Victor G. Nee (born 1945) is an American sociologist and professor at Cornell University, known for his work in economic sociology, inequality and immigration.
He published a book with Richard Alba entitled Remaking the American Mainstream proposing a neo-assimilation theory to explain the assimilation of post-1965 immigrant minorities and the second generation.
Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University.
Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York ( 1994–1995), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1996-1997).
As a graduate student in Sociology, he wrote with his wife Brett de Bary (daughter of Sinologist Wm.
[4] In 2012, he was Global Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University, Abu Dhabi.
[4] Nee's research interests focus on middle range theories and their confirmation in economic sociology, new institutionalism, inequality and immigration.
This and subsequent articles further an understanding of how norms and networks, and formal institutional elements combine and recombine to shape organizational action and economic performance.
The book compares the late European and new immigration from Latin America and Asia to the United States.
"Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and Mixed Economy" (with Jimy M. Sanders and Scott Sernau).
"Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Forms, Property Rights, and Mixed Economy in China."