William G. Roy - UCLA's Department of Sociology

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William G. Roy
Department of Sociology
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Phone: 310-825-3633
Fax: 310-206-9838
email: billroy@soc.ucla.edu
Web home page: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/roy
Assistant Professor to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA.
1976-present
Vice-Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology,
UCLA. 1996-1999
Education:
1968-69 University of Michigan
1971-77 Department of Sociology
Ph.D. 1977
1964-68 Emory University
B.A. in Sociology, 1968, Magna Cum Laude
Courses Taught:
(Undergraduate)
(Graduate)
Political Sociology, American Society, Comparative and Historical
Sociology, Social Movements, The Sociology of Television News,
Sociology of Mass Communications, Social Stratification, Introductory
Sociology, Time in Society and History (Honors College), Sociology of
Gender.
Sociology of Music, Cultural Sociology, Foundations in Political
Sociology, Topics in Political Sociology, Sociological Methods Seminar,
Methods in Comparative and Historical Sociology, Research Seminar in
Macrosociology, Teacher Assistant Training, Critical Issues in
Macrosociology

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Honors and Awards:
2005 UCLA Graduate Student Association James LuValle Distinguished
Service Award for representing the interests and concerns of graduate and
professional students at UCLA.
2004 UCLA Academic Senate Certificate of Achievement
1999 American Sociological Association, Distinguished Contribution to
Teaching Award.
1997 Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in
America named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997.
1989 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
1987-89 National Science Foundation Research Grant: AThe Rise of American
Industrial Corporations, 1880-1913.@
1980-82 University of California Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship
1978-present UCLA Academic Senate Research Grants
1978 University of California Summer Junior Faculty Fellowship
1974-77 National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant
1974 International Studies Association, Summer Dissertation Fellowship
1968-69 National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship
1973-76
1968 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
1968 Phi Beta Kappa
Research Interests:
1. The social construction of society, especially the relationship of culture and social
inequality. Large scale political transformations, especially the relationship
between economic change and national state formation.
2. Comparative-Historical Methods.
3. Sociology of music
4. Social Movements

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Books:
Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music,
and Race in the United States. Forthcoming: Princeton University Press.
Making Society: The Historical Construction of the World We Live In. 2001, Pine Forge Press.
Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. 1997, Princeton
University Press.
A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers. Sixth Edition, (with 3 others). (2007), Worth Publishers.

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Published articles:
"Comment les mouvements sociaux font la culture," Forthcoming in Les artistes et la politique.
Terrains franco-américains edited by Violaine Roussel, Saint-Denis, Presses
Universitaires de Vincennes
“What is Sociological About Music?” Forthcoming, Annual Review of Sociology (with Timothy
J. Dowd).
AChandler, Alfred D.@ Pp. 51-53 in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, edited by
J. Beckert and M. Zafirovski. London: Routledge, 2006.
AMonopoly and Oligopoly.@ Pp 462-66 in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology,
edited by J. Beckert and M. Zafirovski. London: Routledge, 2006.
AFrom the Chair: Comparative-Historical Sociology as an Identity.@ Comparative & Historical
Sociology: Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section. 18
(2006): 1-3.
A>Race Records= and >Hillbilly Music=: The Institutional Origins of Racial Categories in the
American Commercial Recording Industry.@ Poetics 32 (2004): 265-79.
Excerpt from Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. Pp.
433-456 in The New Economic Sociology: A Reader, edited by Frank Dobbin, Princeton
University Press (2004).
AAesthetic Identity, Race, and American Folk Music.@ Qualitative Sociology. 25 (2002): 459-
469.
AHow Many Logics of Collective Action?@ with Rachel R. Parker-Gwin. Theory and Society.
28 (1999): 203-237.
ACorporate Law and the Organization of Property in the U.S.: The Origin and Institutionalization
of New Jersey Corporation Law.@ with Rachel R. Parker-Gwin. Politics and Society. 24
(1996): 111-136.
AThe Organization of the of the Corporate Class Segment of the American Capitalist Class at the
Turn of the this Century.@ pp. 139-163 in Bringing Class Back In edited by Scott G.
McNall, Rhonda F. Levine, and Rick Fantasia. 1991. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
AFunctional and Historical Logics in Explaining the Rise of the American Industrial
Corporation.@ Comparative Social Research. Vol 12 (1990): 19-44. (Reprinted in Mark
Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. The Sociology of Economic Life. Second Edition.
(2001). Westview Press.)
AInterlocking, Directorates and Communities of Interest Among American Railroad Companies,

