MARC SCHNEIBERG

John C. Pock Professor of Sociology

Sociology Department
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202

Office: Eliot 409
Phone: (503) 517-7495
Email: marc.schneiberg@reed.edu

B.A., Haverford College 1980;
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994.
University of Arizona 1994-2000.
Reed College 2000-

Publications

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Schneiberg, Marc and Tim Bartley. 2008. "Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the 19th to 21st Century." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 4: 31-61.
Schneiberg, Marc, Marissa King and Thomas Smith. 2008. "Social Movements and Organizational Form: Cooperative Alternatives to Corporations in the American Insurance, Dairy and Grain Industries." American Sociological Review 73: 635-667.
Schneiberg, Marc and Michael Lounsbury. 2008. "Social Movements and Institutional Analysis." Pp. 650-72 in The Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson and Roy Suddaby. London: Sage Publications.
Schneiberg, Marc. 2007. “What’s on the Path? Path Dependence, Organizational Diversity and the Problem of Institutional Change in the US Economy, 1900-1950.” Socio-Economic Review 5: 47-80.
Schneiberg, Marc and Elisabeth Clemens. 2006. “The Typical Tools for the Job: Research Strategies in Institutional Analysis,” Sociological Theory 3: 195-227.
Schneiberg, Marc. 2005. “Combining New Institutionalisms: Explaining Institutional Change in American Property Insurance.” Sociological Forum 1: 93-137.
Schneiberg, Marc and Sarah Soule. 2005. “Institutionalization as a Contested, Multi-level Process: Politics, Social Movements and Rate Regulation in American Fire Insurance,” Pp. 122-160 in Social Movements and Organizations, edited by Gerald Davis, Doug McAdam, WR Scott and Mayer Zald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berk, Gerald and Marc Schneiberg. 2005. “Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association: Collaborative Learning in American Industry, 1900 to 1925.” Politics and Society 1: 46-87.
Schneiberg, Marc. 2002. “Organizational Heterogeneity and the Production of New Forms: Politics, Social Movements and Mutual Companies in American Fire Insurance, 1900-1930.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, M. Lounsbury and M Ventresca, eds. JAI Press 19: 39-89.
Bartley, Tim and Marc Schneiberg. 2002. “Rationality and Institutional Contingency: The Varying Politics of Economic Regulation in the Fire Insurance Industry." Sociological Perspectives 45: 47-79.
Schneiberg, Marc and Tim Bartley. 2001. “Regulating American Industries: Markets, Politics and the Institutional Determinants of Fire Insurance Regulation,” American Journal of Sociology 107: 101-46.
Schneiberg, Marc. 1999. “Political and Institutional Conditions for Governance by Association; Private Order and Price Controls in American Fire Insurance.” Politics and Society: 66-102

Papers in Progress

“From Main Street to Wall Street? Mutual Savings Bank Conversion to Stock Company Form, 1970-1990.” Draft available.
“Private, Public or Cooperative? Economic Order, Institutional Embeddedness and Organizational Form in the US Electrical Utility Industry.” Draft available.
“Regulation, Institutional Dynamics and Organizational Form: Consolidation, Hybridization or Rehabilitation?” Draft available.

Courses Taught at Reed

Sociology 211: Introduction to Sociology - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 242: Organizations, Race and Stratification - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 244: Race and Ethnicity - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 311: Research Methods - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 340: American Capitalism - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 355: Economic Sociology - Syllabus (PDF)
Sociology 401: Institutional Analysis - Syllabus (PDF)

Research and Teaching Interests

Organizations
Economic Sociology
Institutional Analysis
Race and Ethnicity
Research Methods

MARC SCHNEIBERG

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