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VITA

J. DAVID KNOTTNERUS

EMERITUS REGENTS PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

February 20, 2017 PERSONAL

Office Home Department of Sociology 4805 Deerfield Drive Murray 431 Stillwater, OK 74074 Oklahoma State University (405) 377-8705 Stillwater, OK 74078-4062 [email protected] (405) 744-6104 or 744-6105

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Sociology, 1981. M.A. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Sociology, 1975. B.A. Beloit College, Sociology, 1969.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014 Emeritus Regents Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University (September 1, 2014) 2012 Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University 1996 Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University. 1991-97 Director of the Graduate Program, Department of Sociology (M.S., Ph.D. Sociology), Oklahoma State University. 1990 Tenured as Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University. 1988 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University. 1987 Tenured as Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tampa. 1981-87 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tampa.

SCHOLARLY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Structural Ritualization Theory and Research; Group Processes; Social Structure and Contemporary Structural Analysis; Social Inequality; Collective Behavior and Social Movements; Critical/Interpretive Analysis of Theoretical and Research Traditions in Sociology.

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Seminars in Classical Sociological Theory, Social Psychology, and Theory of Social Structure. Undergraduate Courses in Social Theory and Social Psychology.

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EDITORSHIPS Co-editor (with Bernard Phillips) of the Book Series, “Advancing the Sociological Imagination.” Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers (2007 to 2013). Editorial Board, Sociological Spectrum (2008-2016). Associate Editor, 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (2007). Co-editor (with Jean Van Delinder) of Perspectives: The Theory Section Newsletter, American Sociological Association (2000-2003). Editorial Board, Current Research in Social Psychology. Open Access Online Journal (1995 to Present).

BOOKS 2011 Knottnerus, J. David. Ritual as a Missing Link: Sociology, Structural Ritualization Theory and Research. Boulder CO: Paradigm Publishers. Hard cover edition published in 2011 and paperback edition published in 2012.

2011 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. Elder Care Catastrophe: Rituals of Abuse in Nursing Homes – and What You Can Do About It. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. Hard cover and paperback editions published in 2011. 2010 Varner, Monica K. and J. David Knottnerus. American Golf and the Development of Civility: Rituals of Etiquette in the World of Golf. Koln, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

2009 Knottnerus, J. David and Bernard Phillips, eds. Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. 2002 Chew, Sing and J. David Knottnerus, eds. Structure, Culture and History: Recent

Issues in Social Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. Literary Narratives

on the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century French Elite Educational System: Rituals and Total Institutions. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

1999 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. The Social Worlds of

Male and Female Children in the Nineteenth Century French Educational System: Youth, Rituals and Elites. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

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1999 Durant, Jr., Thomas J. and J. David Knottnerus, eds. Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality. Westport, CT: Praeger.

1994 Knottnerus, J. David and Christopher Prendergast, eds. Recent Developments in the

Theory of Social Structure. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. BOOKS IN PROGRESS/FORTHCOMING Knottnerus, J. David. Expeditions: Rituals, Crews, and Hazardous Ventures. London and New York: Routledge (Under Contract). Expected date of completion: 2017/2018. _____. Preventing Persecution: Understanding Rituals and the Role of Groups. London and New York: Routledge (Under Contract). Expected date of completion: 2020. PUBLICATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS, SERIES, AND SPECIAL ISSUES 2016 Liang, Bin, Michael A. Long and J. David Knottnerus. "What do Clients Achieve in Drug/DUI Court? Examining Intended and Unintended Outcomes." Justice System Journal (Published online: March 15, 2016). 2016 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. "Ritualized Ethnic Identity: Asian Indian Immigrants in the Southern Plains." Sociological Spectrum 36 (1):37-56. 2016 Liang, Bin, J. David Knottnerus & Michael A. Long. "A Theoretical Model of Drug/DUI Courts: An Application of Structural Ritualization Theory." American Journal of Criminal Justice 41:31-46 (On-line paper posted December 2015). 2014 Ulsperger, Jason S., J. David Knottnerus, and Kristen Kloss Ulsperger. "Bureaucratic Rituals in Nursing Homes: The CARE Model and Culture Change.” The International Journal of Aging and Society 3(3):21-33. http://ijj.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.212/prod.99

2013 Sell, Jane, J. David Knottnerus, and Christina Adcock-Azbill. “Disruptions in Task

Groups.” Social Science Quarterly 94:715-731 (On-line paper posted fall 2012). 2011 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Exchange, Conflict and Coercion: The

Ritual Dynamics of the Notting Hill Carnival Past and Present.” Ethnic Studies Review 34:107-133.

2011 Lin, Xiaohua, Jian Guan, and J. David Knottnerus. “Organizational and Leadership Practice of Micro Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Multicultural Context: A Structural Reproduction Analysis.” International Journal of Business Anthropology 2:48-65.

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2011 Bhandari, Roshan Bhakta, Norio Okada, and J. David Knottnerus. “Urban Ritual Events and Coping with Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Lalitpur, Nepal.” Journal of Applied Social Science 5:13-32. 2010 Knottnerus, J. David. “Collective Events, Rituals, and Emotions.” In Shane R. Thye

and Edward J. Lawler, eds., Advances in Group Processes, Volume 27, pp. 39-61. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

2010 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “The Orange Order: Parades, Other

Rituals, and Their Outcomes.” Sociological Focus 43:1-23. 2009 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Illusions of Affection: Bureaucracy and Emotional Neglect in Nursing Homes.” Humanity and Society 33:238-259.

2009 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Ecological Stress and Deritualization in East Asia: Ritual Practices during Dark Age Phases.” International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (Open Access Online Journal): 1(1):012-025, May. www.academicjournals.org/IJSA/contents/2009cont/May.htm

2008 Minton, Carol and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritualized Duties: The Social Construction of Gender Inequality in Malawi.” International Review of Modern Sociology

34:181-210. 2008 Mitra, Aditi and J. David Knottnerus. “Sacrificing Women: A Study of Ritualized Practices among Women Volunteers in India.” Voluntas: International Journal of

Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 19:242-267. 2008 Thornburg, P. Alex, J. David Knottnerus, and Gary R. Webb. “Ritual and Disruption: Insights from Early Disaster Research.” International Journal of

Sociological Research 1:91-109. 2008 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “The Social Dynamics of Elder Care: Rituals of Bureaucracy and Physical Neglect in Nursing Homes” Sociological

Spectrum 28:357-388. (2008 Sociological Spectrum Article of the Year Award) 2007 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “The Orange Order: Strategic

Ritualization and Its Organizational Antecedents.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 44:179-199.

2007 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Long-term Care Workers and

Bureaucracy: The Occupational Ritualization of Maltreatment in Nursing Homes and Recommended Policies.” Journal of Applied Social Science 1:52-70.

2007 Thornburg, P. Alex, J. David Knottnerus, and Gary R. Webb. “Disaster and

Deritualization: A Re-interpretation of Findings from Early Disaster Research.” The Social Science Journal 44:161-166.

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2007 Wu, Yanhong and J. David Knottnerus. “The Origins of Ritualized Daily Practices: From Lei Feng’s Diary to Educated Youth’s Diaries.” Shehui (Society) (1):98-119 (peer-reviewed Chinese academic journal).

2006 Knottnerus, J. David, Jason S, Ulsperger, Summer Cummins, and Elaina Osteen.

“Exposing Enron: Media Representations of Ritualized Deviance in Corporate Culture.” Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 2:177-195.

2006 Guan, Jian and J. David Knottnerus. “Chinatown Under Siege: Community Protest

and Structural Ritualization Theory.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 30:5-52.

2006 Wu, Yanhong and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritualized Daily Practices: A Study of

Chinese ‘Educated Youth.’” Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Wenzhai (China Social Science Digest) (1) (Chinese academic review journal. 80% reproduction of original article).


Chinese ‘Educated Youth.’” Shehui (Society) (6):167-185 (peer-reviewed Chinese academic journal).

2005 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Need for Theory and the Value of Cooperation:

Disruption and Deritualization” (Presidential Address, Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge, 2003). Sociological Spectrum 25:5-19.

2004 Mitra, Aditi and J. David Knottnerus. “Royal Women in Ancient India: The

Ritualization of Inequality in a Patriarchal Social Order.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 41:215-231.

2003 Knottnerus, J. David and David G. LoConto. “Strategic Ritualization and Ethnicity:

A Typology and Analysis of Ritual Enactments in an Italian American Community.” Sociological Spectrum 23:425-461.

2002 Knottnerus, J. David and Phyllis E. Berry. “Spartan Society: Structural Ritualization

in an Ancient Social System.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 27:1-42. 2002 Varner, Monica K. and J. David Knottnerus. “Civility, Rituals and Exclusion: The

Emergence of American Golf During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Sociological Inquiry 72:426-441.

