William L. Parish
Professor
B.A. University of Texas, 1962
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1970
Office: Social Sciences 312
Phone: 773-702-8682
Email: w-parish@uchicago.edu
CV: Curriculum Vita
William Parish works on labor markets, gender inequality, sexual behavior, and government - business relations. With an emphasis on East Asia, he has published on urban life in China and examined the differences in labor markets and patterns of inequality in Taiwan and S. Korea. Current work is on newly emerging patterns of intimate relations and sexually transmitted diseases in China. Parish has also worked on migration and family patterns in Europe and family support networks in the U.S.
Research Interests
Populations and Sociology of Transnational Processes
Selected Publications
"A Population-based Study of Body Image Concerns among Urban Chinese Adults," (with Ye Luo and Edward Laumann). In Body Image 2(4): 333-45, 2005.
"Sexual Partners in China: Risk Patterns for Infection by HIV and Possible Interventions," (with Suiming Pan). In Social Policy and HIV/AIDS in China, eds. Kaufman et al. Harvard University Press, 2006.
"Sexual Harrassment of Women in Urban China," (with A. Das and E.O. Laumann). In Archives of Sexual Behavior 35 (forthcoming).
"Tocquevillian Moments: Charitable Contributions by Chinese Private Entrepreneurs," (with D.L. Ma). In Social Forces 85 (forthcoming).
"Intimate partner violence in China: risk factors and health consequences in a national population-based survey," International Journal of Reproductive Health, 2004.
"Population-Based Study of Chlamydial Infection in China: A Hidden Epidemic." The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003.
"Daughters, Parents, and Globalization: The Case of Taiwan, (by Nidhi Mehrotra and William L. Parish). In Women's Working Lives in East Asia. Mary C. Brinton, ed. Stanford University Press. 2001.
Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (with Wenfang Tang).
"Gender Differentials in Economic Success: Rural China in 1991," in Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Household, and Gender in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
"Local Government and Private Business in China," Journal of Japan-China Sociological Studies. No. 8: 1-42, 2000.
"Politics and Markets: Dual Transformations," American Journal of Sociology 101, 1996.
"Married Women's Employment in East Asia," American Journal of Sociology 100, 1995.
"Sons, Daughters, and Intergenerational Support in Taiwan," American Journal of Sociology 99: 1010-41, 1994.
