John C. Pock
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
AB 1947 University of Chicago.
MA 1952, PhD 1956 University of Illinois.
91ÁÔÆæ 1955-98.
Dr. Pock was a member of the Department of Sociology for 43 years, teaching courses and conducting research in general social science, social demography, stratification & class, organizational analysis, and quantitative methods in history. He also taught or gave lectures at the University of Illinois, the Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Irvine, and the Naval War College. He has held office and was active on committees in several professional organizations, including the American Sociological Association, the PacificSociological Association, the Population Association of America, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and the Society for the History of Technology. He served as editor of Sociological Perspectives, the official journal of the Pacific Sociological Association and was given the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association. His legacy at Reed was recognized by some of his many former students who honored him with a festschrif t consisting of a collection of their research, entitled Social Differentiation and Social Inequality edited by James N. Baron, David B. Grusky, and Donald J. Treiman (Westview Press, 1996).
Professor Pock's non-academic work has largely focused on program evaluation and organizational studies. These included evaluation and training research at the Oregon State Hospital; the pediatric residency training program at Oregon Health Sciences University; program evaluation for the Office of Economic Opportunity's VISTA, Community Action, and Model Cities projects, and for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. In the private sector, he has worked as a consultant in the advertising, polling, and marketing research industry and on work organization and management issues for domestic and international companies engaged in heavy construction and metal fabrication.
Professor Pock was also deeply interested in methodological problems involved in the study of poverty and in measuring the consequences of welfare reform.
Professor John Pock passed away on February 18, 2012. He indicated that he did not want any public announcements, obituaries or memorial services after his passing. It is difficult to honor such wishes to the letter, given how many lives he touched. He will be greatly missed.