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1905.@ (with Philip Bonacich), The American Sociological Review. 53 (1988): 368-379.
ATime, Place, and People in History and Sociology: Boundary Definitions and the Logic of
Inquiry.@ Social Science History. 11 (1987): 53-62.
ACentrality, Dominance, and Interorganizational Power in a Network Structure: Interlocking
Directorates Among American Railroads, 1886-1905.@ (with Philip Bonacich). Journal of
Mathematical Sociology. 12 (1986): 127-37.
AClass Conflict and Social Change in Historical Perspective@ Annual Sociology. 10 (1984):
483-506.
AInstitutional Governance and Social Cohesion: The Internal Organization of the American
Capitalist Class, 1886-1905.@ Donald J. Treiman and Robert V. Robinson (eds.).
Research on Stratification and Social Mobility. 3 (1984): 147-172.
AInterlocking Directorates and the Corporate Revolution.@ Social Science History, 7 (1983):
143-164.
AThe Unfolding of the Interlocking Directorate Structure of the United States.@ The American
Sociological Review, 48 (1983): 248-257.
ACollecting Data on American Business Officials in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries.@ Historical Methods, 15 (1982): 143-151.
A From Electoral to Bureaucratic Politics: Class Conflict and the Financial-Industrial Class
Segment in the United States, 1886-1905.@ pp. 173-202 in Political Power and Social
Theory, Vol. II, edited by Maurice Zeitlin, JAI Press, 1981.
AToward Clearer Thinking: A Reply.@ Administrative Science Quarterly, 28 (1983): 61-64.
AThe Process of Bureaucratization in the United States State Department and the Vesting of
Economic Interests.@ Administrative Science Quarterly, 26 (1981): 419-433.
AThe Vesting of Interests and the Determinants of Political Power: Size, Network Structure, and
Mobilization of American Industries, 1886-1905.@ American Journal of Sociology, 86
(1981): 1287-1310.
AThe Politics of Bureaucratization and the United States Bureau of Corporations, Journal of
Political and Military Sociology, 10 (1982):183-199.
Book Reviews:
AReview of after Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology, by Tia Denora.@ Current Musicology 82
(2006): 111-14.

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ARemaking Historical Sociology@ A symposium on Remaking Modernity : Politics, History, and
Sociology. By Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann S. Orloff. International
Journal of Comparative Sociology. 47 (2006): 387-94
Remaking Modernity : Politics, History, and Sociology. Edited by Julia Adams, Elisabeth S.
Clemens, and Ann S. Orloff. American Journal of Sociology. 112 (2006): 315-317.
ARemaking Historical Sociology.@ Review essay on Adams, Julia, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann
S. Orloff. 2005. Remaking Modernity : Politics, History, and Sociology. International
Journal of Comparative Sociology 47 (2006): 87-393.
APower and Culture in Organizations: Two Contrasting Views.@ Review essay on The
Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of the Twenty-first Century Capitalist
Societies, by Neil Fligstein (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001) and
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism by Charles
Perrow (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002). Sociological Forum. 19
(2004): 163-170.
Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s-1990s.
By Harland Prechel. Administrative Science Quarterly. 46 (2001): 580-582.
City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution. by Bruce Carruthers.
American Journal of Sociology. 104 (1999): 1715-6.
The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America=s Age of Mass Production.
by Lindy Biggs. March, 1998 in American Historical Review. 1532-3.
Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. by
Roger V. Gould. Administrative Science Quarterly. 43 (1998): 199-201.
The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914, by Richard Biernacki. Work and
Occupations. 23 (1996): 336-338.
AThe State and the Corporate Order: The Politics of Railroads in the Nineteenth Century.@
Review essay of Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, by
Gerald Berk and Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and
Prussia, by Coleen A. Dunlavy. Contemporary Sociology. 23 (1994): 819-822.
AMoney Talks ... to Whom?@ A symposium The Structure of Corporate Political Action:
Interfirm Relations and Their Consequences, by Mark Mizruchi. Contemporary
Sociology. 21 (1992): 762-3.
AToward a Truly Sociological Analysis of Economic Organizations.@ An essay The
Transformation of Corporate Control, by Neil Fligstein. Contemporary Sociology. 20
(1991): 221-223.
The Capitalist Class: An International Study, edited by Tom Bottomore and Robert J. Brym.

