Gerhard Lenski
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerhard Emmanuel "Gerry" Lenski, Jr. was an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and introducing the ecological-evolutionary theory. He spent much of his career as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as chair of the Department of Sociology, 1969–72, and as chair of the Division of Social Sciences, 1976-78.
Gerhard Lenski's Published Works
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- Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification (1967) (941)
- The Religious Factor. (1962) (665)
- Status crystallization: A non-vertical dimension of social status (1954) (556)
- Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology (1974) (424)
- Power and Privilege (1966) (409)
- The Religious Factor: A Sociological Study of Religion's Impact on Politics, Economics and Family Life (1977) (235)
- Social participation and status crystallization (1956) (163)
- Caste, Class, and Deference in the Research Interview (1960) (155)
- Status Inconsistency and the Vote: A Four Nation Test (1967) (83)
- Trajectories of Development: A Test of Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (1984) (80)
- Human Societies: A Macrolevel Introduction To Sociology (1971) (78)
- RETHINKING MACROSOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (1988) (76)
- Ecological-Evolutionary Theory: Principles and Applications (2005) (69)
- Social Correlates of Religious Interest (1953) (68)
- The Religious Factor: A Sociologist's Inquiry (1962) (67)
- Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution. (1979) (62)
- American Social Classes: Statistical Strata or Social Groups (1952) (60)
- Technoeconomic Heritage, Patterns of Development, and the Advantage of Backwardness (1985) (38)
- SOCIETAL TAXONOMIES: Mapping the Social Universe (1994) (36)
- Opinion-Making Elites in Yugoslavia. (1975) (33)
- Marxist Experiments in Destratification: An Appraisal (1978) (32)
- History and Social Change (1976) (27)
- The Religious Factor in Detroit: Revisited (1971) (22)
- Rethinking the Introductory Course. (1983) (18)
- Contemporary Europe: Class, Status and Power. (1972) (15)
- Further Notes on Technology and the Moral Order (1976) (14)
- Social transformation and modernization : on building theory of societal changes in the post-communist European countries (1997) (12)
- Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology (1983) (11)
- Social Stratification in the United States (1955) (9)
- Social stratification: A research bibliography (1970) (9)
- Technology, Ideology, and Societal Development (1996) (9)
- IN PRAISE OF MOSCA AND MICHELS (1980) (8)
- Trends in Inter-Generational Occupational Mobility in the United States (1958) (8)
- Positivism's Future: And Sociology's (1991) (7)
- THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM: CAPITALIST AGRICULTURE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN WORLD-ECONOMY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By Immanuel Wallerstein. New York: Academic Press, 1974. 426 pp. $16.50 (1976) (7)
- Religion's Impact on Secular Institutions (1962) (6)
- Trajectories of Development: A Further Test* (1986) (6)
- Religious Pluralism in Theoretical Perspective (1965) (5)
- Sociology, Anthropology, and Study of Human Societies. (1984) (4)
- SOCIOBIOLOGY: THE NEW SYNTHESIS. By Edward O. Wilson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. 697 pp. $20.00 (1976) (3)
- Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology. (1986) (2)
- Probabilism Reasserted: A Reply to Becker (1979) (2)
- Classes, Strata and Power.By Wlodzimierz Wesolowski. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 159 pp. $6.95 (1981) (1)
- The Need for Reader-Access to the Measures of Variables Used in Quantitative Cross-National Studies (1976) (1)
- Human societies : an introduction to macrosociology / Gerhard Lenski, Jean Lenski (1987) (1)
- In Appreciation of Everett K. Wilson's Contribution to Sociology (1981) (1)
- Trajectories of development in Third World societies. (1985) (1)
- Social Evolutionism: A Critical History.By Stephen K. Sanderson. Basil Blackwell, 1990. 251 pp. $39.95 (1992) (1)
- Religion and the Modern Metropolis (1959) (1)
- Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution.By Kenneth E. Boulding. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1978. 367 pp. $15.00 (1979) (0)
- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Norval D. Glenn, Jon P. Alston, and David Weiner. Berkeley: Glendessary Press, 1970. 466 pp (1971) (0)
- Social Transformation and Modernization: On Building Theory of Societal Changes in the Post-European Countries.By Pavel Machonin. Prague: Sociologicke Nakladetelstvi, 1997. 155 pp (1997) (0)
- The American Church of the Protestant Heritage. Edited by Vergilius Ferm (1954) (0)
- An Experiment That Failed (2015) (0)
- Book Review:Sources of Religious Sentiment. Maurice Halbwachs, John A. Spaulding (1963) (0)
- MODES OF SUBSISTENCE (2008) (0)
- Social Stratification: A Research Bibliography. (1971) (0)
- Sociology and Sociobiology (2019) (0)
- Ecological-Evolutionary Theory and Societal Transformation in Post-Communist Europe (1996) (0)
- Aspects of Religion and Patriotism: Some Recent Studies (1963) (0)
- CONSIDERING ONESELF (NON)RELIGIOUS IN EASTERN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES: CORRELATION PATTERNS AMONG RELIGIOSITY DIMENSIONS (2017) (0)
- Essays in Socioeconomic Evolution. By Morris A. Copeland. New York: Vantage Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 184. $10.00 cloth (1982) (0)
- The Dynamics of Distributive Systems (2017) (0)
- Religious Orientation and Involvement 1961 (1999) (0)
- OPINION-MAKING ELITES IN YUGOSLAVIA. Edited by Allen H. Barton, Bogdan Denitch, and Charles Kadushin. New York: Praeger, 1973. 370 pp. $18.50 (1975) (0)
- Hungary in April (1989) (0)
- [The Religious Factor: Looking Forward]: Comment (1965) (0)
- Book Review:Religion and Career: A Study of College Graduates. Andrew M. Greeley (1965) (0)
- CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: CLASS, STATUS AND POWER. Edited by Margaret Scotford Archer and Salvador Giner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972. 407 pp. $11.95 (1973) (0)
- Power and Distributive Systems (2019) (0)
- People of Coal Town.Herman R. Lantz , J. S. McCraryMillways of Kent.John Kenneth MorlandSmall Town in Mass Society: Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community.Arthur J. Vidich , Joseph Bensman (1959) (0)
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