2002 Guan, Jian and J. David Knottnerus. “A Structural Ritualization Analysis of the

Process of Acculturation and Marginalization of Chinese Americans” (Chinese Translation of 1999 article). World Ethno-National Studies 1:68-81.

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2000 Sell, Jane, J. David Knottnerus, Christopher Ellison, and Heather Mundt. “Reproducing Social Structure in Task Groups: The Role of Structural Ritualization.” Social Forces 79:453-475.

2000 Kebede, Alemseghed, Thomas E. Shriver, and J. David Knottnerus. “Social

Movement Endurance: Collective Identity and the Rastafari.” Sociological Inquiry 70:313-337.


Process of Acculturation and Marginalization of Chinese Americans.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 25:43-95.

1998 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Traditional

Education of Female Youth in Elite French Schools: An Historical Analysis From a Total Institution Perspective.” Quarterly Journal of Ideology 21:23-50.

1998 Martin, Wm. Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Judicial Sentencing, Status

Generalization and Its Institutional Effects: A Theory of Recurrent Status Validation Processes.” Journal of Applied Sociology 15:63-88.

1998 Kebede, AlemSeghed and J. David Knottnerus. “Beyond the Pales of Babylon: The

Ideational Components and Social Psychological Foundations of Rastafari.” Sociological Perspectives 41:499-517.

1997 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Theory of Structural Ritualization.” In Barry Markovsky,

Michael J. Lovaglia and Lisa Troyer, eds., Advances in Group Processes, Volume 14, pp. 257-279. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

1997 Knottnerus, J. David and Jian Guan. “The Works of Peter M. Blau: Analytical

Strategies, Developments and Assumptions.” Sociological Perspectives 40:109-128. 1996 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Structure: An Introductory Essay.” Special Issue of

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 22:7-13. 1996 Knottnerus, J. David. Guest Editor of Special Issue “Recent Advances in Theory and

Research in Social Structure.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Volume 22, Number 2.

1995 Knottnerus, J. David and Brendan Maguire. “The Status of Sociology Departments:

An Assessment of Their Current and Future Prospects.” Sociological Spectrum 15:17-38.

1994 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Social Life Through

Literature: A Suggested Strategy for Conducting a Literary Ethnography.” Sociological Focus 27:67-80.

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1993 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Secondary Education in Early Modern France: An Analysis of an Elite School System from a Total Institution Perspective.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 19:131-157.

1992 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Youth Society in

Early Modern France: A Literary and Social Historical Analysis of the World of Secondary Schoolchildren.” Sociological Inquiry 62:397-412.

1992 Knottnerus, J. David and Christopher Prendergast. “Exchange Theory and Social

Structure: An Assessment with Synthetic Intent.” International Journal for Contemporary Sociology 29:135-150.

1991 Knottnerus, J. David. “Status Attainment's Image of Society: Individual Factors,

Structural Effects, and the Transformation of the Class Structure.” Sociological Spectrum 11:147-176.

1988 Knottnerus, J. David. “A Critique of Expectation States Theory: Theoretical

Assumptions and Models of Social Cognition.” Sociological Perspectives 31:420-445.

1987 Knottnerus, J. David. “Status Attainment Research and Its Image of Society.”

American Sociological Review 52:113-121. 1986 Knottnerus, J. David. “Emile Durkheim: His Methodology and Uses of History.”

The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 22:128-139. 1986 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Relevance of Social Theory for Social Policy: The

Expectation States Program.” Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 14:43-47. 1983 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Melanesian Cargo Cults: A Test of the Value-Added

Theory of Collective Behavior.” Sociological Inquiry 53:389-403. 1981 Knottnerus, J. David and Theodore N. Greenstein. “Performance and Status

Characteristics in Social Interaction: A Theory of Status Validation.” Social Psychology Quarterly 44:338-349.

1980 Greenstein, Theodore N. and J. David Knottnerus. “The Effects of Differential

Evaluations on Status Generalization.” Social Psychology Quarterly 43:147-154. CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS IN BOOKS 2017 Jason S. Ulsperger, J. David Knottnerus, and Kristen Ulsperger. "The Importance of Rituals in Understanding Mass Homicide: A Structural Ritualization Analysis of the Ronald Gene Simmons Murders." In Edward Bailey, ed., Rituals: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, pp. 199-230. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

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2014 Knottnerus, J. David. “Emotions, Pride and the Dynamics of Collective Ritual Events.” In Gavin Brent Sullivan, ed., Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity: New Directions in Emotion Theory, Research and Practice, pp. 43-54. London and New York: Routledge.

2014 Knottnerus, J. David. “Religion, Ritual, and Collective Emotion.” In Christian von

Scheve and Mikko Salmela, eds., Collective Emotions: Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Sociology, pp. 312-325. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

2013 Meij, Jan-Martijn, Meghan D. Probstfield, Joseph M. Simpson, and J. David

Knottnerus. “Moving Past Violence and Vulgarity: Structural Ritualization and Constructed Meaning in the Heavy Metal Subculture.” In Sara Towe Horsfall, Jan-Martijn Meij, and Meghan D. Probstfield, eds., Music Sociology: Examining the Role of Music in Social Life, pp. 60-69. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

2013 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Care Giving Without the Care: The Deviant Treatment of Residents in Nursing Homes.” In Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Addrain Conyers, eds., Deviance Today, 1st ed., pp. 209-219. Upper

Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

2011 Knottnerus, J. David, Jean L. Van Delinder and Jennifer Edwards. “Strategic Ritualization and Power: Nazi Germany, The Orange Order, and Native

Americans.” In J. David Knottnerus, Ritual as a Missing Link: Sociology, Structural Ritualization Theory and Research, pp. 73-105. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

2011 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Disruption and

Deritualization: Concentration Camp Internment and the Breakdown of Social Order.” In J. David Knottnerus, Ritual as a Missing Link: Sociology, Structural Ritualization Theory and Research, pp. 107-131. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

2010 Knottnerus, J. David. “Symbolic Interactionism, Social Action Theories, Verstehen, Pragmatism” (Chapter 13). In “Historical Developments and Theoretical Approaches in Sociology/Social Theory,” edited by Charles Crothers, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

2010 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Enron: Organizational Rituals as Deviance.” Reprinted in Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Addrain Conyers, eds.,

Readings in Deviant Behavior, 6th ed., pp. 291-294. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 2009 Knottnerus, J. David. “Structural Ritualization Theory: Application and Change.” In J. David Knottnerus and Bernard Phillips, eds., Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating

Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination, pp. 70-84. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

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2009 Ulpserger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Institutionalized Elder Abuse: Bureaucractic Ritualization and Transformation of Physical Neglect in Nursing

Homes.” In J. David Knottnerus and Bernard Phillips, eds., Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination, pp. 134-155. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

2009 Phillips, Bernard and J. David Knottnerus. “The Scientific Method.” In J. David Knottnerus and Bernard Phillips, eds., Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating


2009 Phillips, Bernard and J. David Knottnerus. “The East-West Strategy.” In J. David Knottnerus and Bernard Phillips, eds., Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating



Chinese ‘Educated Youth’” (2005 article). Reprinted in Qiu Liping, Research Methods in Social Science, pp. 340-348. Chongqing: Chongqing University Press.

2008 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Enron: Organizational Rituals as

Deviance.” Reprinted in Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Addrain Conyers, eds., Readings in Deviant Behavior, 5th ed., pp. 311-314. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

2007 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Psychology.” In Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L.

Peck, eds., 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2, pp. 153-160. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2006 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Enron: Organizational Rituals as

Deviance.” In Alex Thio and Thomas C. Calhoun, eds., Readings in Deviant Behavior, 4th ed., pp. 279-282. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

2005 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Marginal Status

of Teachers in an Elite School System: Secondary Education in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France.” In Rutledge M. Dennis, ed., Marginality, Power, and Social Structure: Issues in Race, Class and Gender Analysis. Research in Race and Ethnic Relations, Volume 12, pp. 231-251. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier/JAI Press.

2002 Knottnerus, J. David. “Agency, Structure and Deritualization: A Comparative

Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order.” In Sing C. Chew and J. David Knottnerus, eds., Structure, Culture and History: Recent Issues in Social Theory, pp. 85-106. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

2000 Knottnerus, J. David. “Theoretical and Social Foundations of Status Attainment

Research.” In Larry T. Reynolds, ed., Self-Analytical Sociology: Essays And Explorations in the Reflexive Mode, pp. 332-362. Rockport, TX: Magner Publishing.

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1999 Durant, Jr., Thomas J. and J. David Knottnerus. “Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research.” In Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and J. David Knottnerus, eds., Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality, pp. 223-228. Westport, CT: Praeger.

1999 Knottnerus, J. David. “Status Structures and Ritualized Relations in the Slave

Plantation System.” In Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and J. David Knottnerus, eds., Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality, pp. 137-147. Westport, CT: Praeger.

