Ira Reiss
American sexologist
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Ira Reiss's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ira Leonard Reiss is a sociologist with primary interests in studying the way society impacts sexual attitudes and behaviors and how people respond to those pressures. He also has interests in the study of gender and family, particularly as they relate to sexuality. He attended Syracuse University for his B.S. degree and the Pennsylvania State University for his M. A. and Ph. D. degrees. His major area in graduate school was sociology and his minor areas were cultural anthropology and philosophy. His doctoral course work in sociology and philosophy was done at Columbia University and his French and German language study was taken at Yale University.
Ira Reiss's Published Works
Published Works
- Sexual Preference: Its Development in Men and Women (1982) (591)
- The social context of premarital sexual permissiveness (1968) (428)
- Premarital Sexual Standards In America (1960) (204)
- The Scaling of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness (1964) (151)
- The Continuum complete international encyclopedia of sexuality (2004) (118)
- Family systems in America (1977) (117)
- Evaluating strategies to avoid AIDS: number of partners vs. use of condoms. (1989) (112)
- The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (1997) (100)
- A Sociological Perspective (2016) (98)
- Family: Organization and Interaction. (1965) (91)
- Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. (1971) (79)
- A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness. (1980) (73)
- Journey into Sexuality: An Exploratory Voyage (1986) (69)
- Toward a Sociology of the Heterosexual Love Relationship (1960) (69)
- An End to Shame: Shaping Our Next Sexual Revolution (1990) (68)
- A sociological journey into sexuality. (1986) (64)
- Some Observations on Ideology and Sexuality in America (1981) (63)
- Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Among Negroes and Whites (1964) (57)
- Social Class and Campus Dating (1965) (52)
- Premarital sex as deviant behavior: an application of current approaches to deviance. (1970) (49)
- The family system in America (1972) (45)
- The Double Standard in Premarital Sexual Intercourse: A Nelected Concept (1956) (43)
- The Universality of the Family: A Conceptual Analysis (1965) (42)
- Social class and premarital sexual permissiveness: a re-examination. (1965) (39)
- The Sexual Renaissance: A Summary and Analysis (1966) (29)
- Trouble in paradise: The current status of sexual science (1982) (26)
- Sexual behaviour of young people. (1997) (25)
- Solving America's Sexual Crises (1997) (23)
- An Insider's View of Sexual Science since Kinsey (2006) (22)
- The Mosher Survey: Sexual Attitudes of 45 Victorian Women (1982) (22)
- The Social Context of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness. (1969) (19)
- Premarital Sexual Standards in America; A Sociological Investigation of the Relative Social and Cultural Integration of American Sexual Standards (1960) (17)
- Sociological aspects of homosexuality : a comparative study of three types of homosexuals (1966) (17)
- The scaling of premarital sexual permissiveness revisited: test results of Reiss's new short form version. (1995) (16)
- Sexual Codes in Teen-Age Culture (1961) (16)
- Nymphomania: A Study of the Oversexed Woman (1965) (15)
- Sexual Attitudes and Behavior (2001) (13)
- The Future of Sex Research and the Meaning of Science (1993) (11)
- Evaluating sexual science: problems and prospects. (2012) (10)
- Exploring the Relation of Values, Power, and Advocacy in American Sexual Science (2014) (7)
- Response to the Heltsley and Broderick Retest of Reiss's Proposition One (1969) (6)
- Contemporary Theories About the Family: General Theories/Theoretical Orientations, Vol. 2 (1981) (6)
- Readings on the family system (1972) (5)
- Contraceptive Information and Sexual Morality (1966) (5)
- Kinship in an Urban Setting. By Bert N. Adams. Chicago: Markham Publishing Company, 1968. 228 pp. Cloth, $6.00; paper, $2.95 (1968) (4)
- Consistency and Sexual Ethics (1962) (4)
- THE TREATMENT OF PRE-MARITAL COITUS IN "MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY" TEXTS* (1957) (4)
- Comments on Middendorp's "The Determinants of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness" (1970) (3)
- Reiss Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale (2010) (3)
- Contemporary Theories about the Family: Research-Based Theories. Vol. 1.@@@Contemporary Theories about the Family: General Theories/Theoretical Orientations. Vol. 2. (1980) (3)
- Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson (1989) (3)
- Four Marriage and Family Texts: A Brief (But Telling) Array@@@The Changing Family: Comparative Perspectives.@@@Marriages and Families: Making Choices throughout the Life Cycle.@@@Family Systems in America.@@@Men, Women, and Change: A Sociology of Marriage and Family. (1982) (3)
- The American Family: Current Perspectives. (1981) (3)
- Reiss Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale (Short Form) (2010) (3)
- Informal Observations on Sex Trends and Sex Research (1971) (2)
- Out of Sexuality: A Sociologist's Journal@@@Journey into Sexuality: An Exploratory Voyage. (1987) (2)
- Family Theory--20 Years Later@@@Contemporary Theories about the Family, Volume 1: Research-Based Theories. (1980) (2)
- Macro Theory in Sexual Science (2015) (2)
- The Autobiography of a Sex Researcher (2001) (2)
- Paradise regained? A reply to Moser (1983) (1)
- At the Dawn of the Sexual Revolution: Reflections on a Dialogue (2002) (1)
- A Social-Psychology of Human Sexuality. (1978) (1)
- Sociology and Human Sexuality (1981) (1)
- Contemporary Theories about the Family: Research-Based Theories@@@Contemporary Theories about the Family: General Theories/Theoretical Orientations (1980) (1)
- Feminism and Family Planning in Victorian England. By J. A. and Olive Banks. Edited by T. S. Simey. New York: Schocken Books, 1965. 154 pp. $4.50 (1966) (1)
- In memory of Floyd Martinson (2000) (1)
- The Future of the Family Examined. (1978) (0)
- The Operational Approach: Just How New is It? (1982) (0)
- In Memory of Albert Ellis (1913–2007) (2008) (0)
- A Sociological Perspective (2015) (0)
- Reiss Comments on Selbyg's Review of Zetterberg (1971) (0)
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (1967) (0)
- Sex and the College Student (1966) (0)
- Comments on "Permarital Sexual Permissiveness" (1974) (0)
- BECOMING AN UNWED MOTHER: A SOCIOLOGICAL ACCOUNT. By Prudence Mors Rains. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1971. 208 pp. $6.95 (1972) (0)
- Correction: Premarital Contraceptive Usage (1976) (0)
- Response to Tiefer 's A "Commentary on the Status of Sex Research" (2008) (0)
- Letter to the editor (2000) (0)
- Comment on Davidson and Leslie's Article "Premarital Sexual Intercourse: An Application of Axiomatic Theory Construction" (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Theory Construction and the Sociology of the Family. Wesley Burr (1975) (0)
- Letter to the editor (1992) (0)
- How & why America’s sex standards are changing (1968) (0)
- A Need for Integration and Explanation@@@American Couples: Money, Work, and Sex. (1984) (0)
- Reply to Ira Reiss' letter: no revolution here. Response to Tiefer's commentary on the status of sex research' (1992) (0)
- Hayes, "Item Order and Guttman Scales" (1965) (0)
- A Need for Integration and Explanation (2016) (0)
- Book reviews (1996) (0)
- Book reviews (1981) (0)
- ON THE WEB AT THE KINSEY IN STI TUTE (2006) (0)
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