Social Sciences Department faculty conduct research in the areas of global studies and international development, environmental studies and sustainability, human ecology, criminal justice, organizational structures, and social services.
Modified from socialsciences.calpoly.edu
Submissions from 2010
Review of Joseph Scarpaci and Armando Portela, Cuban Landscapes: Heritage, Memory, and Place, Benjamin F. Timms
Submissions from 2009
Punishment for Noncompliance and Reward for Compliance: A Comparison of Japanese and American Workers, Emiko Kobayashi and Harold R. Kerbo
Urbanization, Kin Dispersion, and Daughter-Biased Parental Investment in Fiji, Dawn B. Neill
Fast Food Foraging: The Impact of Neighborhood, Household and Cultural Factors on Dietary Decision-Making and BMI in South Los Angeles, Dawn B. Neill and Deborah E. Schechter
A Trans-Holocene Archaeological Record of Guadalupe Fur Seals (Arctocephalus Townsendi) on the California Coast, Torben C. Rick, Robert L. DeLong, Jon M. Erlandson, Todd J. Braje, Terry L. Jones, Douglas J. Kennett, Thomas A. Wake, and Phillip L. Walker
Submissions from 2008
Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research, Ryan Alaniz, Erika Busse, Keith A. Cunnien, Meghan L. Krausch, Wesley Longhofer, Heather McLaughlin, Chika Shinohara, Jon Smajda, and Jesse Wozniak
Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research, Ryan Alaniz, Erika Busse, Keith A. Cunnien, Meghan L. Krausch, Wesley Longhofer, Heather McLaughlin, Chika Shinohara, Jon Smajda, and Jesse Wozniak
Sociologists and the Field in the News: Reflected Appraisals - We Perceive Ourselves as We Believe Others Perceive Us, Amy Johnson Conner and Ryan Alaniz
Reflected Appraisals: Sociologists and the Field in the News - We perceive ourselves as we believe others perceive us, Amy Johnson Conner and Ryan Alaniz
Reflected Appraisals: Sociologists and the Field in the News - We Perceive Ourselves as We Believe Others Perceive Us, Amy Johnson Conner and Ryan Alaniz
California archaeological record consistent with Younger Dryas disruptive event, Terry L. Jones
Culture or Adaptation: Milling Stone Reconsidered, Terry L. Jones
Seasonal Stability in Late Holocene Shellfish Harvesting on the Central California Coast, Terry L. Jones, Douglas J. Kennett, James P. Kennett, and Brian F. Codding
The Protracted Holocene Extinction of California's Flightless Sea Duck (Chendytes lawi) and its Implications for the Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis, Terry L. Jones; Judith F. Porcasi; J. M. Erlandson; H. Dallas, Jr.; T. A. Wake; and R. Schwaderer
Archaeological Perspectives on the Effects of Medieval Drought in Prehistoric California, Terry L. Jones and Al Schwitalla
Wildfire and Abrupt Ecosystem Disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Allerod-Younger Dryas Boundary (13.0-12.9 ka), Douglas J. Kennett; James P. Kennett; G. J. West; Jon M. Erlandson; J. R. Johnson; I. L. Hendy; A. West; B. J. Culleton; Terry L. Jones; and Thomas W. Stafford, Jr.
Book Review: Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography by E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco, Benjamin F. Timms
Development Theory and Domestic Agriculture in the Caribbean: Recurring Crises and Missed Opportunities, Benjamin F. Timms
The Parallax of Landscape: Situating Celaque National Park, Honduras, Benjamin F. Timms
Submissions from 2007
History and Behavioral Ecology during the Middle-Late Transition on the Central California Coast: Findings from the Coon Creek Site (CA-SLO-9), San Luis Obispo County, Brian F. Codding and Terry L. Jones
Employee Commitment in U.S. and Japanese Firms in Thailand, Richard A. Colignon, Chikako Usui, Harold Kerbo, and Robert Slagter
Diablo Canyon Archaeology: Prehistoric Hunting along California Coast, Terry L. Jones
Diablo Canyon Archaeology: Trans-Holocene Faunal Exploitation Along the Central California Coast, Terry L. Jones
Paradigmen der Vergleichend-historischen Methodologien: Durkheimsche vs. Weberianische Ansatze und ihre Folgen, Harold R. Kerbo
Indo-Fijian Children’s BMI in the Context of Urbanization, Embodied Capital, and Food Choice Trade-offs, Dawn B. Neill