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Scott Feld
Professor of Sociology
Scott Feld received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1976 and joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2004.
Office Phone: (765) 494-4693
Email: sfeld@purdue.edu
Specialization:
Social networks, individual and collective decision-making, applied sociology, mathematical sociology.
Courses: Taught (Last two years)
SOC 382 – Introduction to Methods of Social Research
SOC 383 – Introduction to Methods of Social Research II
SOC 581 – Methods of Social Research
Dr. Feld served as Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1975-1991. He then served as Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University from 1991 until 2004. He has published over sixty articles, including twelve published in the most prestigious journals in the fields of Sociology and Political Science. His ongoing research interests involve 1) causes and consequences of patterns in social networks, 2) processes of individual and collective decision making, and 3) applications of sociology, most recently including innovations in marriage and divorce laws (covenant marriage). He regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on social networks, research methods, and statistics.
Positions at Purdue University
2004 – present Professor of Sociology
Service to the Profession
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum
Editorial Board, Rationality and Society
Associate Editor, Journal of Social Structure
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology
Chair, Mathematical Sociology Section, ASA
Chair, Rationality and Society Section, ASA
Chair, Graduate Student Affairs Committee, Social Psychology Section, ASA
Council Member, Mathematical Sociology Section, ASA
Member of National Science Foundation Review Panels for Mathematical Social and Behavior Sciences for Information Technology
Honors and Awards
One of the 72 distinguished scholars with the highest "professional visibility" in Political Science in the last 40 years listed in The American Political Science Review Hall of Fame: Assessments and implications for an evolving discipline. By Arthur H. Miller, Charles Tien, and Andrew A. Peebler in PS (March, 1996).
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