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John Lofland

Sociology

#429

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#530

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#194

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John Lofland 's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, John Franklin Lofland is an American sociologist best known for his studies of the peace movement and for his first book, Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith, which was based on field work among a group of Unification Church members in California in the 1960s. It is considered to be one of the most important and widely cited studies of the process of religious conversion, and one of the first modern sociological studies of a new religious movement.

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John Lofland 's Published Works

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Analyzing Social Settings (1971) (1637)
The Handbook of Ethnography (2004) (1092)
Becoming a world-saver: a theory of conversion to a deviant perspective. (1965) (772)
Deviance and Identity (1971) (264)
ANALYTIC ETHNOGRAPHY (1995) (213)
Doing social life: The qualitative study of human interaction in natural settings (1977) (191)
Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities (1996) (163)
Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith (1966) (100)
"Becoming a World-Saver" Revisited (1977) (99)
Protest: Studies of Collective Behaviour and Social Movements (1985) (62)
Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s (1993) (50)
Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements. (1986) (42)
Early Goffman: Style, Structure, Substance, Soul (1980) (40)
"Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade (1979) (38)
Initial Interaction of Newcomers in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Field Experiment in Class Symbols and Socialization (1960) (31)
Theory-bashing and answer-improving in the study of social movements (1993) (30)
Crowd Joys (1982) (28)
Erving Goffman's Sociological Legacies (1984) (24)
An Ethnography of a Chiropractic Clinic: Definitions of a Deviant Situation. (1976) (19)
Social Movement Locals: Modal Member Structures* (1984) (18)
The Youth Ghetto: A Perspective on the “Cities of Youth” around Our Large Universities (1968) (17)
Bearing Bad News (1976) (16)
NOTES ON NATURALISM IN SOCIOLOGY (1967) (14)
Reply to Davis (1961) (14)
Open and Concealed Dramaturgic Strategies (1975) (12)
Interaction in everyday life : social strategies (1981) (9)
Students' Case Studies of Social Movements: Experiences with an Undergraduate Seminar. (1996) (9)
Symbolic Sit-Ins: Protest Occupations at the California Capitol (1982) (9)
THE SOAR AND SLUMP OF POLITE PROTEST: Interactive Spirals and the Eighties Peace Surge (1992) (7)
The Nature of Conversion: A Study of Forty-Five Men and Women Who Changed Their Religion (1968) (6)
State executions, viewed historically and sociologically (1977) (6)
Reflections on a Thrice-Named Journal (1987) (5)
Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s. (1995) (5)
Peace action in the eighties : social science perspectives (1991) (4)
Graduate Fieldwork in Sociology at UC, Davis (1983) (4)
Ethnography Lost and Found: Qualitative Methodology Between Science, Art, and Social Powers (2002) (4)
Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. (1979) (4)
State Executions Viewed Historically and Sociologically: The Hangmen of England and the Dramaturgy of State Executions (1977) (2)
SYSTEMATIZING RESEARCH FINDINGS ON COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (1997) (2)
No Water in My Cup: Experiences and a Controlled Study of Psychotherapy of Delinquent Girls (1968) (2)
Sociologists as an Interest Group (1981) (1)
Understanding Religious Conversion, by Lewis R. Rambo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, xx + 240 pp. $25 (1994) (1)
Collective Behavior: The Elementary Forms (2017) (1)
Role Management: A Programmatic Statement (1967) (1)
Book Review:The American Enlisted Man: The Rank and File in Today's Military. Charles C. Moskos, Jr. (1971) (0)
White-Hot Mobilization: Strategies of a Millenarian Movement (1979) (2017) (0)
Social Theory and Comparative History Emeriti Faculty Social Theory and Comparative History Sociology the Major Programs Preparatory Subject Matter ..............28-30 Sociology 1; Choose One Course From: 2 or 3; Courses in Sociology (soc) Lower Division (0)
The New Segregation: A Perspective on Age Categories and Social Conflict (1967) (0)
Book Review:Zapotec Deviance: The Convergence of Folk and Modern Sociology. Henry A. Selby (1975) (0)
A Guide to Oualitative Observation and Analysis Third Edition (2014) (0)
Situational Man: Notes on Emphases in the Analysis of Action (1967) (0)
Peace Movement Organizations and Activists in the U.S.: An Analytic Bibliography (1991) (0)
Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s. By John Lofland. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993. xvi, 321 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-2604-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8156-2605-3.) (1995) (0)
Book review (2004) (0)
The Larger Challenge (1980) (0)
SECT IDEOLOGIES AND SOCIAL STATUS. By Gary Schwartz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. 260 pp. $9.00 (1972) (0)
Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Group@@@Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission@@@Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith (1979) (0)
Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze.@@@Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s. (1994) (0)
How to Make Out in Graduate School: One Observer's View (1971) (0)
Social Science Fieldworkers' Conference at the University of California (1983) (0)
Book Review: Appearances and Realities: Misunderstanding in Human Relations (1971) (0)
Mankind United (1970) (2017) (0)
Step Three: : Asking Questions (2017) (0)

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Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith