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Richard Hogan

Associate Professor of Sociology Office: STON 307
Office Phone: (765) 494-4679
Email: hoganr@purdue.edu

Specialization: Theory, social movements, community studies, social history, political sociology, political economy.

Courses:

Taught (Last two years)

SOC 411 - Stratification
SOC 402 - Principles of Sociology
SOC 600 - Classical Sociological Theory
SOC 525 - Collective Behavior and Social Movements
SOC 611 – Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
SOC 693/AMST 650 (variable title interdisciplinary seminar): Race and Social Movements in the U.S.: From Abolitionism to Civil Rights, Race, Class, and Gender: Theory and Praxis, Search for American Community

Dr. Hogans' research includes studies of inequality in the U.S., including empirical analyses, such as “Producing and Reproducing Class and Status Differences: Racial and Gender Gaps in U.S. Employment and Retirement Earnings,” Social Problems 45:528-549 (with Carolyn C. Perrucci) and  theoretical/historical analyses, such as “Class, Race, and Gender Inequality,” Race, Gender & Class 8 (2):61-93, along with studies of community politics, including Class and Community in Frontier Colorado (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 1990) and The Failure of Planning: Permitting Sprawl in San Diego Suburbs, 1970-1999 (Ohio State University Press, 2003).  He has served as the department’s representative to the American Studies Program since 1989.


Positions at Purdue University

1990 – present Associate Professor of Sociology
1984 – 1989 Assistant Professor of Sociology

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