Dr. David W. Wright
Associate Dean, Graduate School
Associate Professor of Sociology
Graduate Coordinator

Education:

Ph.D., Sociology, Purdue University, 1992.

"Class, Gender and Income: A Structural Feminist-Marxist Analysis of Income Determination and the Income Gap,"  Dissertation thesis, July 31, 1992, Purdue University.

M.S., Sociology, Purdue University, 1989.

"Interactive Effects of Class and Industrial Sector on Income Determination," Master's thesis, May 5, 1989, Purdue University.

B.A., Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1987.

Research Interests:

• Class Analysis

• Political Economy & Marxism

• Income Inequality

• Gender

• Industrial Sociology and Sociology of Work

• Drug Education

• Education

• Family

Teaching Interests:

• Class Analysis and Stratification

• Industrial Sociology and Sociology of Work

• Sociological Theory

• Graduate Statistics

Publications:  

“W/Age Bias in Worker Displacement: How Industrial Structure Shapes the Job Loss and Earnings Decline of Older American Workers" with Charles Koeber, Journal of Socio-Economics 30: 343-352, 2001.

"The Family-Friendly Workplace: Do Unions Matter?" with Earl Wysong, Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 4:85-95, 2000.

The Family-Friendly Workplace: Policies and Power, with Earl Wysong, Rowman &Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (forthcoming). 

"Family-Friendly Workplace Benefits: Policy Mirage, Organizational Contexts, and Worker Power" with Earl Wysong, Critical Sociology 24(3):244-276, 1999.

"The Effects of Family Structure and Maternal Employment on the Development of Gender Roles Among Men and Women," with Robert Young,   Journal of Family Issues 19(3):300-314, 1998.

"Income Inequality," with Heidi Gottfried, in Women and Work: A Handbook, edited by Kathryn Borman and Paula Dubeck. New York: Garland Publishers, 1996.

"A Decade of DARE: Efficacy, Politics and Drug Education," with Earl Wysong,  Sociological Focus 28(3):283-311, 1995.

"Truth and Dare: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation," with Earl Wysong and Richard Aniskiewicz, Social Problems 41(3):448-472, 1994.

Review of Black Women and White Women in the Professions, by Natalie Sokoloff, and Black Women in the Workplace: Impacts of Structural Change in the Economy, by Bette Woody, with Heidi Gottfried, Contemporary Sociology.  22(5):727-728, 1993.

"Gender and Income Inequality," with Heidi Gottfried, in The State of American Society, edited by Murray Straus and Suzanne Steinmetz, 1991.

Review of The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States, by Michael Goldfield, The Review of Radical Political Economics 20(1):121-123, 1988.

Manuscripts Under Review:

"Losing a Job and Gaining Half of Another: The Full to Part-Time Mobility of Displaced Workers," with Charles Koeber, The Sociological Quarterly.

"Intimate Partner Homicide: The Effects of Race and Gender Inequality", with Jana Jasinski, Homicide Studies.

"Poverty Counts: Differing Estimates of the Poor and Their Impact on Assessing Welfare Reform", revised & resubmitted, The Sociological Quarterly.

"The Impact of Poverty on Consumption: An Expenditure Approach to Understanding Income Inequality," with David Fasenfest, revised & resubmitted, Monthly Labor Review.

Grants and Related Contracting Work:

“Expanding the Office Economy: State-level Analysis of the Office Economy Model”, Stephen Rose, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Washington, D.C. 2000. Awarded $12,000. 

“The Economic Cost of Discrimination: Earnings and Tax Revenue Losses by Race/ethnic­ity, Education and State”, Kristin Conklin, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Washington, D.C. 2000. Awarded $1,200. 

“The Office Economy Project: 1999 Update”, Stephen Rose, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Washington, D.C. 1999. Awarded $3,000. 

“Hispanic Employment in Growth Industries”, Donna Delmy, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Washington, D.C. 1999. Awarded $3,000. 

"An Examination of Developmental Antecedents Among Black, Caucasian, and Hispanic Women", Jana L. Jasinski, University of Central Florida, (NIJ grant #4117). Awarded $4,100.

"Minority Participation in Higher Education to 2015: Results from Detailed College Enrollment Projections by State", Anthony Carnevale and Richard Fry, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Washington, D.C. 1998. Awarded $7,500.

