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Overview

Peter Kivisto is affiliated with Augustana College in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

Their work prominently addresses topics such as social and cultural dynamics, contemporary sociological theory and practice, social capital and networks, migration and labor dynamics, religion and society interactions, migration, refugees, and integration, as well as the nonprofit sector and volunteering.

Peter Kivisto's publications frequently appear in several scholarly venues. The most notable among these are:

  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Journal of Classical Sociology
  • Cultural Sociology

Recent research contributions include:

  • "Bans, walls, raids, sanctuary: understanding U.S. immigration for the twenty-first century" (2020), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • "Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement" (2020), published in Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • "Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology" (2024), published in Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • "From Author to Network: The Coming of Age of Civil Sphere Theory" (2022), published in Cultural Sociology
  • "Re-Reading Park and Burgess's Landmark Textbook: An Unacknowledged Treatise on Democracy and Inclusion" (2022), published in The American Sociologist

Throughout their career, Peter Kivisto has collaborated with various scholars, with the most frequent coauthors being:

  • Giuseppe Sciortino
  • Thomas Szanto
  • Kevin J. Christiano
  • Barbara Jones Denison
  • Tamara Kohn

The areas of study and research exhibited in their publication record reflect a comprehensive engagement with social dynamics, immigration, and cultural sociology, as well as broader political and social theory.

Best Publications

  • Theorizing transnational immigration : a critical review of current efforts

    Peter Kivisto

  • Citizenship : discourse, theory, and transnational prospects

    Peter Kivisto;Thomas Faist

  • Multiculturalism in a Global Society

    Peter Kivisto

  • Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration

    Peter Kivisto;Thomas Faist

  • Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments

    Kevin J. Christiano;William H. Swatos;Peter Kivisto

  • Social spaces, transnational immigrant communities, and the politics of incorporation

    Peter Kivisto

  • The Voice and the Eye: An Analysis of Social Movements.

    Peter Kivisto;Alain Touraine;Alan Duff

  • Dual citizenship in global perspective : from unitary to multiple citizenship

    Thomas Faist;Peter Kivisto

  • Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age

    Peter Kivisto

  • The Migration-Development Nexus

    Thomas Faist;Margit Fauser;Peter Kivisto

  • Religion and Immigration: Migrant Faiths in North America and Western Europe

    Peter Kivisto

  • Symbolic ethnicity and American Jews: The relationship of ethnic identity to behavior and group affiliation

    Peter Kivisto;Ben Nefzger

  • Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited

    Peter Kivisto

  • Race, class, and state housing : inequality and the allocation of public housing in Britain

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  • Key ideas in sociology

    Peter Kivisto

  • We really are all multiculturalists now.

    Peter Kivisto

  • The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, by Colin Campbell. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987, 301 pp. $24.95

    Peter Kivisto

  • Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    Peter Kivisto

  • Debating Multiculturalism in the Nordic Welfare States

    Peter Kivisto;Östen Wahlbeck

  • The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict.

    Peter Kivisto;Susan Olzak

  • Ethnic Groups in Conflict.

    Peter Kivisto;Donald L. Horowitz

  • Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives@@@Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments@@@A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion

    Lutz Kaelber;Malcolm B. Hamilton;Kevin J. Christiano;William H. Swatos

  • Nations Before Nationalism.

    Peter Kivisto;John A. Armstrong

  • The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico

    Peter Kivisto

  • Chaos of disciplines

    Peter Kivisto

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine École Normale Supérieure

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