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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Brint, Steven G

Professor of Sociology
Associate Dean, Student Academic Affairs

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Biography

Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, and the director of the Colleges & Universities 2000 study. He also serves as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, where he focuses on undergraduate teaching and learning. Steven Brint works on topics at the intersection of the sociology of higher education, the sociology of professions, and middle-class politics. He is the author of three books: The Diverted Dream (with Jerome Karabel) (Oxford University Press, 1989), In an Age of Experts (Princeton University Press, 1994), Schools and Societies (Pine Forge/Sage, 1998, second ed. Stanford University Press 2006). He is the editor of The Future of the City of Intellect (Stanford University Press, 2002). He is the co-editor (with Jean Reith Schroedel) of the two-volume series, Evangelicals and Democracy in America. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Minerva, Work and Occupations, Sociology of Education, and many other journals. His book on community colleges, The Diverted Dream, won the American Education Research Association's Outstanding Book award of 1991 and the Council of Colleges and Universities' Outstanding Research Publication award the same year. His article, Socialization Messages in Primary Schools: An Organizational Analysis, (with Mary F. Contreras and Michael T. Matthews) won the American Sociological Association's Willard Waller Award for the best article on education in 2001. His work has been translated into Dutch, French, Italian, and Japanese. He is currently at work on a new book,'Creating the Future': Organizational and Cultural Change in American Research Universities, 1980-2005. A native of Albuquerque, NM, Steven Brint received his B.A. with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. He joined the faculty in sociology at the University of California, Riverside in 1993, after teaching at Yale University from 1985-1992. At UCR, he was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Fostering Undergraduate Research in 2006.

Former Institution

Yale University

Degrees

BA Sociology 1973

University of California, Berkeley

MA Sociology 1977

Harvard University

PhD Sociology 1982

Harvard University

Awards

American Education Research Association’s “Outstanding Book” award of 1991 and the Council of Colleges and Universities’ “Outstanding Research Publication” award the same year for "The Diverted Dream."


Research Area

Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Professions, Political Sociology

Publications

The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University (Spring 2002) Stanford University Press.

Schools and Societies, (1998) Pine Forge Press/Sage. 2nd ed. 2002.

In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life (1994) Princeton University Press. Nominee, Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association.

The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1990-1985. (1989) Oxford University Press (with Jerome Karabel).

"The Rise of the 'Practical Arts': The Development of Education for Upper-White-Collar Occupations in American Colleges and Universities, 1970-1995 in Steven Brint ed., The Future of the City of Intellect.

"Data for Studies of Higher Education: Are the Existing Resources Adequate?" Forthcoming in a special edition of The American Behavioral Scientist, Fall, 2002.

"Socialization Messages in Primary Schools: An Organizational Analysis" (with Mary C. Contreras and Michael T. Matthews). Sociology of Education 74 (July).

“Gemeinschaft Revisited: Rethinking the Community Concept,” Sociological Theory 19 (2001).

"Professions and Civic Engagement: Trends in Thetoric and Organization, 1875-1995" (with Charles S. Levy) in Theda Skocpol and Morris Fiorina, eds., Civic Engagement in American Democracy (1999) Brookings Institution Press.