Gene Shackman has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York, University at Albany. Gene can be contacted at gsociology at yahoo (d o t) com Also see some of my research interests here http://independent.academia.edu/GeneShackman and here at ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gene_Shackman and here at SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1754255
Papers, reviews, articles, presentations
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Applied Social Science, 2025-2024. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/KQV-2581-2024 (click on peer review tab)
Peer Reviewer for Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2025.
Gene Shackman, Free to Read Journals About Evaluation Methods. AEA365. https://aea365.org/blog/free-to-read-journals-about-evaluation-methods-by-gene-shackman/ 5 January 2025.
Gene Shackman. Free To Use Statistical Software: Comparing Statistical Analyses. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105959 First published 23 May 2022. Last Revised 17 June 2024.
Gene Shackman. What is Program Evaluation? A Beginners Guide. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3060080 First published 27 October 2017. Last Revised 12 June 2024.
Gene Shackman, Free Statistical Software. AEA365. https://aea365.org/blog/free-statistical-software-by-gene/ 17 July 2022.
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Health, Wealth and Happiness. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3895420 July 2021.
Gene Shackman. Resources for Learning Evaluation. AEA365 A Tip A Day by and for Evaluators. http://aea365.org/blog/resources-for-learning-evaluation-by-gene-shackman/ 26 February 2018
Gene Shackman. Accreditation, Certification, Credentialing: Does It Help? In New Directions for Evaluation. Special Issue: Accreditation, Certification, and Credentialing: Relevant Concerns for U.S. Evaluators. Issue edited by: James W. Altschuld, Molly Engle. Volume 2015, Issue 145, pages 103–113, Spring 2015. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20114/abstract
Gene Shackman. Review of Social Psychology and Evaluation, In Vol 8, No 17 (2012) issue of Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation. Melvin M. Mark, Stewart I. Donaldson, and Bernadette Campbell (editors). http://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/issue/view/34
Gene Shackman. Free Statistical Packages. American Evaluation Association AEA365 A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators http://aea365.org/blog/?p=2493 10 January 2011.
Gene Shackman. Evaluation Resources Available on the Web. American Evaluation Association AEA365 A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators http://aea365.org/blog/?p=995 11 June 2010
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Doing Sociology Around the World. In Doing Sociology. Jammie Price, Jeff Breese, and Roger Straus. Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. July 2009. https://store.ingrampublisherservices.co.uk/store/default/detail/workgroup?id=3-025-c0dff9bc-b6ef-4013-9119-792d076543dd (this link doesn't work on 8/16/2024 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739133958 )
selections from this chapter are also in Thirty Readings in Introductory Sociology, by Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis, 2012. https://www.powells.com/book/thirty-readings-in-introductory-sociology-9780199934928
Gene Shackman. Free Statistical Software. May 2009. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software Citizendium is often a collaborative process, so articles are often written by many. As of May 2009, I was pretty much the primary author of this article, except for a few edits. This page https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Free_statistical_software&action=history shows the contributions I've made.
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu, and Xun Wang, Global Social Change Research Project: Measuring Progress of the World. The New England Sociological Association 2009 Spring Conference. Springfield, MA, April 2009.
Gene Shackman. Review of Applied Statistics for Public Policy. by Brian Macfie and Philip Nufrio. In March 2006 issue of Journal of Official Statistics. Page 166-168.
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Measuring quality of life using free and public domain data. Social Research Update, Issue 47, Autumn, 2005. Available at http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
Gene Shackman. Useful Public Domain and Other Free to use Data. International Statistical Institute Newsletter, Volume 29, No. 3 (87) 2005. Available at https://mailings.isi-web.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/newsletter/NLet053.html
Ya-Lin Liu and Gene Shackman. Understanding Aging Service Use Among Chinese Seniors: An Analytic Approach. In Xun Wang and Guoli Liu (eds). On the Frontiers of Science, Volume III: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Beijing, Tsinghua University Press, March 2005.
Gene Shackman. Review of Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence. Feng, Yi. in International Social Science Review, Vol 79(3&4), 2004. Listed here https://www.jstor.org/stable/41887196
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang (presenter) and Ya-Lin Liu. The Global Social Change Research Project: Analysis of Social Construction and Change. Thirty Sixth World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology. Beijing China, July 2004.
Gene Shackman. Review of The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present. Charles W. Calhoun (ed). In International Social Science Review, Vol 79(1&2), 2004. Listed here https://www.jstor.org/stable/41887173
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Global Culture: The Role of Shared Communication. Presented at the 2004 meeting of the New England Sociological Association, New Haven, CT.
