Michael Hechter
Curriculum Vitae
Michael Hechter
School of Politics and Global Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 857392
Tel: (480) 727-0735
Cel: (480) 381-5081
Fax: (480) 727-8292
Website: https://michaelhechter.wordpress.com/
POSITIONS HELD
2015 - Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
2013 - Foundation Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University
Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Graduate Faculty, Department of History
2005 - 2012 Foundation Professor, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University
Core Faculty, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Graduate Faculty, Departments of Political Science, Sociology, and History
2008- 2009 Director, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University
2007- 2008 Interim Director, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University
2005 - Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
1999 - 2005 Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
1996 - 1999 Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
1994 - 1996 University Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow of New College, Oxford
1984 1994 Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
1984 Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
1970 1984 Assistant Professor to Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
DEGREES
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1972
A.B. Columbia University, 1966
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2011-12
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2004
Who’s Who in the World, 2004 --
Who’s Who in America, 2002 --
Elected member of Society for Comparative Research, 2001
Elected to the Sociological Research Association, 1992
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1990-91
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1988-1989
Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, 1988
Who's Who in the West, 1984
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1965
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Alien Rule. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Containing Nationalism, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 2001 (paperback), 2003 (electronic edition; Oxford Scholarship Online)
Georgian edition, Tblisi: Center for Social Sciences, 2007
Simplified Chinese edition, Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2012
Principles of Group Solidarity. Berkeley and London: University of California Press: 1987, 1988 (paperback)
Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1988
Finalist, American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, 1988
Japanese edition, Rentai no joken: goriteki sentaku riron ni yoru apuroch. Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, Ltd., 2003
Polish edition, NOMOS Publishers, Krakow, 2013
Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development 15361966
Selected as one of the Best Books of the Century by the International Sociological Association, 2000
British edition, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975, 1978 (paperback)
American edition, Berkeley: University of California Press: 1975, 1977 (paperback)
Italian edition, Il colonialismo interno, Torino:Rosenberg and Sellier, 1979
Reissued, with a new introduction and appendix, as Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 1998
Edited Books
Theories of Social Order, co-editor (with Christine Horne). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003
Second Edition. 2009
Social Norms, co-editor (with Karl-Dieter Opp). New York: Russell Sage Foundation: 2001, 2005 (paperback)
The Origin of Values, co-editor (with Lynn Nadel and Richard E. Michod). New York: Aldine de Gruyter: 1993
Social Institutions:Their Emergence, Maintenance, and Effects, co-editor (with Karl-Dieter Opp and Reinhard Wippler). New York: Aldine de Gruyter; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: 1990
The Microfoundations of Macrosociology, editor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press: 1983
Special Issues of Journals
Legitimacy in the Modern World, editor. American Behavioral Scientist 53, 3 (November 2009)
Symposium: Prediction in the Social Sciences, editor. American Journal of Sociology 100, 6 (May 1995)
Theoretical Implications of the Demise of State Socialism, co-editor (with Iván Szelényi). Special issue of Theory & Society 23, 2 (April 1994)
Internal Colonialism in Comparative Perspective, co-editor (with John Stone). Special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2, 3 (1979)
Articles and Chapters
"The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797,” Social Science History, forthcoming (with Steven Pfaff and Katie Corcoran)
“The Differential Demand for Indirect Rule: Evidence from the North Caucasus,” Post-Soviet Affairs. 29 (with David Siroky and Valeriy Dzutsev) 29 (2013) 268-286
"Solidarity, Sociology of," in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier Science. In press.
“Introduction to the Polish Edition of Principles of Group Solidarity (in Polish). Krakow: Nomos Publishers, 2013. In press.
“The Modernity of Nationalism,” in David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam, eds.The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Oxford: Blackwell. 2013: 752-757.
“A Theory of Group Solidarity,” Pp. 129-141 in Craig Calhoun et al., Contemporary Sociological Theory. 3rd Edition. Oxford and Malden, MA: John Wiley and Sons, 2012
[excerpted from Principles of Group Solidarity]
“Societate Şi Naţiune: Mecanismele Naţionalismului” (Mechanisms of Nationalism), Pp. 453-469 in Dumitru Otovescu, ed., Tratat de Socilogie Generală. Craiova, Romania: Editura Beladi, 2010 (in Romanian)
“Dynamics of Military Occupation,” Pp. 432-452 in Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers, eds., The Handbook of the Political Economy of War. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (with Oriol Vidal-Aparacio), 2011
“Legitimating Alien Rule,” Ethnopolitics 9, 3-4 (2010): 401-405
“Introduction: Legitimacy in the Modern World.” American Behavioral Scientist. 53: 3 (2009): 279-288
“Alien Rule and Its Discontents.” American Behavioral Scientist, 53, 3 (2009): 289-310
“The Dilemma of Social Order in Iraq.” Pp. 102-112 in Huan Liu, John Salerno and Michael J. Young eds., Social Computing, Behavior Modeling, and Prediction II. New York: Springer (with Nika Kabiri), 2009
“Resistance to Alien Rule in Taiwan and Korea.” Nations and Nationalism 15, 1 (2009): 36-59 (with Ioana Emy Matesan and Chris Hale)
“The Rise and Fall of Normative Control.” Accounting, Organizations and Society. 33: 6 (2008): 663-676
“Attaining Social Order in Iraq.” Pp. 43-74 in Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud, eds., Order, Conflict and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Nika Kabiri), 2008
“The Sociology of Alien Rule.” Pp. 19-24 in Huan Liu, John J. Salerno and Michael J. Young, eds., Social Computing, Behavior Modeling, and Prediction. New York: Springer, 2008
“A Theory of the Value of Grandchildren.” Rationality and Society, 20: 1 (2008): 31-63 (with Debra Friedman and Derek Kreager)
“Nationalism and Direct Rule.” Pp. 84-93 in Gerard Delanty and Krishan Kumar, eds., SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (with Tuna Kuyucu and Audrey Sacks). London: SAGE Publications, 2006
“Prediction versus Explanation in the Measurement of Values,” European Sociological Review 21, 2 (2005): 91-108 (with Hyojoung Kim and Justin Baer)
"From Class to Culture." American Journal of Sociology, 110, 2 (2004): 400-445
Reprinted in Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis/Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine, 34, 4 (2004): 595-644
Polish translation in Współczesne Teorie Socjologiczne (Contemporary Sociological Theory), edited by A. Manterys and J. Mucha. Nomos Publishing House, Krakow, Poland. Forthcoming.
"Toward a Sociological Rational Choice Theory." Pp. 23-40 in Axel van den Berg and Hudson Meadwell, eds., The Social Sciences and Rationality: Promises, Limits, and Problems. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004
"Containing Ethnonationalist Violence." Pp. 283-300 in Andreas Wimmer, Richard Goldstone, Donald Horowitz, Ulrike Joras and Conrad Schetter, eds., Facing Ethnic Conflicts: Towards a New Realism. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
"A Nacionalizmus Megfékezése(The Restraining of Nationalism)," Magyar Kisebség (Hungarian Journal of Minority Studies) New Series, 8 (2003) (in Hungarian) http://www.hhrf.org/magyarkisebbseg/m030121.html
"National Self-Determination: The Emergence of an International Norm." Pp. 186-233 in Michael Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp, eds., Social Norms. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (with Elizabeth Borland), 2001
"Introduction," Pp. xi-xx in Michael Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp, Social Norms. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (with Karl-Dieter Opp), 2001
"What Have We Learned about the Emergence of Norms?" Pp. 394-416 in Michael Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp, eds., Social Norms. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (with Karl-Dieter Opp), 2001
"Political Consequences of Minority Group Formation." Annual Review of Political Science, 4 (2001): 189-215 (with Dina Okamoto)
"Solidarity, Sociology of," pp. 14588-14591 in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001
"Nationalism and Rationality," Studies in Comparative International Development, 35, 1 (Spring 2000): 3-19
Reprinted in Journal of World-Systems Research, 6, 2 (2000): 308-329
"Agenda for Sociology at the Start of the 21st Century." Annual Review of Sociology, 26 (2000): 697-698
"Order and Efficacy in Heterogeneous Complex Organizations," in Werner Raub and Jeroen Weesie, eds., The Management of Durable Relations: Theoretical and Empirical Models of Households and Organizations. Amsterdam: Thela Thesis (with Debra Friedman), 2000
"The Prevalence and Selectivity of Altruism: An Empirical Study of Medical Advance Directives," in Werner Raub and Jeroen Weesie, eds., The Management of Durable Relations: Theoretical and Empirical Models of Households and Organizations. Amsterdam: Thela Thesis (with James Ranger-Moore), 2000
"Introduction to the Transaction Edition," Pp. xiii-xxiii in Michael Hechter, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999
"Theories of the Value of Children," Pp. 19-47 in Richard Leete, ed. Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change. Oxford: Clarendon Press [Oxford International Studies in Demography] (with Debra Friedman and Satoshi Kanazawa), 1999
"Do Values Matter? An Analysis of Advance Directives for Medical Treatment," European Sociological Review 15, 4 (December 1999): 405-30 (with James Ranger-Moore, Guillermina Jasso and Christine Horne