1999 Knottnerus, J. David, David L. Monk, and Edward Jones. “The Slave Plantation

System from a Total Institution Perspective.” In Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and J. David Knottnerus, eds., Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality, pp. 17-27. Westport, CT: Praeger.

1999 Durant, Jr., Thomas J. and J. David Knottnerus. “Introduction.” In Thomas J.

Durant, Jr. and J. David Knottnerus, eds., Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality, pp. xvii-xx. Westport, CT: Praeger.

1997 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Structural Analysis and Status Generalization: The

Contributions and Potential of Expectation States Theory.” In Jacek Szmatka, John Skvoretz and Joseph Berger, eds., Status, Network, and Structure: Theory Development in Group Processes (Winner of the Polish Ministry of Education Award for Achievements in Research), pp. 119-136. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

1994 Knottnerus, J. David. “Expectation States Theory and the Analysis of Group

Processes and Structures.” In J. David Knottnerus and Christopher Prendergast, eds., Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure, pp. 49-74. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

1994 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Exchange Theory and Social Structure: A Critical

Comparison of Two Traditions of Inquiry.” In J. David Knottnerus and Christopher Prendergast, eds., Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure, pp. 29-48. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

1994 Prendergast, Christopher and J. David Knottnerus. “Recent Developments in the

Theory of Social Structure: Introduction and Overview.” In J. David Knottnerus and Christopher Prendergast, eds., Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure, pp. 1-26. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

1993 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Rise of the Wisconsin School of Status Attainment

Research.” In Ted R. Vaughan, Gideon Sjoberg and Larry T. Reynolds, eds., A Critique of Contemporary American Sociology, pp. 252-268. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall.

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1993 Prendergast, Christopher and J. David Knottnerus. “The New Studies in Social Organization: Overcoming the Astructural Bias.” In Larry T. Reynolds, the Third Edition of Interactionism: Exposition and Critique, pp. 158-185. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall.

1990 Prendergast, Christopher and J. David Knottnerus. “The Astructural Bias and

Presuppositional Reform in Symbolic Interactionism: A Non-Interactionist Evaluation of the New Studies in Social Organization.” In Larry T. Reynolds, the Second Edition of Interactionism: Exposition and Critique, pp. 158-180. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall.

1989 Timmer, Doug A. and J. David Knottnerus. “Homelessness in Florida.” In Jamshid

A. Momeni, ed., Homelessness in the United States, Volume I: State Surveys, pp. 39-56. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2002 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Importance and Pervasiveness of Ritual Examined

Through the Theory of Structural Ritualization.” Social Psychology: Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association (Summer):5.

BOOK REVIEWS

1996 Theoretical Research Programs: Studies in the Growth of Theory by Joseph Berger

and Morris Zelditch, Jr., eds. 1993. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. In Social Forces 75:339-341.

1996 Description, Explanation and Understanding: Selected Writings, 1944-1980 by Tom

Burns. 1995. Edinburgh, Great Britain: Edinburgh University Press. In Contemporary Sociology 25:546-547.

1994 Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning by Ulf

Hannerz. 1992. Chichester, West Sussex, NY: Columbia University Press. In Social Science Quarterly 75:901-902.

1994 The “Underclass Debate”: Views From History by Michael B. Katz, ed. 1993.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. In Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 20:193-198.

1994 Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action by Harrison C. White.

1992. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. In Social Science Quarterly 75:242-243.

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1993 Who Prospers? How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success by Lawrence E. Harrison. 1992. New York, NY: Basic Books. In Social Science Quarterly 74:928-929.

1992 Social Organization and Social Process: Essays in Honor of Anselm Strauss by

David R. Maines, ed. 1991. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter. In Perspectives: The Theory Section Newsletter, The American Sociological Association 15,3 (July):8.

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

1992 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “A Literary

Ethnography of the Personal Lives and Relationships of Youth in the Nineteenth Century French School System.” Proceedings of the Oklahoma Sociological Association.

PAPERS UNDER JOURNAL REVIEW Dasari, Adam and J. David Knottnerus. "Organizations and Rituals of Ethnic Significance in an Asian-Indian Ethnic Community."

Delano, Daisha Lee and J. David Knottnerus. “The Khmer Rouge, Ritual and Control.” Ulsperger, Jason S., Kristen Ulsperger, and J. David Knottnerus. "Backwards Dresses and Covered Up Messes: How Bureaucratic Rituals Worsen Physical Abuse and Neglect by Employees in Nursing Homes."

SELECTED UNPUBLISHED AND IN PROGRESS PAPERS

Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual Processes and Impact: An Analysis of the Notting Hill Carnival.” _____. "The Notting Hill Carnival: Organizational Structure and the Strategic Use of Ritual."

Johnson, Kevin, J. David Knottnerus, and Duane Gill. "Disasters and the Power of Rituals: A Theoretical Perspective." Knottnerus, J. David. "Transformative Rituals and Identity." Knottnerus, J. David, Kevin Johnson, and James Mason. “Buffers to Stress and Isolation in Polar Expeditions: Ritualization and Group Dynamics.” PAPERS PRESENTED AND SESSIONS ORGANIZED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2017 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. Paper Session Co-Organizers of "Immigrant Identity, Race and Ethnicity." Annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Chattanooga, TN.

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2017 Johnson, Kevin and J. David Knottnerus. "Ritual Practices During Scott's Journey to the South Pole." To be presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, TX. 2017 Johnson, Kevin and J. David Knottnerus. "Rituals of Persecution: Lynching in the Jim Crow South." To be presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Charleston, SC. 2016 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. "Developing a Sociology of Familicide: Considering Strain-Related Events as a Contributing Factor." Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Charleston, SC. 2016 Liang, Bin, J. David Knottnerus, and Michael A. Long. "A Theoretical Model of Drug/DUI Courts: An Application of Structural Ritualization Theory." Presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Denver. 2015 Liang, Bin, Michael A. Long, and J. David Knottnerus. "What Do Clients Achieve in Drug/DUI Court? Examining Intended and Unintended Outcomes." Presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando, FL. 2015 Johnson, Kevin, J. David Knottnerus, and Duane A. Gill. "Ritualization and Disaster: A Comparative Analysis of Two Communities Impacted by Tornadoes." Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette, LA. 2015 Ulsperger, Jason S., Kristen Ulsperger, and J. David Knottnerus. "No Horsing Around: Bestiality Law and Structural Ritualization Theory as a New Law Formation Model." Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Denver. 2015 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. "Challenging Inequality Through Ritualized Enactments: The Case of Notting Hill." Poster Presentation at Oklahoma Research Day, Northeastern State University, OK.

2014 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. "Ritualized Ethnic Identity Formation: An

Analysis of First-generation Asian Indian Immigrants in the Southern Plains Region of the United States." Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile.

2014 Paper Session Organizer of "Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South

Sociological Association, Mobile. 2014 Delano, Daisha Lee and J. David Knottnerus. “Deritualization and Reritualization

Under the Khmer Rouge.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio.

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2014 Johnson, Kevin, J. David Knottnerus, and Duane A. Gill. “Structural Ritualization and Disaster: An Analysis of Narratives of Reritualization Behaviors Following the May 20 Tornado at Moore, Oklahoma.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio.

2013 Ulsperger, Jason S., J. David Knottnerus, and Kristen Ulsperger. “Alternatives to

Bureaucratic Rituals in Nursing Homes: Considering the “CARE Model” and Possibilities of Culture Change.” Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Aging and Society, Chicago.

2013 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Carnival in Notting Hill: The Strategic Use of Ritual and It’s Outcomes.”Presented at the 108th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York. 2013 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “The Notting Hill Carnival: Ritual Processes and Impact.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago. 2012 Delano, Daisha and J. David Knottnerus. “The Khmer Rouge: Ritual, Control and Genocide.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile. 2012 Paper Session Organizer/Moderator of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile. 2012 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. “A Model of Ethnic Identity Formation

and Ritual dynamics Among Asian Indian Americans.” Presented at the 107th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver.

2012 Gill, Duane, J. David Knottnerus, Sarah Kosmicki, and Liesel A. Ritchie. “Structural

Ritualization Theory and Long-Term Recovery: An Analysis of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans.

2012 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. “Multi-Ritual Identity: A Structural Ritualization Analysis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern

Sociological Society, New Orleans. 2011 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Rituals and Relationships: The Notting

Hill Carnival Past and Present.” Presented at the 106th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas.

2011 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Gaining Entry into a Regional Exchange

System: Ritual Life in East Asia.” Presented at the 106th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas.

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2011 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual and Ethnic Identity: A Theoretical Analysis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock.

2011 Knottnerus, J. David. Participant in Meet-the-Authors session at the annual meeting

of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis. 2011 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. “Multi-Ritual Identity: An Exploratory

Analysis of First Generation Asian Indian Americans.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.

2011 Berry, Phyllis E. and J. David Knottnerus. “Techniques of Deritualization and the

Restructuring of Papuan Society into an Indonesian Province.” Presented at the 14th annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas.

