Book
Nostalgia: Sanctuary of Meaning. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2005.
Articles
"Role Theory" (second author with Daniel D. Martin, University of
Minnesota Duluth, Department of
Sociology/Anthropology), in George Ritzer, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Volume II. Thousand Oaks: CA,
pp. 651-655, 2005.
"Socialization" (with Subhash R. Sonnad, Western Michigan University, Department of Sociology), in W. Edward Craighead and Charles B. Nemeroff, eds., The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Third Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 921-922, 2004.
"Peer Groups," in Karen Christensen & David Levinson, eds., Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 1066-1070, 2003.
"Blue Ring Around a White Collar: An Application of Marginality." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 59 (1), pp. 25-31, Spring 2002.
"The Mathematician and the Sociologist in Dialogue: New Perspectives on the Learning of Mathematics" (second author with Carmen M. Latterell, University of Minnesota Duluth, Department of Mathematics and Statistics). Perspectives: Electronic Journal of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences 4. Fall 2001 http://employees.csbsju.edu/jmakepeace/perspectives2001/
"Nerds? Or Nuts? Pop Culture Portrayals of Mathematicians" (with Carmen M. Latterell, University of Minnesota Duluth, Department of Mathematics and Statistics), in ETC: A Review of General Semantics 58 (2), pp. 172-178. Summer 2001.
"Deviance in Sports" (with David A. Pogue, University of Minnesota Duluth Department of Political Science), in Clifton Bryant, ed., Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, pp. 398-401, 2000.
"Socialization" (with Subhash R. Sonnad, Western Michigan University Department of Sociology), in W. Edward Craighead and Charles B. Nemeroff, eds., The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Third Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 1578-1581, 2000.
"Women in Country Music Videos." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 57(3), pp. 290 - 303. Fall 2000.
"Nostalgic Narratives: An Exploration of Black Nostalgia for the 1950s". Narrative Inquiry 9(2), pp. 303-325. 1999.
"Generation X and the Next Millennium," in Andreea Deciu, Magda Teodorscu, and Virgil Nemoianu, eds., special issue of 20th Century Cultural Journal: America. Bucharest, Romania: 21st Century Foundation Press, pp. 53-63. April 2000.
" 'Remember When...' A Consideration of the Concept of Nostalgia." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 56(3), pp. 296-304. Fall 1999.
"Generation X: Who Are They? What Do They Want?" Thought & Action XIV, pp. 9-18. Fall 1998.
"Lost in the Fifties: A Study of Collected Memories," in Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich, eds., annual edition of The Narrative Study of Lives 5, pp. 147-181. 1997.
"Postmodernism, Nostalgia, and Generation X," Webgeist. http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/wilson.html. May 15, 1996.
"Past or Future? A Re-Formulation of Ortega's Question" (with Gerald E. Markle, Western Michigan University Department of Sociology). ETC: A Review of General Semantics 53(2), pp. 152-169. Summer 1996.
" 'Justify My Ideology': Madonna and Traditional Values" (with Gerald E. Markle, Western Michigan University Department of Sociology). Popular Music and Society 16(2), pp. 75-84. 1992.