Papers
Dan Ryan
Associate Professor of Sociology
Mills College

Peer Reviewed Publications

Format(s) Available

2008
"Emergent Temporal Effects in Community Initiatives" Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 51, Issue 1, pp. 139–162

notification abstract

2006 “Getting the Word Out: Notes on the Social Organization of Notification.”  Sociological Theory, September 2006

notification abstract
"Notification"

2006 “'Everything Here is So Political' : Separating the Organizationally Normal from the Political in Communities of Organizations” Journal of Drug Issues, vol. 36, no. 2 (Spring 2006).
Everything Here is So Political Abstract

2005
"Why is it so difficult to form community coalitions?" with Charles Kadushin and Matthew Lindholm.  City and Community,4:3 September 2005.

Why So Difficult Abstract

2004 "'Fighting Back' Against Substance Abuse: The Structure and Function of Community Coalitions."  Matthew Lindholm, Dan Ryan, Charles Kadushin, Leonard Saxe, Archie Brodsky. Human Organization. Fall 2004. Vol. 63, Iss. 3; p. 265
Fighting Back Abstract








Other Publications

2007
Review of "Time Use: Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences" by William Michelson.  Contemporary Sociology 36,3. 

"Time as Social Structure"

2006 "Time and Globalization" in Encyclopedia of Globalization
"Time as Social Structure"

2004 "Time" in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by George Ritzer

"Time as Social Structure"

1998 "How to Enjoy a Convention" The Pacific Sociologist Volume 6, #3. September 1998


In the Media





2007
Tierney, John.  "As the Grapevine Withers, Spam Filters Take Root." New York Times, Science Times, 22 May 2007

"Time as Social Structure"

Online





Sociology of Information BLOG (relatively inactive)
"Time as Social Structure"


The Experiencing Eye BLOG (rather inactive)
"Time as Social Structure"

Unpublished

“Please take a few minutes... : Using 'Pointless' Internet Petitions to Characterize the Shape of Acquaintance Networks” presented at Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, March 2001 and in poster session at Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2007.

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"The Ghosts of Organizations Past: Organizational Aspects of Urban Social Structure in the Implementation of the Fighting Back Initiative in New Haven, Connecticut 1989-1996" (Dissertation Yale University Dept of Sociology)


“Urban Communities as Organizational Scrapyards”



“Notes Toward a Social Psychology of Combat” (with Daniel F. Chambliss)


“Big Problems Demand Small Solutions : Towards a General Strategy for Excellence in Education” (with Daniel F. Chambliss)