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Contemporary Sociology. 20 (1991): 14-15.
The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1865-1900, by Scott G. McNall.
American Journal of Sociology 94 (1989): 1524-1526.
AToward a Political Sociology of the Economy.@ An essay The Power Structure of American
Business, by Beth Mintz and Michael Schwartz. Contemporary Sociology. 16 (1987):
318-320.
AThe Corporate Elite: Dog-eat-dog or Birds-of-a-feather.@ An essay The Inner Circle: Large
Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K. by Michael
Useem. Contemporary Sociology. 13 (1984): 162-4.
Corporations, Classes, and Capitalism, by John Scott. American Journal of Sociology. 87
(1982): 1002-1003.
The Limits of Legitimacy: Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism, by Alan Wolfe.
American Journal of Sociology. 85 (1980): 1450-1451.
Power and the State. edited by Gary Littlejohn et al. Contemporary Sociology, 9 (1980): 282-
283.
Mass Society and Political Conflict. by Sandor Halebsky. Social Forces. 56 (1978): 961-963.
Elites and Power in British Society. edited by Philip Stanworth and Anthony Giddens. American
Journal of Sociology, 82 (1976): 719-722.
Unpublished Papers and Conference Presentations
“Critic” presentation on “Author Meets Critic” session on Jeffrey Haydu‟s Citizen Employers:
Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. Social Science
History Association. Long Beach, CA. November, 2009.
“Markets, Genres, and Repertoire Communities in American Recorded Music, 1895-1950” (with
Philip Bonacich). Presented at the MIT Economic Sociology Workshop and the Organizations
and Markets Workshop at the University of Chicago, 2008.
“How Social Movements Do Culture.” Presented at “Arts et politique: perspectives francoaméricaines”
at the Institut des Sciences socials du Politique, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Universite Paris X - Nanterre, November, 2007
“Social Movements and Culture with a Big „C‟” Presented to the American Sociological
Association, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Miniconference at Hofstra
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“Critic” presentation on “Author Meets Critic” session on Sarah E. Igo‟s Averaged American:
Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Social Science History Association,
Chicago, IL. November 2007.
AThe Highlander School and the Music of Insurgency.@ Presented to the Social Science History
Association, Minneapolis, MN. November, 2006.
AMusic Projects and Social Movements.@ Presented at the American Sociological Association,
Montreal. August, 2006.
AWhat is Sociological About Music?@ Presented to the Department of Sociology, University of
CaliforniaBBerkeley. September, 2005.
A>Race Records= and >Hillbilly Music=: The Institutional Origins of Racial Categories in the
American Commercial Recording Industry.@ Presented at the Sociology of Music Mini-
Conference. Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia. August, 2003.
AThe Construction and Reconstruction of Folk Music: The >American Anthology of Folk Music.=@
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, Texas,
Nov. 11-14, 1999.
AEfficiency and Networks: The Determinants of Survival in the First Generation of American
Corporations@ with Nelson Lim. Social Science History Association, 1996.
AAmerican Corporations and the Spirit of Capitalism.@ Social Science History Association, 1994.
Revised version at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 1996.
AEfficiency, Power, and Affiliation in the American Tobacco Industry.@ Social Science History
Association, 1993.
A'Getting Government Off the Back of Business' in Ante-Bellum America: The Privatization of
the Corporation in New Jersey and Ohio.@ American Sociological Association, 1993
AThe Corporate Revolution in America: A Historical and Institutional Analysis.@ American
Sociological Association, 1992.
AStatutory Corporate Law and American Corporations, 1880-1913.@ Social Science History
Association. 1991.
AThe Rise of Large American Industrial Corporations: Functional and Power Explanations@
American Sociological Association, 1990.
AThe Organization of the of the Corporate Segment of the American Capitalist Class at the Turn
of the this Century@ Conference on ABringing Class Back In.@ April, 1989, Lawrence,
Kansas.

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AThe Rise of American Industrial Corporations: Variation by States and Industries.@ American
Sociological Association. 1988.
AFunctional and Historical Logics: Explaining the Relationship Between the Capitalist Class and
the Rise of the Industrial Corporation.@ American Sociological Association. 1986.
AInterlocking, Directorates and Communities of Interest Among American Railroad Companies,
1905.@ (with Philip Bonacich), Sunbelt Network Conference. 1985.
AClass Conflict, Anti-trust, and the United States Bureau of Corporations.@ (with William R.
Regensburger), Social Science History Association. 1983
AUsing Content Analysis for Historical Organizational Studies.@ American Sociological
Association. 1982.
ABureaucratization and Economic Interests: A Content Analysis of the U.S. State Department
Documents, 1886-1905.@ American Historical Association. 1982
AThe Unfolding of Interlocking Directorate Structure of the U.S. 1886-1905.@ Stanford
University, Sociology Colloquium, 1982.
AInterlocking Directorates and the Corporate Revolution.@ Working Conference on Corporate
Ownership and Control. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1981.
AClass Conflict and the U.S. Bureau of Corporations.@ American Sociological Association.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1981
AInstitutional Governance and Social Cohesion: The Internal Organization of the American
Capitalist Class, 1886-1905.@ Pacific Sociological Association. 1980.
AAmerican Corporate Consolidation and the Organization of the Financial-Industrial Class
Segment, 1886-1905.@ American Sociological Association. 1978.
AIndustrial Consolidation and the Integration of a National Elite: The U.S. 1886-1905.@
American Sociological Association. 1975
AEndogenous and Exogenous Explanations of U.S. Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century.@
American Sociological Association. 1974
ACollective Violence, Political Contention, and Repression in France, 1886-1965.@ Working
paper of the Center for Research on Social Organization at the University of Michigan,
1973.
Professional Associations
American Sociological Association

