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Zelda F. Gamson

Sociology

#1597

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#1807

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#583

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Zelda F. Gamson'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, Zelda Gamson is an American sociologist, writer and activist. Her scholarly work has primarily focused on the sociology of higher education, in particular innovation and change. Personal life and education Born Zelda Finkelstein in Philadelphia, Gamson is the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. She attended public schools in Philadelphia, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Antioch College before completing her undergraduate degree at University of Michigan in 1958. She received a Master's Degree in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1959 and a PhD from the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University in 1965. She was married to the late William A. Gamson. They had two children, Jennifer and Joshua .

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Zelda F. Gamson's Published Works

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Academic Workplace: New Demands, Heightened Tensions (1984) (156)
The High-status track : studies of elite schools and stratification (1991) (119)
Collaborative Learning Comes of Age. (1994) (90)
Academic Workplace: New Demands, Heightened Tensions. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Research Report No. 10, 1983. (1983) (89)
A New Case for the Liberal Arts. Assessing Institutional Goals and Student Development. (1983) (79)
Disciplinary Adaptations to Research Culture in Comprehensive Institutions (2017) (61)
Why Innovation Fails: The Institutionalization and Termination of Innovation in Higher Education. (1982) (47)
Utilitarian and Normative Orientations Toward Education (1966) (46)
Revitalizing general education in a time of scarcity : a navigational chart for administrators and faculty (1997) (38)
Higher Education & Rebuilding Civic Life (1997) (33)
SELECTION 16 – Performance and Personalism in Student-Faculty Relations* (1967) (31)
Faculty and Faculty Issues in Colleges and Universities (1996) (27)
Academic Values And Mass Education (1975) (23)
The Stratification of the Academy (1997) (22)
Black Students on White Campuses: The Impact of Increased Black Enrollments. (1979) (22)
Academic values and mass education : the early years of Oakland and Monteith (1972) (21)
Sexual Equality: The Israeli Kibbutz Tests the Theories. (1985) (17)
Higher Education and the Real World: The Story of Cael (1989) (13)
On Competence: A Critical Analysis of Competence-Based Reforms (1981) (12)
Educational Administration and Policy Making: The Case of Israel. (1983) (12)
Organizational responses to the labor market (1994) (11)
Educating managers : executive effectiveness through liberal learning (1987) (10)
The kibbutz and higher education: Cultures in collision? (1975) (9)
The University in Engagement with Society. (1998) (8)
The “over-educated” Kibbutz: Shifting relations between social reproduction and individual development on the Kibbutz (1982) (6)
Symbolism and survival in developing organizations: Regional colleges in Israel [1] (1983) (5)
Academic Janus: The Private College and Its Faculty. (1973) (5)
Organizational Responses to Members (1968) (5)
Why is College So Influential (1991) (4)
Five Takes on “PC,” Diversity, and Community (1991) (4)
Commitment on Campus: Changes in Religion and Values over Five Decades. (1977) (4)
Stages in the Response of White Colleges and Universities to Black Students (1980) (4)
Assessing Faculty Shortages in Comprehensive Universities (1990) (4)
An Academic Counter-Revolution: The Roots of the Current Movement to Reform Undergraduate Education (1987) (3)
Research: Experimental College Grades: Getting Theirs (1977) (3)
The Academy and the Public Realm (1999) (3)
The Hired Learning in America@@@On Competence: A Critical Analysis of Competence-Based Reforms in Higher Education. (1982) (2)
Evaluation as a Developmental Process: The Case of Liberal Education (2017) (2)
Books: The college Experience (1993) (2)
Experimental College Grads: Getting Theirs. (1977) (2)
A Little Light on the Subject: Keeping General and Liberal Education Alive. (1982) (2)
Assessing Faculty Shortages in Comprehensive Colleges and Universities (1990) (2)
The New Vitality in Undergraduate Teaching. (1982) (1)
Is a Career Part of Life? Preparing Graduate Students for Today's Job Market. (1979) (1)
Having the Courage of Your Criticism: A Response to Rau and Baker (1989) (1)
The Distinctive College: Antioch, Reed and Swarthmore.@@@Academic Values and Mass Education: The Early Years of Oakland and Monteith. (1972) (1)
Group Process and Organizational Environment: Student Organizations in the University (1974) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1994): Reduce Student Costs and Enhancing Student Learning: The Challenge of the 1990's (1994) (0)
Notes on Higher Education in the 1990s (1994) (0)
The Relations Between Student Organizations and the Wider University. Final Report. (1972) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Fall 1989): The Roots of Faculty Dissatisfaction (1989) (0)
Implementing General Education: Initial Findings (1990) (0)
Book reviews (1972) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1995): Today's College Students: Myths and Realities (1992) (0)
After the Revolution Comes the Educational Testing Service: Notes on Higher Education in China 1978. (1979) (0)
Book Review (1997) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Fall/Winter 1991): Windmills & General Education Reform (1991) (0)
Community and Autonomy: What We Must Protect in the Academy (2015) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1990): Notes on Teaching Pluralism (1990) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Fall/Winter 1990): Faculty Shortages: Are They Here? What Can We Do About Them? (1990) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1992): Of Petals and Purposes: The Keene State College Reorganization of Student Affairs (1992) (0)
Structure and Emergence. Proceedings of an Institute on Innovations in Undergraduate Education. (1976) (0)
Improving Postsecondary Education@@@The First Year of College Teaching.@@@Liberating Education.@@@Mastering the Techniques of Teaching.@@@Changing Practices in Faculty Evaluation. (1986) (0)
The Academic Workplace (Spring/Summer 1991): Stalking the People's Schools: The Roots and Harvest of the Comprehensive Sector (1991) (0)
College and the Kibbutz (1973) (0)
From Predisposition to Reassessment: Stages in the Responses of Colleges and Universities to Increased Black Enrollment. (1980) (0)
Liberal Education Varieties. (1980) (0)
Book Review:The Struggle Is the Message: The Organization and Ideology of the Anti-War Movement. Irving Louis Horowitz (1972) (0)
New College. Program Review. State University System of Florida. (1997) (0)

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