Stanley Lieberson

{{Short description|American sociologist (1933–2018)}}

Stanley Lieberson (April 20, 1933 – March 19, 2018) was an American sociologist.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lieberson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School before attending Brooklyn College. Lieberson completed graduate study at the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Washington from 1967 to 1971, then joined Harvard University as the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Research Professor of Sociology. Over the course of his career, Lieberson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, named a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society,{{cite news |title=American Philosophical Society Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Stanley+Lieberson&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=January 10, 2025 |publisher=American Philosophical Society}} granted fellowship to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served the American Sociological Association as its president. He died on March 19, 2018. Volume 49 of the journal Sociological Methodology, published in 2019, was dedicated to Lieberson.

Selected books

  • {{cite book |last1=Lieberson |first1=Stanley |title=A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change |date=2000 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300083859}} Reviews of A Matter of Taste include:
  • {{cite journal |last1=Goldthorpe |first1=John H. |title=Stanley Lieberson: A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions and Culture Change. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. 334 + xvi pp. £20.00 cloth. ISBN 0–300–08385. |journal=European Sociological Review |date=June 1, 2002 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=251–252 |doi=10.1093/esr/18.2.251}}
  • {{cite journal |title=Stanley Lieberson: A matter of taste. How names, fashions, and culture change New Haven und London: Yale University Press 2000. 334 Seiten. ISBN 0-300-08385. Preis: $ 29,90 |journal=Koelner Z.Soziol.u.Soz.Psychol |date=September 2002 |volume=54 |pages=581–582 |doi=10.1007/s11577-002-0076-z}}
  • {{cite book |author2-link=Mary C. Waters |last1=Lieberson |first1=Stanley |last2=Waters |first2=Mary C. |title=From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America |date=1988 |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn=9780871545435}} Reviews of ''From Many Strands include:
  • {{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Margo |title=Lieberson and Waters, "From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America" (Book Review) |journal=Social Science Quarterly |date=March 1990 |volume=71 |issue=1|id={{ProQuest|1291646429}}}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Model |first1=Suzanne |title=Reviewed Work: From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America by Stanley Lieberson, Mary C. Waters |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |date=1990–1991 |volume=10 |issue=1–2 |pages=115–117 |jstor=27500813}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Richmond |first1=Anthony H. |title=From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America. Stanley Lieberson , Mary C. Waters |journal=American Journal of Sociology |date=September 1989 |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=474–475 |jstor=2780919 |doi=10.1086/229288}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Reitz |first1=Jeffrey G. |title=From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America.By Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters. Russell Sage Foundation. 304 pp. $29.95 Get access Arrow |journal=Social Forces |date=June 1990 |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=1349–1350 |doi=10.1093/sf/68.4.1349}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Gregg |first1=Robert S. |title=Book Review: From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America |journal=International Migration Review |date=September 1989 |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=726–727 |doi=10.1177/019791838902300317 |jstor=2546437}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Light |first1=Ivan |title=From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America.By Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters. Russell Sage Foundation. 289 pp. $29.95 |journal=Social Forces |date=March 1990 |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=992–993 |doi=10.1093/sf/68.3.992 |jstor=2579406}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Lieberson |first1=Stanley |title=Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory |date=1985 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520053502}} Reviews of Making It Count include:
  • {{cite journal |last1=Arminger |first1=Gerhard |last2=Bohrnstedt |first2=George W. |title=Making It Count Even More: A Review and Critique of Stanley Lieberson's Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Theory and Research |journal=Sociological Methodology |date=1987 |volume=17 |pages=363–372 |doi=10.2307/271038 |jstor=271038}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Daniel Scott |title=Stanley Lieberson . Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xiv, 257. $19.95 |journal=American Historical Review |date=June 1987 |volume=92 |issue=3 |page=635 |doi=10.1086/ahr/92.3.635}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Lieberson |first1=Stanley |title=A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880 |date=1980 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520041233 |url=https://archive.org/details/pieceofpieblacks0000lieb}} Reviews of A Piece of the Pie include:
  • {{cite journal |last1=Weber |first1=Michael P. |title=A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880. By Stanley Lieberson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981, xiii, 433 pp. $34.50, $11.50 paper) |journal=Journal of Social History |date=1982 |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=143–145 |doi=10.1353/jsh/16.1.143}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Endo |first1=Russell |title=Book Review: A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants since 1880 |journal=International Migration Review |date=June 1983 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=350–351 |doi=10.1177/019791838301700215}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Goldscheider |first1=Calvin |title=A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880.By Stanley Lieberson. Berkeley: University of California Press. 419 pp. $11.50 Get access Arrow |journal=Social Forces |date=December 1982 |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=613–615 |doi=10.1093/sf/61.2.613}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Bodnar |first1=John |title=A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants since 1880. By Stanley Lieberson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980, xiii + 419 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and indexes. Cloth, $34.50; paper, $11.50.) |journal=Journal of American History |date=December 1982 |volume=69 |issue=3 |doi=10.2307/1903188|jstor=1903188 }}
  • {{cite book |last1=Lieberson |first1=Stanley |title=Language and Ethnic Relations in Canada |date=1970 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |isbn=9780471534211}} Reviews of Language and Ethnic Relations in Canada include:
  • {{cite journal |last1=Brazeau |first1=Jacques |title=Stanley Lieberson, Language and ethnic relations in Canada. New York: John Wiley, 1970. Pp. 264. |journal=Language and Society |date=October 1972 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=296–297 |doi=10.1017/S0047404500000634}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Brazeau |first1=Jacques |title=LANGUAGE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS IN CANADA. By Stanley Lieberson. New York: Wiley, 1970. 264 pp. $10.95 |journal=Social Forces |date=September 1972 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=119–120 |doi=10.1093/sf/51.1.119-a}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Frank E. |title=Book Reviews : Language and Ethnic Relations in Canada. By Stanley Lieberson, New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1970 xi + 264 pp. £5.95 |journal=Acta Sociologica |date=July 1973 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=243–245 |doi=10.1177/000169937301600309}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Woolfson |first1=Peter |title=Language and Ethnic Relations in Canada, by Stanley Lieberson. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970. Pp. ix + 264. |journal=Canadian Journal of Linguistics |date=1970 |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=51–54 |doi=10.1017/S0008413100006678}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Garigue |first1=Philippe |title=Language and Ethnic Relations in Canada by Stanley Lieberson. New york, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1970.—xii, 264 pp. $10.99. |journal=Political Science Quarterly |date=June 1972 |volume=87 |issue=2 |doi=10.2307/2147859 |pages=321–322|jstor=2147859 }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Pinard |first1=Maurice |title=Language and Ethnic Relations in Canada. Stanley Lieberson |journal=American Journal of Sociology |date=November 1971 |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=623–625 |jstor=2776208 |doi=10.1086/225185}}

