Employment History

Professor, 1990 present, Chair, 1985 1991 and 1996 2000, Associate Professor, 1983 1990, Assistant Professor, 1978 1983, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico.

Professor, 1990 present, Chair, 1985 1991 and 1996 2000, Associate Professor, 1983 1990, Assistant Professor, 1978 1983, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico.

Executive Director, Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, 1993 1996

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977 1978

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, 1976 1977

Professor, 1990 present, Chair, 1985 1991 and 1996 2000, Associate Professor, 1983 1990, Assistant Professor, 1978 1983, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico.

Executive Director, Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, 1993 1996

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977 1978

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, 1976 1977

Executive Director, Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, 1993 1996

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977 1978

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, 1976 1977

Selected Publications

Books:

Ideology, Public Opinion and Welfare Policy (Berkeley: University of California, Institute of International Studies, 1980).

Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio‑Economics (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991). Edited volume.

Reforming Welfare: Lessons, Limits, and Choices (University of New Mexico Press, 1989). Edited volume.

Journal articles and book chapters:

Coughlin, Richard M. "Intergenerational Equity Reconsidered: A Communitarian Perspective." George Washington University, Communitarian Network, (2006). http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/ResultsforCommunitarianEssayContest2006.htm 

“Does Socioeconomic Inequality Undermine Community? Implications for Communitarian Theory,” The Responsive Community(Spring 2003): 12-25.

"Family Structure and Children's Needs: The Test Case of Moral Development," Journal of
Divorce and Remarriage 29 (1999). With Charles Lockhart and Jean Giles-Sims

"The Spread of Communitarianism." The Responsive Community 9 (Summer 1999)

"Foreword." In Sun‑Ki Chai and Brendon Swedlow (eds.), Economics, Philosophy, and Rational Choice (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).  With Charles Lockhart

"Grid-Group Theory and Political Ideology: A Consideration of Their Relative Strengths and Weaknesses for Explaining the Structure of Mass Belief Systems." Journal of Theoretical Politics 10 (Winter 1998): 33-58. With Charles Lockhart.

"How Different is the United States?" Journal of Policy History.  Vol.  9. No., 4 (1997): 490-494

Whose Morality? Which Community? What Interests? Socio‑Economic and Communitarian Perspectives." Journal of Socio‑Economics (25): 135‑155.  Reprinted in Amitai Etzioni, Essays in Socio-Economics. Springer: Berlin and New York, 1999.

"Frameworks and Findings: Assessing Etzioni's Contributions to Sociology." Pp. 13‑31 in David Sciulli (ed.), Macro Socio‑Economics: From Theory to Activism (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996).

"Get Moving, Professor!" College Teaching 43 (Fall 1995): 122‑126. With Charles Lockhart.

"Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Cultural Theory." Pp. 191‑218 in Dennis J. Coyle and Richard J. Ellis, Politics, Policy, and Culture (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

"Building Better Comparative Social Theory Through Alternative Conceptions of Rationality." Western Political Quarterly 45 (September 1992): 793‑809.  With Charles Lockhart.

"Social Insurance in Sweden." Pp. 147‑64 in Fred Pampel and Martin Tracy (eds.), International Handbook of Old Age Social Insurance (Greenwood Press, 1991). With Richard F. Tomasson.

The Economic Person in Sociological Context: Case Studies in the Mediation of Self‑Interest." Journal of Behavioral Economics 19 (Summer 1990):181‑207.