Gwynne Nettler
Canadian sociologist, psychologist, and stuntman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gwynne Nettler was a Canadian sociologist, psychologist, and movie stuntman who taught at the University of Alberta from 1963 to 1978. Biography When Nettler was young, he acted as a stuntman in multiple Tarzan films, as well as the original Mutiny on the Bounty film. He was also a talented swimmer, and was on a water polo team. He was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles , Claremont College , and Stanford University . Early in his career, he worked as the senior clinical psychologist at the Nevada State Department of Health, and as an industrial psychologist in Mexico City, Mexico. He began teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1947, and he subsequently became a part-time cat-burglar, so much so that a 1951 Time article described him as a "wonderful burglar specializing in rugs, lamps and other bric-a-brac". He joined the faculty of the University of Alberta in 1963, where he was promoted to full professor in 1966; he remained on the faculty there until he retired in 1978.
Gwynne Nettler's Published Works
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- The crisis in modern social psychology, and how to end it (1990) (205)
- A Measure of Alienation (1957) (181)
- The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. (1943) (47)
- Killing One Another (1982) (37)
- EMBEZZLEMENT WITHOUT PROBLEMS (1974) (35)
- Critique and explanation : essays in honor of Gwynne Nettler (1987) (33)
- Mandate from the people (1945) (31)
- Cruelty, Dignity, and Determinism (1959) (26)
- Sanctions for Evil: Sources of Social Destructiveness (1971) (19)
- The relationship between attitude and information concerning the Japanese in America (1945) (15)
- Political Opinion and Personal Security (1957) (15)
- Older Offenders: Perspectives in Criminology and Criminal Justice (1988) (14)
- Antisocial Sentiment and Criminality (1959) (13)
- Lying, cheating, stealing (1982) (13)
- Test burning in Texas. (1959) (12)
- A Further Comment on "Anomy" (1965) (11)
- Good Men, Bad Men, and the Perception of Reality (1961) (11)
- Social Status and Self-Reported Criminality (1978) (11)
- The Subculture of Violence: Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology. By Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti. London and New York: Tavistock Publications; Barnes & Noble, 1967. 387 pp. Cloth, $11.50; paper, $5.75 (1968) (9)
- The Measurement of Attitudes Toward the Japanese in America (1946) (9)
- World views and crystal balls (1976) (8)
- Social Class and Crime, One More Time (1985) (5)
- Review Essay: On Death and Dying (1967) (4)
- Ideology and Welfare Policy (1958) (4)
- Wanting and Knowing (1973) (4)
- A Test for the Sociology of Knowledge (1945) (4)
- Sociologist as Advocate (1980) (4)
- Construing the world. (1986) (4)
- On being 'mentally healthy'. (1983) (3)
- On Telling Who's Crazy (1974) (3)
- Utopia and Revolution: On the Origins of a Metaphor, or some Illustrations of the Problem of Political Temperament and Intellectual Climate and how Ideals, Ideals, and Ideologies have been Historically Related. (1977) (3)
- The Republic: Conversations on Fundamentals. (1943) (2)
- Shifting the Load (1972) (2)
- Comment on Kukla. (1984) (1)
- Toward a Definition of the Sociologist (1947) (1)
- The Sane Society.Erich Fromm (1956) (1)
- Crime and Criminalization.@@@Critique of Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society. (1975) (1)
- "Free Will and Cruelty": Comment. (1961) (1)
- Homosexuality and Prostitution (1955) (0)
- Letter to the editor. (1972) (0)
- Letters to the editor (0)
- Criminal Careers Volume One: Explaining Criminals (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Race and Rumors of Race. Howard W. Odum (1944) (0)
- Population ethics. (Letter to the editor) (1969) (0)
- Anomie and Deviant Behavior: A Discussion and Critique. Edited by Marshall B. Clinard. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. 324 pp. Appendices (1965) (0)
- Explaining Crime@@@Critique of Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society (1975) (0)
- The Causal Web of Crime@@@Criminal Careers, Vol. 1: Explaining Criminals, Vol. 2: Killing One Another, Vol. 3: Lying, Cheating, Stealing, Vol. 4: Responding to Crime. (1983) (0)
- CRIMINAL VIOLENCE, CRIMINAL JUSTICE (1979) (0)
- The Sociology Major as a Liberal Education: A Curriculum, With Notes on How to Teach It (1958) (0)
- CLASS, CULTURE, AND ALIENATION: A STUDY OF FARMERS AND FARM WORKERS. By William A. Rushing. Lexington: Heath, 1972. 192 pp. $12.50 (1974) (0)
- Research on Social Changes (1964) (0)
- Description without explanation: Treatment without cure. (1977) (0)
- In Defense of "Cruelty, Dignity, and Determinism" (1961) (0)
- A Science of Politics? (1982) (0)
- Population Ethics (1972) (0)
- Class, culture, and alienation : a study of farmers and farm workers (1974) (0)
- Lying, Cheating, Stealing.@@@Responding to Crime. (1984) (0)
- On “rehabilitation” (1984) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (2001) (0)
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (1956) (0)
- The Other Face of Crime: Victims. (1980) (0)
- Critical Reviews of Recent Books (1950) (0)
- Nettler's Scale of Alienated Attitude 1964 (1967) (0)
- A Note on the Notion of a “Scientific Morality” (1950) (0)
- Research on Social Changes (1964) (0)
- Letter to the Editor (1972) (0)
- Class, Culture, and Alienation: A Study of Farmers and Farm Workers. (1974) (0)
- Judgment with Flaccid Taxa. (1982) (0)
- Book Review:People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment. Wendell Johnson (1947) (0)
- Economic Snake Oil - Reply (1975) (0)
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