Robert Perrucci

Emeritus Professor of Sociology Office: STON 306
Office Phone: (765) 494-4714
Email: perruccir@purdue.edu

Specialization: Stratification, organizations, work, social networks, and political economy.


Dr. Perrucci served as department head from 1978-87. He was research director for three years of the NSF sponsored study of the engineering profession conducted by the American Society for Engineering Education, and was Simon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester in England. He has received over $2 million in external support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the American Sociological Association. He is the author/editor of 15 books and over 70 articles and chapters on topics related to work and occupations, complex organizations, and the impact of the global economy on workers, communities, and structures of inequality. He has five articles published in the American Sociological Review and others in Social Forces, Administrative Science Quarterly, Social Problems, Sociology of Education, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Psychiatry. He has served as editor of Social Problems, The American Sociologist, and associate editor of the American Sociological Review. He is currently co-editor with JoAnn Miller of Contemporary Sociology (2000-2005). He has held elected positions as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the North Central Sociological Association, and Chair of the Organizations and Occupations section of the American Sociological Association. Two of his books have received the Scholarly Achievement Award of the North Central Sociological Association, and he has received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the State University of New York, and Purdue University. In 2005 he received the Lee Founders Career Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Positions at Purdue University

1978-87 Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1963-66 Research Director, Goals of Engineering Education Project

1967 to present Professor of Sociology

1965-67 Associate Professor of Sociology

1962-65 Assistant Professor of Sociology

Service to the Profession

Editor, Contemporary Sociology, 2000-2005

Editor, Social Problems, 1993-96

Editor, The American Sociologist, 1983-85

Associate Editor, American Sociological Review, 1969-72

President, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1999

Chair, Organizations and Occupations Section, ASA, 1982-83
President, North Central Sociological Association, 1973-74

Honors and Awards

Lee Founders Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2005

Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 1990 and1996

Simon Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, England, 1968-69

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