The Celebration of Heroes by William J. Goode

It demonstrated the critical impact of family systems on what was previously assumed to be purely economic forces, such as society’s capacity to industrialize. Drawing on his knowledge of nine languages, the research included data from more than 50 countries and covered a half-century. Si Goode was best known for his 1963 book, World Revolution and Family Patterns (The Free Press).

His Methods in Social Research with Paul Hatt (1952 with many printings) was widely translated (including a pirated Chinese edition) and was used to teach research methods to three generations of social scientists throughout the western world and Asia.

Goode (known as Si to his family and friends) published 20 books and more than 80 articles on a wide range of topics, including Religion Among the Primitives (1951), Die Struktur der Familie (1960), World Revolution and Family Patterns (1963), Explorations in Social Theory (1973), Principles of Sociology (1977), The Celebration of Heroes (1978), and World Changes in Divorce Patterns (1993). He was best known for his pioneering cross-cultural analysis of marriage and divorce although his work covered basic issues in sociological theory focusing on social control systems of prestige, force and force threat, and love. William Josiah Goode, former President of the American Sociological Association (1972) and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, died unexpectedly on May 4, 2003. His obituary, which mentions his expulsion from Rice, makes fascinating reading: He then transferred to the University of Texas and embarked on a rather spectacular academic career. Goode, being a bright fellow, did as he was told and wore pants for the rest of the year. You need to read all the way to end to get the full impact of Mr. This one from the Houston Press is, I think, the most evocative. This story seems to have been catnip to the newspapers–several clippings from papers near and far are in the file. So I hustled over to check out “Goode, W.J.”īut no, it turned out to actually be about shorts: “What could that mean?” The first thing that jumped to my mind was short films and I was kind of excited at the prospect. It’s safe to say I’ve opened this drawer hundreds of times but this was the first time I registered the yellow reference sheet.

Here’s what it looks like inside one of these drawers: So this all started last week when I was looking in the information files for the Service Awards folder.

The Celebration of Heroes by William J. Goode