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Claude S. Fischer

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Claude S. Fischer's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Claude Serge Fischer is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology, research methods, and American society at UC Berkeley. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2017.

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Claude S. Fischer's Published Works

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Published Works

"Urbanism as a Way of Life" (1972) (2124)
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 (1993) (945)
Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations (2002) (665)
Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism (1975) (631)
Networks and places: social relations in the urban setting (1977) (560)
A Procedure for Surveying Personal Networks (1978) (503)
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. (1997) (342)
The Subcultural Theory of Urbanism: A Twentieth-Year Assessment (1995) (302)
The Urban Experience. (1976) (287)
What Do We Mean by 'Friend'? An Inductive Study* (1982) (276)
Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000 (2004) (263)
A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle (1983) (261)
Explaining why more americans have no religious preference: Political backlash and generational succession, 1987-2012 (2014) (197)
Networks and Places (1977) (188)
The 2004 GSS Finding of Shrunken Social Networks: An Artifact? (2009) (184)
Bowling Alone: What's the Score? (2005) (160)
On urban alienations and anomie: powerlessness and social isolation. (1973) (151)
Negotiating the division of a reward under incomplete information (1967) (134)
National differences in network density: Israel and the United States (1995) (129)
Ever‐More Rooted Americans (2002) (117)
City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. (1980) (117)
"Hello, Central?" Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems (1992) (99)
The Public and Private Worlds of City Live. (1981) (98)
Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There? (2018) (96)
Is America Fragmenting (2009) (96)
Inequality by Design (2020) (93)
Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character (2010) (87)
"Touch Someone": The Telephone Industry Discovers Sociability (1988) (77)
Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (2006) (77)
Urban-to-Rural Diffusion of Opinions in Contemporary America (1978) (75)
The Study of Urban Community and Personality (1975) (74)
What wealth-happiness paradox? A short note on the American case (2008) (71)
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method. By Mike Savage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii+282. $39.95. (2011) (71)
Changes in support networks in late middle age: the extension of gender and educational differences. (2015) (68)
Kin and Nonkin under Collective Threat: Israeli Networks during the Gulf War (1994) (66)
Crowding Studies and Urban Life: A Critical Review (1975) (62)
Who is dropped and why? Methodological and substantive accounts for network loss (2020) (54)
Still Connected: Family and Friends in America Since 1970 (2011) (54)
CULTURE IN ACTION : SYMBOLS AND (1986) (50)
The Unbounded Community: Neighborhood Life and Social Structure in New York City, 1830-1875. (1993) (47)
Mode and Interviewer Effects in Egocentric Network Research (2019) (47)
The Effect of Urban Life on Traditional Values (1975) (44)
Alienation: trying to bridge the chasm. (1976) (37)
Telephone and Automobile Diffusion in the United States, 1902-1937 (1988) (36)
Paradoxes of American Individualism (2008) (33)
An inductive typology of egocentric networks (2016) (32)
Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life by Diane Zimmerman Umble (1998) (31)
A Research Note on Urbanism and Tolerance (1971) (30)
Of Modernity and Public Sociology: Reflections on a Career So Far (2020) (30)
The Revolution in Rural Telephony, 1900 – 1920 (1987) (27)
From the Executive Editor (2004) (26)
Secularization by any other name (2003) (26)
The City and Political Psychology (1975) (24)
Gender and the residential telephone, 1890–1940: Technologies of sociability (1988) (23)
The Effect of Threats in an Incomplete Information Game (1969) (22)
Technology and Community: Historical Complexities* (1997) (19)
The Dispersion of Kinship Ties in Modern Society: Contemporary Data and Historical Speculation (1982) (19)
Changes in Leisure Activities, 1890–1940 (1994) (19)
Technology’s Retreat: The Decline of Rural Telephony in The United States, 1920-1940 (1987) (17)
Attachment to Place (2021) (15)
Suburbs, Networks, and Attitudes (1976) (15)
Human aggression and conflict : interdisciplinary perspectives (1975) (14)
Decisionmaking by Third Parties in Settling Disputes1 (1973) (13)
The Urban Experience Second Edition (1984) (11)
Theories of Urbanism (2012) (11)
The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life (2014) (10)
Historical Sociology and Sociological History: Theory and Practice (1995) (9)
SUBURBAN LIFE Powerlessness and Need for Affiliation (1975) (8)
The Relevance of Crowding Experiments to Urban Studies (1977) (7)
O Be Some Other Name (2003) (7)
The Family in Trouble? Since When? For Whom? (2005) (7)
Showing that Neighborhoods Matter (2013) (7)
Electrifying Speeches: Emotional Control and the Technological Aesthetic of the Voice in the Early 20th Century US (2011) (7)
The Myth of "Territoriality" in Van Den Berghe's "Bringing Beasts Back In" (1975) (5)
Explaining the Rise of Americans With No Religious Preference : Politics and Generations * (2001) (5)