2011 Schumacher, Krista, J. David Knottnerus, and Laura Barnes. “Development and

Testing of a Scale to Measure Kindness Toward Others.” Presented at the OSU Research Symposium.

2010 Sen, Basudhara and J. David Knottnerus. “Constructing Multi-Ritual Identity:

Ritualized Practices Among First-Generation Asian Indian Americans.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.

2010 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Rituals” at the annual meeting of the Mid-

South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge. 2010 Simpson, Joe and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual as a Bridging Concept in

Contemporary Theories of Agency, Structure, and Culture.” Presented at the 105th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2010 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Bureaucratic Alternatives in Nursing

Homes: The ‘Care Model’ and Its Relationship to Culture Change.” Presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Reno.

2010 Wu, Yanhong and J. David Knottnerus. “Story-Telling: Ritualized Daily Practices

and Community Solidarity.” Presented at the annual joint meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association, Chicago.

2010 Mason, James D. and J. David Knottnerus. “A Century of Polar Expeditions: The

Impact of Rituals on Group Dynamics.” Presented the annual joint meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association, Chicago.

2010 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual Process and Impact: An

Analysis of the Notting Hill Carnival.” Presented at the 13th annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas.

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2009 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Social Theory I & II” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette.

2009 Mason, James D. and J. David Knottnerus. “The Application of Structural

Ritualization Theory to Polar Expeditions.” Presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

2009 Montes, Vince and J. David Knottnerus. “Bureaucratic Rituals as Mechanisms of

Control.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco.

2009 Lin, Xiaohua, Jian Guan, and J. David Knottnerus. “Empowerment of Ethnic

Entrepreneurship in a Multicultural Context: The Reproduction of Ritual Practices among Immigrants.” Presented at the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming, China.

2009 Simpson, Joseph M. and J. David Knottnerus. “Community and Ritual in Virtual

Worlds.” Presented at the annual meeting of Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans.

2009 Berry, Phyllis and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual, Collective Identity and the Modern

State: Indonesia and the Reconstruction of Papuan Society.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas.

2009 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Exchange, Conflict and Coercion: The

Ritual Dynamics of the Notting Hill Carnival Past and Present.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas.

2008 Knottnerus, J. David and James Mason. “Expeditions, Disruption and Stress: The

Management (and Mismanagement) of Ritual.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Huntsville.

2008 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the

Mid-South Sociological Association, Huntsville. 2008 Thornburg, P. Alex and J. David Knottnerus. “Consumer Ritualized Symbolic

Practices: A Theory of Religious Commodification.” Presented at the 103rd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston.

2008 Thornburg, P. Alex and J. David Knottnerus. “MegaChurch.tv: Consumer Rituals

and the Religious Experience in Modern America.” Presented at the 9th annual conference of the Sociological Imagination Group, Boston.

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2008 Knottnerus, J. David and Jason S. Ulsperger. “Elder Care and Bureaucratic Rituals of Abuse.” Presented at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest.

2008 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual and Structure: A Social

Historical Investigation of the Notting Hill Carnival.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.

2008 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Illusions of Affection: Bureaucracy

and Emotional Neglect in Nursing Homes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Las Vegas.

2008 Simpson, Joseph and J. David Knottnerus. “Virtual Rituals: Structural Ritualization

Theory and MMORPGs.” Presented at the annual Sociology Research Symposium, Oklahoma State University.

2008 Wu, Yanhong and J. David Knottnerus. “Reconstituting Ritualized Daily Practices:

A Case Study of ‘Educated Youth’ in China.” Presented at the annual Sociology Research Symposium, Oklahoma State University.

2007 Simpson, Joseph and J. David Knottnerus. “Virtual Rituals: Structural Ritualization

Theory and Massive Multiplayer On-line Role-playing Games.” Presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver.

2007 Varner, Monica and J. David Knottnerus. “Transformation, Ritualization, and the

Emergence of the American Spirit.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile.

2007 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of Mid-

South Sociological Association, Mobile. 2007 Thornburg, P. Alex and J. David Knottnerus. “SpiritChurch: A Case Study of

Consumer Ritual Symbolic Practices and the Commodification of Religion.” Presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York.

2007 Knottnerus, J. David. Presenter in the “Symposium: Building on Mills’ The

Sociological Imagination” at the annual meeting of the Sociological Imagination Group, “Confronting Fundamental Problems in Society and Sociology,” New York.

2007 Thornburg, P. Alex and J. David Knottnerus. “Consumer Rituals and the

Commodification of Religion.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Sociological Imagination Group, “Confronting Fundamental Problems in Society and Sociology,” New York.

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2007 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Purposive Action within a System of Ritualized Symbolic Practices: Analyzing the Presence of Strategic Ritualization.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia.

2007 Thornburg, P. Alex and J. David Knottnerus. “Consumer Rituals: A Theory of

Religious Commodification.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

2007 Jean Van Delinder and J. David Knottnerus. Organizers and Presiders of “Culture

and Power” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago. 2006 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Long-term Care Workers and

Bureaucracy: The Occupational Ritualization of Maltreatment in Nursing Homes and Recommended Policies.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, San Jose, CA.

2006 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual as Process, Structure, and

Symbolic Action: A Discussion of Conceptions and Typologies in Sinological Research” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette.

2006 Organizer and Presider of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South

Sociological Association, Lafayette. 2006 Knottnerus, J. David. Panelist presentation “Knowledge Production in Sociology” in

“Bringing Sociology Back In II” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette.

2006 Knottnerus, J. David. “Rituals, Emotions, and Collective Events.” Presented at the

101st meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal. 2006 Knottnerus, J. David. “Structural Ritualization Theory: Application and Change.”

Presented at the annual meeting of the Sociological Imagination Group, Montreal. 2006 Knottnerus, J. David. Plenary Presentation “Cooperation in Theory and Research” at

the annual meeting of the Sociological Imagination Group, Montreal. 2006 Varner, Monica and J. David Knottnerus. “Position and Exclusion: The

Development of Ritualized Practices for Class Separation in American Golf from 1894 to 1920.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas.

2006 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. “Rituals and

Adjustment in Concentration Camps.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas.

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2006 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Structural Levels within Social System: Ritual as Structure in Human Communities.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association, Boston.

2005 Dasari, Adam Stephan and J. David Knottnerus. “Asian Indian Identity in America:

Ritual Dynamics in an Ethnic Community.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2005 Participant in the Roundtable “A Sociological Understanding of Casino Gambling:

The Effects of Race, Class, and Gender” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2005 Mitra, Aditi and J. David Knottnerus. “Gender Role Reproduction among Women

Volunteers and Activists in India: An Ethnographic Study of Ritualization.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2005 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Culture and Power” at the annual meeting of

the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta. 2005 Robertston, Ray von, Jean Van Delinder, and J. David Knottnerus. “’Playing

Indian:’ Black Seminoles in Oklahoma and Their Struggle for Recognition.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2005 Knottnerus, J. David, Jean Van Delinder, and Kristina E. Smith. “Negotiations and

Transcendency in Contemporary Native American Powwows.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2005 Thornburg, P. Alex and J. David Knottnerus. “The Growing Impact of Ritual in

Sociology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Programs – Interaction Ritual Chains and Structural Ritualization.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Society, Atlanta.

2005 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the

Mid-South Sociological Society, Atlanta. 2005 Knottnerus, J. David. “Structural Ritualization Theory: Current Research and Future

Developments.“ Presented at the annual meeting of the Sociological Imagination Group, Philadelphia.


Deritualization: A Re-examination of Early Disaster Research.” Presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.

2005 Minton, Carol and J. David Knottnerus. “Gender Inequality in Malawi and the

Ritualization of Duty.” Presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.

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2005 Ulsperger, Jason S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Deviant Occupational Rituals: The Corporate Culture of Enron.” Presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.

2005 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Discerning the Dimensions and

Conceptualizations of Ritual in China: Lending a Structural Ritualization Lens to the Study of Classical Texts.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte.

2005 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Concentration Camp

Internment in Nazi Germany: The Breakdown and Reconstitution of Ritual Life.” Presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Santa Fe.

2004 Van Delinder, Jean and J. David Knottnerus. Paper Session Organizers/Presiders of

“Culture and Power” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi.

2004 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Social Theory” at the Annual meeting of the

Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi. 2004 Robinson, James W. and J. David Knottnerus. “Institutionalization through

Ritualization: Refining Neoinstitutional Analysis Using Structural Ritualization Concepts.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi.

2004 Participant in Roundtable “The Social Organization and Stratification of Native

American Reservations” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi.

2004 Paper Session Organizer/Presider of “Social Inequality” at the annual meeting of the

Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi 2004 Edwards, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritual and Structure in the Notting Hill

Carnival.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi.


