Charles Kadushin
Distinguished Scholar, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Visiting Research Professor Sociology Brandeis University
email: kadushin@brandeis.edu
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Focus of Research Networks, Sociology of Religion, Survey Research and the Combination of Sociological Theory and Methods. Education Ph.D., Columbia University 1960 A.B., Columbia College 1953 |
Charles Kadushin is Professor Emeritus Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY and Distinguished Scholar, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Professor, Sociology, Brandeis University. He has also taught at Columbia University in the Sociology and Social Psychology Departments and at Yale University in the School of Management and in Graduate Sociology.
He is one of the founders of the social network field and is currently at work on a book on social network theory for the non-mathematically inclined. He has conducted many large survey research projects including elite studies and a congressionally mandated study of the adjustment of Vietnam Veterans, a topic that unfortunately is all too current. Currently his work with the Cohen Center includes surveys of Jewish populations and evaluation studies including studies of birthright Israel. A firm believer in combining qualitative and field work, most of his studies include qualitative and quantitative data and analyses.
Books
2005 The American Intellectual Elite. Sumerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers [Republication of the 1974 edition with a new introduction]. Full text search
1986 The Vietnam Veteran Redefined: Fact & Fiction. Edited with Ghislaine Boulanger. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
1982 Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing. New York: Basic Books [1985 University of Chicago Press, paperback] (with Lewis A. Coser and Walter W. Powell).
1973 Opinion-Making Elites in Yugoslavia. New York: Praeger (with Allen Barton and Bogdan Denitch).
1969 Why People Go To Psychiatrists. New York: Atherton Press. [Republished by Transaction Publishers, 2006]. Full text search.
Recent Journal Articles
2006 Personal Influence: A radical theory of action. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608, November, 270-281.
2006 Charles Kadushin and Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz. Informal social networks and formal organizational memberships among American Jews: Findings from the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01. Sociology of Religion. 67, 465-485.
2006 Charles Kadushin, Peter D. Killworth, H.Russell Bernard and Andrew A. Beveridge. Scale-Up Methods as Applied to Estimates of Heroin Use. Journal of Drug Issues. 36, 2, 417-439.
2005 Charles Kadushin, Benjamin Phillips, and Leonard Saxe.National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01: A Guide for the Perplexed. Contemporary Jewry. 25, 1-32.
2005 Networks and Small Groups. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 5.
2005 Charles Kadushin Matthew Lindholm, Dan Ryan , Archie Brodsky and Leonard Saxe. Why it is so difficult to form effective community coalitions. City & Community 4:3, 255-275.
2005 Review Essay on Linton C. Freeman. The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science, Journal of Social Structure, 6
2005 Who benefits from network analysis: ethics of social network research. Social Networks, 27, 2, 139-153.
2004 Matthew Lindholm, Dan Ryan, Charles Kadushin, Leonard Saxe, Archie Brodsky. Fighting back against substance abuse: The structure and function of community coalitions. Human Organization. Vol. 63, No.3: 265-276.
2004 Too Much Investment in Social Capital? Social Networks, 26, 75-90.