Pacific Sociological Association
Social Science History Association
International Network for Social Network Analysis
International Association for the Study of Time
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Professional Service
American Sociological Association:
American Sociological Review, Editorial Board 2009-12
Contexts, Editorial Board 2006-9
Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Committee 2006-9
Committee on Teaching, 1998-2001
Ad Hoc Committee for Graduate Education
Chair, 1994-97
Sub-Committee on Teaching Sociology
Chair, 1994-95
Sub-Committee on What Directors of Graduate Studies Do
Chair, 1995-96
Sub-Committee on Methods Training
Chair, 1996-97
Advisory Committee for Field Studies, 1995-96
Political Sociology Section
Secretary-Treasurer, 1985-88
Chair, Nominations Committee, 1986
Comparative Historical Section
Chair, (elected), 2006-7
Council (elected), 1999-2002
Barrington Moore Award for the Best Book in Comparative-Historical
Sociology, Chair 1999-2000
Best Recent Article Competition Committee, 1986-87, Chair, 1987-88
Nominations Committee, 1985-6, 2003-4
Teaching Services
Prepared Teaching Materials for Comparative-Historical Sociology, 1986
Teaching Workshop, ATeaching Introductory Sociology for the First Time@
American Sociological Association, 1994 (with Anne Martin)
Teaching Workshop, ATeaching Graduate Students to Teach@, 1996 (with
Jodie O=Brien)
Teaching Workshop, AGraduate Core Curriculum,@ 1997 (with Barrett Lee)
Teaching Workshop, AGraduate Admissions,@ 1997 (member of panel)
Teaching Workshop, AGraduate Admissions,@ 2004 (co-organize)
Directors of Graduate Education Day at Annual Meeting
Helped organize and presided, 1996-97
Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, 2001-4
Preparing Future Faculty, Advisory Board, 1999-2002
Pacific Sociological Association
Member, Publications Committee (elected) 1995-1997.
Social Science History Association
Member, Executive Board (elected) 2000-2002
People to People Ambassadors.

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Delegation of Sociologists to the People's Republic of China
Delegation Leader, November, 2000
National Science Foundation
Dissertation Awards Panel, 2004-5
Sociology Panel, 2005-8
University Service
Letters and Science Executive Committee, 1985
Research Committee, 1983-86, Chair, 1985-86
Committee on Undergraduate Courses and Curriculum, 1986-88
Committee to Evaluate Communication Studies Archive, 1986-87
Faculty Advisory Committee, News and Public Affairs Archive, 1988-92
University-Industry Council 1984-85
University Ad-Hoc Review Committees, passim.
Faculty Advisory Committee ISSR/Data Archives, 1989-90
Advisory Committee on General Education Requirements, College of Letters and
Science
Director, Social Science Cluster Program, 1990-91.
Teaching Committee 1990-1993
Graduate Council, 1993-1995, 2001-2004
Chair 2002-4
Co-Chair Committee on Degree Programs 2001-2
Chair, Committee on Financial Aid, 1994-95
Advisory Committee on Writing in General Education, 1996-97
Advisory Committee for Oral History Program, 1996-
Academic Senate Executive Committee 2002-4
Coordinating Committee on Graduate Education, University of California system, 2002-4
University of California Press, Editorial Board, 2005-6
Community Service Activities
Interviews as expert on American society and culture: NBC AToday@ Show; ABC
ANightline@; NBC Radio; KCBS ATwo on the Town@ ; KABC AEye on LA@; Cable News
Network; Time Magazine; Los Angeles Times
Featured guest on AOdyssey@ from Chicago Public Radio

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Editorial Services to Scholarly Publications:
Administrative Science Quarterly
American Journal of Sociology (Editorial Board)
American Sociological Review
Contention (Associate Editor)
Political Power and Social Theory
Research in Political Sociology (Editorial Board)
Research in Stratification and Social Mobility
Sociological Perspectives (Associate Editor)
Sociological Forum
Social Problems
Studies in American Political Development
Teaching Sociology (Editorial Board)
Harcourt Brace Jovonovitch
Harper-Collins Publishers
Prentice-Hall
Random House
Rutgers University Press.
Sage Publications
University of California Press
Wadsworth Publications
West Educational Publications
Academic Consultation:
National Science Foundation
Washington University, Department of Sociology.
New York University, Department of Sociology.
Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan. (In residence, Dec. 14, 1994-Jan. 6, 1995).
Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside
Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University
Department of Sociology, University of Utah
Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach
Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts
Department of Sociology, Albany University
Department of Sociology, University of Maryland