Steven Goldberg (born 14 October 1941) is a native of New York City and chaired the Department of
Sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...
at the
City College of New York
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(CCNY) from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. He is most widely known for his theory of
patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are primarily held by men. It is used, both as a technical anthropological term for families or clans controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males a ...
, which attempts to explain male domination through biological causes.
Books
* ''
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
''The Inevitability of Patriarchy: Why the Biological Difference Between Men and Women Always Produces Male Domination'' is a book by Steven Goldberg published by William Morrow and Company in 1973. The theory proposed by Goldberg is that soc ...
''. New York:
William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981, and sold to News Corporation
News Corporation (abbrev ...
, 1973.
* ''When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False''. Buffalo, New York: Promethius Books, 1991.
* ''Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance''. Chicago, Illinois:
Open Court Publishing Company
The Open Court Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois. It is part of the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois.
History
Open Court was founded in 1887 by Edward C. Hegeler of the Matthiessen-Hegel ...
, 1993.
* ''Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences''. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2003.
References
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Further reading
* Gale Reference Team. 'Biography - Goldberg, Steven (1941-)'. In ''Contemporary Authors''. Thomson Gale, 2006.
External links
Steven Goldberg on Patriarchy
1941 births
Living people
Writers from New York City
American sociologists
Cultural anthropologists
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
Patriarchy
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