Academics

Rudi Volti, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Rudi Volti, Ph.D

    With Pitzer Since: 1969
    Field Group: Sociology
    Campus Address: Fletcher 230
    Phone: 909.607.3066
    Campus email: rudi_volti

    Education:
    M.A., Ph.D., Rice University
    B.A., University of California, Riverside

Expertise

Cars and car culture; technology and society; social bases of economic structure and behavior; complex organizations; Chinese society

Recent Awards and Honors

Appointed book editor for the journal Transfers: New Mobility Studies.

Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

"Did the Maoist Promotion of Worker Innovation Contribute Anything to China's Present Technological and Economic Successes?," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 28, 2010.

"Dutch Mobility in a European Context," Discussant, Utrecht, Netherlands, February/March 2009.

"The Social Construction of Technology and Science," Organizer at the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting. San Diego, CA, April 2009.

Recent Scholarly Publications

Books
Society and Technological Change. New York: Worth Publishers, 2009.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Work and Occupations Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century. Pine Forge Press, 2007.

Published Reviews
Review of the movie Cars in the spring issue of the Journal of Transport Studies.