David John FrankProfessor, Sociology |
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Research Abstract |
WORKS IN PROGRESS: I. Books Criminal Sex: Global Trends and Cross-National Variations in Laws Regulating Sexual Activity. A systematic inquiry into worldwide changes in the criminal regulation of sex, 1945-2005, focused on laws against rape, adultery, sodomy, and child-sexual abuse, considering the causal effects of increasing individualization and increasing equality of the sexes on legal reform. Complemented by analyses of cross-national variations in sex laws and also by case studies of the mechanisms of regulatory change and the implementation of policy reform in Thailand, Egypt, and Poland. The main data come from country penal codes and from interviews with government officials and national activists. The Ceremonial University: Constituting the Global Knowledge Society (with J. W. Meyer). An examination of the worldwide explosion in university knowledge and student enrollments from the late 1800s to the present, arguing that both trends represent contemporary extensions of the Modern notions that nature operates according to universalistic, integrated, and rational rules and that humans can discover, know, and learn how to use such rules through rational endeavors. Explored with longitudinal and comparative data drawn from university course catalogs and other sources. II. Articles & Chapters “Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945-2005” (with B. Camp and S. A. Boutcher). Considers global trends in the criminal regulation of sexual activity, 1945-2005, based on cross-national penal-code data from more than 100 countries, showing world contractions in the criminal regulation of sodomy and adultery and system-wide expansions in the regulation of rape and child-sexual abuse. The opposing trends, we argue, embody changing definitions of “sex” and “society” – around individuals and pleasure rather than families and procreation. Under revision for American Sociological Review. “NGOs, INGOs, and Social Change: Environmental Policy Reform in the Developing World, 1970-1995” (with W. Longhofer and E. Schofer). Event-history analysis and descriptive evidence on the sources of pro-environmental policy reforms in the developing world 1970-95. We find illustrations of bottom-up social change and “boomerang effects,” but the overall pattern of reform is best explained by global organizational dynamics. |
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I. Book Frank, David John, and Jay Gabler. 2006. Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. II. Articles & Chapters Frank, David John, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp. 2009. “The Repeal of Sodomy Laws from a World-Society Perspective.” Pp. 123-41 in Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law, edited by S. Barclay, M. Bernstein, and A.-M. Marshall. New York, NY: New York University Press. Frank, David John, Tara Hardinge, and Kassia Wosick-Correa. 2009. “The Global Dimensions of Rape-Law Reform: A Cross-National Study of Policy Outcomes.” American Sociological Review 74 (April): 272-90. Frank, David John, Wesley Longhofer, and Evan Schofer. 2007. “World Society, NGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48 (August): 275-95. Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2007. “University Expansion and the Knowledge Society.” Theory and Society 36 (August): 287-311. Meyer, John W., Francisco O. Ramirez, David John Frank, and Evan Schofer. 2007. “Higher Education as an Institution.” Pp. 187-221 in Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts, edited by P. J. Gumport. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Frank, David John. 2007. “Ecology and Economy.” Pp. 1289-91 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2007. “Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University.” Pp. 19-44 in Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions, edited by G. Krücken, A. Kosmützky, and M. Torka. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript-Verlag. Gabler, Jay, and David John Frank. 2005. “The Natural Sciences in the University: Change and Variation over the 20th Century.” Sociology of Education 78 (July): 183-206. Frank, David John. 2002. “The Origins Question: Building Institutions to Protect Nature.” Pp. 41-56 in Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives, edited by A. Hoffman and M. J. Ventresca. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2002. “The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Post-War Period.” Sociological Theory 20 (March): 86-105. (Reprinted pp. 296-319 in World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer, edited by G. Krücken and G. S. Drori. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.) Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2000. “Environmentalism as a Global Institution” (reply). American Sociological Review 65 (February): 122-7. (Reprinted pp. 461-66 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by M. R. Redclift and G. Woodgate. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2005.) Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2000. “The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 65 (February): 96-116. (Reprinted pp. 435-55 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by M. R. Redclift and G. Woodgate. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2005.) Frank, David John, Suk-Ying Wong, John W. Meyer, and Francisco O. Ramirez. 2000. “What Counts as History: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study of University Curricula.” Comparative Education Review 44 (February): 29-53. Frank, David John. 1999. “The Social Bases of Environmental Treaty Ratification, 1900-1990.” Sociological Inquiry 69 (Fall): 523-50. Frank, David John, and Elizabeth H. McEneaney. 1999. “The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same-Sex Sexual Relations, 1984-1995.” Social Forces 77 (March): 911-44. Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, John W. Meyer, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma. 1999. “The Rationalization and Organization of Nature in World Culture.” Pp. 81-99 in Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, edited by J. Boli and G. M. Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Barrett, Deborah, and David John Frank. 1999. “Population Control for National Development: From World Discourse to National Policies.” Pp. 198-221 in Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, edited by J. Boli and G. M. Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Frank, David John. 1997. “Science, Nature, and the Globalization of the Environment, 1870-1990.” Social Forces 76 (December): 409-35. (Reprinted pp. 249-70 in The Environment and Society Reader, edited by R. S. Frey. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.) (Reprinted in Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, edited by D. Inglis. London, England: Routledge, 2005.) Meyer, John W., David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma. 1997. “The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990.” International Organization 51 (Autumn): 623-51. (Translated and reprinted pp. 235-75 in John W. Meyer: Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen, edited by G. Krücken. Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp, 2005.) (Reprinted pp. 222-50 in World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer, edited by G. Krücken and G. S. Drori. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.) Frank, David John, John W. Meyer, and David Miyahara. 1995. “The Individualist Polity and the Centrality of Professionalized Psychology: A Cross-National Study.” American Sociological Review 60 (June): 360-77. Frank, David John, Evan Schofer, and John Charles Torres. 1994. “Rethinking History: Change in the University Curriculum, 1910-90.” Sociology of Education 67 (October): 231-42. |
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