CURRICULUM VITAE
(January, 2014)
Stephen K. Sanderson
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Birth Date: November 15, 1945, Springfield, Missouri
Home address: 266 Pipe Springs, Beaumont, CA 92223
Office address: Department of Sociology, 1221 Watkins Hall, University of
California, Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951-204-9517 (cell)
E-mail: sksander999@gmail.com
Education: BS 1967, Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield, MO (now
Missouri State University)
MA 1971, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
PhD 1973, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Positions held:
October 2010, Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Chuo University, Tokyo,
Japan.
2008-present: Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California,
Riverside (Courses taught: Evolutionary Sociology, Gender and Families, Theory
Construction, Social Institutions, Social Change)
2007-08: Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of
California, Riverside (Course taught: Issues in Contemporary Theory).
Winter Quarter 2007: Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of
California, Riverside (Course taught: Comparative Institutional Analysis).
Winter Quarter 2006: Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of
California, Riverside.
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2006-07: Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of
Colorado at Boulder.
1986-2006: Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Courses taught: Principles,
Sociological Theory; Contemporary Sociological Theory (graduate); Sociology of Marx
and Marxism; World Societies & World Systems; Marriage, Kinship, & the Family;
Biology and Society; Sociology and Darwinism (honors senior synthesis).
Spring, 1988: Guest Lecturer, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.
1978-86: Associate Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Courses taught:
Principles of Sociology, Development of Social Theory; Sociological Theory;
Contemporary Sociological Theory (graduate); Comparative Macrosociology; Sociology
of Marx and Marxism).
1975-78: Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Courses taught:
Principles of Sociology; Development of Social Theory; Contemporary Sociological
Theory (graduate); Social Psychology.
1973-75: Assistant Professor, Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State
University) (Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology, Classical Sociological Theory,
Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Organization, Social Psychology, Philosophy
of Social Science).
1968-72: Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Courses taught:
Introduction to Sociology, Marriage and the Family).
Administrative Experience:
Co-Director, University Honors Program, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 19831985
Assistant Chairperson, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, 1976-77 and 1978-79
Chairperson, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, January
2000-May 2001
Honors and Awards:
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Distinguished Award for Research, 1995.
Pennsylvania Sociological Society Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 1994.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. “Agreement and
Disagreement in Science.” Directed by Larry Laudan. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University. June 17-August 9, 1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. “Philosophy and the Social
Sciences: A History of Social Theory.” Directed by Maurice Mandelbaum. The Johns
Hopkins University. June 20-August 12, 1977.
National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship, University of Nebraska, 1970-1973.
Organizational Memberships:
American Sociological Association
 Theory Section (Shils-Coleman Award Committee, 2008-09)
 Rational Choice Section
 Evolution, Biology, and Society Section (chair, 2009-10)
American Anthropological Association
 Evolutionary Anthropology Society
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
International Society for Human Ethology
Major Teaching Interests:
Evolution and Human Behavior
Comparative-Historical Sociology/Macrosociology
Societal Evolution
Sociological Theory
Social Change
Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective
Major Research and Scholarly Interests:
Evolution and Human Behavior
Societal Evolution
Comparative-Historical Sociology/Macrosociology
Sociological and Anthropological Theory
History and Anthropology of Religion
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PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming:
Stephen K. Sanderson, Modern Societies: A Comparative Perspective. Paradigm
Publishers, August 2014.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Darwinian Conflict Theory: A Unified Evolutionary Research
Program.” In Jonathan Turner, Alexandra Maryanski, and Richard Machalek
eds., Handbook of Evolutionary Analysis in Social Science. Paradigm Publishers,
2014.
Masamichi Sasaki, Ekkart Zimmerman, Jack A. Goldstone, and Stephen K. Sanderson,
eds., Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology. Leiden, NL: E. J.
Brill, June 2014.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Marriage, Kinship, and the Family in Comparative Perspective.”
To appear in Concise Encyclopedia.
Stephen K. Sanderson, biographical sketches of Edward Westermarck, Pitirim Sorokin,
Karl Marx, Charles Tilly, Perry Anderson, Michael Mann, Daniel Bell, Theda
Skocpol, and Barrington Moore. To appear in Concise Encyclopedia.
Work in Progress:
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Salvation and Transcendence: Religious Attachment Theory and
the Evolution of the Major World Religions.” In preparation.
Stephen K. Sanderson, Salvation and Transcendence: Evolutionary Origins of
the World Religions. In preparation.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Richard Niemeyer, “World Democratization, 1905-1995: A
Cross-National Test of Modernization, Power Resource, and Diffusion Theories.”
In preparation.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Edward Westermarck: The Invisible Master.”
Books (11 in 18 editions):
Stephen K. Sanderson, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society. Westview
Press, 2014. [450 pages]
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Stephen K. Sanderson, Rethinking Sociological Theory: Introducing and
Exploring a Scientific Theoretical Sociology. Paradigm Publishers, 2012.
[267 pages]
Randall Collins, Conflict Sociology: Updating a Sociological Classic. Abridged
and Updated by Stephen K. Sanderson. Paradigm Publishers, 2009. [319 pages]
Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson, eds., Studying Societies and
Cultures: Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy.
