CV and Bio-sketch
CURRICULUM VITAE 2022
JOHN F. STOLTE
Adjunct Professor
University of Texas MD Anderson School of Health Professions
Huston, TX
JFStolte@mdanderson.org
or
jfred5.js@gmail.com
BIO-SKETCH
John Stolte completed his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, specializing in socialization and the experimental micro-sociology of learning, social interaction, and small groups. He was Instructor and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Moving to Northern Illinois University, he served as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Sociology. He retired from his full-time academic position in July, 2005. He returned in January, 2006 as Professor Emeritus and served as half-time Director of the interdisciplinary Gerontology program at Northern Illinois University for ten years. He now consults and teaches research methodology and organizational behavior in health care at the University of Texas MD Anderson School of Health Professions. He was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship in interpersonal evaluation at Stanford University, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He was awarded a British Council travel grant and spent a sabbatical year as Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter, Devon, England. He undertook post-doctoral faculty development training in life course/aging/gerontology research at the Andrus Gerontology Institute, University of Southern California. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Psychology Quarterly, among other refereed scholarly journals.
EDUCATION
University of Washington, Seattle
Ph.D. in Sociology,1972
San Diego State University
M.A. in Sociology, 1968
San Diego State University
B.A. Sociology, 1965
OTHER AWARDS/HONORS
Awarded Summer Training Institute in Neurobiology for Social Scientists at University of California, Irvine, funded by the Social Science Research Council, 1970-71. (Opportunity declined so as to achieve timely completion of Ph.D. dissertation).
Sabbatical, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University 1982-83.
Sabbatical, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University 1992-93.
Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society (University of Washington), 1973
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (Northern Illinois University), 1993
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Nominations 1992, 1993.
Keynote Speaker Golden Key National Honor Society, 1993.
PUBLICATIONS
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REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Power in Inter-group Communication. International Encyclopedia of Inter-cultural Communication, forthcoming. Co-authored with Sik Hung Ng.
Framing Social Values: An Experiment in Culture and Cognition. Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007, 70, (1) 59-69. Co-authored with Shanon Fender
Sociological Miniaturism: Seeing the Big Through the Small in Social Psychology, Annual Review of Sociology, 2001, 27, 387-413. Co-authored with Gary Fine and Karen Cook.
Beyond the Concept of Value in Power-Dependence Theory: Expanding A Model of the ‘Whole Actor, Advances in Group Processes, 2000, 17, 179-202.
The Value of Socially Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Outcomes: An Exploration of Americans from 1974 to 1994, Social Behavior and Personality, 2000, 28 (4), 387-392.
Evaluating People of Different Ages, Journal of Social Psychology, 1996, 136 (3),305-309.
The Context of 'Satisficing' in Vignette Research: An Experimental Test, Journal of Social Psychology, (134), 6, 1994, 727-734.
Cultural and Structural Determinants of Justice Reactions in the Economic Domain, Social Behavior and Personality, 22(4), 1994, 319-328, Co-authored with Jason Lee.
Power Processes in Structures of Dependence and Exchange: A Program of Theoretical Experimentation, Advances in Group Processes: A Research Annual, Vol. 7, 1990, 129-150.
Age, Exchange, and the Attribution of Power, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 129, 1989, 833-839.
From Micro- to Macro-Exchange Structure: Measuring Power Imbalance at the Exchange Network Level, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1988, 357-364.
The Formation of Justice Norms, American Sociological Review, Vol. 52, 1987, 774-784.
The Legitimation of Structural Inequality: Reformulation and Test of the Self-evaluation Argument, American Sociological Review, Vol. 48, 1983, pp. 331-342.
Self-efficacy: Sources and Consequences in Negotiation Networks, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 119, 1983, pp. 69-75.
Positional Power, Personality, and Perceptions of Fairness in Exchange, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 120, 1983, pp. 289-290.
Structural Power Inequality and Legitimation: An Example of Case Analysis as an Important Supplement to Small Group Experimentation, Case Analysis, Vol. 1, 1979, pp. 117-132.
Power Structure and Personal Competence, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 106, 1978, pp. 83-92.
Internalization: A Bargaining Network Approach, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. 8, 1978, pp. 297-312.
Positional Power and Interpersonal Evaluation in Bargaining Networks, Social Behavior and Personality, Vol. 6, 1978. Pp. 78-80.
The Structure of Third Party Intervention, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 103, 1977a, pp. 243-250. Co-authored with Lorraine Belliveau.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Power, in Group Processes: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Martha Foschi and Edward E. Lawler, Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1994.
Legitimacy, Justice, and Productive Exchange, in Social Exchange Theory, edited by Karen S.Cook, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987b.
Structural Inequality: Position and Power in Network Structures, in Behavioral Theory in Sociology, edited by Robert Hamblin and John Kunkel, New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Transaction, 1977b. (Festschrift for George Homans, presented to him upon his retirement from Harvard.) Co-authored with Richard M. Emerson.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations by Alan Page Fiske. New York: The Free Press, 1991. Published in American Journal of Sociology, 1992.