Deritualization: An Examination of the Consequences of Social Disruptions.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi.

2004 Ulsperger, Jason and J. David Knottnerus. “Long-term Care, Legal Requirements,

and Bureaucracy: The Ritualization of Maltreatment in Nursing Homes.” Presented at the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

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2004 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritualization in East Asia’s Sinocentric Order: Trade Relations and Cultural Exchanges within Tributary Systems.” Presented at the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

2004 Guan, Jian and J. David Knottnerus. “Chinatown Under Siege: Community Protest

and the Theory of Structural Ritualization.” Presented at the 36th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology, Beijing, China.

2004 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Cultural Diffusion in the Ancient World:

An Analysis of the Nature-Culture Nexus in East Asian Prehistory.” Presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City.

2003 Smith-Mahdi, Jackquice and J. David Knottnerus. “Laws, Slaves, and Emancipation:

The Ritualization of Racial Inequality in American History.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.

2003 Knottnerus, J. David, Jason Ulsperger, Summer Cummins, and Elaina Osteen.

“Ritualized Deviance in an Organizational Milieu: The Case of Enron.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.


American Reservations” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.

2003 Knottnerus, J. David, Gary R. Webb, and Alex Thornburg. “Disaster and Ritual: A

Re-Examination of Early Disaster Research.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.

2003 Varner, Monica and J. David Knottnerus. “Implementing Ritualized Practices of

Social Integration and the Decrease of High Risk Behavior in High School Students.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.

2003 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Need for Theory and the Value of Cooperation:

Deritualization and Disruption.” Presidential Address presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge.

2003 Sell, Jane, J. David Knottnerus, and Christina Adcock. “Disruptions in Task Groups:

When Does Disruption Lead to Disorder?” Presented at the 98th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2003 Knottnerus, J. David. “Deritualization and the Power of Ritual.” Presented at the

conference: The Ways We Celebrate: Holidays and Rituals as Seedbeds of Social Values. George Washington University. Washington, D.C.

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2003 Knottnerus, J. David. Respondent to Plenary Address, Amitai Etzioni, “Towards a Theory of Holidays and Rituals” at the conference: The Ways We Celebrate: Holidays and Rituals as Seedbeds of Social Values. George Washington University. Washington, D.C.

2003 Mitra, Aditi and J. David Knottnerus. “Women in Ancient India: A Research in

Progress.” Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Dowry, Bride-Burning and Son-Preference, Delhi, India.

2002 Minton, Carol and J. David Knottnerus. “The Social Construction of Gender

Inequality in the Central Region of Malawi.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis.

2002 Sarabia, Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Environmental Degradation, Economic

Collapse, and Cultural Change in East Asia: Regional Transformations and the Second Dark Age.” Presented at the annul meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis.

2002 Mitra, Aditi and J. David Knottnerus. “Women in Ancient India: Research in

Progress.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis.

2002 Ulsperger, Jason and J. David Knottnerus. “Assessing Organizational Variation in

Long-Term Care: A Structural Ritualization Analysis of For-Profit and NonProfit Nursing Homes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis.


American Reservations in the U.S” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis.

2002 Knottnerus, J. David, Jean L. Van Delinder and Jennifer Wolynetz. “Rituals and

Power: A Cross-Cultural Case Study of Nazi Germany, the Orange Order, and Native Americans.” Presented at the 97th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

2002 Jennifer Wolynetz and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritualized Enactments, Identity, and

Religion: The Role of the Twelfth of July Parades in Northern Ireland.” Presented at the 15th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia.

2002 Wolynetz, Jennifer and J. David Knottnerus. “The Twelfth of July Parades: Rituals,

Power, and Conflict in Northern Ireland.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Baltimore.

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2001 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session Organizers/Presiders of “Social Inequality” at the annual meeting of Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile.

2001 Varner, Monica K. and J. David Knottnerus. “American Golf and the Development

of Ritualized Inequality.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile.

2001 Smith-Mahdi, Jackquice and J. David Knottnerus. “Law Formation in the Post-

Bellum Period: Structural Ritualization Theory and the Reproduction of Legal Inequality.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta.

2001 Knottnerus, J. David. “Class, Race and Gender: The Intersection of Social Theory,

History and Literature.” Panel presentation at the 23rd annual meeting of Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, OK.

2001 Knottnerus, J. David. “Agency and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of

Extreme Disruptions of Social Order.” Presented at the 96th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim.

2001 Varner, Monica K. and J. David Knottnerus. “Civility, Rituals and Exclusion: The

Emergence of American Golf During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Presented at the 35th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Krakow.

2000 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session Chairs

of “New Views on Introductory Sociology” at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta.

2000 White, Deborah A. White and J. David Knottnerus. “Ritualization and Coping with

HIV Infection.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta.

2000 Knottnerus, J. David, Jackie Eller and Thomas E. Shriver. Organizers/Presiders of

Discussion Roundtable “Concerns of the Profession” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Knoxville

2000 Knottnerus, J. David and Monica Varner. Panel Presentation of “Social Attributes of

Civility in American Golf During the Later 19th and Early 20th Centuries” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Knoxville.

2000 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session

Organizers/Chairs of “Historical Sociology I & II” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Knoxville.

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2000 Knottnerus, J. David, Jean Van Delinder and Jennifer Wolynetz. "National Identity and Social Ritual: The Role of Festivals and Other Ritualized Practices During Societal Disruption." Informal Discussion Roundtable presented at the 95th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC.

2000 Paper Session Presider of “The Sociology of Knowledge” at the 95th annual meeting

of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC. 2000 Palmer, Linda S., Judy Oehler-Stinnett, John Carlson, J. David Knottnerus, Terry L.

Knight, Sefa Bulut, Melanie Burris, Kurt Choate and Sunny Conner. “Theoretical Constructs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as Assessed in Children Following a Natural Disaster Involving Tornadoes in Their Communities.” Poster Presentation at the Southwest Pediatric Conference, Oklahoma City.

2000 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “They Gave Us Their

Word: Truth, Reality and Other Factual Devices in Literature.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans.

2000 Knottnerus, J. David and David G. LoConto. “The Maintenance of Italian Ethnic

Identity: A Strategic Ritualization Account.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1999 Panel Session Organizer and Presider of “Development of the Discipline” at the

annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson. 1999 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Literature, Sociology

and Interdisciplinary Research: Justifications, Potential and Challenges.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson.


Process of Acculturation and Marginalization of Chinese Americans.” Presented at the 94th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

1999 Paper Session Chair of “Recent Issues in Group Processes Theory and Research” at

the 12th Annual Group Processes Conference held in Chicago. 1999 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. “Youth, Rituals and

Elites: The Social Worlds of Male and Female Children in the Nineteenth Century French Educational System.” Presented at the 34th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Tel Aviv.

1999 Paper Session Chair of “Social Sciences” at the 10th annual Graduate Student

Research Symposium held at Oklahoma State University.

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1999 Kebede, AlemSeghed, Thomas E. Shriver, and J. David Knottnerus. “Social Movement Endurance: Collective Identity and the Rastafari.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Nashville.

1999 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “A Comparative

Analysis of Nineteenth Century Youth Societies: Structural Ritualization in Two French School Systems.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Nashville.

1998 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Mid-

South Sociological Association, Lafayette. 1998 Akella, Umasundari S. and J. David Knottnerus. “Structural Ritualization: Micro to

Macro Processes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette.

1998 Knottnerus, J. David and Phyllis E. Berry. “Citizenship in Ancient Greece: The

Rearing of Spartan Youth.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette.

1998 Knottnerus, J. David and Thomas J. Durant, Jr. Refereed Roundtable Presider of

“Historical Perspectives: Reflections on the Slave Plantation System” at the 93rd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

1998 Knottnerus, J. David and Thomas J. Durant, Jr. “The Structural Dynamics of the

Slave Plantation System: Social Inequality, Past and Present.” Presented at a Refereed Roundtable at the 93rd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

1998 Sell, Jane, J. David Knottnerus, Christopher Ellison, and Heather Mundt. “Creating

Social Structure in Task Groups: The Role of Structural Ritualization.” Presented at the 93rd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

1998 Knottnerus, J. David and Phyllis E. Berry. “Spartan Society: Structural Ritualization

in an Ancient Social System.” Presented at the XIVth World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Montreal.

1998 Knottnerus, J. David and David G. LoConto. “Maintaining Ethnicity: Structural

Ritualization and Italian-Americans in Southeastern Oklahoma.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City.

1998 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Female

Experience in a Religious School System: Construction of a Youth Society in Nineteenth Century France.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta.

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1997 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Huntsville.

