 1977, 8:113-133.

"Foreign Involvement in the Preconditions for Political Violence." Journal of Conflict

Resolution, 1978, 22:363-391.

"Re-establishing 'Gemeinschaft'?: An Examination of the CB Radio Fad." Co-Authors,

Karrie Marshall and Philip Holley, in Urban Life, 1978, 7:337-358.

"The Empirical Side of the Power Elite Debate: An Assessment and Critique of Recent
Research." Co-Author, L. Richard Della Fave in Sociological Quarterly, 1979, 20:5-22.

"Work and Welfare: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Deviance," Free Inquiry, 1980,
8:27-36, (first author, John Kroll).

"College Achievement Among Native Americans: A Research Note." Social Forces, 1981,
59:1275-1280.

"Characteristics of the Poor: A Continuing Focus in Social Research." Sociology and Social
Research, 1981, 65:323-331.

"Movements of 'Crisis' and Movements of 'Affluence': A Critique of Deprivation and

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Resource Mobilization Theories." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1982, 26:645-663.

"Intercorporate Linkage and Control of the Corporate Economy: New Evidence and a
Reinterpretation." Sociological Quarterly, 1983, 24:201-218. (Second author, L. Richard
Della Fave.).

"Further Notes on the Evolution of Corporate Control and Institutional Investors: A

Response to Niemonen." Sociological Quarterly, 1984, 25:279-283.(Second Author, L.
Richard Della Fave.)

"Unemployment and Protest in the United States: 1890-1940: A Methodological Critique

and Research Note." Social Forces, 1986 64:1046-1056. (Second Author, Richard A.
Shaffer).

"Elite Recognition of Unemployment as a Working Class Issue in the United States,

l890-l940", Sociology and Social Research, l986. 70:294-298. (Second author, Richard A.
Shaffer.)

"Social Structure and White Collar Crime in Japan: Recruit Cosmos and Beyond." Deviant
Behavior. 1990. 11:139-154. (Second author, Mariko Inoe)

"Corporate Structure and Modernization: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and the United
States." International Review of Sociology. 1991. no. 3:149-174. (Second author, Keiko
Nakao)

"The Distribution of Income in Modern Japan: An examination of the Structural

Determinants of Relative Equality." Duisburger Bettrage zur Soziologischen Forschung. no.
5, 1991.

"Lower Class Insurgency and the Political Process: The Response of the U.S. Unemployed,
1890-1940." Social Problems. 1992. 39:401-416.(Second author, Richard A. Shaffer)

"Soziale Ungleichheit und Gesellschaftliche Integration. Ein Vergleich von USA, Japan und
Deutschland." Berliner Journal Fur Soziologie. 1993. Heft 2:215-226. (with Brigitte Hamm,
Deiter Holtman, and Hermann Strasser)

"Japanische Unternehmen in Deutsch: Unternehmenstruktur und Arbeitsverhaltnis." (With

Elke Wittenhagen and Keiko Nakao), Veroffentlichungsliste Des Instituts Arbeit Und
Technik, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1994.

"Japanese Transplant Corporations, Foreign Employees, and the German Economy: A

Comparative analysis of Germany and the United States." (with Elke Wittenhagen and Keiko
Nakao), Duisburger Bettrage zur Soziologischen Forschung, Duisburg, Germany, 1994.

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"A Sociology of Higher Education: The Japanese University in the Context of Japanese
Culture, Social Organization, and Social Stratification." Sociological Viewpoints. vol 10,
1994.

"Japanese Companies in Germany: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Management." Journal of

Industrial Relations.1995, 25:123-139. (First author James Lincoln, with Elke Wittenhagen).

“Japan: Politische Karriere zwischen Ministerialburokratie un parlamentarischen Erhofen.”