Paradigm Publishers, 2007. [“Studies in Comparative Social Science” series, ed.
Stephen K. Sanderson] [332 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, Evolutionism and Its Critics: Deconstructing and
Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society.
Paradigm Publishers, 2007. [374 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Political
and Social Change. Paradigm Publishers, 2005. [236 pages] [“Studies in
Comparative Social Science,” series, ed. Stephen K. Sanderson.] 2nd edition
published under the title Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to
Social and Political Contention. Paradigm Publishers, 2009. [276 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson and Arthur S. Alderson, World Societies: The Evolution of
Human Social Life. Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2005. [304 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian
Conflict Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. [393 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, ed., Civilizations and World-Systems: Studying WorldHistorical Change. AltaMira Press, 1995. [324 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, Social Transformations: A General Theory of
Historical Development, Blackwell, 1995. [452 pages] Updated edition with
Afterword, “Biological Constraints on Social Evolution,” Rowman & Littlefield,
1999. [478 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, ed., Sociological Worlds: Comparative and Historical
Readings on Society. Roxbury Publishing Co., 1995. [360 pages] [Library
version of the 1st edition issued by Fitzroy and Dearborn, 2000, with two
methodological articles added.] [377-pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, Social Evolutionism: A Critical History. Basil Blackwell,
1990. (“Studies in Social Discontinuity” series, ed. Charles Tilly.) [251 pages]
Stephen K. Sanderson, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies.
Harper & Row, 1988; 2nd and 3rd editions, HarperCollins, 1991 and 1995; 4th
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edition, Addison-Wesley Longman, 1999. Translations: Bahasa Indonesian (2nd
ed.), Korean (3rd ed.), Chinese (4th ed).
Articles (66 total, divided as follows):
Articles in Refereed Journals:
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Commentary on David Sloan Wilson.” Cliodynamics 4(1):123126, 2013.
Alexandra Maryanski, Stephen K. Sanderson, and Raymond W. Russell. “The Israeli
Kibbutzim and the Westermarck Hypothesis: Does Early Association Dampen
Sexual Passion? Comment on Shor and Simchai.” American Journal of Sociology
117:1503-1508, 2012.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Alive and Well . . . Or Just Alive? Rejoinder to Chase-Dunn and
Lawrence.”International Journal of Comparative Sociology 52:431-38, 2011.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Rejoinder #2 to Chase-Dunn and Lawrence’s Rejoinder #2.”
International Journal of Comparative Sociology 52:445-48, 2011.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Religion and Economic Development: An Idea Whose Time Has
Gone?” Annual Bulletin of the Institute of Social Sciences of Chuo University,
Japan. No. 15:195-217, 2011.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Kristopher Proctor, “Testing the Protestant Ethic Thesis
Using Quantitative Historical Data.” Social Forces 89:905-11, 2011.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Prolegomenon to the Theoretical Unification of the Social and
Natural Sciences.” Sociologica, Issue 3/2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Wesley W. Roberts, “The Evolutionary Forms of the
Religious Life: A Cross-Cultural, Quantitative Study.” American Anthropologist
110:454-466, 2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Adaptation, Evolution, and Religion.” Religion 38:141-156,
2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Impact of Darwinism on Sociology: An Historical and
Critical Overview.” Pp. 9-25 in Heinz-Juergen Niedenzu, Tamas Meleghy, and
Peter Meyer, eds., The New Evolutionary Social Science: Human Nature, Social
Behavior, and Social Change. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Darwinian Conflict Theory and Evolutionary Sociology: A Reply
to Critics and Fellow Travelers.” Pp. 197-223 in Heinz-Juergen Niedenzu, Tamas
Meleghy, and Peter Meyer, eds., The New Evolutionary Social Science: Human
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Nature, Social Behavior, and Social Change. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers,
2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World-Systems Analysis After Thirty Years: Should It Rest in
Peace?” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 46:179-213, 2005.
Stephen K. Sanderson, D. Alex Heckert, and Joshua Dubrow, “Militarist, Marxian, and
Non-Marxian Materialist Theories of Gender Inequality: A Cross-Cultural Test.”
Social Forces 83:1425-1441, 2005.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Explaining Monogamy and Polygyny in Human Societies:
Comment on Kanazawa and Still.” Social Forces 80:329-336, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “An Evolutionary Theory of Fertility Decline: New Evidence.”
Population and Environment 22:555-563, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Joshua Dubrow, “Fertility Decline in the Modern World and
in the Original Demographic Transition: Testing Three Theories with CrossNational Data.” Population and Environment 21:511-537, 2000.
Jane T. Lord and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives
of Western Sociological Theorists.” American Sociologist 30:42-66, 1999.
Joshua Dubrow and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Was There Racial Antagonism in the
Ancient World? A Review of the Literature and Some Theoretical Speculations.”
