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St. Cloud State University

St. Cloud State University

Sociology ProgramDepartment of Sociaology and Anthropology
Sociology Program

Sociology Faculty: Jiping Zuo

Zuo, Jiping

Professor of Sociology

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Email: jzuo@stcloudstate.edu

Phone: 320-308-2136

Teaching Responsibilities

She specializes in sociology of family. Her main teaching responsibilities include various family courses, research methods and social statistics.

Research Work

Her research interests include marital/gender equality, work and family relations, and China’s socialist transition. Her most recent work focuses on the social construction of work and family roles by Chinese women in the post-Mao era. This is a collaborative project with Women’s Studies Institute of China, funded by the National Science Foundation (2005-2007) and the Fund for Advanced Development (FAD), through the American Sociological Association.

Selected Major Publications

Rethinking Family Patriarchy and Women’s Positions in pre-socialist China, forthcoming in Journal of Marriage and Family (2009).

Marital Construction of Family Power among Male Out-migrant Couples in A Chinese Village: A Relation-Oriented Exchange Model. Journal of Family Issues, 29, 663-691, 2008.

Shifting the breadwinning boundary: The role of men’s breadwinner status and their ideologies toward family roles. Journal of Family Issues, 25, 811-832, 2004.

Feminization of agriculture, relational exchange, and perceived fairness of marital division of labor in China: A case in Guangxi Province. Rural Sociology, 69, 510-531, 2004.

From revolutionary comrades to gendered partners: Marital construction of breadwinning in urban China. Journal of Family Issues 24: 314-337, 2003.

Gendered resources, division of housework, and perceived fairness: A case in urban China.  (Jiping Zuo & Yanjie Bian) Journal of Marriage and Family  63,1122-1133, 2001.

The reciprocal relationship between marital interaction and marital happiness: A three-wave study. Journal of Marriage and the Family 54, 870-878.

Below are the courses that Professor Zuo currently offers:

  • Soc277: Dating, Intimate Relations and the Family
  • Soc304: Introduction to Social Statistics
  • Soc472/572: Sociology of The Family
  • Soc474/574: Culture and the family
  • Soc462/562: Gender, Work and Family relations
  • Soc462/562: China and Globalization  
  • Soc684: Sociology of Social Responsibility
  • Soc679: Advanced Research Methods