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 social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...
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, which attempts to explain male domination through biological causes.
Books
* ''
The Inevitability of Patriarchy''. New York:
William Morrow and Company, 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, 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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