Sociological Viewpoints 14:63-83, 1998.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “East and West in the Development of the Modern World
System.” Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 22:25-39, 1998.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionism and its Critics.” Journal of World-Systems
Research 3:94-114, 1997.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Future of W. Warren Wagar.” Journal of World-Systems
Research, Vol. 2, No. 2-i, 1996.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Sociology and the Human Future.” Sociological Viewpoints
11:2-10, 1995.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Expanding World Commercialization: Linking World-Systems
and Civilizations.” Comparative Civilizations Review 30:91-103, 1994.
(Reprinted in Stephen K. Sanderson, ed., Civilizations and World Systems:
Studying World-Historical Change, AltaMira Press, 1995.)
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: The Theoretical
Significance of the Japanese Case.” Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 17:15-55,
1994.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, guest editor, with an introduction, of a special issue of
Comparative Civilizations Review devoted to “Civilizations and World-Systems,”
Volume 30, Spring 1994.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionary Materialism: A Theoretical Strategy for the Study
of Social Evolution.” Sociological Perspectives 37:47-73, 1994.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Lee Ellis, “Theoretical and Political Perspectives of American
Sociologists in the 1990s.” American Sociologist 23(2):23-38, 1992.
Arthur S. Alderson and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Historical European Household
Structures and the Capitalist World-Economy.” Journal of Family History
16:419-432, 1991.
Siyabonga Ndabezitha and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Racial Antagonism and the Origins
of Apartheid in the South African Gold Mining Industry, 1886-1924: A Split
Labor Market Analysis.” Research in Race and Ethnic Relations 5:225-247, 1988.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Neo-Weberian Revolution: A Theoretical Balance Sheet.”
Sociological Forum 3:307-314, 1988.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “What Kind of Ecologist was Braudel? A Reply to Hudson.”
Sociological Forum 3:277-280, 1988.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Eclecticism and its Alternatives.” Current Perspectives in
Social Theory 8:313-345, 1987.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Provincialism of Introductory Sociology.” Teaching
Sociology 12:397-410, 1985.
Book Chapters:
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolution of Religion in Its Socioecological Contexts.” Pp.
3-19 in Jay R. Feierman, ed., The Biology of Religious Behavior: The
Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2009.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Religious Attachment Theory and the Biosocial Evolution of the
Major World Religions.” Pp. 67-72 in Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica
Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, and Karen Wyman, eds., The Evolution of
Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins
Foundation Press, 2008.
Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Introduction: The Potentials and
Challenges of Cultural Materialism.” Pp. 1-17 in Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen
K. Sanderson, eds., Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris’s
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Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers,
2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Marvin Harris, Meet Charles Darwin: A Critical Evaluation and
Theoretical Extension of Cultural Materialism.” Pp. 194-228 in Lawrence A.
Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson, eds., Studying Societies and Cultures:
Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “When Does Cultural Materialism Stop Being Cultural
Materialism? A Response to Kennedy’s Critique of Evolutionary Materialism and
Darwinian Conflict Theory.” Pp. 256-260 in Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K.
Sanderson, eds., Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris’s
Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers,
2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Spending: Testing the
Evolutionary Theory of Ethnicity with Cross-National Data.” Pp. 74-87 in Frank
Salter (ed.), Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism: New Data and Evolutionary
Theory. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Tatu Vanhanen, “Reconciling the Differences Between
Sanderson’s and Vanhanen’s Results.” Pp. 118-119 in Frank Salter (ed.), Welfare,
Ethnicity, and Altruism: New Data and Evolutionary Theory. London: Frank
Cass Publishers, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionary Theorizing.” Pp. 435-455 in Jonathan H. Turner
(ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theory. Kluwer/Academic Plenum, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World Systems and Social Change in Agrarian Societies, 3000
BC-AD 1500.” Pp. 185-197 in Robert A. Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K.
Gills, and George Modelski (eds.), World System History: The Social Science of
Long-Term Change. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolution of Societies and World-Systems.” Pp. 167-192 in
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, eds., Core/Periphery Relations in
Precapitalist Worlds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Encyclopedia or Handbook Entries:
Stephen K. Sanderson, Blackwell Online Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell,
2007.
Entries:
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“Evolutionary Sociology,”
“Charles Darwin,”
“Edward Westermarck”
Stephen K. Sanderson, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2007.
Entries:
 “The Bell Curve”(pp. 263-265)
 “Conflict Theory” (pp. 662-665)
 “Democracy” (pp. 1000-1004)
 “L. T. Hobhouse” (pp. 2140-2142)
 “Sexual Practices” (pp. 4083-4088)
 “Science, Proof, and Law” (4247-4249)
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Social Change.” Pp. 560-568 in 21st-Century Sociology: A
Reference Handbook, vol. 1, eds. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Sage
Publications, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Marx, Karl.” Pp. 1165-1169 in Carl Mitcham (ed.), Encyclopedia
of Science, Technology, and Ethics. 4 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA,
2005.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Social evolution (overview).” Pp. 14279-14286 in Neil J.
Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social &
Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 22. Pergamon Publishers, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson, Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology, ed. Thomas Barfield.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Entries:
 “Comparative Method” (pp. 78-79)
 “Cultural Materialism” (96-98)
 “Social Evolution” (172-177)
 “Evolutionary Stages” (177)
 “Marvin Harris” (232-233)
 “Historical Particularism” (237)
 “Materialism” (311-312)
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evoluzionismo.” Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali 3:735-743.
Roma: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993.
Newsletter articles (7):
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Why Rational Choice Theory and Sociobiology are Natural
Allies.” Evolution, Biology, and Society Newsletter 7(1):9-12, 2010.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Exploding Evolutionary Analysis of Religion.” ASA Section
on Evolution, Biology, and Society Newsletter 7(1):1-3, 2010.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionary Sociology and Evolutionary Social Science” ASA
Section on Evolution, Biology, and Society Newsletter 6(2):1-3, 2009.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionary Sociologists and Strategies for Doing Evolutionary
Sociology.” ASA Evolution & Sociology Newsletter 3(2):9-12, 2006.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “On the Benefits of Not Divorcing Social Evolution from
Biological Evolution: Comment on Chase-Dunn.” ASA Evolution & Sociology
Newsletter 3(1):12-15, 2006.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Reforming Theoretical Work in Sociology: A Brief Reply to My
Critics.” Perspectives: ASA Theory Section Newsletter 28(3):9-11, 2006. [Longer
reply available at http://www.asatheory.org.]
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Reforming Theoretical Work in Sociology: A Modest Proposal.”
Perspectives: ASA Theory Section Newsletter 28(2):1-4, 2005.
Reviews (28):
Review of Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism
Triumphant, 1789-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Journal of
World History 23:987-991, 2012.
Review of Frank Elwell, Macrosociology: Four Modern Theorists. (Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers, 2006.) Contemporary Sociology, vol. 36, no. 5, Sept. 2007.
Review essay on Gerhard Lenski, Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Contemporary Sociology 35:551-553, 2006.
“The Incest Taboo: Biological Evolution, Cultural Evolution, or Coevolution?” Review
essay on Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, Incest: Origins of the
Taboo (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Evolution & Sociology
Newsletter 2(1):6-10, 2005.
Review of Jonathan H. Turner, Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). American Journal of Sociology
110:806-808, 2004.
Review essay on Robert L. Carneiro, Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology (Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 2003). Social Evolution and History 3(2):176-185, 2004.
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Review essay on Robert L. Carneiro, The Muse of History and the Science of Culture
(New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2000). Social Evolution and History
2(1):238-246, 2003.
Review of Richard Lynn, Eugenics: A Reassessment (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001).
Population and Environment 24:219-222, 2002.
“How Chase-Dunn and Hall Got it Almost Right.” Review of Christopher Chase-Dunn
and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems (Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 1997). Social Evolution and History 1(1):171-176, 2002.
Review of Marvin Harris, Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times (Walnut Creek, CA:
AltaMira Press). Contemporary Sociology 29:429-430, 2000.
Review of Graeme Donald Snooks, The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploding the Myth of
Social Evolution (London: Routledge, 1997). Journal of World-Systems
Research 5:131-135, 1999.
Review of Kevin MacDonald, Separation and its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary
Theory of Anti-Semitism (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998). Human Ethology
Bulletin 13(4):20-23, 1999.
Review of Randall Collins and Scott Coltrane, Sociology of Marriage and the Family:
Gender, Love, and Property, 4th ed. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1995). Journal of
Developing Societies 14:9-11, 1998.
Review of Jonathan H. Turner, Macrodynamics: Toward a Theory on the Organization
of Human Populations (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995).
Social Forces 75:1473-1474, 1997.
Review of Graeme Donald Snooks, The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of
Global Change (London: Routledge, 1996). Journal of World-Systems Research
3:351-355, 1997.
Review of Wendy Griswold, Cultures and Societies in a Changing World (Thousand
Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1994). Social Forces 75:352-353, 1996.
Review of J.M. Blaut, The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism
and Eurocentric History (New York: Guilford Press, 1993). Sociological Inquiry
66:511-513, 1996.
Review of Sing C. Chew and Robert A. Denemark (eds.), The Underdevelopment of
Development: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, 1996). Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 2, Review 4, 1996.
Review of Piotr Sztompka, The Sociology of Social Change (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993).
Contemporary Sociology 24:68-69, 1995.
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Review of Carl N. Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of
Darwinism in American Social Thought (New York: Oxford University Press,
1991). American Journal of Sociology 97:1196-1197, 1992.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Endogenous and the Exogenous in Social Transformation.”
Review essay on Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics, 2 vols. (Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1981). Comparative Civilizations Review 24:115118, 1991.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Subordination of Women in Agrarian Societies.” Review
essay on David G. Mandelbaum, Women’s Seclusion and Men’s Honor (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1988). Comparative Civilizations Review 24:112-115,
1991.
Review of Thomas Richard Shannon, An Introduction to the World-System Perspective
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989). Teaching Sociology 18:410-411, 1990.