Gene Shackman. Free Data Sets on the Web, (about free regional sets). ISI - International Statistical Institute Newsletter Volume 27, No. 3 (81) 2003. Available at https://mailings.isi-web.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/newsletter/NLet033.html
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Longitudinal Data on the Web. Michigan Sociological Review, Fall, 2003. Vol 17: 94-98. http://www.jstor.org/pss/40969087
Gene Shackman. Free Data Sets on the Web, (about free longitudinal demographic data sets). ISI - International Statistical Institute Newsletter Volume 27, No. 1 (79) 2003. Available at https://mailings.isi-web.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/newsletter/NLet031.html
Gene Shackman. Free Statistical Tools on the WEB, ISI - International Statistical Institute Newsletter Volume 26, No. 1 (76) 2002. Available at https://mailings.isi-web.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/newsletter/NLet021-00.html
Gene Shackman and Ya-Lin Liu. Review of Transforming Post Communist Political Economies, Nelson, Tilly and Walker (eds), in the April 2002 issue of Teaching Sociology. Listed here https://www.jstor.org/stable/3211399
Gene Shackman. Review of How Societies Change by Daniel Chirot, in the April 2001 issue of Teaching Sociology Listed here https://www.jstor.org/stable/1318733
Gene Shackman. Sociological explanations of modern economic growth : testing the utility of a social theory. This is my dissertation, from SUNY Albany, in 1994. Listed here
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Ya-Lin Liu completed her dissertation in Sociology at State University of New York, University at Albany. Her area of interest is aging research: aging service needs and uses, social support system, development of welfare policies and services for older people in U.S., China, and Taiwan, minority aging. She can also be contacted at geya2003 at yahoo (d o t) com
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Doing Sociology Around the World. In Doing Sociology. Jammie Price, Jeff Breese, and Roger Straus. Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. July 2009. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739133958
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Measuring quality of life using free and public domain data. Social Research Update, Issue 47, Autumn, 2005. Available at http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
Ya-Lin Liu and Gene Shackman. Understanding Aging Service Use Among Chinese Seniors: An Analytic Approach. In Xun Wang and Guoli Liu (eds). On the Frontiers of Science, Volume III: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Beijing, Tsinghua University Press, March 2005.
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang (presenter) and Ya-Lin Liu. The Global Social Change Research Project: Analysis of Social Construction and Change. Thirty Sixth World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology. Beijing China, July 2004.
Ya-Lin Liu. Review of Social Gerontology Today: An Introduction. Elizabeth W. Markson. In Teaching Sociology. Vol 32. p. 328. 2004. Listed here http://tso.sagepub.com/content/32/3.toc
Ya-Lin Liu. Aging service need and use among Chinese American seniors: Intragroup variations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 18(4): 273-302, Dec 2003. Abstract available here http://www.springerlink.com/content/l1103752m5084527/
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Longitudinal Data on the Web. Michigan Sociological Review, Fall, 2003. Vol 17: 94-98. http://www.jstor.org/pss/40969087
Gene Shackman and Ya-Lin Liu. Review of Transforming Post Communist Political Economies, Nelson, Tilly and Walker (eds), in the April 2002 issue of Teaching Sociology. Listed here https://www.jstor.org/stable/3211399
Ya-Lin Liu. Understanding aging service use by Chinese seniors: A community -based case study. Dissertation at State University of New York at Albany, 2001 listed on proquest here.
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George (Xun) Wang is a professor in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside. The department web site is https://www.uwp.edu/learn/departments/sociology/ He is also the founding director of the UWP Institute for China Studies https://www.uwp.edu/learn/departments/chinastudies/ Dr. Wang has been university fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University, and visiting professor at Tshinghua, Nankai and People's Universities in the P.R. China. Dr. Wang is on the council of the Society of Chinese American Professors & Scientists, http://socaps.org/SoCAPS/Officers_and_Committees.html
Xun Wang. 2016. Book Review: Social Quality Theory: A New Perspective on Social Development Edited by Lin Ka and Peter Herrmann. New York: Berghahn Books. International Social Science Review. Vol. 92: Iss. 1, Article 16. https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/issr/vol92/iss1/
Xun Wang. 2016. “Lost and Found: Xiaotong Fei’s Lost Manuscript ‘The Relationship between Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism.’” Journal of China in Comparative Perspective. 2: 95-104.
