Sociology of Work and Occupations
Social Changes and Social Revolutions
Statistics and Research Methods
Social Inequality and Stratification
Research Skills:
Multivariate Statistical Techniques
Time Series Analysis
Structural Equations
SPSS, MicroCase, HTML, WebCt, and ...
Publications:
Books, Articles, or a Book's Chapter
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2016). "Declining Social Capital and Public Trust in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Its Impacts in the National Development." InternationalJournal of Social Issues.(IJSI): Vol. 21, No. 1, Pp 38-68.
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2015). "Democratic State, Social Capital/Trust, & National Development." In:International Review of Modern Sociology
(IRMS)]. Vol. 41 (1) Pp 29-54
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2014), "Structural Imperatives and Work Values: Examining the Industrial, Organizational, and Occupational Sources of Variation in Work Values."International Review of Industrial Sociology Spring 2014: Vol 13, No 2: 24-54
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2013) "'The Arab Spring' and Its Theoretical Significance: Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' Revisited."Societies Without Borders (SWB).No 8 (2) Pp. 29-55.
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2013) "The Middle Eastern Uprisings and the Development of Human Right Culture, 'The Clashes of Civilizations are Challenged'".International Review of the Modern Sociology. Vol. 39, No 1: 29-52.
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2012) "The Middle Eastern Uprisings and their theoretical Significance: Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" revisted." Under Review.
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2011). “Structure and/or Culture: Explaining Racial Differences in Work Values,” Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 42: 638-664
Kashefi, Max (2011). "High Performance Work Organizations (HPWO) in Manufacturing and Service Economy." [Most read...]International Sociology. Viol. 26: 525-547.
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2009). “Sociology of the 1979 Iranian Revolution." In, Rajesh and Kukreja (eds) Nationalism in South Asia.New Delhi, Ashwin-Anoka Press.
Kashefi, Max (2009). "High Performance Work Organizations (HPWO) and the Issues of Job Stress and Job Satisfaction." Current Sociology: Viol. 57 (# 6): Pp 809-828. (The most read article)
Kashefi, Mahmoud (2008). "The 1979 Iranian Revolution Revisited: The roles of social classes and the leadership in the uprising"Iranian.com. February 8, 2008.
Kashefi, Max. 2005. “The Relationship Between Work Values and Job Rewards: Is satisfaction of extrinsic job rewards a pre-condition for the salience of intrinsic rewards.” International Review of Modern Sociology. V. 31, # 2 Pp. 233-250.
Kashefi, Max. 2002. "Disproportionate Representation of Women and Men Across the levels of Skills Required for Professional and Managerial Occupations." In Social Insights: Knowledge at Work.Issue: 5, 2002.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. 2002. A Book Review (Farsi): Why Iran Lagged Behind and the West Moved Forward. In Rahavard: Number 58: Fall 2002.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. 2001. "A study on the Declining Probability of Social Revolutions: Structural Factors." (Farsi) Mehregan Volume: 9 # 3 Pp. 108-114.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. 2001. "A study on the Declining Probability of Social Revolutions: Social Agent and Ideology." (Farsi)Mehregan, Volume 9 # 4 Pp. 98-108.
Kashefi, M. 2000. "Teaching Social Statistics for Undergraduate Students " In Cynthia Line (ed.) Social Statistics: Syllabi and Instructional Materials. American Sociological Association Press.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. 2000. "Religious Apartheid in Islamic Republic of Iran."(Farsi) Monthly Par Journal. Vol. XV, No. 1, Pp. 12-16.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. 2000. "Social and humanistic dimension of Iranian new poetry."(Farsi) Monthly Par Journal. Vol. XV, No., 5, Pp. 44-47.
Kashefi, M. 1998. A book review. "McDonaldization of Society." George Ritzier (author). In, Critical Sociology. Vol. 23, Pp. 132-136.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. A book Review. 1998. "Socioeconomic basis of Iranian Mysticism." (Farsi)Monthly Par Journal. Vol. XIII, No. 6.