Review of Frank Parkin, Krippendorf’s Tribe (New York: Atheneum, 1985), and Frank
Parkin, The Mind and Body Shop (New York: Atheneum, 1987). Contemporary
Sociology 17:530-531, 1988.
Review of Marvin Harris, Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1985). Contemporary Sociology 16:400-401, 1987.
Review of Randall Collins, Sociology of Marriage and the Family: Gender, Love, and
Property (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1985). Contemporary Sociology 16:246, 1987.
Review of Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures (New York:
Random House, 1977). Contemporary Sociology 7:366-367, 1978. (Reprinted in
Robert L. Brubaker, ed., Contemporary Issues Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1983.)
Review of Larry and Joan Constantine, Group Marriage: A Study of Contemporary
Multilateral Marriage. (New York: Collier Books, 1973.) Contemporary
Sociology 6:44-45, 1977.
Presentations (82 total):
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Biosocial and Sociocultural Perspectives on War” Paper
presented at annual meetings of American Sociological Association, Las Vegas,
August, 2012.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Axial Age in the Eastern Mediterranean.” Paper presented
at world history conference “Encounters in the Mediterranean,” University of
California, Riverside, May 15, 2010.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “Testing Evolutionary and Power Theories of Rape with CrossCultural and Cross-National Data.” Paper presented at University of Redlands,
Department of Psychology, April 22, 2010.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World Democratization, 1900-1980: A Cross-National Test of
Modernization, Power Resource, and Diffusion Theories.” Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August
11, 2009.
Stephen K. Sanderson, discussant in session on Strategies of Doing Evolutionary
Sociology, annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, August 8, 2009.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Testing the Power and Evolutionary Theories of Rape with
Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Data.” Paper presented at the Human
Behavior and Evolution Society annual meetings, May 29, 2009.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionary Approaches to Religion: Is Religion an Evolved
Adaptation?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Boston, August 4, 2008.
Richard E. Niemeyer, Stephen K. Sanderson, and Kristopher Proctor, “Endogenous and
Exogenous Factors in the Growth of Democracy, 1900-2005.” Paper presented at
the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, August 1,
2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolution of Religious Behavior in Its Socioecological
Context.” Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the International Society
for Human Ethology, Bologna, Italy, July 17, 2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Adaptation, Evolution, and Religion.” Presented at the annual
meetings of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Kyoto, Japan, June 8,
2008, and at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Boston, August 1-4, 2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Internal and External Factors in the Growth of Democracy,
1900-2005.” Presented at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 9, 2008, and
Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 10, 2008.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Edward Westermarck: A Neglected Master Sociologist.”
Presented at the Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland, September 13, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Westermarck, the Neo-Darwinians, and a Naturalistic Ethics.”
Presented to the Savannah Club, University of Helsinki, Finland, September 12,
2007.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “Neo-Darwinism and the Evolution of the Major World
Religions.” Presented at the Collegium for Advanced Study, University of
Helsinki, Finland, September 11, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Biosocial Evolution of the Major World Religions.”
Presented at the annual meetings of the European Sociological Association,
Glasgow, Scotland, September 6, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Edward Westermarck: The Invisible Master Sociologist.”
Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, New
York, August 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Wesley W. Roberts, “Neo-Darwinian Theories of Religion
and the Social Ecology of Religious Evolution.” Presented at the annual meetings
of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007, and at the
annual meetings of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg,
VA, June 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Religious Attachment Theory and the Social Ecology of
Religious Evolution.” Paper presented at a Sociology Department Colloquium,
University of California at Riverside, February 22, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Religious Attachment Theory and the Biosocial Evolution of the
Major World Religions.” Paper presented at the conference The Evolution of
Religion, Makaha, Hawaii, January 7, 2007.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionary Sociologists and Strategies for Doing Evolutionary
Sociology.” Paper presented at the Evolution & Sociology Section panel,
American Sociological Association annual meetings, Montreal, August 12, 2006.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Impact of Darwinism on Sociology: An Historical and
Critical Overview.” Lecture presented at the conference The Evolution of Human
Sociality, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 8, 2006.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Response to Critics.” Presented at the conference The Evolution
of Human Sociality, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 10, 2006.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolutionary Forms of the Religious Life, Part II: Is the
Brain Wired for Religion.” Paper presented at University of California-Riverside,
March 2, 2006.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolutionary Forms of the Religious Life, Part I: A CrossCultural Study of the Social Origins of the Gods.” Paper presented at University of
California-Riverside, February 24, 2006.
Wesley W. Roberts and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Social Evolution and Religious
Evolution: A Cross-Cultural, Quantitative Analysis.” Paper presented at the
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annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August
16, 2005.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World-Systems Analysis After Thirty Years: A Critical
Appraisal.” Talk presented at Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett-Ingolstadt,
Eichstaett, Germany, November 2, 2004, and Universitaet Augsburg, Augsburg,
Germany, November 4, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “What’s Still Valid in Marxist Thought?” Talk presented at
Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Eichstaett, Germany, November
3, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson, invited participant in the workshop, “Male Status and Sexuality
in Animal and Human Societies,” University of Amsterdam, October 8-9, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World Democratization, 1850-2000: A Cross-National Test of
Modernization and Power Resource Theories.” Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 16,
2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Religion and Economic Development: An Idea Whose Time Has
Gone.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological
Association, New York, February 19, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson, D. Alex Heckert, and Joshua Dubrow, “Militarist, Marxian, and
non-Marxian Theories of Gender Inequality: A Cross-Cultural Test.” Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, August 19, 2003.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Sociology of Human Sexuality: A Darwinian Alternative to
Social Constructionism and Postmodernism.” Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 18, 2003.
