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Sociology academic and author (1941–2022)
Steven Brown Goldberg (14 October 1941 – 17 December 2022)
[1] was the chair of the Department of Sociology at the
City College of New York from 1988 until his retirement in 2008.
Goldberg is the son of Israel J. and Claire (née Brown) Goldberg. He grew up in New York City. He joined the
American Sociological Association and served in the
United States Marine Corps between 1963 and 1969. He graduated from
Ricker College with a bachelor of arts in 1965, his M.A. from the
University of New Brunswick /
University of Toronto in 1965/1967–1969, and his PhD (supervised by
Charles Winick ,
Edward Sagarin , and
Michael Eric Levin ) from the
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York in 1977–1978.
He was long-listed in
The Guinness Book of World Records for having been rejected sixty-nine times by fifty-five different publishers.
He and has taught at City College of New York since 1970. He is most widely known for his theory of patriarchy, which explains male domination through biological causes, and was also a guest lecturer at
Marlboro College (1986), the
Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics /
Princeton University (1991), and the
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal /
Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (1992), listed in publications by
Gale Research , the
International Biographical Centre , and the
American Biographical Institute , and the first non-medical fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association /
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology . In 2018, he won an Albert Nelson Marquis
Lifetime Achievement Award .
Books
The Inevitability of Patriarchy :
Why the Biological Difference Between Men and Women Always Produces Male Domination (
New York, New York :
William Morrow and Company ,
1973), 256 Pp. ,
ISBN
9780688001759 .
When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False , (
Buffalo, New York :
Prometheus Books , 1991–1992), 216 Pp.,
ISBN
9780879757113 .
Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance (
Chicago ,
La Salle, and Peru, Illinois :
Open Court Publishing Company , 1993), 254+XII Pp.,
ISBN
9780812692365 .
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences (
Amherst and New York, New York: Humanity Books, Prometheus Books 2003), 234 Pp.,
ISBN
9781591020042 .
Mathematical Elegance: An Approachable Guide to Understanding Basic Concepts (
New Brunswick ,
New Jersey ,
New York, New York, London, Abingdon-on-Thames, and Oxford: Transaction Publishers ,
Routledge ,
Taylor and Francis , and
Informa , 2014–2015 and 2017), 123+XVI Pp.,
ISBN
9781412855136 .
References
Further reading
Hakim, Catherine (2004). "Key Issues in Women's Work: Female Diversity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment" . Contemporary Issues in Public Policy (Second ed.). London, King’s Lynn, Abingdon-on-Thames, Sydney and Cooge, New South Wales, New York, New York, and Portland, Oregon: Glass House Press, Cavendish Publishing, International Specialized Book Services, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Informa,
Athlone
Press , Biddles Book Printing, "Journal of Social Policy,"
Cambridge University Press , "Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities,"
Ashgate Publishing ,
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development , "Employment Outlook 2002," "
European Sociological Review ,"
Oxford University Press , "
Journal of Historical Sociology ,"
Wiley-Blackwell , Brian George McArthur Main, and Institute for Employment Research,
University of Warwick .
ISBN
9781904385165 .
258
+
XII
Pp.
External links
"
Steven Goldberg: Logical Analysis of Social Questions. "
"
Goldberg, Steven 1941 –
Contemporary Authors : New Revision Series, Volume 148, Electronic Resource, Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields."
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