Daniel Menchik
- Associate Professor, Sociology
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-3531
- Social Sciences, Rm. 400
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- mench@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Sociology
- University of Chicago
- M.Phil. Sociology
- University of Cambridge
- B.A. Political Science
- University of Wisconsin -- Madison
- JBA Journalism
- University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Work Experience
- Michigan State University (2019 - 2020)
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (2013 - 2019)
Awards
- UA Vertically Integrated Project Seed Fund for New Teams
- Fall 2023
- Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience Program
- UA, Spring 2021
- Outstanding Dissertation Award
- American Sociological Association, Fall 2013
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Health and Society
CHS 303 (Spring 2025) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Spring 2025) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
CHS 410 (Spring 2025) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
SOC 410 (Spring 2025) -
Field & Observ Methods
SOC 576 (Fall 2024) -
Health and Society
CHS 303 (Fall 2024) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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CHS in the Wild
CHS 403 (Spring 2024) -
CHS in the Wild
SOC 403 (Spring 2024) -
Health and Society
CHS 303 (Spring 2024) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Spring 2024) -
Health and Society
CHS 303 (Fall 2023) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Fall 2023) -
Preceptorship
CHS 391 (Fall 2023) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
CHS 410 (Fall 2023) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
SOC 410 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Adv Topics in Research
SOC 596A (Fall 2022) -
Honors Independent Study
SOC 399H (Fall 2022) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
CHS 410 (Fall 2022) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
SOC 410 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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CHS in the Wild
CHS 403 (Spring 2022) -
CHS in the Wild
SOC 403 (Spring 2022) -
Health and Society
CHS 303 (Spring 2022) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Spring 2022) -
Health and Society
CHS 303 (Fall 2021) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Fall 2021) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
CHS 410 (Fall 2021) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
SOC 410 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Health and Society
CHS 303 (Spring 2021) -
Health and Society
SOC 303 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
SOC 499 (Spring 2021) -
Independent Study
SOC 699 (Spring 2021) -
Sociological Theory
SOC 500A (Fall 2020) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
CHS 410 (Fall 2020) -
The Hospital: A Small Society
SOC 410 (Fall 2020)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Menchik, D., & Menchik, D. (2021). Managing Medical Authority. Princeton University Press.
Journals/Publications
- Menchik, D. A. (2022). Automating Expert Labor in Medicine: What Are the Questions?. American Behavioral Scientist, 000276422211272. doi:10.1177/00027642221127248
- Menchik, D., & Lehpamer, N. (2022). Learning to See Like a Medical Sociologist: Comparing One- Versus Two-Semester Fieldwork-Based Courses. Teaching Sociology, 51(1), 41-56. doi:10.1177/0092055x221104837
- Menchik, D. A. (2021). Authority Beyond Institutions: The Expert's Multivocal Process of Gaining and Sustaining Authoritativeness. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 1--28.
- Menchik, D. A. (2020). Moving from Adoption to Use: Physicians' Mixed Commitments in Deciding to Use Robotic Technologies. Work and Occupations, 47(3), 314--347.
- Menchik, D. A. (2019). Tethered Venues: Discerning Distant Influences on a Fieldsite. Sociological Methods & Research, 48(4), 850--876.
- Menchik, D. A. (2017). Interdependent Career Types and Divergent Standpoints on the use of Advanced Technology in Medicine. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 58(4), 488--502.
- Tian, X., & Menchik, D. A. (2016). On Violating One’s Own Privacy: N-adic Utterances and Inadvertent Disclosures in Online Venues. Studies in Media and Communications, 11, 3--31.
- Menchik, D. A. (2014). Decisions about Knowledge in Medical Practice: The Effect of Temporal Features of a Task. American Journal of Sociology, 120(3), 701--749.
- Menchik, D. A. (2014). Simmel's Dynamic Social Medicine: New Questions for Studying Medical Institutions?. Social Science & Medicine, 107, 100--104.
- Menchik, D. A., & Jin, L. (2014). When do Doctors Follow Patients’ Orders? Organizational Mechanisms of Physician Influence. Social Science Research, 48, 171--184.
- Menchik, D. A. (2010). The Social Life of the Clinical Trial. Qualitative Sociology, 33(4), 591--593.
- Menchik, D. A., & Meltzer, D. O. (2010). The Cultivation of Esteem and Retrieval of Scientific Knowledge in Physician Networks. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(2), 137--152.
- Menchik, D. A., & Tian, X. (2008). Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction. American Journal of Sociology, 114(2), 332--370.
- Menchik*, D. A. (2004). Placing Cybereducation in the UK Classroom. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25(2), 193--213.
