Stephen L. Klineberg, Ph.D.
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Professor
Department of Sociology, MS-28
Office: SH 588 |
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Courses:
Spring 2008: SOCI 308 Houston: The Sociology of a City
Areas of Interest
- Contemporary social change
- Survey research methodologies
- Urban and environmental sociology
Biography
A graduate of Haverford College near Philadelphia, Professor Klineberg received an M.A. in Psychopathology from the University of Paris and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard. After teaching at Princeton, he joined Rice University's Sociology Department in 1972. The recipient of nine major teaching awards and of the 1994/1995 Student Association's Mentor Recognition Award, he is a faculty associate and divisional advisor at Lovett College, where he twice served as Interim Master.
In March 1982, he and his students initiated the annual Houston Area Survey, tracking the remarkable changes in the demographic patterns, life experiences, attitudes and beliefs of area residents during a period of remarkable change. No other city in America has been the focus of a long-term longitudinal research program of this scope. None more clearly exemplifies the transformations that are radically refashioning the social and political landscape of urban America.
The project has attracted great interest and generous support from foundations, corporations and individuals in the wider Houston community and beyond. Their support has made it possible not only to pay for the professional surveys, but also to fund a post-doctoral research fellowship associated with this research, and to expand the surveys each year with additional interviews in Houston's Anglo, African-American, and Latino communities. In 1995 and 2002, the research included large representative samples from Houston’s Asian communities, with one-fourth of the interviews conducted in Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, or Korean—the only such surveys in the country.
Co-author of “The Present of Things Future: Explorations of Time in Human Experience,” Klineberg has written numerous journal articles and appears frequently on radio and television. In November 2005, he published a 48-page report on the Houston research (“Public Perceptions in Remarkable Times: Tracking Change Through 24 Years of Houston Surveys”), copies of which are available on request or can be downloaded from the survey Web site (at www.houstonareasurvey.org). He is currently at work on a book that will update and expand that report to explore the way the general public is responding to the economic, demographic and environmental challenges of our time.
Recent Publications
“Religious Diversity and Social Integration among Asian Americans in Houston.” In Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang (Eds.) Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries, New York: New York University Press, 2004, pp. 247-262.
“Demographic and Related Economic Transformations of Texas: Implications for Early Childhood Education and Development.” With Steve Murdock. Forthcoming in Nurturing Early Childhood Development: Evidence to Support National Movements for Educational Change, edited by Alvin R. Tarlov and Michelle Precourt Debbink. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
“Affirmative Action Attitudes: Effects of Respondent Racioethnicity, Affirmative Action Plan Strength, and Anticipated Consequences.” With David A. Kravitz and Tiffany Bludau. Forthcoming in Group & Organization Management: An International Journal.