Rudi Volti, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
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.