Frank J. LechnerProfessor

• PhD in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1985
• MA in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1982
• Kandidaatsexamen, Sociology, Tilburg University, 1978

I study how globalization and other historical forces affect collective, especially national, identities. Other work focusing on issues in sociological theory includes a reexamination of Simmel’s social forms.

Books

The American Exception, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (also here and here) (2017)

Globalization: The Making of World Society (2009)

The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity (2008)

World Culture: Origins and Consequences (2005)

Edited Volumes

The Globalization Reader (fifth edition, 2015)

The Search for Fundamentals: The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning (1995)

Selected Papers

Talcott Parsons and American Execptionalism (2016)

Sports and Nation in the Global Age (2016)

Rational Choice and Religious Economies (2007)

Imagined Communities in the Global Game: Soccer and the Development of Dutch National Identity (2007)

Trajectories of Faith in the Global Age: Classical Theory and Contemporary Evidence (2006)

Religious Rejections of Globalization (2005)

The "New Paradigm" in the Sociology of Religion: Comment on Warner (1997)

Secularization in the Netherlands? (1996)

The Case against Secularization: A Rebuttal (Social Forces, 1991)

Online

Globalization: The Making of World Society, Student Companion Site

• SOC 101: Introduction to General Sociology
• SOC 150: Great Works in Social Thought
• SOC 190: Sociology of Conservatism
• SOC 389: Progressivism and Its Discontents: Debating the Issues
• SOC 457: Development of Sociological Theory
• SOC 540: Basic Theoretical Problems
• SOC 767: Teaching Sociology