Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Michigan State University 1966
  • M.A., Syracuse University 1963
  • B.A., Tunghai University 1960
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor with Tenure, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 2011
  • Director of the Asian and Pacific Studies Institute, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2002
  • Director, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Office of Area Studies and International Studies 1990 - 1998
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • China (Country) 

  • Research

    • China (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining race, class and social capital in devastated neighborhoods awarded by  National Science Foundation 2014 - 2015
  • Wedding Banquets: A Study of a Chinese Institution for Social Capital awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2003 - 2004
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 2000 - 2003
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Participation and Social Capital Creation awarded by  National Science Foundation 2001 - 2002
  • (97-0370) National Resource Center and FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1997 - 2000
  • National Resource Center and FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1997 - 2000
  • The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • (94-0268) Triangle East Asian Studies Consortium awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • (95-0267) Triangle East Asian Studies Center-FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • (96-1053) Triangle East Asian Studies Center FLAS Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • (95-0280) Triangle East Asian Studies Project awarded by Department of Education 1995 - 1997
  • (96-1052) Triangle East Asian Studies Project Deepening Area and Language Studies in an Internationalizing Region awarded by Department of Education 1995 - 1997
  • (90-0651) Stressors, Resources, and Mental Health--A Life Course Study awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1996
  • (93-0404) Stressors, Resources and Mental Health--A Life Course Study awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1992 - 1996
  • (94-0437) Stressors, Resources, and Mental Health - A Life Course Study awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1996
  • (95-0427) Stressors, Resources and Mental Health - A Life Course Study awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1992 - 1996
  • (95-0355) Taiwanese Performing Group Support awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 1994 - 1995
  • (93-0977) Rural Transformation in China awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1993 - 1994
  • (90-0446) Status Attainment in a Chinese Urban Area awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1992
  • (90-0154) Life Events, Social support, and Drinking awarded by National Institutes of Health 1990 - 1992
  • (91-0218) Life Events, Social Support, and Drinking awarded by National Institutes of Health 1990 - 1992
  • (92-0215) Life Events, Social Support and Drinking awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1990 - 1992
  • (91-0021) Family Practices in Chinese Societies awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1990 - 1991
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Ensel, WM, and Lin, N. "Physical Fitness and the Stress Process." Journal of Community Psychology 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 81-101.  Full Text
    • Nan Lin, , and Ma Rong, . "Sociology and Social Development: a Conversation." Sociological Research (China) , no. 4 (2003): 106-113. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "“How the East and the West Shall Meet?”." Development and Society December 31-2 (2002): 211-244. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "ASocial Capital: Contending Paradigms and Empirical Evidence.@." Hong Kong Journal of Sociology , no. 2 (2001): 1-38. (Academic Article)
    • Yen, S, Robins, CJ, and Lin, N. "A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 68, no. 6 (December 2000): 993-999.  Full Text
    • Lin, N. "Inequality in Social Capital." Contemporary Sociology 29, no. 6 (November 2000): 785-785.  Full Text
    • Ensel, WM, and Lin, N. "ADistal Stressors, Proximal Stressors, Social Resources and the Stress Process." Formosa Journal of Mental Health 13, no. 2 (June 2000): 83-108. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, N, Ye, X, and Ensel, WM. "Revisiting Social Support: Integration of Its Dimensions." Formosa Journal of Mental Health 13-2 (June 2000): 37-64. (Academic Article)
    • Ensel, WM, and Lin, N. "Age, the stress process, and physical distress: the role of distal stressors." Journal of Aging and Health 12, no. 2 (May 2000): 139-168.  Full Text
    • Lin, N, Ye, X, and Ensel, WM. "Social support and depressed mood: a structural analysis." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40, no. 4 (December 1999): 344-359.