1997 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Inequality” at the annual meeting of the

Mid-South Sociological Association, Huntsville. 1997 Knottnerus, J. David and Thomas J. Durant, Jr. Discussion Roundtable Presiders of

“Plantation Society and Race, Gender and Class Relations” at the 92nd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

1997 Knottnerus, J. David. “Theoretical and Social Foundations of Status Attainment

Research.” Presented at a Refereed Roundtable at the 92nd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

1997 Knottnerus, J. David. “The World of Slaves: Status Structures, Ritualized Relations

and the Plantation System.” Presented at the 33rd World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

1997 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Female and Male

Education in Early Modern France: An Historical Comparative Analysis of Elite Institutions and Informal Social Worlds.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans.

1997 Paper Sessions Organizer of “Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of

Inequality I & II” and Chair of “Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality I” at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans.

1997 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. Paper Session

Organizers of “The Sociology of Children and Adolescence” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, New Orleans.

1996 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Mid-

South Sociological Association, Little Rock. 1996 Knottnerus, J. David. “Ritualization in Social Life: An Analysis of Group Processes

and Organization.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock.

1996 Presenter in the Roundtable “Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of

Inequality” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock.

1996 Maril, Andrea Fisher and J. David Knottnerus. “Structural Ritualization in the Dance

Studio.” Presented in a Refereed Roundtable at the 91st annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York.

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1996 Knottnerus, J. David, David L. Monk and Edward Jones. “Plantations and Organizations: A Total Institution Analysis of the American Slave System.” Presented in a Refereed Roundtable at the 91st annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York.

1996 Knottnerus, J. David. “Ritualization, Interaction and Multi-Structural Processes.”

Presented at the First International Conference on Theory and Research in Group Processes, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

1996 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Elite Schooling

of Female Youth in France: An Historical-Organizational Analysis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1996 Topic Organizer for “Social Theory” at the annual meeting of the Midwest

Sociological Society, Chicago. 1996 Paper Session Chair of “Social Theory: Aesthetics, Consciousness and

Constructionist Debates” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1996 Paper Session Chair of “Social Theory: Relational/Structural Concerns” at the

annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago. 1996 Martin, Wm. Daniel, Richard A. Dodder and J. David Knottnerus. “Anxiety as a

Mediating Variable in the Decision-Making Process of Human Services Professionals.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston.

1996 Kebede, AlemSeghed and J. David Knottnerus. “The Role of Ideational Elements in

the Rastafari Social Movement.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston.

1996 Knottnerus, J. David and Elizabeth A. Howard. “Vertical Classification, Death

Ritual and Cognitive Templates: A Working Paper.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Houston.

1995 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Traditional

Education of Female Youth in Elite French Schools.” Presented at the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile.

1995 Paper Session Organizer/Chair and Discussant of “Social Stratification” at the

annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile. 1995 Refereed Roundtable Presider/Discussant of “Theoretical Approaches and

Analytical Strategies” at the 90th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.

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1995 Knottnerus, J. David and Jian Guan. “The Works of Peter M. Blau: Analytical Strategies, Developments and Assumptions.” Presented in a Refereed Roundtable at the 90th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.

1995 Knottnerus, J. David and Christopher Prendergast. Regular Paper Session

Organizers/Presiders of “Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure” at the 90th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC.

1995 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Theory of Structural Ritualization.” Presented at the

32nd World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Trieste, Italy. 1995 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session

Organizers/Chairs of “Family/Intimate Relations I” and “Family/Intimate Relations II” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1995 Martin, Wm. Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “The Influence of Status

Characteristics and Anxiety on Expectancies About the Abused Elderly: A Theory of Recurrent Status Validation Processes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1995 Kebede, AlemSeghed and J. David Knottnerus. “Beyond the Pales of Babylon: The

Social Psychological Foundations of Rastafari.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1995 Maril, Andrea Fisher and J. David Knottnerus. “Lessons from Dance: The Social

Construction of Identity.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1995 Monk, David L. and J. David Knottnerus. “The American Plantation System: An

Historical Case Study From the Total Institution Perspective.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1995 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Education of

Female Youth in Early Modern France: Religious Boarding Schools, Total Institutions and Organizational Analysis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia.

1995 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. Paper Session

Organizers/Chairs of “Sociology of Children and Adolescence” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Dallas.

1995 Placek, Marisha, Ginger Davidson, Andrea Maril and J. David Knottnerus.

“Ritualized Social Practice and Dance.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Dallas.

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1995 Martin, Wm. Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Validational Processes and the Abused Elderly: A Preliminary Theoretical Model of Decision Making Among Human Services Professionals.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Dallas.

1995 Paper Session Chair of “Sociology, Psychology, FRCD, ABSED” at the 6th annual

Graduate Student Research Symposium held at Oklahoma State University. 1994 Monk, David L. and J. David Knottnerus. “Plantations, Total Institutions, and

Organizational Analysis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette.

1994 Paper Session Organizer/Chair and Discussant for “Social Psychology” at the annual

meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Lafayette. 1994 Martin, Wm. Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “A Theory of Recurrent Status

Validation Processes: Social Control and the Aggregate Effects of Judicial Sentencing.” Presented at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami.

1994 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Theory of Structural Ritualization and the Reproduction

of Social Structure: An Analysis of Group Processes in Early Modern French Schools.” Presented at the 89th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles.

1994 Martin, Wm. Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Status Generalization, Judicial

Sentencing, and Their Institutional Effects: A Theory of Recurrent Status Validation Processes.” Presented at the annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles.

1994 Knottnerus, J. David. “Structural Ritualization: A Theory of the Reproduction of

Structure in Social Life.” Presented at the XIIIth World Congress of the International Sociological Association, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

1994 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Psychology” at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque.

1994 Martin, Wm. Daniel and J. David Knottnerus. “Status Generalization and Judicial

Decision Making: The Effects of Race and Gender on Sentencing.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, San Antonio.

1994 Knottnerus, J. David. “Recent Developments in Structural Analysis: Expectation

States Theory and the Analysis of Group Processes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, San Antonio.

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1994 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session Organizers/Chairs of “Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, San Antonio.

1994 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Stratification” at the annual meeting of the

Southwestern Sociological Association, San Antonio. 1994 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Stratification” at the annual meeting of the

Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis. 1994 Knottnerus, J. David and Jian Guan. “Social Stratification in the Works of Peter M.

Blau: Continuities and Changes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.

1994 Paper Session Chair of “Sociology” at the 5th annual Graduate Student Research

Symposium held at Oklahoma State University. 1993 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session

Organizers/Chairs and Discussants for “Sociology and Literature” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Montgomery.

1993 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Use of

Literature in Sociological Research.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Montgomery.

1993 Knottnerus, J. David. Presenter in the Panel Session “Sociology in the 21st Century:

State of the Profession II” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Montgomery.

1993 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Marginal Status

of Teachers in an Elite School System: Secondary Education in Early Modern France.” Presented in a Refereed Roundtable at the 88th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach.

1993 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Exchange Theory and Social Structure: A Critical

Comparison of Two Traditions of Inquiry.” Presented in a Referred Roundtable at the 88th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach.

1993 Knottnerus, J. David. Presenter in the Panel Discussion “Network Exchange: Basic

Concepts, Recent Developments, and Future Directions” at the 6th annual Theory and Research on Group Processes Conference held in Miami Beach.

1993 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Structural Analysis and Status Generalization: The

Contributions and Potential of Expectation States Theory.” Presented at the 31st International Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Sorbonne University, Paris.

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1993 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Elite Schooling in France: The Personal World of Youth.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Corpus Christi.

1993 Prendergast, Christopher and J. David Knottnerus. “The Concept of Social

Structure: Three Traditions and a Tentative Synthesis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1993 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “French Secondary

School Teachers: A Literary and Historical Analysis of a Social Dilemma.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1993 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Sociological Theory I” and “Sociological Theory

II” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, New Orleans.

1993 Paper Session Chair of “Social Sciences and Humanities I” at the 4th annual

Graduate Student Research Symposium held at Oklahoma State University. 1992 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Stratification” at the annual meeting of the

Mid-South Sociological Association, Chattanooga. 1992 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Role Conflict Within

Nineteenth Century French Education: An Application of Literary Ethnography.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Chattanooga.

1992 Sell, Jane, J. David Knottnerus and Cecilia Ridgeway. Discussion Roundtable

Presenters of “Metatheory in Expectation States Theory” at the 5th annual Group Processes Conference held at Carnegie Mellon University.

1992 Knottnerus, J. David and Christopher Prendergast. Discussion Roundtable

Presenters of “The Conceptualization of Social Structure Since 1970: Issues and Debates” at the 87th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh.

1992 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Secondary Education

in Early Modern France: An Analysis of an Elite School System from a Total Institution Perspective.” Presented at the 87th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh.

1992 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Social Analysis and

Literature: A Focused Investigation of a Social World.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Denver.

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1992 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Social Life Through Literature: A Suggested Methodology for Conducting a Literary Ethnography.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City.

1992 Knottnerus, J. David. “Social Exchange Theory and Structural Analysis: Its

Contribution and Potential.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Austin.

