Jasso

Guillermina Jasso

Professor of Sociology, Silver Professor of Arts and Science

Education

Ph.D. 1974 (Sociology), Johns Hopkins University.

Areas of Research/Interest

Basic sociobehavioral theory; distributive justice; status; international migration; inequality and stratification; probability distributions; mathematical methods for theoretical analysis; factorial survey methods for empirical analysis.

Selected Publications:

  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2022.  “On the Essential Unity of Mathematics, Science, and Art: The Justice Evaluation Function and the Golden Number.”  Pp. 57-84 in Nima Rezaei (ed.), Transdisciplinarity.  Integrated Science, Vol 5.  Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2022.  “Notes on the History of Social Science Research: In Celebration of Its 50th Anniversary.”  Social Science Research 108:102780.
  • Jasso, Guillermina, and Bernd Wegener.  2022.  “An Empirically Based Just Linear Income Tax System.”  Journal of Mathematical Sociology 46(2):195-225. 
  • Adriaans, Jule, Stefan Liebig, Clara Sabbagh, and Guillermina Jasso.  2021.  "What's in a Word? Just vs. Fair vs. Appropriate Earnings for Self and Others."  Social Justice Research 34(4):397-427.
  • Jasso, Guillermina. 2021. “The Methods and Surprises of Sociological Theory: Ideas, Postulates, Predictions, Distributions, Unification.” Pp. 17-36 in Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo (eds.), Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Jasso, Guillermina, and Moshe Semyonov.  2021.  Immigration in the Global Era: Migrants and the People and Laws at Origin and Destination.  Immigration in the Global Era: Migrants and the People and Laws at Origin and Destination | Frontiers Research Topic (frontiersin.org) . [Downloadable ePub collection of 17 articles plus introduction] 
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2021.  “Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality.”  Sociological Methods and Research 50(3):944-1005.
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2021.  “Analyzing Migration Restriction Regimes.”  Frontiers in Sociology 6:610432. 
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2021.  “Inequality and Justice.”  Pp. 209-243 in Seth Abrutyn and Kevin McCaffree (eds.), Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation.  New York, NY:  Routledge.
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2021.  “New Results Linking Inequality and Justice.”  Journal of Mathematical Sociology 45(1):1-21.
  • Jasso, Guillermina, and Mark R. Rosenzweig.  2020.  “What is the Size and Legal Composition of the US Foreign-Born Population?”  International Migration Review 54(3):640-673.   Includes Supplemental Material.
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2020.  “Anything Lorenz Curves Can Do, Top Shares Can Do: Assessing the TopBot Family of Inequality Measures.”  Sociological Methods and Research 49(4):947-981.
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2020.  “Is and Ought: From Ideas to Theory to Empirics.”  Pp. 105-127 in Alexander Max Bauer and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (eds.), Empirical Research and Normative Theory.  Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter. 
  • Jasso, Guillermina, Robert Shelly, and Murray Webster.  2019.  “How Impartial Are the Observers of Justice Theory?”  Social Science Research 79:226-246. 
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2018.  “What Can You and I Do To Reduce Inequality?”  Journal of Mathematical Sociology 42(4):186-204.
  • Jasso, Guillermina.  2017.  "Inequality in the Distribution of a Good Is a Bad, and Inequality in the Distribution of a Bad Is a Good."  European Sociological Review 33(4):604-614.
  • Jasso, Guillermina, Kjell Y. Törnblom, and Clara Sabbagh. 2016. "Distributive Justice." In Clara Sabbagh and Manfred Schmitt (eds.), Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research. New York, NY: Springer.

Books:

The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States (with M. R. Rosenzweig), 1990.