Claude Rubinson
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown

Education

Ph.D., 2010

Department of Sociology, University of Arizona
Dissertation: The Production of Style: Aesthetic and Ideological Diversity in the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1875—1914. Committee: Charles C. Ragin (chair), Albert Bergesen, and Keiron Bailey (Geography)

M.A., 2002

Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
Thesis: Wealth Inequality and Class Location

B.A., 1996

Department of Sociology, Emory University

Research and Teaching Interests

• Globalization and comparative political-economy
• Art, technology, and culture
• Social stratification
• Research methodology

Publications

• Rubinson, Claude. Forthcoming. "Contradictions in fsQCA" Quality & Quantity.
• Ragin, Charles C. and Claude Rubinson. 2011. "Comparative Methods." International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino. London: Sage.
• Svevo-Cianci, Kimberly A., Stuart Hart, and Claude Rubinson. 2010. "Protecting Children from Violence and Maltreatment: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 42 Countries to Assess the Efficacy of U.N. CRC Article 19." Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal:45-56.
• Franzosi, Roberto and Claude Rubinson. 2009. "Question and Answer (How do you go from QNA to QCA?)" Pp. 137-140 in Quantitative Narrative Analysis by Roberto Franzosi. London: Sage.
• Ragin, Charles C. and Claude Rubinson. 2009. "The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research." The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics, edited by Todd Landman and Neil Robinson. London: Sage.
• Rubinson, Claude. 2007. "Nulls, Three-Valued Logic, and Ambiguity in SQL: Critiquing Date's Critique." SIGMOD Record 36(4):13–17.
• Rubinson, Claude and Charles C. Ragin. 2007. "New Methods for Comparative Research?" Capitalisms Compared (Comparative Social Research, volume 24), edited by Lars Mjøset and Tommy H. Clausen. Oxford: Elsevier.

Presentations, Short Courses, and Workshops

• April 27, 2013. "'...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 76th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society: Atlanta, GA.
• April 25, 2013. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." 76th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society: Atlanta, GA.
• April 12, 2013. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis." 55th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association: Denver, CO.
• April 11, 2013. "On the Emergence and Diffusion of Cultural Innovations: The Cubist Aesthetic in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 55th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association: Denver, CO.
• March 19, 2013. "Constructing Kirq, software for set-theoretic social research: A software development travelogue." PyHou: Houston, TX.
• September 8, 2012. "'...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 7th Conference of the European Research Network Sociology of the Art: Vienna, Austria.
• August, 19, 2012. "From Splendor to Simplicity: Explaining the Aesthetic and Ideological Diversity of the Arts & Crafts Movement, 1875–1914." 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association: Denver, CO.
• April 12, 2012. "'...and Starring Jerry Bruckheimer as Picasso': The Cubist Revival in Twenty-first Century Television Programming." 54th Annual Conferences of the Western Social Science Association: Houston, TX.
• February 2, 2012. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Medical Research." University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston: Houston, TX.
• September 21, 2011. "Introduction to Relational Databases, Part 1: Why?" Houston Linux Users Group, HAL-PC: Houston, TX.
• September 27, 2011. "Introduction to Relational Databases, Part 2: How?" Houston Linux Users Group, HAL-PC: Houston, TX.
• May 17, 2011. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Day 1." Emory University: Atlanta, GA.
• May 18, 2011. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Day 2." Emory University: Atlanta, GA.
• May 11, 2010. "From Splendor to Simplicity: Explaining the Aesthetic Variation of the Arts & Crafts Movement, 1875–1914." University of Houston—Downtown: Houston, TX.
• October 19, 2009. "Using Relational Databases and SQL for Social Scientific Research: Theory and Practice." University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ.