Steven Brown Goldberg (14 October 1941 – 17 December 2022) was the chair of the Department of Sociology at the

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from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. Goldberg was the son of Israel J. and Claire (''née'' Brown) Goldberg. He grew up in New York City. He joined the

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and served in the

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between 1963 and 1969. He graduated from Ricker College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1965, his M.A. from the

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in 1965/1967–1969, and his PhD (supervised by Charles Winick,

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, 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

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(1986), the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics/

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(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

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, the

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, and the American Biographical Institute, and the first non-medical fellow of the

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. In 2018, he won an Albert Nelson Marquis

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Books

*'' The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Why the Biological Difference Between Men and Women Always Produces Male Domination
'
New York, New York

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1973), 256 Pp.
. * ''When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False'',
Buffalo, New York

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, 1991–1992), 216 Pp., . * ''Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance''
ChicagoLa Salle, and Peru, Illinois

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, 1993), 254+XII Pp., . * ''Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences''
Amherst and New York, New York: Humanity Books, Prometheus Books
2003), 234 Pp., .
''Mathematical Elegance: An Approachable Guide to Understanding Basic Concepts''New BrunswickNew JerseyNew York, New York, London, Abingdon-on-Thames, and Oxford: Transaction Publishers

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, and

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, 2014–2015 and 2017), 123+XVI Pp., .

References

External links

Steven Goldberg: Logical Analysis of Social Questions.

Goldberg, Steven 1941 –

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: 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." {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldberg, Steven Brown 1941 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American anthropologists 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American anthropologists 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American anthropology writers American Ashkenazi Jews American expatriate writers in Canada American sociologists Anthropology educators City College of New York faculty Cultural anthropologists CUNY Graduate Center alumni Educators from New York City Jewish American non-fiction writers Jewish American social scientists Jewish anthropologists Jewish sociologists Male critics of feminism Mathematics writers Mises Institute people Patriarchy Princeton University faculty Ricker College alumni Scientists from New York City Sociology educators United States Marines University of New Brunswick alumni University of Toronto alumni World record holders Writers from New York City

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