1999, pp. 283-301 in Politik als Beruf: Die politische Klasse in westlichen Demokratien, ed.
Jens Borchert, Germany: Leske and Budrich. (Claudia Derichs first author)

“Japan’s Political Class.” (English translation)in Politics as a Vocation: The Political Class
in Western Democracies. Edited by Jens Borchert; Oxford University Press. 1999. (Claudia
Derichs first author)

“The Asian Economic Crisis and the Decline of Japanese Leadership in Asia.” (Robert
Slagter second author) in The Asian Economic Crisis, edited by Frank-Jürgen Richter,
Quorum Press, 2000.

“Thailand, Japan, and the ‘East Asian Development Model:’ The Asian Economic Crisis in
World System Perspective.” (Robert Slagter second author) pp.119-140 in The East Asian
Development Model: Economic Growth, Institutional Failure and the Aftermath of the
Crisis, edited by Frank-Jürgen Richter, UK: MacMillan Press, 2000.

“Japanese Corporations in Southeast Asia.” Entry in The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business,

edited by Allan Bird, Oxford University Press. 2001.

“Japanese Corporations in Germany.” Entry in The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business,

edited by Allan Bird, Oxford University Press. 2001.

“Burakumin.” Entry in The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business, edited by Allan Bird,

Oxford University Press. 2001. (Meika Clucas first author)

“Class and Nonvoting in Comparative Perspective: Possible Causes and Consequences for
the United States.” Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 12:177-198. 2003.

“Japan: Political Careers Between Bureaucracy and Hereditary Constituencies.” Pp. 245-258
in The Political Class in Advanced Democracies, 2nd revised edition, ed. by Jens Borchert
and Jurgen Zeiss, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (First author Claudia Derichs)

“Inequality and Divergence in the Modern World System: Historical Forces and the
Reduction of Global Inequalities in East and Southeast Asia.” Pp 273-308 in Mark
Herkenrath et. al. (edited) The Future of World Society. Zurich: Intelligent Press, 2005.

“Foreign Investment and Disparities in Economic Development and Poverty Reduction:

A Comparative-Historical Analysis of the Buddhist Countries of SE Asia.” International
Journal of Comparative Sociology. 46: 425-460. 2006.

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 “Paradigms of Comparative-Historical Methodologies: Durkhiemian vs. Weberian
Approaches and Their Outcomes.” Pp 184-206, in Gerd Nollmann (editor), Sozialstruktur
und Gesellschaftsanalyse. VS Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2007.

“Social Stratification.” in Cliff Bryant and Dennis Peck (editors), Encyclopedia of

Sociology. Sage: 2006.

“Social Problems.” (With James Coleman second author), in Cliff Bryant and Dennis Peck
(editors), Encyclopedia of Sociology. Sage: 2006.

“Employee Commitment in U.S. and Japanese Firms in Thailand.” Asian Social Science. Vol
3, 11: 16-32, 2007 (with Richard Colignon, Chikako Usui, and Robert Slagter).

“Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies Among College Students in

Japan and the United States.” (with Emiko Kobayashi, first author, Susan Sharpe third
author) International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Vol 51: 59-84.

“Differences in Perceived Levels of Informal Punishment for Noncompliance and Reward

for Compliance: A Comparison of Japanese and American Workers.” (with Emiko
Kobayashi, first author) Forthcoming, Journal of Deviant Behavior.

DIFFERENCES IN PERCEIVED LEVELS OF INFORMAL PUNISHMENT FOR

NONCOMPLIANCE AND REWARD FOR COMPLIANCE:
A COMPARISON OF JAPANESE AND AMERICAN WORKERS

XI. Book Reviews

Review of the Ecology of Welfare by George Sternlieb and Bernard Indik, in Contemporary
Sociology, 1975, 1:519-520.

"Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness," by G.

William Domhoff in American Journal of Sociology, 1976, 82:722-724.

"Poor People's Movements," by Piven and Cloward in Western Sociological Review, 1979,
10:108-110.

"Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence." Ed. by Allen Batteau,
Sociology and Social Research, Spring, 1984.

“Classless Society.” by Paul Kingston, Contemporary Sociology,

2002, 31:267-268.

“Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan’s Economy.” By Richard Colignon and Chikako
Usui, Contemporary Sociology, 2004. 33:474-476.

“Inequality amid Affluence: Social Stratification in Japan.” By Junesuke Hara and Kazuo
Seiyama. International Journal of Japanese Studies, 2007.

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XII. Papers and Manuscripts

"System Blaming for Poverty as a Function of Density, Relative Deprivation, Ideology and
Ethnicity." Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1972.

"Paradigms of Social Stratification: The Case of the Power Elite Controversy." Ph.D.
Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aug. 1975.

"Radical and Conservative Theories of Social Stratification: Can There be a Synthesis?"

Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Sociological Society in Atlanta, Georgia,
April 1974.

"Welfare Recipients and System Blaming for Poverty," paper read at the Annual Meetings of
the American Sociological Association in Montreal, Canada, August 1974 (co-authors, Fred
B. Silberstein and William E. Snizek).

"Paradigms of Social Stratification." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Southwestern
Social Science Association in Dallas, Texas, April 1976.

"Pluralism or Ruling Class?: A Case of Paradigm Conflict." Paper read at the Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association in New York City, August 1976.

"The Radical Therapy Movement." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the Mid-South
Sociological Society in Monroe, LA, in November, 1976.

"Re-establishing Gemeinschaft: An Examination of the CB Radio Fad." Paper read at the

Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Social Science Association in Dallas, Texas, April
1977. (Co-Authors, Karrie Marshall and Philip Holley).

"Foreign Involvement in Internal Political Violence: New Realities and Current Theories."
Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in Chicago,
September, 1977.

“The Empirical Side of the Power Elite Debate: An Assessment and Critique of Recent
Research." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in
San Francisco, September 1978. (Co-Author, L. Richard Della Fave.)

"Institutional Investors, Stock-voting, and Control of the Corporate Economy: New Evidence
and a Reinterpretation." Paper read at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association in New York, September 1980. (Co- Author, L. Richard Della Fave.)

"Unemployment and Protest in the United States, 1890-1940; Another Look at Deprivation
Theories of Social Movements." (Richard Shaffer second author.) Paper presented at the
meetings of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston, Texas, March 1983.

"The `Second Function' of Public Welfare: Lower Class Rebellion and Welfare Development
in the United States, 1890-1940." (Richard Shaffer, first author.) Paper presented at the
meetings of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston, Texas, March 1983.

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"Hardship, Political Environment, and Industrial Conflict in the United States." Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit,
September 1983. (Richard Shaffer, First Author)

"Political Environment and Social Protest: The Response of the U.S. Unemployed
1890-1940." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological
Association. Detroit, September 1983. (Richard Shaffer, Second Author)

"A Multidimensional Perspective for Conflict Theory: Class and Party Positions of the U.S.
Working Class." Paper presented at the International Sociological Association committee on
Social Stratification, Duisburg, West Germany, May 8, 1985. (Richard Shaffer, Second
Author)

"Implications of Modern Japan for Western Theories of Social Stratification: Some

Preliminary Observations." Paper presented at the International Sociological Association
Committee on Social Stratification, Rome Italy, April 4, l986. (Second author, John
McKinstry).

"Language and Social Stratification in Japan." (Meika Clucus, Second Author) Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Association, Boston, April
1987.

"Welfare Development in the United States, 1890 to 1940: An Empirical Test of Competing
Theories." (Richard Shaffer, First Author) Paper presented at the meetings of the Research
Committee on Social Stratification of the International Sociological Association, Berkeley,
California, August 1987.

"Social Stratification in Modern Japan: A comparative Analysis" (John McKinstry, Second

Author) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies
(Western Region), Tucson, Arizona, October 1987.

"Class and Politics in the 1988 Presidential Election". Shikoku-Chugoku Association For
American Studies meetings, Izumo, Japan, October 1988.