(Panel: Randall Collins, Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, Richard
Udry, and myself.)
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism: A Critical Assessment.”
Paper presented (in absentia) at the annual meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20, 2002.
Invited discussant, session on Early Hegemony, annual meetings of the Political
Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association,
University of California at Riverside, May 4, 2002.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Knowledge is Power: How Economic Development Causes
Democratization.” Paper presented at the University of California at Riverside,
March 1, 2002.
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Invited discussant in the session “Systems of Cities: Past and Present,” organized by
Christopher Chase-Dunn, annual meetings of the American Sociological
Association, Anaheim, CA, August 21, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “An Evolutionary Theory of Fertility Decline: New Evidence.”
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Anaheim, CA, August 20, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Economic Development and Democratization: A Cross-National
Study.” Invited lecture, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada, April 6, 2001.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolution of Social Stratification: A Darwinian Conflict
Interpretation.” Invited lecture, Department of Sociology and Social Policy,
Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, February 26, 2001.
Subject of Author-Meets-Critics session on Stephen K. Sanderson, Social
Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development, expanded ed.,
(Rowman &Littlefield, 1999), annual meetings of the Social Science History
Association, Pittsburgh, October 26-29, 2000.
Invited panelist in Author-Meets-Critics session on Robert L. Carneiro, The Muse of
History and the Science of Culture (Plenum, 2000), annual meetings of the
Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, October 26-29, 2000.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Darwinian Conflict Theory: A Unified Evolutionary Theory of
Human Society.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for
Politics and the Life Sciences, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2000.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Sociobiology’s Impact (or Lack Thereof) on Sociology.” Invited
talk presented at the annual meetings of the European Sociobiological Society,
Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2000.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Testing the Sociobiological Theory of Ethnicity: Ethnic
Heterogeneity and Public Spending.” Paper presented (in absentia) at the annual
meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-10, 1999.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Joshua Dubrow, “Fertility Decline in the Modern World and
in the Original Demographic Transition: Testing Three Theories with CrossNational Data.” Paper presented (in absentia) at the annual meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 6-10, 1999.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Joshua Dubrow, “Fertility Decline in the Modern World and
in the Original Demographic Transition: A Sociobiological Interpretation.” Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, June 2-6, 1999.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Spending: A Cross-National
Analysis.” Invited paper presented at the conference “Welfare, Ethnicity, and
Altruism: Bringing in Evolutionary Theory,” Bad Homburg, Germany, February
10-13, 1999.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Synthetic Materialism: An Integrated Theory of Human
Society.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological
Association, San Francisco, August 21-25, 1998.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Extending Sociobiology’s Limited Explanatory Power: Synthetic
Materialism – An Integrated Theory of Human Society.” Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the European Sociobiological Society, Moscow, Russia, May
31-June 3, 1998, and at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual
meetings, Davis, California, July 8-12, 1998.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Struggle for a General Theory of Social Evolution and for a
General Theory of Human Society.” Invited paper presented at the International
Conference, Concepts of Humans and Behavior Patterns in the Cultures of the
East and the West: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Institute of Cultural
Anthropology, Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, May
31-June 3, 1998.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “East and West in the Development of the Modern WorldSystem.” Crayenborgh Distinguished Lecture, Honoursclass, University of
Leiden, the Netherlands, March 6, 1998.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Megahistory and its Paradigms.” Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the Social Science History Association, Washington, DC, October 18,
1997.
Invited commentator in Author-Meets-Critics session on Christopher Chase-Dunn and
Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems (Westview Press,
1997), annual meetings of the Social Science History Association, Washington,
DC, October 17, 1997.
Jane T. Lord and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives
of Western Sociological Theorists.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of
the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997.
Joshua Dubrow and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Was There Racial Antagonism in the
Ancient World?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997.
Invited participant in weekend faculty seminar, “Capitalism and the Rise of the West,”
sponsored by the Liberty Fund, Sunnyvale, CA, June 26-29, 1997.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionism and its Critics.” Paper presented in the thematic
session on long-term historical change at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, New York City, August 16, 1996.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Two Revolutions of the Capitalist Family.” Paper presented
at “The Marriage Project.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, February 6, 1996.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World-Systems and Social Change in Agrarian Societies, 3000
BC-AD 1500.” Invited paper presented in two parts at the conference World
System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change, Lund, Sweden, March
25-28, 1995.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Sociology and the Human Future.” Distinguished Lecture
presented at the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society,
October 22, 1994, State College, Pennsylvania.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Expanding World Commercialization: The Link Between World
Systems and Civilizations.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 9, 1994.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Japanese Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.” Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Miami Beach, August 15, 1993, and at a faculty colloquium, Department of
Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 14, 1993.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Lee Ellis, “Theoretical and Political Perspectives of American
Sociologists in the 1990s.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 23, 1992.
