SADRI

Don Tomaskovic-Devey is a professor of sociology and the current chair of the Department of Sociology. He studies processes of workplace inequality, particularly discrimination and segregation, as well as topics in economic sociology more generally. His long-term agenda is to work with others to move sociological studies of inequality to a more fully relational and organizational stance. He is advancing this agenda through studies of jobs and workplaces, as well as social relationships between jobs within workplaces and the social relationships that link organizations to each other. Don was recently elected president of the Southern Sociological Society.

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Organizations and Inequality, Economic Sociology, Sex, Race and Class Processes, Methodology

Current Grants:

2009-12. Finance Sector Income Distribution Dynamics: An Application and Test of Rent Theory. NSF

Recent Grants:

2008-09. Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of Inequality: Neoliberalism, Class Power, and Income Inequality in the Airline Industry. NSF. Co-PI: Dustin Avent-Holt

2007-09. Private Sector Workplace Equal Employment Opportunity Progress 1966-2004.  NSF

2005-07. Russell Sage Foundation. Documenting Desegregation: Equal Opportunity in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Selected Publications:

“Income Dynamics, Economic Rents and the Financialization of the U.S. Economy."  American Sociological Review, forthcoming July. With Ken-Hou Lin.

Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment since the Civil Rights Act. Forthcoming. NY: Russell Sage Press. With Kevin Stainback.

"The Politics and Practice of Sociology in the Courts." Sociological Methods & Research 40:621-34, 2011.

"The Relational Basis of Inequality: Generic and Contingent Wage Distribution Processes." Work and Occupations 37:162-93, 2010. With Dustin Avent-Holt.

"Intersections of Power and Privilege: Long-Term Trends in Managerial Representation." American Sociological Review 74:800-20, 2009. With Kevin Stainback.

"Explaining and Eliminating Racial Profiling." Contexts 8:34-39, 2009. With Patricia Warren.

"The Categorical Generation of Organizational Inequality: A Comparative Test of Tilly’s Durable Inequality." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 27:128-42, 2009. With Dustin Avent-Holt, Catherine Zimmer and Sandra Harding.

"Organizational Response to Institutional Pressures for Equal Employment Opportunity since the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Social Forces 87:1499-1527, 2009. With Tricia McTague and Kevin Stainback.

“Racial Profiling and Searches: Did the Politics of Racial Profiling Change Police Behavior?” Criminology and Public Policy 8:343-69, 2009. With Patricia Warren.

"Contingent Autonomy: Technology, Bureaucracy and Relative Power in the Labor Process" Work and Occupations 35:422-55, 2008. With Seunghee Choi and Jeffrey Leiter.

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