David R. Heise
  

 









 

 

David R. Heise, Rudy Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Indiana University (heise @ indiana.edu), is a past editor of Sociological Methodology and of Sociological Methods & Research. His methodological research ranges from issues in quantitative modeling to computer applications in qualitative research. His social psychological research focuses on the affective and logical foundations of social interaction - in particular, Affect Control Theory (ACT) and Event Structure Analysis (ESA). Heise has received Distinguished Career awards from two sections of the American Sociological Association - Social Psychology and Sociology of Emotions, and he has received an award for outstanding contributions from the section on Communication and Information Technologies.

Heise's publications include books:

Causal Analysis (download book: 4.5 MB zipped PDF file),

Understanding Events: Affect and the Construction of Social Action,

Analyzing Social Interaction: Advances in Affect Control Theory,

Expressive Order: Confirming Sentiments in Social Actions,

two essays in the Encyclopedia of Sociology:

Affect control theory and impression formation,

Qualitative models,

and an essay in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Science:

Social measurement, classification and scaling.

Among his recent papers and presentations are:

Thinking sociologically with mathematics,

Project Magellan: Collecting cross-cultural affective meanings via the internet.,

Enculturating agents with expressive role behavior,

With Kathryn J. Lively, "Sociological realms of emotional experience." American Journal of Sociology, 109: 1109-36,

"Sentiment Formation in Social Interaction." Pp. 189-211 in Kent McClelland and Thomas J. Fararo (eds.), Purpose, Meaning and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan),

With Steven J. Lerner. "Affect control in international interactions." Social Forces, 85: 993-1010.

 
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