"A Theory of the State and of Social Order," Homo Oeconomicus 15 (1998): 1-26 (with Sun-Ki Chai)
Reprinted, Pp. 33-60 in Patrick Doreian and Thomas J. Fararo, eds., The Problem of Solidarity. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998
"Prospects for Rational Choice Theory in Macrosociological Research," Pp. 281-90 in Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Gerald Prein, eds., Rational Choice Theory and Large-Scale Data Analysis, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998
"The Debate on Historical Sociology: Rational Choice Theory and its Critics," American Journal of Sociology 104 (1998): 785-816, (with Edgar Kiser)
"Religion and Rational Choice Theory." Pp. 147-59 in Lawrence A. Young, ed., Rational Choice Theories of Religion. London: Routledge, 1997
"Sociological Rational Choice Theory," Annual Review of Sociology, 23 (1997): 191-214 (with Satoshi Kanazawa)
"Through Thick and Thin: How Far Can Theory Predict Behaviour?," The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4852, March 29, 1996: 15
"Explaining Nationalist Violence," Nations and Nationalism 1,1 (1995): 53-68
"Introduction: Reflections on Historical Prophecy in the Social Sciences," American Journal of Sociology 100, 6 (1995): 1520-1527
"Theoretical Implications of the Demise of State Socialism." Theory and Society 23, 2 (1994): 155-167
"The Role of Values in Rational Choice Theory." Rationality and Society, 6, 3 (1994): 318-333
"A Theory of the Value of Children." Demography, 31, 3 (1994): 375-401 (with Debra Friedman and Satoshi Kanazawa)
"Toward a Theory of Ethnic Change." Excerpts reprinted, pp. 487-500 in David Grusky, ed., Social Stratification, Boulder, CO: Westview Press (1994)
Chinese translation in Rong Ma, ed., Sociological Studies of Ethnic Relationships. Beijing: Chinese Press of Social Sciences.
"The Production of Social Order, with Special Reference to Contemporary Japan." Pp. 187-208 in Aage Sorensen and Seymour Spilerman, eds., Social Theory and Social Practice: Essays in Honor of James S. Coleman (with Satoshi Kanazawa). New York: Praeger, 1993.
"Internal Colonialism." P. 434 in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
"Peripheral Nationalism." Pp. 695-696 in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
"Values Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences," pp. 1-28 in M.Hechter et al., eds., The Origin of Values, New York: Aldine, 1993.
"Group Solidarity and Social Order in Japan." Journal of Theoretical Politics 5, 4 (1993): 455-493 (with Satoshi Kanazawa)
"The Emergence of Nationalist Politics in the U.S.S.R.: A Comparison of Estonia and the Ukraine." Pp. 169-204 in Alexander J. Motyl, ed., Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992 (with CharlesF. Furtado, Jr.)
"The Insufficiency of Game Theory for the Resolution of Real-World Collective Action Problems," Rationality and Society 4, 1 (1992): 33-40
"The Attainment of Global Order in Heterogeneous Societies." Pp. 79-97 in James S. Coleman and Thomas Fararo, eds., Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992. (with Debra Friedman and Satoshi Kanazawa)
Excerpts reprinted in Michael Hechter and Christine Horne, Theories of Social Order: A Reader. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
"Should Values Be Written Out of the Social Scientist's Lexicon?" Sociological Theory 10, 2 (1992): 215-231
"The Micro-Macro Link in Rational Choice Theory." Perspectives 15, 3 (1992): 1-4
"The Dynamics of Secession." Acta Sociologica 35, 4 (1992): 267-283
Reprinted in John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith, eds., Nationalism: A Reader, London: Routledge, 2000
"Rational Choice Theory and Historical Sociology." International Social Science Journal 133 (August 1992): 376-383
This paper also appears in the French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese editions of this journal
"The Role of General Theory in Comparative-historical Sociology," American Journal of Sociology, 97, 1 (1991): 1-30 (with Edgar Kiser)
Reprinted in Alan Sica, ed., Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences. London: Sage Publications, 2006.
"From Exchange to Structure," pp. 46-50 in Joan Huber, ed., Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991
"The Attainment of Solidarity in Intentional Communities," Rationality and Society 2, 2 (1990): 140-153
"Nonconformity and the Emergence of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Wales." Pp. 45-66 in Hans Heinrich Nolte, ed., Internal Peripheries in Europe. Gottingen and Zurich: Muster-Schmidt Verlag, 1990
"The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions." Pp. 13-33 in M. Hechter, K.D. Opp and R. Wippler, eds., Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance, and Effects. New York and Berlin: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990
Excerpted in Peter Kivisto, ed., Social Theory: Roots and Branches. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co., 2000: 305-313
Excerpted in Peter Kivisto, ed., Social Theory: Roots and Branches, 5th edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013: 311-319
"Introduction." Pp 1-12 in M. Hechter, K.D. Opp and R. Wippler, eds., Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance and Effects. New York and Berlin: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990
"The Comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory." Pp. 214-229 in George Ritzer, ed., Frontiers of Sociological Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989 (with Debra Friedman)