"Social Structure and White Collar Crime in Modern Japan: Recruit Cosmos and Beyond"
(Mariko Inoue, Second Author) Paper presented to American Society of Criminology, Reno,
Nevada, November 1989.

"The Status of Sociology Within the Context of Japanese Culture and Higher Education".
Paper presented to the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Association, Louisville,
KY., March, 1990.

"The Distribution of Income in Modern Japan: An Examination of the Structural

Determinants of Relative Equality." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
Western Association of Asian Studies,Austin, Texas, Oct. 13, 1990.

"Corporate Ownership and Control in Advanced Capitalist

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Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and the United States." (second author, Keiko
Nakao) Paper presented at the meetings of the Research Committee on Social Stratification,
International Sociological Association, Prague, June, 1991.

"Preventing Poverty: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and the

United States." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Council on Family
Relations, Denver, November, 1991.

"Asia and Western Theories of Social Stratification: Conceptual Universals or Western

Bias." (second author, Elke Wittenhaggen) Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
Research Committee on Social Stratification, International Sociological Association, Trento,
Italy, May, 1992.

"Social Stratification in Asia: Max Weber and the Western Theoritical Bias." (second
author, Elke Wittenhagen) Paper presented at the annual meetings of Asian Studies on the
Pacific Coast, June, 1992, San Luis Obispo, California.

"Japanese Corporations in Germany: Corporate Structure and Employee Relations." (With

Elke Wittenhagen and Keiko Nakao) Pacific Rim Studies institute, California State
University, Fresno, "The Pacific Rim Faces the 21st Century." October, 1993.

"Japanese Corporate Organization and Employee Relations: An Analysis of Japanese

Transplants in Germany and the United States." (with Keiko Nakao and Elke Wittenhagen)
Western Social Science Association, April, 1994, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

"Corporate Structure, Labor Laws, and Comparative Employee Relations: Japanese

Corporations in Germany." (with Keiko Nakao and Elke Wittenhagen), American
Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1994.

"Japanese Companies in Germany: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Management." (First

author James Lincoln, with Elke Wittenhagen) Academy of Management, annual meeting,
Vancouver, August, 1995.

“Cultural Contrasts: The Affects of Japanese and American Management on Thai Workers.”
(second author, with Robert Slagter and Ben Moncrief) Midwest Conference on Asian
Affairs, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 1998.

“The Foreign Boss: Employee Commitment and Management Styles in Japanese and
American Corporations in Thailand.” (Robert Slagter first author) Paper presented at the
Annual meeting of the National Association of Social Sciences, New Orleans, Oct. 1998.

“Asian Economic Crisis, Decline of the ‘Asian Model’ of Economic Development, and the
Decline of Japanese Leadership in Southeast Asia.” (Robert Slagter second author) Paper
presented at the 4th ASIAN Conference on Social Development, Pattani, Thailand, June,
1999.

“Asian Cultures and Social Structures: Toward a Better Understanding of Economic

Development.” Paper presented at the Annual Confucianism Conference, Iwaki, Japan, June

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“Foreign Investment and Economic Development in Southeast Asia.” Paper presented to the
Asian Economic Conference, University of Oklahoma, March, 2001.

“The Modern World System, Multinational Corporate Investment, and Asian Economic
Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Southeast Asia as Exception.” Paper
presented at meetings of the International Sociological Association, Committee on Social
Stratification (RC 28), Berkeley, August, 2001.

“A Global Capitalist Class: Nation-State, Domestic Class Conflict, and Non-Core Resistance
in Southeast Asia.” paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Anaheim, August, 2001.

“The Impact of Colonialism versus Culture: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Southeast

Asian Economic Development.” paper presented at the Conference on Culture, Politics, and
Development, Ascona, Switzerland, October 2002.

“Prospects for SE Asian Economic Integration: A Critique of the ‘Asian Values’

Perspective.” Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore, August 2003.

“Inequality and Divergence in the Modern World System: Historical Forces and the
Reduction of Global Inequalities in East and Southeast Asia.” Conference on World Society,
Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2004.

