William R. Catton Jr.

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Sociology

#1851

World Rank

#2075

Historical Rank

#631

USA Rank

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William R. Catton Jr.'s Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, William Robert Catton, Jr. was an American sociologist known for his scholarly work in environmental sociology and human ecology. More broadly, Catton is known for his 1980 book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, which is credited by younger generations of environmental scholars and activists as foundational for their own works.

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William R. Catton Jr.'s Published Works

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A New Ecological Paradigm for Post-Exuberant Sociology (1980) (551)
Overshoot. The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. (1980) (426)
Struggling with human exemptionalism: The rise, decline and revitalization of environmental sociology (1994) (300)
Ecological Beliefs and Behaviors: Assessment and Change (1985) (119)
What Environmental Sociologists Have in Common (whether Concerned with “Built” or “Natural” Environments)* (1983) (96)
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. (1982) (90)
A Typology of Outdoor Recreation Activity Preferences (1971) (70)
Can the Mail-Back Bias Contribute to a Study's Validity? (1959) (54)
Foundations of Human Ecology (1994) (51)
Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation (1977) (50)
A Theory of Value (1959) (48)
A Comparison of Mathematical Models for the Effect of Residential Propinquity on Mate Selection (1964) (36)
From Animistic to Naturalistic Sociology (1968) (33)
Exploring Techniques for Measuring Human Values (1954) (32)
The World's Most Polymorphic Species (1987) (25)
Exergy analysis of an isothermal heat pump dryer (2011) (25)
The Acquaintance Process.Theodore M. Newcomb (1962) (25)
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE DOES A RELIGIOUS CULT ATTRACT (1957) (24)
The Functions and Dysfunctions of Ethnocentrism: A Theory (1960) (21)
Sociology in an Age of Fifth Wheels (1972) (18)
Carrying Capacity and the Death of a Culture: A Tale of Two Autopsies* (1993) (14)
Intervening Opportunities: Barriers or Stepping Stones? (1965) (12)
Unstated Goals as a Source of Stress in an Organization (1962) (11)
Social and Behavioral Aspects of the Carrying Capacity of Natural Environments (1983) (10)
The United States and the United Nations: The Public View 1945-1955. (1959) (10)
Need for a New Paradigm (1983) (10)
Performance assessment of contact heat pump drying (2011) (9)
Emile Who and the Division of What? (1985) (9)
A Retest of the Measurability of Certain Human Values (1956) (9)
Choosing which danger to risk (1989) (8)
Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design, Vol. 1. (1988) (8)
Homo colossus and the technological turn‐around (1986) (8)
A Retrospective View of My Development as an Environmental Sociologist (2008) (8)
The Wildland Recreation Boom and Sociology (1971) (7)
Family “Divorce Heritage” and its Intergenerational Transmission (1988) (7)
The Relation of Apparent Minority Ethnocentrism to Majority Antipathy (1962) (7)
Changing Cognitive Structure as a Basis for the “Sleeper Effect” (1960) (5)
Constructive Typology and Social Theory. By John C. McKinney. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966. 250 pp. $5.00 (1968) (4)
Intervening Opportunities and National Park Visitation Rates (1964) (4)
Probable Collective Responses to Ecological Scarcity (1984) (4)
Commentary: Can Irrupting Man Remain Human? (1976) (4)
Dynamic carbon caps. Splitting the bill: A fairer solution post-Kyoto? (2009) (4)
Environmental Optimism: Cargo Cults in Modern Society (1975) (4)
Problems of Interpretation in Clinical Sociology (1963) (3)
The Galapagos Expedition: Failure in the Pursuit of a Contemporary Secular Utopia (1964) (3)
Toward Prevention of Obsolescence in Sociology (1976) (3)
The Limits of Determinacy in Attitude Measurement (1957) (3)
Understanding Humanity’s Damaged Future (2009) (3)
Sociology in the 1970s (1971) (2)
Values in America. Edited by Donald N. Barrett. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961. 182 pp. $4.50 (1962) (2)
Extensional Orientation and the Energy Problem (1973) (2)
The Gaia atlas of planet management: for today's caretakers of tomorrow's world: N. Myers (general ed.), 272 pp., 1985, Pan, London, £9.95 (1986) (2)
Sociologists Between Two Cultures (1964) (1)
Flaws in the Structure and Functioning of Functional Analysis (1967) (1)
Otto Larsen's Grand View of Social Science* (1992) (1)
Conceptual sociology : a manual of exercises relating concepts to specimens, principles, and definitions (1962) (1)
Forest Recreation Propositional Inventory. (1971) (1)
What if Malthus were Writing Today? (1998) (1)
Analysis of the Energy Efficiency Gain Obtainable by Incorporating Indirect Heat Transfer Into Heat Pump Drying Technology (2010) (0)
Is There a Strain toward Consistency in American Culture? (1958) (0)
Is Sociology a Remorseless Pursuit of What Everyone Knew All Along (1961) (0)
Types of Formalization in Small-Group Research. By Joseph Berger, Bernard P. Cohen, J. Laurie Snell, and Morris Zelditch, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. 159 pp. $4.50 (1963) (0)
Economics of Energy Research (1976) (0)
Human Ecology and Social Policy (2019) (0)
Intellectuals in Labor Unions. By Harold L. Wilensky. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1956. 336 pp. $6.00 (1958) (0)
Numerical study of heat pump contact drying (2011) (0)
The ethics of environmental concern: R. Attfield, 220 pp., 1983, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £17.50 hb (1987) (0)
Book Review:Selectivity, Intuition and Halo Effects in Social Perception. Ragnar Rommetveit (1962) (0)
Sociology's Neglect of Ecological Context (2012) (0)
LEONARD W. DOOB. Patterning of Time. Pp. xiv, 472. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1971. $15.00 (1973) (0)
DAYDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: A SOCIOLOGICAL ESSAY ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT. By William R. Burch, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 175 pp. $3.95 (1972) (0)
A new ecological paradigm for a sociology of post-abundance (2017) (0)
Book Review:Income-Security Values at Different Levels of Frustration. Yrjo Littunen (1962) (0)
Measuring Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors (2021) (0)
Who Else If Not the Sociologist: Rejoinder to Bedggood (1972) (0)
What's in a Name? A Study of Role Inertia* (1969) (0)
TABLE 9. INFLUENCE OF THE CLIMATE OF OPINION ON THE NON-PROFESSIONAL ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGIST, IN PERCENTAGES * (2017) (0)

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