Daniel Foss

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Daniel A. Foss

Born July 26, 1940
Bronx, New York
Citizenship Flag of the United States United States
Nationality American
Fields Sociology
Institutions California Institute for the Arts
Livingston College
Rutgers University
Alma mater Cornell University, B.A.
Brandeis University, M.A., Ph.D.
Known for Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (1986)
Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics (1972)

Daniel A. Foss (born July 26, 1940) is an American sociologist and database researcher. He is the author of Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics (1972) and Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (1986).[1][2] He was born in the Bronx, New York, on July 26, 1940, and received his bachelor's degree in Sociology from Cornell University. Foss went on to study at Brandeis University, where he earned his master's degree in 1962, and his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1969. His book Freak Culture is an abridged version of his Ph.D. dissertation. After receiving his doctoral degree, Foss taught at the School for Critical Studies at the California Institute for the Arts, at Livingston College, and at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. Foss later took coursework at Syracuse University in the field of data processing, and has worked as a database manager and computer programmer for government and academic researchers.[2]

Foss met fellow fellow sociologist Ralph W. Larkin when they were both teaching Sociology at Rutgers University.[2] They have frequently partnered in research on the study of social movements.[2][3][4] The book Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements was co-authored with Larkin.[2] Foss and Larkin have also jointly published research in sociology journals, including a piece on the white middle class youth movement of the 1960s and its relationship to later movements such as the Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, Swami Muktananda and the Revolutionary Youth Movement in Theory and Society.[3] They later wrote a more focused article dealing with Guru Maharaj Ji and his followers, which was published in Sociological Analysis, and a piece dealing with the vocabulary utilized in these social movements, in Social Text.[4][5] Foss and Larkin's research has later been cited by books on both the 1960s subculture, and on movements of social change such as the Hippie movement and other forms of counterculture and subculture.[6][7][8][9]

Contents

[edit] Published works

[edit] Books

  • Foss, Daniel A.; Ralph Larkin (March 31, 1986). Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (Critical Perspectives in Social Theory). Bergin & Garvey, 192. ISBN 0897890779. 
  • Foss, Daniel A. (1972). Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics. Dutton, 218. ISBN 0525530045. 

[edit] Articles

  • Satin, Maurice S.; Bertrand G. Winsberg, M.D.; Charlotte H. Monetti, B.A.; Jeffrey Sverd, M.D.; Daniel A. Foss, Ph.D. (November 1985). "A General Population Screen for Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 24 (6): 756–764. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 
  • Larkin, Ralph; Daniel Foss (Spring - Summer, 1984). "Lexicon of Folk-Etymology". Social Text 9/10 (The 60's without Apology): 360–377. doi:10.2307/466589. 
  • Foss, Daniel A.; Ralph W. Larkin (1979). "The Roar of the Lemming: Youth Postmovement Groups, and the Life Construction Crisis". Sociological Inquiry 49: 264–85. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 
  • Larkin, Ralph W.; Daniel A. Foss (Summer, 1978). "Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji". Sociological Analysis 39 (2): 157–164. doi:10.2307/3710215. 
  • Larkin, Ralph W.; Daniel A. Foss (March 1976). "From “the gates of Eden” to “day of the locust”". Theory and Society 3 (1): 45–64. ISSN 0304-2421. doi:10.1007/BF00158479. 

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Foss, Daniel A. (1972). Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics. Dutton, 218. ISBN 0525530045. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Foss, Daniel A.; Ralph Larkin (March 31, 1986). Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (Critical Perspectives in Social Theory). Bergin & Garvey, 192. ISBN 0897890779. 
  3. ^ a b Larkin, Ralph W.; Daniel A. Foss (March 1976). "From "the gates of Eden" to "day of the locust"". Theory and Society 3 (1): 45–64. ISSN 0304-2421. doi:10.1007/BF00158479. 
  4. ^ a b Larkin, Ralph W.; Daniel A. Foss (Summer, 1978). "Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji". Sociological Analysis 39 (2): 157–164. doi:10.2307/3710215. 
  5. ^ Larkin, Ralph; Daniel Foss (Spring-Summer, 1984). "Lexicon of Folk-Etymology". Social Text 9/10: The 60's without Apology, 360–377. doi:10.2307/466589. 
  6. ^ Grunenberg, Christoph; Jonathan Harris (2005). Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s. Liverpool University Press, Page 35. ISBN 0853239290. 
  7. ^ Jordan, Tim; Steve Pile (2002). Social Change. Blackwell Publishing, Page 358. ISBN 0631233121. 
  8. ^ McKay, George (1996). Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties. Vero, Pages 4, 12-13, 82, 187, 197. ISBN 1859849083. 
  9. ^ Falk, Ursula A.; Gerhard Falk (2005). Youth Culture and the Generation Gap. Algora Publishing, Page 188. ISBN 0875863698. 

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