Kashefi, M. 1997. "Work and the family." In, Wendy Sacket (ed.). Ready reference: family life. Salem Press Inc.
Kashefi, M. 1996. "Automation and deskilling." In:Encyclopedia of Contemporary Social Science. Salem Press Publishing Company.
Kashefi, M. 1996. "Unemployment and the Government Policy." In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Social Science. Salem Press Publishing Company. In press.
Kashefi, M. 1996. "Censorship in IRAN." In Ready Reference: Censorship. Salem press Publishing Company. In press.
Kashefi, Mahmoud. 1995. Book Review, "Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic."Journal of Political Sociology. Vol. 23, No. 1, Summer 1995.
Kashefi, M., 1992. "Occupational Transformation in the United States Economy 1950-1980."Sociology and Social Research. Vol., 76, No. 2, Pp 90-102.
Kashefi, M., 1992. Book Review. Author: Richard H. Hall: "Complex Organizations--Structure, Processes, and Outcomes." Sociological Inquiry. Winter, 1993.
Kashefi, M., 1991. "Changes in the Soviet Unions and Their Impacts on the Iranian political Organizations" (Farsi). International Iran Times. Vol. XXI, No. 14.
Kashefi, M., 1990. "Social Changes in Iranian Society: A Critical Review of Shamlo's Idea and His Critiques" (Farsi) International Iran Times. Vol. XX, No. 24.
Kashefi, M., 1977.The Impacts of Educational Television on Students' Achievement in Iran. (Farsi) Tehran: Institute of Educational Press.
Works in progress:
The Uprisings in the Middle East and its Theoretical Significance; Implications on: Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" and Theda Skocpol's " Theory of Social Revolutions."
"Social Capital and National development, the role of accountability and transparency in development of social capital," using "world Value" survey data.
"The role of Iranian Islamic Regime in declining social capital and generalized trust," a survey study using the world Values" data.
"Using computer in the workplace and its impacts on employees' work attitudes and job satisfaction:
A survey research using 2006 General Social Survey (GSS).
"Industrial, organizational, and occupational sources of inequality in work values." This study expands the concept of occupational socialization to the workplace structural socialization.
"The 1979 Iranian Upheaval and the Debates on the Roles of Vanguard Parties and Ideology in Social Revolutions."
Other research and creative activities:
Kashefi, Max. 2010. An Online Social Science Statistical Text. Eastern Illinois University, on WebCT.
Kashefi, Max. 2009. An Online Social Organization Text. Eastern Illinois University, on WebCT.
Kashefi, Max. 2008. An Online Sociology of Work and Occupations Text. Eastern Illinois University, on WebCT.
Development of Social Capital in High Performance Work Organizations." MidWest Sociological Association. March 24 -27, 2011; St. Louis, MO.
"Beyond Talk and Chalk; Challenges in Teaching Social Statistics." October 29, 2010. Illinois Sociological Association. Normal, Illinois.
"Structure and/or Culture: Explaining Racial differences in Work values" October 29, 2010. Illinois Sociological Association. Normal, Illinois.
Employees Subjective response to "Functional Flexibility, High Performance Work Organization (HPWO) and Social Capital. Midwest Sociologists Association; April 2010.
“Racial differences in work values: Pattern, Explanation, and persistence.” Midwest Sociologists Association; March 27-30, 2008.
“The 1979 Iranian revolution revisited: Why the revolution did not bring and advanced mode of production with a representative state power: A sociological explanation.” “The fifteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference. March 22-23, 2008 Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana.
“Job stress and/or job satisfaction: Social psychology of work in high performance work organization.” Midwest Sociologists Association; April 2007.
“High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWO) and Job Rewards in Manufacturing and Service Economy” A research paper presented at the Mid-West Sociologists Meeting. April, 2007. Chicago, IL.
“Economic Polarization of Iranian Society and Its Social, Political, and Cultural Consequences” A paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference (CEUS). April 2006. Bloomington, IN.