1992 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Stratification” at the annual meeting of the

Southwestern Sociological Association, Austin. 1992 Paper Session Chair of “Sociology/Occupational and Adult Education/Curriculum

and Instruction” at the 3rd annual Graduate Student Research Symposium held at Oklahoma State University.

1991 Knottnerus, J. David and Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus. Paper Session

Organizers/Chairs of “Sociology of Literature” at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson.

1991 Paper Session Chair of “Collective Behavior/Social Movements” at the annual

meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson. 1991 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “Youth Society in

Early Modern France: A Literary and Social Historical Analysis of the World of Secondary Schoolchildren.” Presented at the 86th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati.

1991 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “A Historical Instance

of a Total Institution: Secondary Education in Early Modern France.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Reno.


Research.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Reno.

1991 Paper Session Organizer/Chair and Discussant for “Social Stratification I” and

“Social Stratification II” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, San Antonio.

1991 Paper Session Chair of “Human Psychology II” at the 2nd annual Graduate Student

Research Symposium held at Oklahoma State University. 1990 Van de Poel-Knottnerus, Frederique and J. David Knottnerus. “The Emergence of a

Subculture: Schoolchildren in Nineteenth Century France.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Hot Springs.

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1990 Prendergast, Christopher and J. David Knottnerus. Panel Session Organizers/Chairs of “The Concept of Social Structure” and presentation of “The Concept of Social Structure: Introductory Comments” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1990 Knottnerus, J. David and Christopher Prendergast. “The Concept of Social

Structure: The Transactional Tradition.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1990 Discussant in the Paper Session “Marriage and The Family I: Families as Social

Systems” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Fort Worth.

1990 Knottnerus, J. David. “Rational Choice Theory and Social Structural Analysis.”

Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association, Fort Worth.

1989 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Symbolic Interaction” at the annual meeting of

the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge. 1989 Prendergast, Christopher and J. David Knottnerus. “The Astructural Bias and

Presuppositional Reform in Symbolic Interactionism: An Evaluation of the New Studies in Social Organization.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.


Research.” Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile.

1988 Knottnerus, J. David. “Status Attainment’s Image of Society: Individual Factors,

Structural Effects, and the Transformation of the Class Structure.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis.

1988 Knottnerus, J. David. Presenter in the Panel Discussion “Giddens’ Approach to

‘Structure’ and Its Relevance to Symbolic Interaction” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis.

1987 Knottnerus, J. David and Doug A. Timmer. “Homelessness in Florida.” Presented at

the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis. 1987 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Studies in Social Problems Theory” at the annual

meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago. 1987 Moderator of Panel Discussion, “Interdisciplinary Perspectives About Today’s

Families” and a “Paper Presentation” Session at the annual meeting of the Florida Council on Family Relations, Tallahassee.

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1987 Knottnerus, J. David. “A Critique of Expectation States Theory: Theoretical Assumptions and Model of Social Cognition.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1986 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Paper Presentations” at the 2nd Tampa Bay

Family Conference, Tampa. 1986 Session Moderator of “Research Presentations: Sexuality” at the Florida Family

Super Conference, Orlando. 1986 Knottnerus, J. David. “Status Attainment Research and Its Image of Society.”

Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans. 1986 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Paper Presentations” at the 1st Tampa Bay

Family Conference, Clearwater. 1985 Session Moderator of “Alcohol/Drug Induced Family Violence: Surviving Sane” at

the Florida Family Super Conference, Orlando. 1984 Session Moderator of “A New Look at the Old ‘Battle of the Sexes’ and Family

Conflict” at the Florida Family Super Conference, Orlando. 1984 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Social Psychology” at the annual meeting of the

Southern Sociological Society, Knoxville. 1983 Paper Session Organizer/Chair of “Historical Sociology” at the annual meeting of

the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta. 1982 Knottnerus, J. David and Jay Meddin. Discussion Roundtable Presenters of “The

Role of History in the Methodology of Emile Durkheim” at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Memphis.

1981 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Melanesian Cargo Cults: A Test of the Value-Added

Theory of Collective Behavior.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Louisville.

1980 Knottnerus, J. David and Theodore N. Greenstein. “Performance and Status

Characteristics in Social Interaction: A Theory of Status Validation.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Little Rock.

1979 Greenstein, Theodore N. and J. David Knottnerus. “The Effects of Differential

Evaluations on Status Generalization.” Presented at the 74th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

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1979 Knottnerus, J. David. “The Necessity of Formal Theory for Implementing Social Policy.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis.

1978 Greenstein, Theodore N., Jane Sell, and J. David Knottnerus. “External

Contingencies and Group Productivity: An Application of the Social Law of Effect.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2017-18 Affiliate Member of the Center for Disaster Studies and Extreme Events. Oklahoma

State University. 2012-16 Chair of the Stanford M. Lyman Scholarship Committee of the Mid-South Sociological Association and Member of the MSSA Executive Council. 2010-12 Chair of the Committee of the Profession of the Mid-South Sociological

Association. 2008-10 Member of Mid-South Sociological Association Nominations Committee. 2008-09 Member of Mid-South Sociological Association Program Committee. 2007-08 Co-organizer/Co-presider of the 2008 annual meeting of the Sociological

Imagination Group, “Confronting Fundamental Social Problems” (two day conference prior to the ASA meeting), Boston.

2006-07 Co-organizer/Co-presider of the 2007 annual meeting of the Sociological

Imagination Group, “Confronting Fundamental Problems in Society and Sociology” (one and a half day conference prior to ASA meeting), New York.

2005-06 Co-organizer/Co-presider of the annual meeting of the 2006 “Sociological

Imagination Group” (one day conference prior to ASA meeting), Montreal. 2006-07 Member of Mid-South Sociological Association Program Committee. 2005-07 Member of Stanford Lyman Scholarship Committee, Mid-South Sociological

Association. 2005 Site Selection Committee, Mid-South Sociological Association. 2003-07 Council Member, American Sociological Association Theory Section. 2004-05 Member of Cooley-Mead Award Committee (Social Psychology Section Award),

American Sociological Association.

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2002-03 President, Mid-South Sociological Association. 2001-02 Program Chair (and Chair of Program Committee) for the 2002 annual meeting of

the Mid-South Sociological Association, Memphis. 2001-02 President-Elect, Mid-South Sociological Association. 2001-02 Book Exhibit Organizer, Mid-South Sociological Association. 2001-02 Dissertation Improvement Award Committee, Sociology Program, National Science

Foundation. 2000 Nominated and placed on Ballot for President of the Mid-South Sociological

Association. 1999-00 Chair, Theory Book Prize Committee, American Sociological Association. 1998-99 Co-organizer of the 12th Annual Conference for Group Processes Research held in

Chicago. 1998-00 Elected Chair of the Committee for the Profession and member of Executive

Council of the Mid-South Sociological Association. 1997 Nominated for Vice-President of the Mid-South Sociological Association. 1996-97 Member of Membership Committee for the ASA Social Psychology Section. 1995-96 Member of Program Committee for 1996 annual meeting of the Mid-South

Sociological Association. 1995 Sociological Spectrum Award Committee. 1994 Sociological Spectrum Award Committee. 1993 Nominated for Vice-President of the Mid-South Sociological Association. 1992 Organizer/Chair of Oklahoma Sociological Association State Conference held

November 6 in Stillwater. 1991-92 President of Oklahoma Sociological Association. 1991-92 Member of Membership Committee for the Southwestern Sociological Association. 1990-91 President-Elect of Oklahoma Sociological Association and Organizer of the

Undergraduate Paper Competition at the 1991 State Conference held November 9 in Edmond.

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1989-91 Member of Committee on the Profession for the Mid-South Sociological 1993-95 Association. 1989-90 Member of Membership Committee for the Mid-South Sociological Association. 1988-91 Member of Nominating Committee and Representative for the State of 1996-97 Oklahoma for the Mid-South Sociological Association. 1988 Member of Steering Committee for the Florida State Family Conference entitled

“Building Healthy Families” held May 12-13 in Clearwater. 1986 Chair of Steering Committee for the Second Tampa Bay Family Conference entitled

“The Dysfunctional Family: Prevention, Intervention and Treatment” held December 5 in Tampa.

1986 Member of Steering Committee for the First Tampa Bay Family Conference entitled

“Stages of Family Growth: Theory and Treatment” held March 14 in Clearwater. 1984-88 Regional Director (Tampa, FL) and Member of the State Board of Directors of the

Florida Council on Family Relations. GRANTS AND HONORS

2013 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 2012 Awarded the honorary title of Regents Professor by the Oklahoma State University

Board of Regents. 2012 Phoenix Award Finalist for Outstanding Faculty Member, The Graduate and

Professional Student Government Association and the Graduate College, Oklahoma State University.

