Evan Schofer
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1999 Stanford University
On leave 2007-08
email: schof007@umn.edu
web: http://www.soc.umn.edu/~schofer/
Interest Areas
Comparative Political Sociology; Sociology of Education; Quantitative Methods and Statistics; Globalization; Sociology of Science; Environmental Sociology; Organizations.
Current Research
Educational Expansion and Economic Inequality: Cross-national Evidence. Supported by the U of M College of Liberal Arts, the U of M Life Course Center, and the Spencer Foundation. Examines the impact of educational expansion on patterns of economic inequality using cross-national data.
Civil Society in Comparative Perspective. Examines how global and national institutions and structures shape political participation (with M. Gourinchas) and associational life (with W. Longhofer) across societies.
The Consequences of National Educational Structures. Explores national variation in the structure of education and examines consequences for enrollments, attainment, inequality, and other outcomes.
Recent Publications
“Environmentalism and National Economies,” with F. Granados. Forthcoming, 2006. Social Forces, 85(2): 965-991.
“Student Achievement and National Economic Growth?” with F. Ramirez, X. Luo, and J. Meyer. 2006. American Journal of Education, 113: 1-29.
“The University in Global Society: Twentieth Century Expansion,” with J. Meyer. 2006. [In German] Die Hochschule. In translation: “La Universidad en Europa y en el mundo: expansión en el siglo xxi.” Revista Espanola de Educacion Comparada, Vol. 13, Madrid, Spain: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
“Higher Education as an Institution,” with J. Meyer, F. Ramirez, and D. Frank. 2006. In The Sociology of Higher Education, P. Gumport, ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
“The World-Wide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.” with J. Meyer. 2005. American Sociological Review, 70: 898-920.
“World Society and Environmental Protection Outcomes,” with A. Hironaka. 2005. Social Forces, 84(1): 25-47.
“The Global Institutionalization of Geological Science.” 2003. American Sociological Review, 68(5): 730-759.
Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization, with G. Drori, J. Meyer, F. Ramirez. 2003. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.