    • Peek, MK, and Lin, N. "Age differences in the effects of network composition on psychological distress." SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 49, no. 5 (September 1999): 621-636.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lin Nan, . "Building a Network Theory of Social Capital." Connections 22, no. 1 (1999): 28-51. (Academic Article)
    • Lai, G, Lin, N, and Leung, S-Y. "Network Resources and Contact Resources: Structural and Action Effects of Social Resources." Social Networks 20 (1998): 159-178. (Academic Article)
    • Ensel, WM, Peek, MK, Lin, N, and Lai, G. "Stress in the life course: a life history approach." Journal of Aging and Health 8, no. 3 (August 1996): 389-416.  Full Text
    • Ensel, WM, and Lin, N. "Distal stressors and the life stress process." JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 24, no. 1 (January 1996): 66-82.  Link to Item
    • Lin Nan, . "Les Ressources Sociales: Une Theorie Due Capital Social (Social Resources: A Theory of Social Capital." Revue Francaise de Sociologie XXXVI, no. 4 (October 1995): 685-704. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "Local Market Socialism: Rural Reform in China." Theory and Society 24 (1995): 301-354. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Yi, C, Chang, Y, and Tsai, Y. "Sociocultural Regime in Institutional Development: The Family Enterprise of Private Colleges in Taiwan." Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques (Switzerland) Special issue on Chinese Societies at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. XLIX 1 (1995): 173-195. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Lai, G. "Stress in Urban China." Social Science and Medicine 41, no. 8 (1995): 1131-1146. (Academic Article)
    • ENSEL, WM, and LIN, N. "THE LIFE STRESS PARADIGM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS." JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR 32, no. 4 (December 1991): 321-341.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lin Nan, . "Chinese Family Structure and Chinese Society." Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 65 (1989): 59-129. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "Measuring Depressive Symptomatology in China." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 177, no. 3 (1989): 121-131. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Ensel, WM. "Life Stress and Health: Stressors and Resources." American Sociological Review 54 (1989): 382-399. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Xie, W. "Occupational Prestige in Urban China." American Journal of Sociology 93, no. 4 (1988): 793﷓832-null. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "The Sinicization of Sociology." Revue Europeene des Sciences Revue Europeene des Sciences XXV 76 (1987): 127-139. (Academic Article)
    • Pan, , Yunkang, , and Lin, N. "Family Models in Contemporary Urban China." Sociological Studies (Shehuixue Yanjiu), Beijing 3 (1987): 54-67. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Woelfel, M, and Light, SC. "The Buffering Effect of Social Support Subsequent to an Important Life Event." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 26 (1985): 247-263. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Wang, L. "Social Support, Life Events and Depression: Models and Evidence." ." Proceedings for Social Support and Health: New Directions for Theory Development and Research, (1985). (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Dean, A. "Social Support and Depression: A Panel Study." Social Psychiatry 19 (1984): 83-91. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Ensel, WM. "Depression﷓Mobility and Its Social Etiology: The Role of Life Events and Social Support." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 25 (1984): 176-188. (Academic Article)
    • Hingson, , Ralph, W, Norman, S, Thomas, M, Allan, M, Leonard, G, Timothy, H, Nan, L, Marc, M, and Glenn, P. "Impact of Legislation Raising the Legal Drinking Age in Massachusetts from 18 to 20." American Journal of Public Health 73, no. 2 (1983): 163-170. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "Social Resources and Social Actions: A Progress Report." Connections 6, no. 2 (1983): 10-16. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Dean, A, and Ensel, WM. "Social Support Scales: A Methodological Note." Schizophrenia Bulletin 7, no. 1 (1981): 73-89. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Ensel, WM, and Vaughn, JC. "Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment." American Sociological Review 46, no. 4 (1981): 393-405. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Vaughn, JC, and Ensel, WM. "Social Resources and Occupational Status Attainment." Social Forces 59, no. 4 (1981): 1163-1181. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Ensel, WM. "Causal Interpretation of Interaction Effect (Reply to Boyce)." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22, no. 2 (1981): 195-196. (Academic Article)
