Thomas Janoski's new books: "The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrial Societies." 2010, Cambridge University Press. "Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant" October 2011, University Press of America, with Darina Lepadatu. Phone: 859-257-4418 Address: 1525 Patterson Office Tower Sociology Department University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-20027
Corporations pour billions of dollars into diversity training without taking the time to research... more Corporations pour billions of dollars into diversity training without taking the time to research what diversity actually means for the people on the shop-floor. This book reveals the dynamics of gender, race, and age as workers experience it for themselves. This systematic qualitative study contains close to 150 interviews with workers from a wide variety of teams.
Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, rac... more Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with usual immigration theories and proposes an approach spanning centuries and decades to explain naturalization rates. Three major claims are made. First, colonizer, settler, non-colonizer and Nordic regime types are empirically validated to explain different rates over centuries. Second, left and green parties and an index of nationality laws explain the lion's share of naturalization rate variation over 35 years. And third, it presents carefully crafted case studies detailing the development of naturalization laws.
Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars, The Handbook of Political Sociology provide... more Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars, The Handbook of Political Sociology provides the first complete survey (32 chapters) of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I begins by exploring the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the States. Part II takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures form civil society including welfare, gender and military policies. Part IV examines globalization. The handbook is dedicated to the memory of co-editor Robert Alford.
Citizenship and Civil Society advances citizenship theory in three ways. First, it clarifies the ... more Citizenship and Civil Society advances citizenship theory in three ways. First, it clarifies the confusing areas of rights and obligations while expanding their meaning. Second, it frames rights and obligations in a balance of restricted and generalized exchange. And third, it shows how rights and obligations have developed in diverse ways in 18 advanced industrialized countries. The book provides the theoretical and empirical foundation for understanding most democratic societies.
How did dual citizenship evolve from traitorous to trendy? Dual nationality was once considered a... more How did dual citizenship evolve from traitorous to trendy? Dual nationality was once considered an offense against nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts dissipated, dual citizenship continued to be the object of loyalty and misplaced security concerns. Only recently has the status largely shed the opprobrium to which it was once attached.The first monograph on the status in several generations, AT HOME IN TWO COUNTRIES charts the transformed understanding of dual citizenship from strong disfavor to general acceptance. Today, the state lacks both the capacity and the incentive to suppress the status as citizenship becomes more like other forms of membership. Dual citizenship allows many to formalize sentimental attachments. For others, it’s a new way to game the international system. The introduction opens with the author’s own experience acquiring dual citizenship. It then outlines the book’s consideration of dual citizenship in historical and contemporary perspective.
This chapter summarizes the contradictions and limitations of lean production, concluding that th... more This chapter summarizes the contradictions and limitations of lean production, concluding that this model emerges as the new dominant model of division of labor.
A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes, 1998
What are we like? We are rights-conscious and individualistic, at least as compared to people in ... more What are we like? We are rights-conscious and individualistic, at least as compared to people in the past. There is a central concern with the development of the self and the molding of unique individuals. The core mechanism for constituting the self, according to the prevailing point of view, is through free and unrestrained choice, exercised with regard to many and competitive options. Lawrence Friedman (1990, p. 5) Strong democracy … rests on the idea of a self-governing community of citizens who are united less by homogenous interests than by civic education and who are made capable of common purpose and mutual action by virtue of their civic attitudes and participatory institutions rather than their altruism or their good nature. Benjamin Barber (1984, p. 117) Citizenship rights are at the same time indisputable and subject to extension, and controversial and an object of curtailment. Some see freedom as maximized through market choices made by individuals (Friedman 1990), while others see freedom requiring the community to combine peoples' efforts through discourse in common purpose (Barber 1984). To understand citizenship rights within this broad range of opinion, this chapter surveys, analyzes, and frames rights under citizenship as universalistic rights enacted into law, and not informal, unenacted, or particularistic rights. This chapter will establish the logic of citizenship rights through five points. First, it establishes the range of rights in T. H. Marshall's theory. Second, Marshall and Bendix use citizenship rights in an implied cross-classification of action (active and passive) and arenas (political and economic), which undergirds their theory.
Corporations pour billions of dollars into diversity training without taking the time to research... more Corporations pour billions of dollars into diversity training without taking the time to research what diversity actually means for the people on the shop-floor. This book reveals the dynamics of gender, race, and age as workers experience it for themselves. This systematic qualitative study contains close to 150 interviews with workers from a wide variety of teams.
Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, rac... more Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with usual immigration theories and proposes an approach spanning centuries and decades to explain naturalization rates. Three major claims are made. First, colonizer, settler, non-colonizer and Nordic regime types are empirically validated to explain different rates over centuries. Second, left and green parties and an index of nationality laws explain the lion's share of naturalization rate variation over 35 years. And third, it presents carefully crafted case studies detailing the development of naturalization laws.
Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars, The Handbook of Political Sociology provide... more Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars, The Handbook of Political Sociology provides the first complete survey (32 chapters) of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I begins by exploring the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the States. Part II takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures form civil society including welfare, gender and military policies. Part IV examines globalization. The handbook is dedicated to the memory of co-editor Robert Alford.
Citizenship and Civil Society advances citizenship theory in three ways. First, it clarifies the ... more Citizenship and Civil Society advances citizenship theory in three ways. First, it clarifies the confusing areas of rights and obligations while expanding their meaning. Second, it frames rights and obligations in a balance of restricted and generalized exchange. And third, it shows how rights and obligations have developed in diverse ways in 18 advanced industrialized countries. The book provides the theoretical and empirical foundation for understanding most democratic societies.
How did dual citizenship evolve from traitorous to trendy? Dual nationality was once considered a... more How did dual citizenship evolve from traitorous to trendy? Dual nationality was once considered an offense against nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts dissipated, dual citizenship continued to be the object of loyalty and misplaced security concerns. Only recently has the status largely shed the opprobrium to which it was once attached.The first monograph on the status in several generations, AT HOME IN TWO COUNTRIES charts the transformed understanding of dual citizenship from strong disfavor to general acceptance. Today, the state lacks both the capacity and the incentive to suppress the status as citizenship becomes more like other forms of membership. Dual citizenship allows many to formalize sentimental attachments. For others, it’s a new way to game the international system. The introduction opens with the author’s own experience acquiring dual citizenship. It then outlines the book’s consideration of dual citizenship in historical and contemporary perspective.
This chapter summarizes the contradictions and limitations of lean production, concluding that th... more This chapter summarizes the contradictions and limitations of lean production, concluding that this model emerges as the new dominant model of division of labor.
A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes, 1998
What are we like? We are rights-conscious and individualistic, at least as compared to people in ... more What are we like? We are rights-conscious and individualistic, at least as compared to people in the past. There is a central concern with the development of the self and the molding of unique individuals. The core mechanism for constituting the self, according to the prevailing point of view, is through free and unrestrained choice, exercised with regard to many and competitive options. Lawrence Friedman (1990, p. 5) Strong democracy … rests on the idea of a self-governing community of citizens who are united less by homogenous interests than by civic education and who are made capable of common purpose and mutual action by virtue of their civic attitudes and participatory institutions rather than their altruism or their good nature. Benjamin Barber (1984, p. 117) Citizenship rights are at the same time indisputable and subject to extension, and controversial and an object of curtailment. Some see freedom as maximized through market choices made by individuals (Friedman 1990), while others see freedom requiring the community to combine peoples' efforts through discourse in common purpose (Barber 1984). To understand citizenship rights within this broad range of opinion, this chapter surveys, analyzes, and frames rights under citizenship as universalistic rights enacted into law, and not informal, unenacted, or particularistic rights. This chapter will establish the logic of citizenship rights through five points. First, it establishes the range of rights in T. H. Marshall's theory. Second, Marshall and Bendix use citizenship rights in an implied cross-classification of action (active and passive) and arenas (political and economic), which undergirds their theory.
Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander Civil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept fr... more Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander Civil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical Transformations PART ONE: UNCIVIL HIERARCHIES Banfield's Amoral Familism Revisited - Elisa P Reis Implications of High Inequality Structures for Civil Society Between Economic Dissolution and the Return of the Social - Michael Pusey The Contest for Civil Society in Australia Civil Society, Patronage, and Democracy - Luis Roniger Civil Society and Uncivil Organizations - G[um]oran Ahrne PART TWO: BIFURCATING DISCOURSES Citizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification - Jeffrey C Alexander On the Polarizing Discourse of Civil Society Barbarism and Civility in the Discourses of Fascism, Communism and Democracy - Philip Smith Variations on a Set of Themes The Racial Discourse of Civil Society - Ronald N Jacobs The Rodney King Affair and the City of Los Angeles PART THREE: ARBITRARY FOUNDINGS Neither Faith nor Commerce - David Zaret Printing and the Unintended Origins of English Public Opinion Mistrusting Civility - Piotr Sztompka Predicament of Post-Communist Society The Public Sphere and a European Civil Society - V[ac]ictor P[ac]erez-D[ac]iaz
Offers specific how-to instructions for involving employees in designing new work methods and dev... more Offers specific how-to instructions for involving employees in designing new work methods and developing strategies for organizational improvement. Presents in-depth case studies of organizations that have used these techniques.
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