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Print book : English View all editions and formats. Families -- United States. View all subjects. User lists Similar Items. Home About Help Search. Goode wrote 20 books and was best known for his pioneering work World Revolution and Family Patterns.
The book, which included data from more than 50 countries over a half-century period, analyzed the impact of families on societies. Thirty years later, Goode published a cultural analysis of divorce, World Changes in Divorce Patterns , which laid out the conceptual basis for analyzing and predicting patterns of divorce.
It revealed anomalous patterns in some societies, said his wife, Lenore J. Weitzman, the Clarence J. Goode Award, a prize for the best book on family sociology that was first established in Goode's honor in According to Inkeles, Goode also took a keen interest in general sociological theory, on the development of which he wrote several insightful essays. Goode's book The Celebration of Heroes , of which he was proudest, focused on the subtleties of social forces involved in the production and distribution of prestige, honor and respect, Weitzman said.
Sociology Professor Emeritus Morris Zelditch, a lifelong friend and colleague, said Goode was a major contributor to social exchange theory, which was used to explain power exchange phenomena. Goode was born in Houston in Encouraged by his high school debating coach, future President Lyndon B. Johnson, Goode entered Rice Institute when he was just After being expelled for wearing tennis shorts to class, Goode completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, in and He was studying for his doctorate in sociology at Pennsylvania State University when he enlisted in the Navy as a radarman in He moved to Columbia University in and chaired the sociology department several times during the s and s.
According to Weitzman, during his years at Columbia, Goode was an early supporter of the nascent women's movement and was a mentor to his lifelong friend, Betty Friedan, while she was writing The Feminine Mystique. Unlike many male professors of his generation, she added, Goode encouraged and promoted the careers of his female graduate students.
In , Goode joined the faculty at Stanford, where he taught for nine years. In , he retired and joined the Department of Sociology at Harvard.
In , Goode received an honorary appointment at George Mason University.
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