
FARRER James
Professor
Sociology
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research and Teaching Interests:
My research focuses on urban life in Shanghai and Tokyo, including cuisine, nightlife, migrant communities, and urban sexual cultures. In teaching sociology at Sophia, my emphasis is developing students’ hands-on skills in qualitative research, encouraging them to use original data to write about social phenomenon while incorporating insights from previous sociological research.
Email: j-farrer[at]sophia.ac.jp
Website: http://sophia.academia.edu/JamesFarrer
Tel: 03-3238-4066
Office: 10-503
Selected Publications
Books
- James Farrer and Andrew David Field. 2015.Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- James Farrer (ed.). 2015.Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- James Farrer. 2002.Opening Up: Youth sex culture and market reform in Shanghai.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Journal Articles
- *James Farrer and Anna Greenspan. 2015. “Raising Cosmopolitans: Expatriate Families Navigating Shanghai's Local Schools” Global Networks 15(2): 141–160.
- *James Farrer. 2014. “China Wants You: The Social Construction of Skilled Labor in Three Transnational Fields”Asian and Pacific Migration 23(4): 397-420.
- James Farrer. 2014.“Foreigner Street: Urban Citizenship in Multicultural Shanghai” in Nam-Kook Kim ed. Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia.London: Ashgate, 17-43.
- James Farrer. 2014.“Love, Sex and Commitment: Delinking Premarital Intimacy from Marriage in Urban China” in Deborah Davis and Sara Friedman eds. Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 62-96.
- James Farrer. 2014. “Imported Culinary Heritage: the Case of Localized Western Cuisine in Shanghai”in Sidney Cheung ed. Rethinking Asian Food Heritage. Taipei: The Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture, 75-104.
- James Farrer. 2013.“Good Stories: Chinese Women's International Love Stories as Collective Sexual Story Making”Sexualities 16(1/2): 12-29.
- James Farrer. 2011.“Global Nightscapes in Shanghai as Ethnosexual Contact Zones” The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Volume 37, Issue 5, pp. 747-764.
- James Farrer. 2010.“New Shanghailanders or New Shanghainese? narratives of emplacement of western expatriate settlers in Shanghai” The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Volume 36, Issue 8 (June), pp. 1211 - 1228
- James Farrer. 2010.“A foreign adventurer’s paradise? Interracial sexuality and alien sexual capital in reform era Shanghai”Sexualities. Volume 13, Issue 1 (Feb.), pp. 69-95.
COURSES
Courses No | Title | 2018 Semester Offered |
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SOC210
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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL THEORY
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Autumn
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SOC310
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SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
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Not Offered
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SOC316
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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
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Spring
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SOC439 | SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER |
Autumn
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