Tim Berard has overlapping research interests related to the empirical study of practical reasoning, including the deployment of evaluative categories for understanding and faulting types of behavior and types of individuals; attributions of motives for deviance and crime; and the interactional and pragmatic negotiation or contestation of relevant identities. Substantive topics addressed in relation to these interests include hate crimes; racial/ethnic profiling; institutional racism or disparate impact; subcultures in relation to criminal law, national security and sovereignty; and the intersection of macro social institutions and inequalities with the subjective and inter-subjective details of how social relations are created or recreated in human experience, language use and social action. He studied at Boston University under Jeff Coulter, writing a dissertation addressing discrimination disputes as contests over the situational relevance of macro-social identities in micro-social contexts, including legal contexts among others. He is the recipient of the Shils-Coleman prize from the American Sociological Association's Theory Section, for a critical analysis of Michel Foucault's treatment of subjectivity and its relevance to social theory. His current interests address a constellation of issues including motive attributions, social identities, and law, especially in relation to the issues of hate crimes, ethnic profiling in criminal justice and national security contexts, and institutional racism.

Primary Interests:

Communication, Language
Culture and Ethnicity
Intergroup Relations
Judgment and Decision Making
Law and Public Policy
Organizational Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Research Methods, Assessment
Self and Identity
Social Cognition
Sociology, Social Networks

Communication, Language
Culture and Ethnicity
Intergroup Relations
Judgment and Decision Making
Law and Public Policy
Organizational Behavior
Personality, Individual Differences

Prejudice and Stereotyping
Research Methods, Assessment
Self and Identity
Social Cognition
Sociology, Social Networks

Journal Articles:

Berard, T. J. (2008). The neglected social psychology of institutional racism. Sociology Compass 2(2), 734-764.
Berard, T. J. (2006). Evaluative categories of action and identity in non-evaluative human studies research: Examples from ethnomethodology. Qualitative Sociology Review, 1(1), 1-25. [lead article]
Berard, T. J. (2006). Extending hate crime legislation to include gender: Explicating an analogical method of advocacy. Qualitative Sociology Review, 1(2), 43-64.
Berard, T. J. (2006). From concepts to methods: On the observability of inequality. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(3), 236-256. [lead article]
Berard, T. J. (2005). On multiple identities and educational contexts: Remarks on the study of inequalities and discrimination. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 4, 67-76.
Berard, T. J. (2005). Rethinking practices and structures. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 35, 196-230.
Berard, T. J. (2003). Ethnomethodology as radical sociology: An expansive appreciation of Melvin Pollner's "Constitutive and Mundane Versions of Labeling Theory." Human Studies, 26(4), 431-448.
Berard, T. J. (2002). Moving forward by looking back: Revisiting Melvin Pollner's "Constitutive and Mundane Versions of Labeling Theory." Human Studies, 25(4), 495-498.
Berard, T. J. (1999). Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, and the reformulation of social theory. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 29(3), 203-227.
Berard, T. J. (1998). Attributions and avowals of motive in the study of deviance: Resource or topic? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 28(2), 193-213.
Kim, Kwang-ki and Tim Berard. (2009) Typification in Society and Social Science: The Continuing Relevance of Schutz’s Social Phenomenology. Human Studies 32(3) [Lead Article].

Other Publications:

Berard, Tim. (2010). Hate Crimes and their Criminalization. In New Approaches to Social Problems Treatment, eds. Stacy Burns and Mark Peyrot, Vol. 17 of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy.
Berard, T.J. (forthcoming). Under the Shadow of the Authoritarian Personality: Elias, Fromm, and Alternative Social Psychologies of Authoritarianism. Forthcoming in the first of a two-volume international collection published by Palgrave-Macmillan, ed. Francois Depelteau and Tatiana Landini.
Berard, T.J. (2012). Collective Action, Collective Reaction: Inspecting Bad Apples in Accounts for Organizational Deviance and Discrimination. Forthcoming chapter in H. Nasu and F. Waksler (eds.) Interaction and Everyday Life: Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Essays in Honor of George Psathas. Lexington.
Berard, T. J. (2006). Deviant subcultures. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Sociology (Vol. X, pp. 4870-4875). Blackwell.
Berard, T. J. (2006). Racial profiling. In J. Ciment (Ed.), Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia (pp. 1421-1430). Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
Berard, T. J. (2002). "Japanese American" identity and the problem of multiple description: Disjunctive versions of the Japanese exclusion order. In Stephen Hester & W. Housley (Eds.), Language, Interaction, and National Identity: Studies in the Social Organisation of National Identity (pp. 144-168). Ashgate.

Courses Taught:

Crime, Inequality, and Deviant Subcultures
Criminology
Law and Society
Minorities in America
Minorities in Crime and Justice

Crime, Inequality, and Deviant Subcultures
Criminology
Law and Society

Minorities in America
Minorities in Crime and Justice

Tim Berard
Sociology, 303 Merrill Hall
Kent State University
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242
United States

Phone: (330) 672-0322
Fax: (330) 672-4724
Skype Name: Tim.Berard
Email: tjberard@alumni.reed.edu