Review of Status Generalization: New Theory and Research, edited by Murray Webster, Jr. and Martha Foschi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. Published in American Journal of Sociology, 1990.
Review of Advances in Group Processes: A Research Annual, Vol. 5, edited by Edward Lawler and Barry Markvovsky, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988. Published in Contemporary Sociology, 1990.
Review of Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, by David I. MacLeod, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.Published in Sociology and Social Research, Vol. 39, 1984.
Review of Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions, by Peter P. Ekeh, Harvard University Press, 1974. Published in Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1, 1974.
Review of Negotiations: Social Psychological Perspectives by Daniel Druckman (ed.), Sage Publications, 1977. Published in Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 6, 1977.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED
Proposed Research: An Expressive Writing Intervention Among Older, Low-Wage, Long-Term Care Workers presented at the 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 4-7, 2009. Co-authored with Shirley Richmond.
An Empirical Test of Emerson’s Theory of Value: Impact of Sociological Miniaturism. Presented in the session on Bio-cultural Processes, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2004.
Stratification, Religious Commitment, and Self-Reported Health: Probing the Empirical and Theoretical Distinction Between Social Structure and Culture, Mini-conference of the Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, 1999.
Beyond the Concept of Value in Power-Dependence Theory: Expanding a Model of the ‘Whole Actor, Mini-conference of the Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco, August, 1998.
Referential Structure, Normative Style, and Power Use in Exchange: Bridging Theoretical Perspectives, Third International Conference on Social Justice Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July, 1991.
Justice Norms and Social Exchange, Third Annual Group Processes Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, August, 1990.
Conflict in Structures of Dependence and Exchange: A Program of Theoretical Experimentation, paper presented in the session on Theoretical Approaches to Conflict, Midwest Sociological Association meetings, St. Louis, MO., 1989.
Small Group Research: Theoretical Vignettes and Equity/Exchange Experiments, Informal Roundtable Discussion, American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, 1987.
Exchange Structures and the Emergence of Justice Norms, Session on Social Exchange, Midwest Sociological Society meetings, Chicago, 1987.
Dependence Differential: The Distribution of Power-Dependence in Complex Exchange Networks, Refereed Roundtable in Social Psychology, American Sociological Association meetings, New York, 1986.
Distributive Exchange and Judgments of Fairness, Session on Social Exchange, Midwest Sociological Society meetings, Des Moines, Iowa, 1986.
Legitimacy and Justice: Activation of the Norm of Equity in Productive Exchange, Group Processes session, American Sociological Association meetings, Washington, DC, 1985.
The Formation of Justice Principles, Small Groups, Primary session, American Sociological Association meetings, San Antonio, Texas, 1984.
Effects of Other's Exchange Ratio and Age Upon Attributed Efficacy and Judged Fairness, West Coast Conference for Small Group Research, Seattle, Washington, 1984.
Power Use in Exchange Networks: Effects of Underlying Structure vs. Over-arching Norms, Group Processes session, American Sociological Association meetings, Detroit, Michigan, 1983.
Self-efficacy: Sources and Consequences in Negotiation Networks, Small Groups session, Midwest Sociological Society meetings, Des Moines, Iowa, 1982.
The Structural Bases of Legitimacy, Social Psychology session, Midwest Sociological Society meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1979.
The Bargaining Network: Some Implications for Behavioral Sociology, Social Psychology session, Midwest Sociological Society meetings, Omaha, Nebraska, 1978.
Structural Power Inequality and Legitimation: A Case Study, North Central Sociological Association meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1978.
Power Structure and Personal Competence, Social Psychology session, Mid-south Sociological Association meetings, Monroe, Louisiana, 1977.
Bargaining Power in Exchange Networks: An Experimental Paradigm, West Coast Conference for Small Group Research, Los Angeles, CA, 1976.
A Bargaining Network Approach to Internalization, Social Psychology session, Pacific Sociological Association meetings, Victoria, B.C., 1975.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board member Social Psychology Quarterly 1988-1990.
Manuscript reviewer Social Psychology Quarterly, 1989-20008.
Program Committee member Midwest Sociological Society Meetings 2001.
Discussant, Session on Small Groups/Primary Groups, American Sociological Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, 1988.
Presider, Session on Small Groups, American Sociological Association Meetings, New York, 1986.
Chair, Session on Social Exchange, Midwest Sociological Society Meetings, Twin Cities, Minnesota, 1981.
Discussant, Session on Social Psychology, Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1980.
Ad Hoc Reviewer: book manuscript, Stanford University Press, 1990; article, American Journal of Sociology,1990; article, American Sociological Review 1987; proposal, Sociology Program, National Science Foundation 1986; article, American Sociological Review, 1986; research methods textbook, McGraw-Hill publishers, 1986; proposal, Measurement Methods and Data Resources Program, National Science Foundation 1985; social psychology textbook, Dorsey Press 1982; proposal, Sociology Program, National Science Foundation, 1980.