Making Sense of the Social World - International Student Edition: Methods of Investigation

About Daniel F. ChamblissRussell K. Schutt

Daniel F. Chambliss PhD is the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Hamilton College in Clinton New York where he has taught from 1981 to 2023. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1982; later that year his thesis research received the American Sociological Associations (ASAs) Medical Sociology Dissertation Prize. In 1988 he published the book Champions: The Making of Olympic Swimmers which received the Book of the Year Prize from the U.S. Olympic Committee. In 1989 he received the ASAs Theory Prize for work on organizational excellence based on his swimming research. Recipient of both Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships he published his second book Beyond Caring: Hospitals Nurses and the Social Organization of Ethics in 1996; for that work he was awarded the ASAs Eliot Freidson Prize in Medical Sociology. In 2014 Harvard University Press published his book How College Works coauthored with his former student Christopher G. Takacs. His research and teaching interests include organizational analysis higher education social theory and comparative research methods. In 2018 he received the ASAs national career award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching. Russell K. Schutt PhD is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he received the 2007 Chancellors Award for Distinguished Service and taught from 1979 to 2022. He is also a Clinical Research Scientist I at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA MA and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (where he met Dan). In addition to ten editions of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and one of Understanding the Social World as well as coauthored versions for the fields of social work criminal justice psychology and education his other books include Homelessness Housing and Mental Illness (2011) Social Neuroscience: Brain Mind and Society (coedited 2015) and Organization in a Changing Environment (1986). He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer reviewed journal articles as well as book chapters and research reports on homelessness mental health organizations law and teaching research methods. His currently a Dual Principal Investigator (with Matcheri Keshavan MD) in randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). His other recently concluded research includes co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston and co-investigator on a Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support.  His earlier research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute the Veterans Health Administration the National Institute of Mental Health the Fetzer Institute and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/.