David R. Maines

Title: Professor of Sociology
E-mail: [email protected]

Major Fields
Urban sociology, stratification, interactionism, narrative.  

Teaching Areas
Introduction to Sociology
Current Social Problems
Social Stratification
Urban Sociology

Representative Publications:

• Transforming Catholicism: Liturgical Change in the Vatical II Church, David R. Maines and Michael McCallion, Lexington Books, 2007.
• "A Sociological Account of the Persistence of Anorexic Identities," with Susan Haworth-Hoeppner, Symbolic Interaction, 28:1-23, 2005.
• "Herbert Blumer," pp. 58-62 in George Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
• "Evidence of and Speculations on Catholic de facto Congregationalism," with Michael McCallion, Review of Religious Research, 46, pp. 92-101, 2004.
• "Liturgical Influence on Tabernacle Location," Review of Religious Research 44:93-94, 2003 (with Michael McCallion).
• The Faultline of Consciousness: A View of Interactionism in Sociology, Hawthorne, NY:Aldine de Gruyter, 2001.