https://ecommerce.global-china.org/shop/10-24103jccp-2016-1-6/
Rene Dentiste Mueller , George Xun Wang , Guoli Liu , Charles Chi Cui , (2016) "Consumer xenocentrism in China: an exploratory study", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.73 - 91. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/APJML-11-2014-0158
Kwok-Bun Chan,Vivienne Luk and George Xun Wang. Conflict and Innovation in International Joint Ventures. Toward a New Sinified Corporate Culture or 'Alternative Globalization' in China. in Multicultural Organizations in Asia. Edited by Heidi Dahles, Loh Wei Leng. Routledge. 2014
Jiaming Sun and Xun Wang, “Value Differences between Generations in China: A Study in Shanghai". Journal of Youth Studies, 1:65-81. (2010) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13676260903173462
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Doing Sociology Around the World. In Doing Sociology. Jammie Price, Jeff Breese, and Roger Straus. Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. July 2009. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739133958
selections from this chapter are also in Thirty Readings in Introductory Sociology, by Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis, 2012.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thirty-readings-in-introductory-sociology-kenneth-a-gould/1112413937
Wang Xun. Review of The Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification, Yi Li. In Journal of Asian and African Studies 2006 41: 521-523. http://jas.sagepub.com/
Jiaming Sun and George Xun Wang. Personal Global Connectivity and Consumer Behavior: A Study in Shanghai. ,Academy of International Business 2006 Annual Meeting, Beijing, China. http://aib.msu.edu/events/2006/Program.asp see the program for abstract.
Kwok-Bun Chan, Vivienne Luk, George Xun Wang. Conflict and Innovation in International Joint Ventures: Toward a New Sinified Corporate Culture or ‘Alternative Globalization’ in China. Asia Pacific Business Review. Volume 11, Number 4 / December 2005. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602380500135737
Wang Xun (with Jiaming Sun). Global Sociology, Beijing, P.R.China: Tsinghua University Press. December 2005. (In Chinese).
Wang Xun (Co-Editor-in-Chief, with Juan He), Human Resource Management, Tianjin, P. R. China: Tianjin University Press. Second Edition. October 2005. (In Chinese).
Juan He and Xun Wang (editors), Human Resource Management in 21st Century. in Human Resource Management Tianjin: Tianjin University Press. Second Edition. 2005. (In Chinese)
Wang Xun. Unemployment issues in the United States. in On the Frontiers of Science, Volume III: Social and Behavior Sciences (Edited by Xun Wang & Guoli Liu), Beijing, Tsinghua University Press, March 2005. (In Chinese)
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Measuring quality of life using free and public domain data. Social Research Update, Issue 47, Autumn, 2005. Available at http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
Xun Wang and Guoli Liu (eds). On the Frontiers of Science, Volume III: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Beijing, Tsinghua University Press, March 2005.
Xun Wang. Unemployment issues in the United States. In Xun Wang and Guoli Liu (eds). On the Frontiers of Science, Volume III: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Beijing, Tsinghua University Press, March 2005.
Xun Wang and Shanhe Jiang. Coordination Mechanisms: A Study of Chinese Rural Firms. ASA Section on Economic Sociology Refereed Roundtables, 2004 annual meeting.
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang (presenter) and Ya-Lin Liu. The Global Social Change Research Project: Analysis of Social Construction and Change. Thirty Sixth World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology. Beijing China, July 2004.
Gene Shackman, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. Global Culture: The Role of Shared Communication. Presented at the 2004 meeting of the New England Sociological Association, New Haven, CT.
George Xun Wang, Kwok Bun Chan and Vivienne Luk. Conflict and its Management in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures: A Review. Working paper #10 at the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, abstract available at http://lewi.hkbu.edu.hk/list_of_papers.html
Xun Wang, Xiaofeng Cong and Bingyao Tang. Undergraduate Education in U.S. and China: A Comparison. Presented at the "Being Professors in USA Forum", 2003.
Xun Wang (Editor in Chief). Chinese Language and Culture Education in the United States in the 21st Century. Chicago: Chinese Schools Association in the United States. CompuPress. 2003.
Gene Shackman, Ya-Lin Liu and Xun Wang. Longitudinal Data on the Web. Michigan Sociological Review, Fall, 2003. Vol 17: 94-98. http://www.jstor.org/pss/40969087
Xun Wang and Bingyao Tang. Unemployment Problems in the Unites States. Teahouse for Sociologists. 4:133-137. 2003.
Xun Wang and David Ralston. Strategies for Small U.S. Businesses Interested in Investing in China: Lessons Learned from Taiwanese Companies. Thunderbird International Business Review, 42(6):677-701. 2000. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1520-6874%28200011/12%2942:6%3C%3E1.0.CO;2-6/issuetoc
Juan He and Xun Wang (Co-editors). Human Resource Management. Tianjin: Tianjin University Press. 2000.
Grants: Dr. Wang has received grants from the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Education and the U.S. Information Agency for developing or conducting summer institutes on topics related to China, grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the U.S. Department of Labor for conducting evaluations of several programs in Wisconsin, and grants from the Hong Kong Baptist University for teaching projects and research.