Guillermina Jasso

Guillermina Jasso is a sociologist from the United States and is currently Professor of Sociology and Silver Professor of Arts and Science at New York University .

Life

Jasso studied sociology and philosophy at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio , Texas , where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1962. The Master of Arts followed in 1970 at the University of Notre Dame , South Bend , Indiana , in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology . In 1974 she received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland , in the Department of Social Relations . She then worked at Columbia University , the University of Michigan , the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa , among others . Jasso has been a professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University since 1991 , where she was chair from 2012 to 2015. She has also been a Silver Professor there since 2008 .

In 2015 Jasso received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award from the American Sociological Association . Her Erdős number is 3. She was also elected to the Executive Council of the Sociological Research Association for the term of office from 2018 to 2021 .

Research priorities

Jasso researches, among other things, questions of distributive justice , social behavior and status , social inequality , migration as well as mathematical and empirical methods of social research .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Guillermina Jasso and Mark Rosenzweig: The New Chosen People. Immigrants in the United States (=  The Population of the United States in the 1980's - A Census Monograph Series ). Russell Sage, New York 1990, ISBN 978-0-87154-404-9 (English, 496 pages).

Contributions to edited volumes

• Guillermina Jasso: Is and Ought. From Ideas to Theory to Empirics . In: Alexander Max Bauer and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (Eds.): Empirical Research and Normative Theory. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Two Methodical Traditions Between Separation and Interdependence . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-061209-7 , pp. 105-128 (English).
• Guillermina Jasso: The Theory of Comparison Processes . In: Peter Burke (Ed.): Contemporary Social Psychological Theories . 2nd Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2018, ISBN 978-0-8047-5347-0 , pp. 249-280 (English).
• Guillermina Jasso, Kjell Törnblom and Clara Sabbagh: Distributive Justice . In: Clara Sabbagh and Manfred Schmitt (Eds.): Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research . Springer, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-4939-3216-0 , pp. 201-218 (English).

Articles in trade journals

• Guillermina Jasso, Robert Shelly and Murray Webster: How Impartial Are the Observers of Justice Theory? In: Social Science Research . tape 79 , 2019, ISSN  0049-089X , p. 226–246 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ssresearch.2018.10.013 (English).
• Guillermina Jasso: What Can You and I Do To Reduce Inequality? In: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology . tape 42 , no. 4 , 2018, ISSN  1545-5874 , p. 186–204 , doi : 10.1080 / 0022250X.2017.1343826 (English).

Web links

• Internet presence on the New York University website
• Internet presence on the website of the University of Chicago
• Internet presence on the website of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics
• Internet presence on the website of the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration
• Interview in The Atlantic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guillermina Jasso: Curriculum Vitae. November 2018, accessed on January 2, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Guillermina Jasso: Curriculum Vitae. February 2019, accessed on January 2, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Guillermina Jasso. SAGE Publishing, accessed January 2, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Guillermina Jasso. New York University, accessed January 2, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Guillermina Jasso. IZA Institute of Labor Economics, accessed on January 2, 2020 .