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Robert E Freeland serves as Assistant Professor and Curriculum Coordinator in the Department of Sociology at Appalachian State University's College of Arts and Sciences, joining the faculty in 2022.
His educational credentials include:
- BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- MA in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- PhD in Sociology from Duke University
Dr. Freeland's research examines how subjective societal constructs like status, identity, and cultural meanings perpetuate gender, racial, and class inequalities through social stratification and social psychology frameworks. His methodology emphasizes quantitative analysis of occupational meanings, including pandemic-induced shifts in worker perceptions, workplace emotion dynamics, and gender composition biases in occupations. Current projects investigate how occupational identities evolve and influence social hierarchies.
His publication portfolio reveals a cohesive focus on occupational sociology, with recent articles analyzing prestige perceptions in law enforcement, gender composition estimates, pandemic impacts on occupational identities, and health consequences of occupational status. These works consistently apply quantitative social psychology approaches to uncover how cultural meanings reinforce structural inequalities through workplace dynamics.