References

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{{cite news |title=Professor Stanley Lieberson |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/stanley-lieberson |access-date=January 10, 2025 |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}

{{cite news|title=Stanley Lieberson|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/lieberson/home|accessdate=March 24, 2018|publisher=Harvard University|archive-date=March 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325050033/https://scholar.harvard.edu/lieberson/home}}

{{cite news |title=Stanley Lieberson Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology, Emeritus |url=https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/stanley-lieberson |access-date=January 10, 2025 |publisher=Harvard University Department of Sociology}}

{{cite news |title=Remembering Stanley Lieberson |url=https://csde.washington.edu/news-events/remembering-stanley-lieberson/ |access-date=January 10, 2025 |publisher=University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology |date=March 30, 2018}}

{{cite news |title=Stanley Lieberson 1933-2018 |url=https://www.asanet.org/stanley-lieberson/ |access-date=January 10, 2025 |publisher=American Sociological Association}}

{{cite news|title=Stanley Lieberson|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=188519969|accessdate=March 24, 2018|work=Boston Globe|via=Legacy.com|date=March 22, 2018}}

{{cite news |last1=Marquad |first1=Bryan |title=Stanley Lieberson, sociologist who studied language, race, and first names, dies at 84 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2018/05/30/stanley-lieberson-harvard-sociologist-who-studied-language-race-and-first-names-dies/N7KCKJ20vRBv1eeX9cZfLM/story.html |access-date=January 8, 2025 |work=Boston Globe |date=May 30, 2018}}

{{cite journal |last1=Marsden |first1=Peter V. |title=Dedication: Stanley Lieberson: Meta-Methodologist Extraordinaire |journal=Sociological Methodology |date=2019 |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=ix-xvii |doi=10.1177/0081175019863073|s2cid=202948275}} {{ResearchGatePub|335506002}}

{{cite news |title=Stanley Lieberson |url=https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/stanley-lieberson-mwvfih/ |access-date=January 10, 2025 |publisher=National Academy of Science}}

{{cite news |title=Stanley Lieberson |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/stanley-lieberson/ |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}

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