Department of Sociology Faculty

Gabe T. Wang

Gabe T. Wang (Professor and Department Chairperson) received his Ph.D. degree from Brigham Young University. He teaches Population and Development in Asia, Senior Seminar in Crime and Criminal Justice, and Juvenile Delinquency. Professor Wang’s research interests include cross-cultural comparative studies, population and socioeconomic development, and adolescent deviant behavior in both the United States and China.

Since 2005, Professor Wang has been the Chairperson of the Department of Sociology. Between 2001 and 2005, he was director of the WPU Asian Studies Program. Between 2001 and 2004, he was a member of the U.S. Fulbright Student Selection Committee. Between 1999 and 2000, he was a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of the Chinese Political Studies in the U.S. Professor Wang has also given invited lectures on social research, population, and juvenile delinquency in several universities and research institutes in China in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2007. Supported by the Fulbright Hay grant, Professor Wang visited many places in India with other educators from New Jersey and New York areas during the summer of 2006.

Professor Wang was recognized as an outstanding Asian-American Business and Community leader by Bergen Community College’s Asian History and Heritage Committee in 2003. In 2002, He was an honorary research fellow for the Linguistics and Cultural Research Institute at Nanjing Normal University and a guest professor of Southwestern China Normal University. In 2001, he received an Undergraduate Asian Studies Program grant from the U.S Department of Education. In 1996, his paper, Social Control and Adolescent Deviant Behavior, was given the First Award by the Chinese Sociological Association. He was a Special Research Scientist at Yunnan Social Science Academy in China between 1995 and 2000.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

2006. China and the Taiwan Issue: Impending War at Taiwan Strait. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc.

1999. China's Population: Problems, Thoughts and Policies. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

1996. A Comparative Study of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Work Values of Employees in the United States and Japan. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.

PAPERS:

2007. “Identity Crises and Independence Drive in Taiwan”. Journal of Ideological Front, 33 (4): 14-20.

2007. "Culture and Cross-cultural Communication” in Experiencing another Culture (edited by Zhen Zhou and David R. Knapp). Kunming: Yunnan People’s Publishing House, pp. 142-154.

2006. “Advocate More Positivism in China’s Social Science Research”. Journal of Yunnan Nationalities University, Vol. 23(1): 48-53.

2006. “Social Distance and the ‘Tipping Effect’ among College Students at a Northern New Jersey University” in African Americans and Whites: Changing Relationships on College Campuses (edited by Robert Moore). Boston: University Press of America (with Korgen and Mahon).

2005. “Cross-Racial Friendships and Social Distance between Racial Groups on a College Campus”. Innovative Higher Education Vol. 29 (4) Summer: 291-305 (with Odell and Korgen).

2004. "A Comparison of the Economic and Social Development in China and Taiwan”. Politics and Economics of Asia, Vol. 10: 101-124.

2003. “Diversity on College Campus Today: The Growing Need to Foster Campus Environments Capable of Countering a Possible ‘Tipping Effect’”. College Student Journal, Vol. 37(1): 16-26 (with Korgen and Mahon).

2002. "Adolescent Social Bond, Self-Control and Deviant Behavior in China”. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology Vol. 39 (1): 52-68 (with Qiao et al.).

2002. "Political Economy of the Floating Chinese Population”. Journal of Contemporary Asia. 32 (4): 536-552 (with Hu and Zhou).

2002. “Social Distance and College Students at a Northern New Jersey University” in The Quality and Quantity of Contact: African Americans and Whites on College Campuses (ed. Robert Moor). Pp. 95-107. Boston: University Press of America (with Korgen).

2001. "Work Values of University Students in China and the United States”. Waiyu Xueshu Luncong (Foreign Language Academic Forum) Vol. 5: 80-93 (with Zhou).

2000. "Family and Juvenile Delinquent Behavior: The Theory and Empirical Research in the United States”. Youth Studies 2000(4): 42-49 (with Wang).

2000. "The Development and Unification Prospect of China with Taiwan: The Current Implication of the Three Principles of People". The Prospects for Cross-Taiwan Strait Development. Ed. by Gang Lin and Weixing Chen. Hong Kong: Asian Sciences Publishing House, Pp. 117-141.

1999. "A Comparative Study of the Values on Family and Self between American and Chinese University Students", The Journal of Ideological Front 25: 250-253 (with Zhou).

1999. " Small Town Development and Rural Urbanization in China." Journal of Contemporary Asia. 29 (1): 76-94 (with Hu).

1997. "Social Control and Juvenile Delinquent Behavior". China’s Economic and Social Development and the Mission of Sociology During the 21 st Century. Liaoning: Liaoning People’s Press. p. 140-152 (with Qiao, Zhang, Hong, and Zhang).

1996. "Rural Urbanization." Sociology in Yunnan 31(1): 1-8.

1996. " China's Population Control Policy." China Report, 32(2): 141-158.

1995. "Family Bonds and Adolescent Substance Use: An Ethnic Group Comparison." American Families: Issues in Race and Ethnicity Ed. by Cardell K. Jacobson. Pp. 463-492. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. (with Bahr & Marcos).

1995. "Traditional Thinking on Population in China." China Report 31(3): 331-348.

1994. "Social Development and Family Formation in China." Family Perspective 28(4): 283-301.

1994. "Visible or Invisible Hand: The Taiwan Experience." China Report 30(1): 53-68.

1994. "Adolescent Substance Use and Codependence." Journal of Studies on Alcohol 55(3): 261-268 (with Hawks & Bahr).

1993. "Family and Religious Influences on Adolescent Substance Abuse." Youth & Society 24(4): 443-465 (with Bahr & Hawks).

1992. "Family Influences on Delinquency." Family Research: A Review from 1900 to 1990, Vol. 2. Ed. by Stephen J. Bahr. Pp. 273-323. New York: Lexington Books (with Bahr).

1991. "Early Family Research." Family Research: A Review from 1900 to 1989, Vol. 1. Ed. by Stephen J. Bahr. Pp. 1-23. New York: Lexington Books (with Bahr & Zhang).

1991. "Gender Roles in the Family." Family Research: A Review from 1900 to 1989, Vol. 1. Ed. by Stephen J. Bahr. Pp. 435-491. New York: Lexington Books (with Caycedo & Bahr).