“High Performance Workplace Organizations and the Issues of Job Satisfaction and/or Job Stress” A research paper presented at the Mid-West Sociological Association. April, 2006. Omaha, NE.
"Functional and numerical flexibility in the workplace: The consequences of various flexibility in the workplace. Midwest Sociologists Association. April 3-5, 2005.Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Structural features of jobs and organizational attachment: explaining variation in organizational attachment between black and white employees. A research paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Association. April, 2003. Chicago, IL.
Globalization and the declining probability of social revolution" A paper presented at: Association for Humanistic Society. October, 2002.
"The use of computer in the workplace and its relationship with employees' attitudes and behaviors" A research paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Association. April, 2002. Milwaukee, WI.
"A new dimension in gender segregation: disproportionate representation of women and men across the skill levels of professional and managerial occupations. Midwest Sociologists Association. April 19-22, 2000. Chicago, Illinois.
"Occupational socialization and work value: Examining the relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic rewards and their effects on work values." Midwest Sociologists Association. April 8-11, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"Occupational polarization in the black community: Examining racial representation across the skill levels required for all occupations in the United States." Midwest Sociological Association. April 2-5, 1998. Kansas City, Missouri.
"Racial differences in work and organizational commitment: Midwest Sociological Meeting. April 3-6, 1997.
Des Moines, Iowa.
"Industrial, Organizational, and Occupational sources of Inequality in Work Value." A research paper approved to be presented in the Midwest Sociological Meeting, April 1996.
"Occupational Transformation in the United States Economy--Is there any Mid-level Jobs' Reductions?" Presented in the Mid-West Sociological Association. Kansas City, April 1992.
"Occupational Structure and Its Transformation in the United States Economy: 1970-1990. Presented in Illinois Sociologists Meeting. October 1992, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
"The 1979 Iranian upheaval and the debates on the roles of vanguard parties and ideology in social revolution." A paper presented in the Mid-West Sociological Meeting, Chicago: April 1993.
"Variation and function of jobs' skills and their impacts on occupational transformation in the United States Economy." A paper presented in the Mid-West Sociological Meeting, Chicago: April 1993.
"Gender Mobility across Skill Hierarchy in High Status Jobs: "Revolving doors" in professional and managerial occupations? A paper presented at the Mid-West Sociological Meeting. St Louis: April 1994
Dissertation:
Title: "Deskilling or Upgrading? The Transformation of Skills Required for Jobs in the United States Economy." (Ph.D 1988; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Title: "The Impacts of Educational Television on Students' Achievement in Iran." (Master Degree in Psychology, Tehran University. 1974).
Title: "The Impacts of Membership in Voluntary Organization on Political Participation." Indiana University. Master degree in Sociology, Indian University, Bloomington, IN.)
Other Research Experience:
A reviewer of Research paper titled "Racial composition, perceived discrimination, and organizational attachment: The Sociological Quarterly, 2010.
A reviewer of Research Proposal on Job Alienation: International Review of Modern Sociology, 2006.
A reviewer:Exploring Social Change, 4th Edition. Prentice Hall Publishing Company, 2004.
A reviewer: A new book proposal: Work in 21 th Century . Pine Forge Publication Company, 2004.
A reviewer:Statistics for Social Science. Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000.
A reviewer: Reviewer of Research Proposals for: National Science Foundation (NSF),1990.
A reviewer: "Brain Drain in Iran,"The Middle East Journal, 1995.
A reviewer of Research Papers for MESA: The Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1993 .
Fall 1983 to Spring 1986: Research Assistant: Dept. of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington. IN.
Spring and Summer 1980: Indianapolis Area project" Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.
Fall 1975 to Fall 1976: Research Assistant; Educational Television and Students' Achievement Project. Institute for Iranian Educational Research.
Fall 1975 to Fall 1977: Research Assistant, Prospective Planning Project (PPP) National Iranian Radio and Television.
