• King-To Yeung
  Department of Sociology
  153 Wallace Hall
  Princeton University
  Princeton, NJ 08544
  kyeung@princeton.edu
  
  
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Publications

• "Challenging the Heterosexual Model of Brotherhood: The Gay Fraternity's Dilemma." (2009) Pp. 184-209 in Brothers and Sisters: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities, edited by Craig L. Torbenson and Gregory S. Park. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
  
  
• "Making Men in Gay Fraternities: Resisting or Reproducing Multiple Dimensions of Hegemonic Masculinity," (with Mindy Stombler and Rene Wharton) Gender & Society (2006) 20: 5-31.
  - Why do some gay fraternities exclude lesbians but not straight men?
  
  
• "Persistence of Close Personal Ties Over a 12-Year Period," (with John Levi Martin) Social Networks (2006) 28: 331-362.
  - What makes social relationships stick?
  
  
• "What Does Love Mean? Exploring Network Culture in Two Communal Settings," Social Forces (2005) 84: 391-420.
  - "Love" conveys different meanings to different network settings. What may account for the differences?
  
  
• "The Use of the Conceptual Category of Race in American Sociology," (with John Levi Martin) Sociological Forum (2003) 18: 521-543.
  - Examining the prevalence of adding "race" into the analytical mix, even when research questions do not directly address race relations.
  
  
• "The Looking Glass Self: An Empirical Test and Elaboration," (with John Levi Martin) Social Forces (2003) 81: 843-879.
  - Do people really think of themselves the same way as people think of them?
  
  
• "Gay and Greek: The Identity Paradox of Gay Fraternities," (with Mindy Stombler) Social Problems (2000) 47: 134-152.
  - Can you really be a gay boy and a Greek man?
  
  
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Teaching

Graduate seminars (Princeton)

• Cultural Analysis - what do analysts do when they claim to analyze "culture"?
  
  
• Sociology of Culture - a survey course focusing on the links between culture and social action.
  
  
• Social Epistemology - how knowledge operates as a principle of social organization.
  

Undergrad courses (Princeton)

• Claims & Evidence in Sociology (2009 Fall) - basic logic of social research.
  
• Claims & Evidence in Sociology (2008 Fall)
  
• Claims & Evidence in Sociology (2007 Fall)
  
  
• Creativity, Innovation, and Society - a boring class on an exciting subject.

Older syllabi (Rutgers)

• Social Inequality
• Classical Sociological Theory
• Contemporary Sociological Theory
• Sociology of Higher Education
• Introduction to Sociology
• Mass Media in Modern Society
• Social Problems
  
  
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Current Research

• Bureaucracy & Rebellion Control: How the 19th century Chinese state suppressed the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) - a book project.
  
  
• Institutional Control of Sense Experiences - the intertwined relations of ocular and auditory control in 19th century prisons. (preliminary stage)
  
  
• Urban Commune Project - a 3-wave study of 60 urban communes by Benjamin Zablocki (Rutgers University).
  
  
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Useful Sites

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Blackwell Linguistic Online
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
• Intute: Internet Resourecs for Linguistics
• The Law Online
• Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing

• Drawing Lattices Online - interactive online tool for a quick lattice.
• American Philosophical Society - Looking for manuscripts.
• A Formal Concept Analysis- All Kinds of software.
• Domesday Book The earliest public records.
  
• Digital Ad Collection-Duke University
  
• IRB-Princeton
• Survey Research Center-Princeton
• Princeton OPR-Data on family, migrants, health
• Princeton MCD - Migration Data
• Learning STATA (UCLA)
• Read in STATA file
• General Links to Quantiative Data
• Add Health Data Download
• Add Health Official Site
• Surveys on Youths/Children
• American Time Use Survey
• National Health Survey
• CDC Health Statistics
• National Longitudinal Education Survey (NELS)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Uniform Crime Report
• Crime States (general online search)
• Crime Stats (by agencies/cities)
• Crime Stats (by states)
• ICPSR A source for national data.
• GSS General Social Survey
• Census Quick Fact City
• DOJ crime data (city level)
  
  
  
  
  
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