Russell Schutt

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 24
Telephone: 617-287-6253
Email: russell.schutt@umb.edu
Personal Website

Research
Relationship between individuals and the social environment, with a particular focus on people with housing, medical and/or legal problems, on the organizations that respond to their needs, and on the role of service preferences and social processes in influencing their outcome

Teaching
Research methods and statistics, complex organizations, sociology of law, foundations of applied sociology

Selected Books
Schutt, Russell K. 2006. Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, 5th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, an imprint of Sage Publications.

Schutt, Russell K. and Gerald R. Garrett. 1992. Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. New York: Plenum.

Schutt, Russell K. 1986. Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees. Albany: SUNY Press.

Selected Articles
Schutt, Russell K., Larry J. Seidman, Brina Caplan, Anna Martsinkiv, and Stephen M. Goldfinger. 2007. “The Role of Neurocognition and Social Context in Predicting Community Functioning among Formerly Homeless Seriously Mentally Ill Persons.” Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33:1388-1396.

Schutt, Russell K., Robert E. Rosenheck, Walter E. Penk, Charles E. Drebing, and Catherine Leda Seibyl. 2005. “The Social Environment of Transitional Work and Residence Programs: Influences on Health and Functioning.” Evaluation and Program Planning, 28:291-300.

Schutt, Russell K. and S. M. Goldfinger. 2000. “The Contingent Rationality of Housing Preferences: Homeless Mentally Ill Persons’ Housing Choices Before and After Housing Experience.” Research in Community and Mental Health, 11:131-156.