“Employee Commitment in American and Japanese Firms in Thailand.” (with Chikako Usui,
Richard Colignon, and Robert Slagter). Joint meeting of Association of Japanese Business
Studies and Academy of International Business, Quebec, Canada, July, 2005.

“Historical Conditions, the State, and Poverty reduction in Southeast Asia.” Paper presented
at “Rethinking Mainland Southeast Asia” at the Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap,
Cambodia, Feb. 2006.

“Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in the New Global Economy: Cambodia in
Historical-Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Socio-
Cultural Research Congress on Cambodia, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
November, 2006.

“Sustainable Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in the Buddhist Countries

of Southeast Asia: The Crisis in Cambodia.” Paper and Keynote address at the annual
meeting of the Southeast Asian Studies Association, Vienna, Austria, June, 2009.

XIII. Special Lectures

"Changes in the U.S. Occupational Structure and Increasing Income Inequality." Seminar
presentation to faculty of Taiwan National University and Academia Sinica (National
Research Institute), Taipai, Taiwan, November 4, 1985.

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"Class and Special Education Programs in the U.S." Presented to the Research Foundation
for Early Childhood, Hiroshima University, June, 1988.

"Political Economy and Inequality: Japan and the United States." presented to the Social
Sciences Faculty and graduate students, Hochschule der Bundeswehr-Munchen, Munich,
Germany, May 28, 1991.

"Development in Thailand: Trends, Issues, and Japanese Involvement." with Uthai

Dulyakasem, presented to the Social Sciences Faculty and graduate students, University of
New Orleans, April, 1992.

"Who Rules Japan?" a paper and university wide lecture presented to students and faculty of
the University of Zurich, Switzerland, May, 1992.

"German Workers in Japanese Transplant Corporations: Problems

and Employee Relations." Institut Arbeit und Technik,
Gelsenkirchen, Germany, April, 1993.

"Interrelations Between Elites in Japan: Keibatsu Intermarriage, Amakudari, and Old School
Ties." Institut Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen, German, Aug. 1993.

"Nippon's Inner Circles: Elite Ties in Modern Japan." University wide lecture presented to
students and faculty of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 1994.

"Japan's Inner Circles and the Future of Japan." University lecture, faculty and students of
Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany, Feb. 1996.

"U.S. Corporate Performance and Inequality." University lecture to faculty and students of
University of Sussex, England, April 1997.

"Political and Economic Scandals in Japan: Corruption and the Nature of Japanese Elites."
Tom Paine Society, Lewes, England, April 1997.

“Employee Satisfaction and Productivity in Japanese and American Corporations in

Thailand.” lecture at the Anderson School of Business forum “Future of the Japanese
Corporation,” UCLA, Sept. 1997.

“The Asian Economic Crisis and the Decline of Japanese Economic Leadership.”
Paper/lecture to faculty of sociology, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia,
Madrid, Spain, Feb. 1999.

“The ‘Gaijin Complex’: A Japanese Disadvantage in a Global Economy.” Lecture to the

School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Oct. 1999.

“Trends in US Social Stratification Theory and Research: Where we have been and where
we should be going.” Lecture to Faculty of Sociology, Universidad Nacional de Educaion a
Distancea, Madrid, Nov. 1999.

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“The Modern World System and Comparative Social Stratification: USA, Germany, and
Japan.” TV lecture to 5 campuses of Universidad Nacional de Educaion a Distancea, Madrid,
Nov. 1999.

“Japanese Corporations in Germany and Thailand: Research Methodologies and Analysis of

the Cross Cultural Work Place.” Lecture to faculty and students, MBA program, Oxford
Brookes University, UK, Dec. 1999.

“Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in the New Global Economy.” Special
lecture to faculty and students at Tohoku University, May, 2007.

“Poverty and Unsustainable Economic Development in Cambodia: A Comparative Analysis

of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.” Keynote address, Western University, Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, January, 2010.

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