Invited discussant in the session “Prehistoric World-Systems: Theory, Data, and
Debate.” Annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh,
April 9, 1992.
Author-Meets-Critic session on Social Evolutionism: A Critical History (Basil
Blackwell, 1990). Author: Stephen K. Sanderson. Critic: Richard Moodey,
Allegheny College. Annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society,
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1991.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Concept of Adaptation in Biological and Social
Evolutionism.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 11, 1990.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionism in the History of Modern Social Theory.” Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society,
Meadville, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1989.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “Evolutionism Without Developmentalism: Two Models of
Explanation in Theories of Social Evolution.” Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 12,
1989.
Arthur S. Alderson and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Historical European Household
Structures and the Capitalist World-Economy.” Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 10,
1989.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolution of Societies and World-Systems.” Invited paper
presented at the annual meetings of the International Society for the
Comparative Study of Civilizations, University of California at Berkeley, June 1,
1989.
“Teaching Macrosociology.” Invited workshop presented to sociologists in the state of
Minnesota, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota, April 14,
1989.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Evolutionary Theories of Marx and Engels.” Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, August 26, 1988.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “The Epistemological Foundations of Classical Evolutionism.”
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the British Sociological Association,
Edinburgh, Scotland, March 30, 1988.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “An Internationally Focused Introductory Course.” Presentation
in Internationalizing the Curriculum Teaching Workshop at the annual meetings
of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 20, 1987.
Siyabonga Ndabezitha and Stephen K. Sanderson, “Racial Antagonism and the Origins
of Apartheid in the South African Gold Mining Industry, 1886-1924: A Split
Labor Market Analysis.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Chicago, August 17, 1987. [Revised and expanded
version presented at a South Africa Programme seminar at the Institute of Social
Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, February 17, 1988.]
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Eclecticism and its Alternatives.” Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 30,
1986. [Revised and expanded version presented at a faculty colloquium at the
University of Leeds, England, June 1, 1987.]
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Abandoning Kuhnian Interpretations of Sociology: Some
Preliminary Thoughts.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
Pennsylvania Sociological Society, Pittsburgh, October 19, 1985.
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Stephen K. Sanderson, “Integrating Anthropology into the Sociology Curriculum.”
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society,
Indiana, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1984.
Conference Sessions Organized (7):
Co-organizer (with J. Scott Lewis, Penn State-Harrisburg) of thematic session,
“Biosocial and Sociocultural Perspectives on Human Violence,” annual meetings
of American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011.
“Sociological Theories of Religion,” annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society,
New York, February 19, 2004. Panel: Robert McConnell, Jr., Stephen K.
Sanderson, and Wesley W. Roberts.
Co-organizer (with Alexandra Maryanski, UC-Riverside) of a special session, “Human
Sexuality in Comparative Perspective,” annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 18, 2003. Panel: Randall Collins,
Jonathan Turner, Alexandra Maryanski, J. Richard Udry, and Stephen K.
Sanderson.
“Biosocial Interaction,” annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Chicago, August 16-19, 2002. Panel: Jeremy Freese, Rosemary Hopcroft, Guang
Guo, and Timothy Crippen.
Co-organizer (with Nikolai Rozov, Novosibirsk State University) of 2 panels devoted to
macrohistorical dynamics, annual meetings of the Social Science History
Association, Washington, DC, October 16-19, 1997. Panelists: Robert L. Carneiro,
Randall Collins, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall, Nikolai Rozov,
Stephen K. Sanderson, Andrey Korotayev, George Modelski.
Organizer of thematic session on long-term historical change, annual meetings of the
American Sociological Association, New York City, August 16, 1996. Papers by
Stephen K. Sanderson, Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn, Andre
Gunder Frank, Vivek Chibber, and Charles Lemert.
Organizer of and presider in Author-Meets-Critics session on Global Formation:
Structures of the World-Economy (Basil Blackwell, 1989). Author: Christopher
Chase-Dunn. Critics: Randall Collins, Charles Tilly, and Immanuel Wallerstein.
Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August
23, 1992.
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Book Series Editor:
Founded the series “Studies in Comparative Social Science” in 2004 with Paradigm
Publishers.
Books published to date:
1. Stephen K. Sanderson, Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to
Political and Social Change, 2005. 2nd edition 2009.
2. Robert Bates Graber, Plunging to Leviathan? Exploring the World’s
Political Future, 2005.
3. Albert J. Bergesen, The Depth of Shallow Culture: The High Art of
Shoes, Movies, Novels, Monsters, and Toys, 2006.
4. Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson, eds., Studying Societies and
Cultures: Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy, 2007.
5. Lyle Steadman and Craig T. Palmer, The Supernatural and Natural
Selection: The Evolution of Religion, 2008.
