Education
Ph.D. 1987-1991 Sociology University of Maryland, College Park
M.A. 1985-1987 Sociology University of Missouri, Kansas City
B.A. 1979-1983 Sociology Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Employment
2016 – Professor (secondary appointment), Center for Asian Health
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
2008 – Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University
2000 -2008 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University
1997 -2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University
1994 -1997 Research Fellow, Survey Research Center,
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
1991 -1994 Postdoctoral Trainee, Survey Research Center,
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
1989 -1991 Research Intern, Survey Research Center,
University of Maryland
1983 -1985 Instructor, Department of Sociology,
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Publications
Sociology of Knowledge
Zhao, Shanyang. 2024. “The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 54(4):632-644.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/RKQT4G8CW2MEXXNQ4DZM?target=10.1111/jtsb.12436
Zhao, Shanyang. 2022. “Human Self-Selection as a Mechanism of Human Societal Evolution: A Critique of the Cultural Selection Argument.” European Journal of Social Theory 25(3):386-402. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13684310211049747
Zhao, Shanyang. 2022. “Human Agency and Social Structure: From the Evolutionary Perspective.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 52(3):473-493.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/IJGVIXWFE7RFQYMPSGHX?target=10.1111/jtsb.12336
Zhao, Shanyang. 2014. “Ethnographic Studies of Social Causation: Observing Conjunctures of Action Sequences in Particular Settings.” Quality & Quantity 48(5): 2791-2800.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2001. “Metatheorizing in Sociology.” Pp.386-394 in Handbook of Social Theory, edited by George Ritzer and Barry Smart. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Zhao, Shanyang. 1996. “The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? The Theory Construction Movement Revisited.” Sociological Forum 11(2): 305-318.
Zhao, Shanyang. 1993. “Realms, Subfields, and Perspectives: On the Differentiation and Fragmentation of Sociology.” The American Sociologist 24(3/4): 5-14.
Zhao, Shanyang. 1991. “Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-data-analysis: What, Why, and How?” Sociological Perspectives 34(3): 377-390.
Zhao, Shanyang. 1991. “Rhetoric as Praxis: An Alternative to the Epistemic Approach.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 24(3): 255-266.
Self & Society
Zhao, Shanyang. 2022. Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of the Self. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/advanced-introduction-to-the-sociology-of-the-self-9781800375352.html
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Zhao, Shanyang. 2019. “Bringing Self-values Back In: From Reflected Appraisal to Appraised Appraisal.” Pp. 126-140 in Updating Charles H. Cooley: Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic, edited by Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Baptiste Brossard. Routledge.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2018. “What Is Reflective Self-Awareness For? Role Expectation for Situational Collaboration in Alliance Animal Society.” Philosophical Psychology 31(2):187-209. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TZfPzDbrXgxBwAK7JkaM/full
Zhao, Shanyang. 2017. “Self as a Second-order Object: Reinterpreting the Jamesian ‘Me’.” New Ideas in Psychology 48:8-16.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2015. “Reconceptualizing the Self Phenomenon: Toward an Emic Conception of the Self.” Symbolic Interaction 38(2):235-260.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2014. “Self as an Emic Object: A Re-reading of William James on Self.” Theory & Psychology 24(2): 199-216.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2005. “The Digital Self: Through the Looking Glass of Telecopresent Others.” Symbolic Interaction 28(3): 387-405. Reprinted in 2015 in Presence 2.0 – Bodily Performances in Media Cultures (pp. 205-226), edited by Kornella Hahn and Martin Stempfhuber. Wiesbaden, Springer VS.
New Media
Zhao, Shanyang, Aleksandr V. Shchekoturov, and Svetlana D. Shchekoturova. 2017. “Personal Profile Settings as Cultural Frames: Facebook vs. Vkontakte.” Journal of Creative Communications 12(3):1-14.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2014. “Content Analysis of Facebook Pages: Decoding Expressions Given Off.” In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2009. “Parental Education and Children’s Online Health Information Seeking: Beyond the Digital Divide Debate.” Social Science & Medicine 69:1501-1505 [Republished in 2010 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics]
Zhao, Shanyang and David Elesh. 2008. “Copresence as ‘Being With’: Social Contact in Online Public Domains.” Information, Communication & Society 11(4):564-583.
Zhao, Shanyang, Sherri Grasmuck, and Jason Martin. 2008. “Identity Construction on Facebook: Digital Empowerment in Anchored Relationships.” Computers in Human Behavior 24:1816-1836. [Top-10 most-cited article published in Computers in Human Behavior during the period 2007-2011]
Zhao, Shanyang and David Elesh. 2007. “The Second Digital Divide: Unequal Access to Social Capital in the Online World.” International Review of Modern Sociology 33(2):171-192.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2007. “Internet and the Lifeworld: Updating Schutz’s Theory of Mutual Knowledge.” Information Technology & People 20(2):140-160. [2008 Emerald Literati Network Highly Recommended Paper Award]
Zhao, Shanyang. 2006. “The Internet and the Transformation of the Reality of Everyday Life: Toward a New Analytic Stance of Sociology.” Sociological Inquiry 76(4):458-474.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2006. “Humanoid Social Robots as a Medium of Communication.” New Media & Society 8(3): 401-419.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2006. “Do Internet Users Have More Social Ties? A Call for Differentiated Analyses of Internet Use.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 11(3). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/zhao.html
Zhao, Shanyang. 2004. “Consociated Contemporaries as an Emergent Realm of the Lifeworld: Extending Schutz’s Phenomenological Analysis to Cyberspace.” Human Studies 27(1): 91-105.
Zhao, Shanyang. 2003. “Toward a Taxonomy of Copresence.” Presence 12(5): 445-455.
Mental Health
Kessler, Ronald C., Shanyang Zhao, Steven J. Katz, Anthony C. Kouzis, Richard G. Frank, Mark Edlund, and Philip Leaf. 1999. “Past Year Use of Outpatient Services for Psychiatric Problems in the National Comorbidity Survey.” The American Journal of Psychiatry 156(1): 115-123.
Kessler, Ronald C., Kristin D. Mickelson, and Shanyang Zhao. 1997. “Patterns and Correlates of Self-help Group Membership in the United States.” Social Policy 27: 27-46.
Kessler, Ronald C., Shanyang Zhao, Dan G. Blazer, and Marvin Swartz. 1997. “Prevalence, Correlates, and Course of Minor Depression and Major Depression in the National Comorbidity Survey.” Journal of Affective Disorders 45: 19-30.
Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Shanyang Zhao, Jamie M. Abelson, James L. Abelson, and Ronald C. Kessler. 1996. “Reliability and Procedural Validity of UM-CIDI DSM-III-R Phobic Disorders.” Psychological Medicine 26: 1169-1177.
Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Ronald C. Kessler, Shanyang Zhao, and Jamie M. Abelson. 1995. “Reliability and Clinical Validity of UM-CIDI DSM-III-R Generalized Anxiety Disorder.” Psychiatry Research 29 (2): 95-110.
Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Shanyang Zhao, Ronald C. Kessler, and William W. Eaton. 1994. “DSM-III-R Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey.” Archives of General Psychiatry 51: 355-364.
Kessler, Ronald C., Katherine A. McGonagle, Shanyang Zhao, Christopher B. Nelson, Michael Hughes, Suzann Eshleman, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, and Kenneth S. Kendler. 1994. “Lifetime and 12-month Prevalence of DSM-III- R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey.” Archives of General Psychiatry 51: 8-19.