2012 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 2011 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 2011 Who’s Who in America 2011 (65th Edition, Marquis Who’s Who). 2010 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 2008 Recipient of 2008 Sociological Spectrum Article of the Year Award (Mid-South

Sociological Association). “The Social Dynamics of Elder Care: Rituals of Bureaucracy and Physical Neglect in Nursing Homes” by Jason S. Ulsperger and J. David Knottnerus.

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2008 Nominated for the Arts & Sciences Student Council Outstanding Professor Award, Oklahoma State University.

2007 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 2006 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 2005 Nominated for the Phoenix Award, The Graduate and Professional Student

Government Association, Oklahoma State University. 2004 Nominated for 2004 Sociological Spectrum Article of the Year Award. “Strategic

Ritualization and Ethnicity: A Typology and Analysis of Ritual Enactments in an Italian American Community” by J. David Knottnerus and David G. LoConto.

2003 Nominated for Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University. 2003 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 2003 Nominated for the Phoenix Award, The Graduate and Professional Student

Government Association, Oklahoma State University. 2001 Nominated for the Phoenix Award, The Graduate and Professional Student

Association, Oklahoma State University. 2001 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 2000 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 1998 Arts and Sciences 1 + 1 Program Award, Oklahoma State University. 1997 Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure. J. David Knottnerus and

Christopher Prendergast, eds. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press). Awarded Special Recognition in the Book of the Year Competition at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Huntsville.

1994 Nominated for College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council Award for Scholarly

Excellence, Oklahoma State University. 1994 Paper considered for Alfred R. Lindesmith Award by the Law & Society Division of

SSSP. “Status Generalization, Judicial Sentencing, and Their Institutional Effects: A Theory of Recurrent Status Validation Processes” by Wm. Daniel Martin and J. David Knottnerus.

1994 Nominated for Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, Oklahoma State

University.

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1994 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 1994 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University. 1993 Nominated for Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, Oklahoma State

University. 1992 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 1991 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 1991 Dean’s Incentive Grant I, Oklahoma State University. 1990 Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award, Oklahoma State University. 1990 Dean’s Incentive Grant I, Oklahoma State University. 1989 Dean’s Incentive Grant I, Oklahoma State University. 1988 Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1987, First and Third Editions of Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America (Marquis 1990 Who’s Who). 1987 Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1986 Twentieth Edition of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest (Marquis Who’s Who). 1986 Supplemental Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1986 Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1985 Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1983 Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1982 Faculty Development Fellowship Grant, University of Tampa. 1975 Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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GRANT APPLICATIONS (OSU A&S research grant proposals not included) 2003 “Students Helping Students Program – I.” Grant Proposal (Tahlequah Public

Schools) to “Delinquency, Prevention, and Diversion,” Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program, State of Oklahoma. Primary Research Investigators/Consultants. Monica K. Varner and J. David Knottnerus.

2003 “Students Helping Students Program – II.” Grant Proposal (Tahlequah Public

Schools) to “Community Based Services for Native American Youth,” Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program, State of Oklahoma. Primary Research Investigators/Consultants. Monica K. Varner and J. David Knottnerus.

2001 “Deritualization and Internment in the Concentration Camps of Nazi Germany.”

Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

2000 “Deritualization and Personal/Social Buffers: The Effects of Coercive Disruptions in

the Everyday Lives of People.” Research Preproposal, Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.

2000 “Deritualization and Concentration Camp Internment: A Comparative Case Study

and Theoretical Analysis.” Research Proposal, National Science Foundation. 1997 “Heritage of Italians in Oklahoma: The Historical Study of an Ethnic Group.”

Proposal for 1998 Research Grant, Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities. 1997 Proposal to Participate in the OSU-Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Program. 1996 “History of Plantation Society.” Proposal for 1997 Research Grant, Oklahoma

Foundation for the Humanities. 1996 “Ritualization, Interaction and Multi-Structural Processes.” Proposal for 1995-1996

Short-Term Travel Grant Program, International Research & Exchanges Board. 1995 “Slave Societies and Structural Ritualization in the American Plantation System.”

Proposal for the ASA/NSF Small Grant Program for the Advancement of the Discipline.

1994 Travel Grant from American Council of Learned Societies. 1991 Arts and Sciences Extension Summer Grant Program, Oklahoma State University. J.

David Knottnerus, Lynn Atkinson and Dale Kunkel. 1990 Research Leave Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

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REVIEWS FOR JOURNALS, BOOK PUBLISHERS, FOUNDATIONS, UNIVERSITIES, AND CONSULTING

Article reviews for American Sociological Review, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Theory, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Focus, Sociological Inquiry, Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Human Relations, Sociological Spectrum, Sociological Quarterly, Criminal Justice Studies, Journal of Drug Issues, Free Inquiry, Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Current Research in Social Psychology (Online Journal), Replications in Social Psychology. Examination/Evaluation of Masters Thesis, 2016. Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada. Book Proposal Review for Springer. 2006. Contemporary Sociological Theory: An Integrated Multi-Level Approach., Doyle Paul Johnson. Book Review for F. E. Peacock Publishers, 2001. Contemporary Sociological Theory: Viewing the Social World at Multiple Levels, Doyle Paul Johnson. Book Review for McGraw-Hill, 1998. Knowing People: The Personal Use of Social Psychology, Michael J. Lovaglia. Book Review for McGraw-Hill, 1998. Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism, James Farganis, 3/e. Book Review for McGraw-Hill, 1998. Sociological Theory, George Ritzer, 5/e. Research Reviewer (Sociology) for the National Science Foundation (2007, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996, 1993, 1990, 1988) Dissertation Improvement Award Committee, Sociology Program, National Science Foundation (2001-2002). Review of grant proposal to Ohio University Research Committee (1999). Consultant for “A Longitudinal Assessment of Client Outcomes.” PI’s: Dale Kunkel/Lynn Atkinson. Funding Source: Oklahoma Department of Human Services. 7/1990-6/1991. Consultant for the Florida Board of Regents Statewide Review of Sociology Departments. 1987.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Sociological Association American Sociological Association Section Memberships: Theory, Social Psychology, Culture. International Institute of Sociology (not current) International Sociological Association (not current) International Sociological Association Committee Membership: Research Committee on

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Social Psychology, Number 42 (not current) Mid-South Sociological Association Midwest Sociological Society Southern Sociological Society

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Oklahoma State University - Department of Sociology 2012-14 Member of Undergraduate Committee. 2010-12 Chair of Undergraduate Committee. 2010-12 Member of Personnel Committee. 2007-10 Member of Undergraduate Committee. 2007-08 Member of Personnel Committee. 2006-07 Chair of Personnel Committee. 2002-04 Member of Personnel Committee. 2000-01 Member of Personnel Committee. 1997-07 Member of Graduate and Research Committee. 1991-97 Director of the Graduate Program. 1991-97 Chair of Graduate and Research Committee. 1990-92 Member of Personnel Committee. 1988-91 Member of Graduate Committee. 1988-90 Member of Research Committee. Oklahoma State University - University Service 2014 Member of A&S Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. 2012-13 Member of Academic Misconduct Inquiry Committee (Office of Vice-President of Research). 2009-11 Member of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Council Curriculum, General Education, and Extension Committee. 2006-08 Academic Integrity Facilitator. 2004-05 Member of Sabbatical Leave Committee (College of Arts and Sciences). 2002-03 Member of Scholarly Communications Task Force, Oklahoma State University. 2001 Member of Oklahoma State University Honorary Degree Committee. 2000 Member of Oklahoma State University Honorary Degree Committee. 2000-02 Member of Membership Committee, Graduate Faculty Council. 2000-02 Chair of Graduate Faculty, Group IV. 1998-01 Member of Oklahoma State University Institutional Review Board. 1998-00 Member of Rules Committee, Graduate Faculty Council. 1998-00 Vice-Chair of Graduate Faculty, Group IV. 1998-02 Group IV Representative to the Graduate Faculty. 1996-97 Graduate College Student Services Advisory Committee. 1990-91 Member of Board of Faculty Representatives (College of Arts and Sciences). 1989 Invited Participant in Oklahoma State University Faculty Retreat on Student Retention.

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1989-92 Member of Sabbatical Leave Committee and Chair for 1990-91 (College of Arts and Sciences). 1989 Peer Reviewer of Dean's Incentive Grants II Proposals (College of Arts and Sciences). University of Tampa 1985-88 Member of Academic Appeals Committee. 1981-85 Member of Faculty Development Committee.

GRADUATE WORK SUPERVISED Chair, Advisor, or Member of numerous Dissertation and Thesis Committees. Doctoral students whose Dissertation Committees I have chaired and/or advised include: Jason S. Ulpserger, David G. LoConto, Monica K. Varner, Jennifer Edwards, Carol Minton, Daniel Sarabia, Adam Dasari, Meghan Probstfield, Phyllis E. Berry, Deborah White, Basudhara Sen, Kevin Johnson (2018 – expected date of completion). Additional information available upon request.

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