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Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Grinnell College
1210 Park St
Grinnell, IA 50112
(641) 269-3134
fax (641) 269-4985
mcclel@grinnell.edu
- Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University, 1976
- A.B., Sociology, Oberlin College, 1968
- Perceptual Control Theory
- Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Social Inequality: Race Class and Gender
- Social Welfare Systems
- Organizational Research
- Gerontology
- McClelland, Kent A. and Thomas J. Fararo, eds. 2006. Purpose, Meaning and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (McClelland is co-author of Chapter 1, "Control Systems Thinking in Sociological Theory," and author of Chapter 2, "Understanding Collective Control Processes.") For more information
- McClelland, Kent. 2004. "Collective Control of Perception: Constructing Order from Conflict." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 60:65-99.
- McClelland, Kent. 2002. "Writing in Sociology." Pp. 640-41 in Making Sense: Constructing Knowledge in the Arts and Sciences, edited by Bob Coleman, Rebecca Brittenham, Scott Campbell and Stephanie Girard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Noyce Faculty Study Grant, "A Cybernetic Model of Human Behavior" Summer/Fall 1998.
- Co-Project Director (with Christopher Hunter), "Ethnographic Study of a Human-Services Learning Organization." Funded as a subcontract to the "Early Head Start" grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc. Awarded $21,102 for the period of October 1, 1996 to September 30, 1997.
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