Publications:
Books
Forthcoming. Confronting Gouldner: Sociology and Political Activism. (Book contract signed with Brill Publishers.)
Forthcoming. Social Control: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Polity Press.
2011. Beyond Community Policing: From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
2010 (ed.) Social Control: Informal, Legal, and Medical. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
2008. Medicina e Controllo Sociale, edited by G. Cersosimo. Calimera (Lecce): Kurumuny.
2007. Social Control: An Introduction. Oxford, UK: Polity Press.
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).
Refereed Journal Articles
2007. "The Functions of the Social Bond." The Sociological Quarterly 48:689-712.
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.
2000. "Alvin W. Gouldner and the Tragic Vision in Sociology." Social Thought and Research 23:199-225.
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.
1996. "Toward an Interparadigmatic Dialogue on Goffman." Sociological Perspectives 39:333-339.
1996. "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.
1993. "Durkheim's Cult of the Individual as Civil Religion: Its Appropriation by Erving Goffman." Sociological Spectrum 13 (2):251-275.
Book Chapters
2011. "On Karl N. Llewellyn." Pp. 105-113 in Classic Writings in Law and Society, 2nd ed., edited by A.J. Treviño. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. (Reprint of Chriss 2008.)
2010. "Lester F. Ward and World Sociology." Pp. 147-162 in Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology: The Migration and Development of Ideas, edited by C. Schrecker. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.
2010. "Social Control Revisited." Pp. 1-16 in Social Control: Informal, Legal, and Medical, edited by J.J. Chriss. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
2010. "The Social Control of Sex and Food: A Brief Overview." Pp. 169-182 in Social Control: Informal, Legal, and Medical, edited by J.J. Chriss. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
2008. "Introduction to the Transaction Edition." Pp. vii-xvi in Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice, by Karl Llewellyn. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction.
2007. "Introduction: 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.
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.
2000. "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. "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.
1995. "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).
Encyclopedia Entries and Other Collections
Forthcoming. "Flash Mobs." Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America, edited by J.I. Ross. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2011. "Networks." P. 422 in Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer and J.M. Ryan. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
2010. "The Social Bond." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
2007. "Networks." Pp. 3182-3185 in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. VII, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
2007. "Norm of Reciprocity." Pp. 3227-3229 in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. VII, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
2007. "Recognition." Pp. 3819-3822 in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. VII, 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.
2005. "Gouldner, Alvin Ward (1920-1980)." Pp. 965-967 in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, edited by J.R. Shook. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes.
2005. "George Herbert Mead." 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.
Review Essays, Comments, and Invited Publications
2008. "Addams, Ward, et al.: American Sociology Past to Present." Journal of Classical Sociology 8 (4):491-502.
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.