Calling on Kin: The Place of Parents and Adult Children in Egocentric Networks (2018) (5)
How new is "New"? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks? (2022) (5)
Lurching Toward Happiness in America (2014) (4)
Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U . S . Metropolitan Segregation , 1960-2000 by (2002) (4)
The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877–1920. By Kenneth Lipartito. Introduction by Louis Galambos (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xvi plus 283 pp. $29.50) (1992) (3)
Compared to what? (2010) (2)
Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies (2022) (2)
The Time Bind and God's Time (2000) (2)
Widespread likings. (1994) (2)
Life course transitions and changes in network ties among younger and older adults. (2022) (2)
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth@@@Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve (1999) (2)
Oh, Be Some Other Name: Reply to Marwell and Demerath (2003) (2)
Comment on Mayhew and Levinger's "Size and the Density of Interaction in Human Aggregates" (1977) (2)
Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighbourhood@@@To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City (1985) (2)
Roundtable Discussion: Considering the "Magical" Wolrd of Consumption (2005) (1)
Book Review:Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Elijah Anderson (1991) (1)
A second opinion: diagnosis and prescription of the American case. (2019) (1)
Many Thanks to our Reviewers for 2010 (2011) (1)
Solving Collective Irrationality (1981) (1)
From technical networks to social networks., an interview with Claude S. Fischer (1992) (1)
Understanding technology: an agenda: the social construction of technological systems. (1987) (1)
The Urban Threshold: Growth and Change in a Nineteenth-Century Community.Stuart M. Blumin (1978) (1)
Comment on "Anxiety": Compensation in Social History (1999) (1)
Conspiracy or Consumer Choice? (2009) (1)
Response to Nielsen's Review of Inequality by Design (1998) (1)
On Tucker and Friedman's "Population Density and Group Size" (1973) (1)
Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America (review) (2002) (1)
Letter from the Editor (2002) (0)
Volume Information (1974) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
The Logic of Social Research (review) (2009) (0)
The Telephone Takes Command (2018) (0)
Robert Wuthnow: Inventing American Religion (2016) (0)
From the Northern California Community Study, 1977–1978, to the University of California, Berkeley, Social Networks Project, 2015–2020 (2021) (0)
A New Genre: Contra-Bell Curve@@@Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth@@@The Assault on Equality (1997) (0)
Overall and Immediate Social Support Scales (2018) (0)
Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change (review) (2009) (0)
A modern necessity. (1991) (0)
Living in a Chosen Land: America (2015) (0)
Social Science and the Public After Mumford (2001) (0)
In Search of the Plot: American Social History in the 1990s@@@Encyclopedia of American Social History. (1994) (0)
A Nation of Strangers.Vance Packard (1973) (0)
Comment (2007) (0)
Social Facts versus Social Realities in the New Millennium (2011) (0)
Book Review:Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Social Systems Approach. Ralph E. Anderson, Irl E. Carter (1975) (0)
3. American Society (2014) (0)
DIFFERENCES AMONG AMERICANS IN LIVING STANDARDS ACROSS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2002) (0)
The Logic of Social Research By Arthur L. Stinchcombe University of Chicago Press. 2005. 344 pages. $54 cloth, $22 paper (2009) (0)
Forms of Group Involvement: Alternatives to the Standard Question (2021) (0)
Robert MacDougall, The people's network: the political economy of the telephone in the gilded age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 344. 11 figs. ISBN 9780812245691 Hbk. £36/$55) (2015) (0)
Distinct aspects of human connection associated with subjective well-being (2022) (0)
Reviewer Acknowledgements (2009) (0)
Comment (2007) (0)
Unchurched Believers: Fewer Americans Have a Religion But Religious Beliefs Haven't Changed Much (2009) (0)
Happy Days are Here Again!@@@Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. (1997) (0)
Works Title An inductive typology of egocentric networks (2016) (0)
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (review) (2011) (0)
Fischer Politics , and Daily Life The Great Indian Phone Book : How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business (2014) (0)
The comparability of national networks: lessons from the history of the American telephone network (1993) (0)
State and Labour Unions in Greece, 1936-90 (1997) (0)
Holding a Mirror to Americans: The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public by Sarah E. Igo Harvard University Press, 2007, 398 pages (2009) (0)
Volume Information (1979) (0)
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America. By David E. Nye (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. x plus 292 pp. $27.95) (2011) (0)
Chapter 2: Inequality by Design (2000) (0)
Fischer Politics , and Daily Life The Great Indian Phone Book : How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business (2014) (0)
Buying in City and Country: The Role of Personal Connections (2011) (0)
Doctors house calls: how a hospital operates this new program. (1984) (0)
Book Review:Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. Richard D. Brown (1990) (0)
Robert Wuthnow: Inventing American Religion (2017) (0)
Uncommon Values, Diversity, and Conflict in City Life (2021) (0)

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Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth