Dr. David Brown

Associate Professor

Sociology and Anthropology

Office

Schroeder Hall - SCH 360

Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday 11:30-12:30

Office Phone

(309) 438-8300office
phone

dkbrown@ilstu.eduemail

About
Education
Research

Biography

Most of my research is theoretically driven, historically oriented, and attentive to social power structures and processes. I have published extensively about educational credentialing and labor markets and have broader interests in the machinations of cultural status systems. I am told that this work looks more like what Weber would do than Marx, and that rather pleases me.

Current Courses

270.001Sociological Theory

270.002Sociological Theory

372.001Special Topics in Sociology

495.001Special Topics In Sociology

270.001Sociological Theory

270.002Sociological Theory

466.001Sociological Theory

Teaching Interests & Areas

Recent Courses: Undergraduate: Introductory Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, Sociology Of Culture. Graduate: Sociological Theory, Sociology of Culture. Recent M.A. Thesis Committee Topics: Educational stratification, Work/Occupations/Organizations, Popular Culture and Media, Technology, Environment, Community, Historical Sociology.

Research Interests & Areas

Sociological Theory, Cultural and Historical Sociology, Organizations, Education, Stratification, Methods of Historical Inquiry.

Ph D Sociology

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

MA Sociology

University of Virginia

Charlotteville, VA

BS Sociology

Illinois State University

Normal, IL

Book Review

Brown, D. Review of Elite Education, International Perspectives . 2016. International Sociological Reviews.. International Sociological Reviews (2016)

Brown, D. Review of Wuthnow, Remaking the Heartland. American Journal of Sociology. (2011)

Brown, D. Review of Ragin, Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond (2009)

Brown, D. Review of Van Galen, Late to Class: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy (2007)

Brown, D. Review of Shepard, Scout's Honor. (2002)

Book, Authored

Brown, D. Social Blueprints: Conceptual Foundations of Sociology. Oxford Univ. Press. (2004)

Brown, D. Degrees of Control: A Sociology of Educational Expansion and Occupational Credentialism. Columbia Univ. Press. (1995)

Book, Chapter

Brown, D. An Overture for the Sociology of Credentialing (2011)

Brown, D. Introduction: New Directions in Educational Credentialism (2011)

Brown, D. Rites of Passage, Organizational Culture, and Mass Pedagogy. In Teaching and Learning in Large Classes. American Sociological Association. (1999)

Book, Edited

Brown, D. New Directions in Educational Credentialing. David Brown and David Bills, eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing. (2011)

Encyclopedia

"Max Weber and Organizational Theory"

Brown, D. "Credentialing," In Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Edited by George Ritzer. George Ritzer (EDs), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2015)

Journal Article

Brown, D. Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology: Theoretical Context of Embarrassment and Social Organization (2003)

Brown, D. The Social Sources of Educational Credentialism: Status Cultures, Labor Markets, and Organizations. Sociology of Education, Extra Issue: Sociology of Education at the Dawn of the 21st Century. (2001)

Brown, D. The Riddle of Multiculturalism: Unraveling Power, Bureaucracy, and Educational Change. Sociological Imagination. (1997)

Brown, D. Interpretive Historical Sociology: Discordances of Weber, Dilthey, and Others. Journal of Historical Sociology. (1990)

Brown, D. Simmel's Theory of Historical Understanding. Virginia Journal of Sociology. (1986)

Brown, D. Theory, Texts, and Institutions. Perspectives, American Sociological Association. (2000)