"Education for What: The New Office Economy," Anthony  Carnevale and Stephen Rose, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Washington, D.C. 1997. Awarded $5,000

"The Misunderstood Service Economy and its Impact on Educational Needs," Stephen Rose, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Washington, D.C. 1997. Awarded $5,000.

Department of Labor. "Consumption Standards of Middle and Low Income Americans: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey," Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Washington, D.C., with David Fasenfest, (grant #B9461554) ($2,000), 1996.

"Industry Staffing Patterns in the United States, 1989" by Stephen Rose and David Fasenfest for Statistics Canada and funded by the W.E. Upjohn Foundation for Labor Research, 1996. Awarded $2,000.

Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship ($3,000), "Patriarchy and Modern-Day Capitalism: Economic Restructuring and Shifting Gender Inequalities", Wichita State University, 1995.

Faculty Summer Research Grant ($3,000), "Post-Fordist Production: The Relationship Between Flexible Specialization and Gender Inequalities", Wichita State University, 1994.

"Changes in Wages, Earned Income, and Employment by Occupation and Income: 1950 - 1993," for Dr. David Fasenfest, Purdue University, funded by the National Commission for Employment Policy, Department of Labor, Washington, DC, July, 1994. Awarded $1,500

"An Inquiry into Geographical Patterns of Employment Restructuring and Local Community Responses," for Dr. David Fasenfest, Purdue University, funded by National Commission for Employment Policy, Department of Labor, Washington, DC, June, 1994. Awarded $2,500

Final Report to the Kokomo Center Schools "Tracking DARE from 1987 to 1994: Final Evaluation Report on the Impact of DARE Upon Drug Use Rates and Attitudes Among KHS Seniors," with Dr. Earl Wysong for the Kokomo Center Schools System, Kokomo, Indiana, November 1994.

Final Report to National Commission for Employment Policy, Department of Labor, Washington, DC, 1994. "Jobs in the United States in 2005: A Decomposition of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational and Industrial Employment Projections" with David Fasenfest.

David Ross Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertations 1991-1992, Purdue University.

Professional Papers:  

"The Family Friendly Workplace: Do Unions Matter?", with Earl Wysong. Paper Presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, 2001.

"Reconceptualizing Inequality through Alternative Occupational Categorizations". Paper presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999.

"Poverty Counts: Differing Estimates of the Poor and Their Impact on Assessing Welfare Reform". Paper presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, 1998.

"Family-Friendly Workplace Benefits: Policy Mirage, Organizational Context, and Worker Power" with Earl Wysong. Paper presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, 1998.  

"Assessing the 'Education for What? Workforce Trends Now and in the Future' Study".  Keynote Speaker at the 1998 Kansas Association for Career Services and Employ­ment (KACSE) Annual Conference, Wichita, KS

"Three ways to be Poor: Efficacy of the Welfare Reform Law by Three Poverty-defined Groups". Paper presentation at the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, April, 1997.

"A Decade of DARE: Dispatches from the Drug Education War Zones" with Earl Wysong. Paper presentation at the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1995.

"Changing Family/Work Structures and Women's Roles". Paper presentation at the American Association of University Women-Kokomo, Indiana Chapter, May 8, 1993.

"Does D.A.R.E. Make a Difference?: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation" with Earl Wysong and Rick Aniskiewicz. Paper presentation at the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) Annual Meeting in Toledo, Ohio, April, 1993.

"Dilemmas in Organizing Graduate Students: Problems with a Transient and Economically Powerless Group" Paper presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, April, 1992.

"Measuring the Earnings Gap from a Structural Perspective: The Effects of Class and Gender on the Income Deter­mination Process". Symposium paper presentation given at Purdue University, January, 1992.

"Changes in Transfer Payments: A Cause of Rising Poverty" with David Fasenfest. Paper presentation at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, August, 1991.

"Class, Gender and Income: The Effects of Domestic Labor Time on the Wage Bundle". Paper presentation at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., August, 1990.

"Structural and Individual Models of Income Determination". Paper presentation at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting in Berkeley, California, August, 1989. 

Current Research Projects (work in progress):  

"A His and Hers Downsizing?: Gender Differences in Reemployment Levels of Displaced Workers," with Charles Koeber 

"The Role of Marriage in Income Inequality -- Choice or Fate: A Feminist Critique of Neoclassical Models of Income Determination," with Jennifer Green.

"Development of Occupational Skill Indexes and Their Impact on Income Determination and Workplace Discrimination."