    • Kuo, , Wen, H, and Nan, L. "Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese﷓Americans." International Journal of Social Psychiatry (1979): 176-187. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Simeone, R, Ensel, W, and Kuo, W. "Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 20, no. 2 (1979): 108-119. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Dayton, P, and Greenwald, P. "Analyzing the Instrumental Uses of Relations in the Context of Social Structure." Sociological Methods and Research 7, no. 2 (1978): 149-166. (Academic Article)
    • Dean, , Alfred, , and Lin, N. "The Stress﷓Buffering Role of Social Support." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 165, no. 6 (1977): 403-417. (Academic Article)
    • Hingson, , Ralph, , Lin, N, and Hingson, RA. "Achieving Higher Immunization Receptivity." Public Health Reviews VI-1 and 2 (1977): 93-117. (Academic Article)
    • Kuo, , Wen, H, and Nan, L. "Assimilation of Chinese﷓Americans in Washington, D.C." Sociological Quarterly 18 (1977): 340﷓352-. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "The McIntire March: A Study of Recruitment and Commitment." Public Opinion Quarterly 38, no. 4 (1975): 562-573. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Burt, RS. "Differential Effects of Information Channels in the Process of Innovation Diffusion." Social Forces 54 (1975): 256-274. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Yauger, D. "Reply to Hansen and Haller." American Journal of Sociology 82, no. 4 (1975): 857-862. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Yauger, D. "The Process of Occupational Status Achievement: A Preliminary Cross﷓national Comparison." American Journal of Sociology 81, no. 3 (1975): 543-562. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "Stratification of the Formal Communication System in American Sociology." The American Sociologist 9 (1974): 199-206. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Hingson, R. "Diffusion of Family Planning Innovations: Theoretical and Practical Issues." Studies in Family Planning 5, no. 6 (1974): 189-195. (Academic Article)
    • Hingson, , Ralph, , and Lin, N. "Communication Participation and Individual Receptivity to Health Innovations." International Journal of Health Education 16, no. 1 (1973): 5-14. (Academic Article)
    • Garvey, , Lin, WDN, Nelson, CE, and Tomita, K. "Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: II. The role of the national meeting in scientific and technical communication." Information Storage and Retrieval 8, no. 4 (1972): 159-169. (Academic Article)
    • Garvey, , William, D, Nan, L, Carnot, EN, and Kazuo, T. "Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: I. General description of research program." Information Storage and Retrieval 8, no. 3 (1972): 111-122. (Academic Article)
    • Garvey, , William, D, Nan, L, and Kazuo, T. "Research Studies in Patterns of Scientific Communication: III. Information﷓exchange processes associated with the production of journal articles." Information Storage and Retrieval 8, no. 5 (1972): 207-221. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "A Comparison Between the Scientific Communication Model and the Mass Communication Model." Professional Communication 15, no. 2 (1972): 34-39. (Academic Article)
    • Garvey, , William, D, Nan, L, and Carnot, EN. "A Comparison of Scientific Communication Behavior of Social and Physical Scientists." International Social Science 23, no. 2 (1971): 256-272. (Academic Article)
    • Lin Nan, . "Information Flow, Influence Flow and the Decision﷓Making Process." Journalism Quarterly 48 (1971): 33-40. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Hingson, R, and Allwood-Paredes, J. "Mass Immunization Campaign in El Salvador, 1969." HSMHA Health Reports 86 (1971): 1112-1121. (Academic Article)
    • Zaltman, , Gerald, , and Lin, N. "On the Nature of Innovations." The American Behavioral Scientist 14, no. 5 (1971): 651-673. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , Garvey, WD, and Nelson, CE. "Publication Fate of Material Presented at an Annual ASA Meeting: Two Years After the Meeting." The American Sociologist 5 (August 1970): 22-25. (Academic Article)
    • Nelson, , Carnot, E, William, DG, and Nan, L. "Scientific Information Exchange Surrounding the 1968 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association." American Educational Research Journal, (March 1970): 169-188. (Academic Article)
    • Garvey, , William, D, Nan, L, and Carnot, EN. "Communication in the Physical and the Social Sciences." Science 170 (1970): 1166-1173. (Academic Article)
    • Hanneman, , Gerhard, J, Carroll, TW, Rogers, EM, Stanfield, JD, and Lin, N. "Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion in a Peasant Village." American Behavioral Scientist 12, no. 6 (1969): 36-45. (Academic Article)
    • Lin, , Nan, , and Nelson, CE. "Bibliographic Reference Pattern in Core Sociological Journals, 1965﷓1966." The American Sociologist 4, no. 1 (1969): 47-50. (Academic Article)

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