6. Rick Goldberg, ed., Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and
Judaic Practices, 2008.
7. Randall Collins, Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated.
Abridged and updated by Stephen K. Sanderson, 2008.
Teaching Materials (10):
Stephen K. Sanderson, Arthur S. Alderson, and Wesley W. Roberts, Test Bank to
Accompany Sanderson and Alderson, World Societies. Boston: Allyn & Bacon
Longman, 2004.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Arthur S. Alderson, Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank to
Accompany Sanderson, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies,
4th ed. New York: Addison-Wesley Longman, 1999. [222-page manual updated
for the 4th ed.]
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World Societies & World-Systems Syllabus.” In David A. Smith
(ed.), Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Teaching Comparative and
Historical Sociology. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association
Teaching Resources Center, 1996.
Stephen K. Sanderson and Arthur S. Alderson, Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank to
Accompany Sanderson, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies,
3rd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. [267-page manual updated and
expanded for the 3rd ed.]
Stephen K. Sanderson and Arthur S. Alderson, Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank to
Accompany Sanderson, Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies,
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2nd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. [248-page manual updated and
expanded for the 2nd ed.]
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Sociology of Marx and Marxism Syllabus.” In Rhonda Levine
ed., Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective. Washington, DC: American
Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center, 1991.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World Societies & World Systems Syllabus.” In Rhonda Levine
ed., Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective. Washington, DC: American
Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center, 1991.
Stephen K. Sanderson, “World Societies & World Systems Syllabus.” In Neal R.
Goodman, J. Michael Armer, and Susan Carlson, eds., Internationalizing the
Sociology Curriculum: Syllabi and Resources, 2nd ed. Washington, DC:
American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center, 1991.
Stephen K. Sanderson, Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank to accompany Sanderson,
Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies. New York: Harper &
Row, 1988. [184-page manual with chapter overviews, teaching suggestions, and
test questions.]
Stephen K. Sanderson, “Comparative Macrosociology Syllabus.” In J. Michael Armer
and Neal R. Goodman, eds., Syllabi and Resources for Internationalizing
Courses in Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association
Teaching Resources Center, 1983.
Dissertation Committees (1)
Kirk Lawrence, “Energy Flows and the Evolution of World-Systems: Upward Sweeps
and Collapse from the Pleistocene to the Present.” UC-Riverside, 2009.
MA Theses Supervised (9):
Wesley William Roberts, “General Social Evolution and the Evolution of Religious
Forms.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, August 2004. (92 pages)
Jane Rebecca Testa, “Degree of Choice in Mate Selection.” Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, August 2004. (47 pages)
Joleen Loucks, “Contemporary Sociological Theorist Randall Collins: A Critical Analysis
of His Work and Theories.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, August 2004.
(234 pages)
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Robert Day McConnell, “The Rationality of Religion: From Microfoundations to
Macrostructures.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, December 2002. (318
pages)
Joshua K. Dubrow, “Testing Three Theories of Gender Inequality Using Cross-Cultural
Data.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, December 2000. (Later published in
Social Forces; see above). (74 pages)
Jane T. Lord, “Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives of Western Sociological
Theorists.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, December 1995. (Later published
in American Sociologist; see above) (106 pages)
Siyabonga W. Ndabezitha, “The Racial Fragmentation of the South African Gold Mining
Industry, 1886-1924: A Split Labor Market Analysis.” Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, August 1986. (Later published in Research in Race and Ethnic
Relations; see above) (121 pages)
Robert K. Moore, “The Historical Development of Power and Powerlessness.” Indiana
University of Pennsylania, May 1982. (committee member) (94 pages)
Gordon L. Patzer, “Determinants of Judgments of Physical Attractiveness and the
Attribution of Sexual Attitudes to Strangers.” Kansas State College of Pittsburg,
May 1975. (70 pages)
Undergraduate Theses Supervised (3):
Joshua Dubrow, “Was There Racial Antagonism in the Ancient World?” May 1998.
(Later published in Sociological Viewpoints; see above)
Arthur S. Alderson, “A World-System Approach to Traditional European Family
Patterns.” May 1988. (Later published in Journal of Family History; see above)
Mark van den Boogaard, “An Examination of Traditional and Radical Theories of
Economic Development.” May 1986.
Reviewing Work:
Book manuscripts for Wadsworth, Roxbury, Rowman & Littlefield, Blackwell, Westview,
Sage, AltaMira, Paradigm, and others.
Occasional reviewer for American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Social
Forces, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, Evolution and Human Behavior, Human
Nature, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of World-Systems
Research, Australian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Sociology, and others.
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Service to Other Departments/Organizations:
External evaluator for promotion to full professor of Jieli Li, Ohio University, 2010.
External evaluator for promotion to full professor of Marion Blute, University of
Toronto, 2008.
External evaluator for five-year evaluation of Robert L. Carneiro, American Museum of
Natural History, 2006.
External evaluator for promotion to full professor of Alexandra Maryanski, University of
California at Riverside, 2005.
External evaluator for tenure decision of Alexandra Maryanski, University of California
at Riverside, 1992.
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