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Nan Lin, Professor, Sociology

Nan Lin
Contact Info:
Office Location:  266 Soc-Psych
Office Phone:  (919) 660-5610
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.soc.duke.edu/dept/faculty/nalin.html

Education:

Ph.D.Michigan State University1966
M.A.Syracuse University1963
B.A.Tunghai University (Taiwan)1960
Research Interests:

I did my undergraduate work at Tunghai University, Taiwan, received my M.A. from Syracuse University, and finished my Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1966. I taught at Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York at Albany, before joining the Duke faculty in 1990. My main research interests are social networks and social capital, the life stress process (especially social support as resources), social stratification and mobility, and Chinese societies. I teach Cybernetworks (Soc. 114), Methods of Social Research (SOC 132), Social Capital (Soc. 228), and Stress and Coping (Soc. 227)and others.

Areas of Interest:

Social networks and social capital,
Stratification/Mobility,
Mental Health,
Mass Communication/Public Opinion

Keywords:

Asia • China • Sociology • Social networks • Social capital

Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Lijun Song  
  • Martha Martinez-Martinez  
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  • Joonmo Son  
  • Shanhui Wu  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Social Capital: Advances in Research (Tentative title), edited by Lin, Nan; Erickson, Bonnie (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press
  2. Lin, Nan, Social Capital and the Labor Market: Transforming Urban China (2007), NY: Cambridge University Press
  3. Nan Lin, editor, Social Capital: Critical Concepts in Social Sciences. 4 volumes. (forthcoming), Routledge
  4. Raymay Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ron Breiger, editors, Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets and Organizations (forthcoming), Routledge
  5. “Social Capital,”, in Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, edited by edited by Jens Beckert and Milan Zagiroski (2005), Rutlege Ltd