Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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John McCarthy
Department Head and Professor of Sociology
202 Oswald Tower |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 1968, Sociology, University of Oregon
B.A., 1963, Psychology/Philosophy, San Jose State University
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Professor McCarthy’s research and teaching interests include: Collective Behavior and Social Movements; Policing of the Public Order; Formal Organizations; and Mass Media Processes. In recent years he has been a Principal Investigator of projects on: Local Poor Empowerment Community Organizations; Media Coverage of Washington, D. C. Protest Gatherings; The Evolution of Public Protest in the U.S., 1960-1995; and The Evolution of Social Movement Organizations in the U.S., 1959-2002. His most recent project investigates College and University Campus Community Public Order Disturbances since 1985. He is presently co-teaching and Undergraduate Research Experience seminar that is integrated with a current National Science Foundation funded project.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Senior Fulbright Research Scholar, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1995-1996
Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Studies, University of Michigan, February, 1996, (Mellon Seminar on Global Social Movements)
Elected Member of the Sociological Research Association, 1998
Distinction in the Social Sciences Award, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University, 2002
Member, National Science Sociology Review Panel, 1996-98
Member, Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 1995-present; Member, Editorial Board, Mobilization, 1996-present
Member, Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1998-2001.
Recent Research Grants include: “Collaborative Research in Specifying the Dimensions of Bias in Media Coverage of Demonstrations in Washington, D.C., 1973-1995.” (with Clark McPhail) National Science Foundation. 1996-1999
“Collaborative Research on the Dynamics of Collective Protest in the U.S., 1950-1995.” (With Doug McAdam, Susan Olzak and Sarah Soule) National Science Foundation. 2000-2002
“Collaborative Research on the Dynamics of Collective Protest in the U.S., 1950-1995: Research Experience for Undergraduates.” National Science Foundation
“Data Base Development for the Study of Social Policy.” (with Frank Baumgartner) National Science Foundation. 2001-2005.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald. 1977. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 82: 1212-1241.
Mayer N. Zald and John D. McCarthy. 1987. Social Movements in an Organizational Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.
John D. McCarthy, David W. Britt and Mark Wolfson. 1991. “The Channeling of Social Movements in the Modern American State.” Social Movements, Conflict, and Change. 13:45-76.
John D. McCarthy and Mark Wolfson. 1996. “Resource Mobilization by Local Social Movement Organizations: The Role of Agency, Strategy and Structure.” American Sociological Review 61:1070-1088.
John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail and Jackie Smith. 1996. “Images of Protest: Estimating Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982, 1991.” American Sociological Review 61:478-499.
Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald (Eds.). 1996. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunity, Mobilizing Structures and Cultural Framings. New York: Cambridge University Press.
John D. McCarthy and Clark McPhail. 1998. “The Institutionalization of Protest in the United States.” Pp. 83-110 in The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century. Ed. by David S. Meyers and Sidney Tarrow. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail and John Crist. 1999. “The Emergence and Diffusion of Public Order Management Systems: Protest Cycles and Police Response.” Pp. 49-69 in Globalization and Social Movements. Ed. By Hanspeter Kriesi, Donatella della Porta and Dieter Rucht. London: McMillan.
Smith, Jackie, John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail and Boguslaw Augustyn. 2001. “From Protest to Agenda Building: Description Bias in Media Coverage of Protest Events in Washington, D.C.” Social Forces 79:1397-1423.
Titarenko, Larissa, John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail and Boguslaw Augustyn. 2001. “The Interaction of State Repression, Protest Form and Protest Sponsor Strength during the Transition from Communism in Minsk, Belarus, 1990-1995.” Mobilization 6:129-150.
John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald. 2002. “The Enduring Vitality of the Resource Mobilization Theory of Social Movements.” Pp. 533-565 in Jonathan H. Turner, ed. Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers