Ted Goertzel's Home Page
Ted Goertzel has retired as professor in the Sociology
Department at Rutgers
University in Camden, N.J. and is living in southeastern Ohio near
Marietta. He is best reached by email at tedgoertzel@gmail.com.
A full list of Ted Goertzel's
publications, many of which can be downloaded, can be
found on his resume.
I have also uploaded quite
a few to researchgate.net. If you are looking for a
publication that isn't linked from the resume, and you can't
easily get it from a university library, email me and I'll
put it up. I have scanned and posted the ones that people
have asked for recently.
The book The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity (edited by Ben and Ted Goertzel) has been released. It is available on Amazon.com for $4.99 in Kindle Format, or $24.99 in paperback. This is a bargain for a 738 page book, and the Kindle format is quite nice. It has both essays and dialogues, many of which are quite readable, others are quite profound. For an even greater bargain, you can download it for free in PDF format which is a little less convenient than Kindle because you can't link to specific chapters or change the font so easily.
The following is a
miscellaneous list of links to some of my papers. :The list on my resume
is more organized, but may not include a few of
the more ephemeral things here. I don't want to take
this list down, even though it is messy, because some of
them are linked from various web sites and may be picked
up by search engines. If the links here don't work, try
looking on the resume.
Ted Goertzel, Ekaterina
Shohat,Tulio Kahn, Andre Zanetic,and Dmitriy Bogoyavlenskiy. Homicide
Booms and Busts: A Small-N Comparative Historical Study.
Please email me if you want a reprint of this article, or
request it from Homicide Studies through your library.
"The
Conspiracy
Meme," The Skeptical Inquirer,
Volume 35/1, January/February 2011.
The
Lula
Paradox. Brazzil.com, January 2011.
Conspiracy
Theories
in Science. EMBO reports (European Molecular
Biology Organization).. June 2010.
"Capital Punishment and Homicide Rates: Sociological Realities and Econometric Distortions," Critical Sociology 34(2): 239-254, 2008.
Militarism as a Social Problem.
"There's a Place for All Kinds of Socialists at Brazil's Power Table," Brazzil Magazine, January 20, 2008. http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/10031/1/.
" Genoino's Path from Guerrilla to Socialist Lite in Brazil's Congress," Brazzil Magazine, November 14, 2007. http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/9998/1/.
"Observations on Antioch," The Record, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, November 9, 2007, p. 9. http://recordonline.org.
Corruption,
Leadership and Development in Latin America," from Psicologia
Politica, Valencia, Spain. (pdf format)
Also available: "Betrayal of a Flawed Vision:
Corruption in Brazil's Workers Party Government", by Ted
Goertzel. On InfoBrazil. Email me if
you would like a copy with complete endnotes.
The Psychobiography of Argentine Politicians.
Review Essay in Political Sociology reviewing Peter Marden, The Decline of Politics; Amitai Etzioni, From Empire to Community; Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Civil Society and Class Politics: Essays on the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset; and Jack Goldstone, ed., States, Parties, and Social Movements. In the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Volume 32, No 2, Winter 2004, pp. 277-281.
Militarism
as
a Social Problem.
Two
Committed
People Find Enrichment in the [Quaker Clearness Committee]
Process
Noam
Chomsky and the Political Psychology of Anti-Imperialism.
Ralph
Nader; Portrait of a Puritannical Perfectionist.
Photographs
of the Life of Lula da Silva (powerpoint)
Myths
of Murder and Multiple Regression: Econometrics
as Junk Science, published in The
Skeptical Inquirer, Vol 26, No. 1, January/February
2002, pp 19-23. This paper discusses the effect of
"shall issue" gun control legislation, the death penalty,
abortion and imprisonment on homicide rates. A longer
version with tables is available here. Spanish translation as "El Modelo
Econometrico Como Ciencia Basura," in Psicologia Politica, No
24 (Valencia, Spain). Danish translation: Myter
om mord og multipel regression.
The
World Trade Center Bombing as a Fourth Generational Turning
Point . Slovenian translation: World
Trade
Center bombardiranje kot četrti generacijske prelomnico.
9/11 as a
Turning Point in History (power point presentation at
the World Future Society, July 20, 2002)."September 11,
2001: A Turning Point for America's Future" on
the World Future Society home page.
Terrorist
Beliefs and Terrorist Lives
Why
Brazil Isn't Argentina.
Viable
Utopia: Fernando Henrique's Sociological Theory and
Practice (power point presentation)
There's
Something About South Jersey (suburban "sprawl" and
development).
Review
of Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist
by Adam Robinson, from Clio's Psyche, March 2002. Romanian
Translation
by Alexandra Seremina, courtesy of Azoft.com
Ukrainian
translation provided by Dmutro
Nechuporyk
Public
Opinion Concerning Sprawl and Smart Growth in Southern New
Jersey
The
"Fathers
of Sociology": Personal Troubles and Public Issues
in
the lives of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Max Weber and
Karl Marx
Theoretical
Models
in Political Sociology (edited from an out-of-print
textbook).
Probing
Linus
Pauling's Personality with the Rorschach Ink Blot Test.
Analyzing
Linus Pauling's
Personality, Oregon State University Libraries, 1996.
Albert
Szymanski: A Personal and Political Memoir,
Critical Sociology, 1988.
"Foundations
of Radical Sociology," by Albert Szymanski and Ted
Goertzel, 1979.
My
Trip to Moscow, Soviet-American Review, 1989.
My
Internet Alter-Ego, Clio's Psyche, 1999.
Belief
in Conspiracy Theories, Political Psychology,
1994.
Measuring
the Prevalence of False Memories:
A
New Interpretation of a UFO Abduction Survey, Skeptical
Inquirer, 1994.
Измерение
распространенности ложных воспоминаний: Новая интерпретация
"Исследование похищений НЛО
The
Myth of the Bell Curve, Humanity & Society, 1981.
The
Gulf War as a Mental Disorder?: A Statistical Test
of DeMause's Hypothesis, Political Psychology, 1993
(a content analysis study of editorial cartoons)
Confessions
of a Turncoat and Remembrance of a True Believer (1982)
President
Cardoso Reflects on Brazil and Sociology (1995)
Pragmatism
vs. Nationalism in Fernando Henrique Cardoso's Brazil
(2000)
The
Politics of Welfare Reform in New Jersey (1995)
Some
notes on Quaker beliefs.
Generational
Cycles in Mass Psychology: Implications for the George
W. Bush Administration.
Penn
Goertzel, Ted's youngest brother, died on August 18,
2001. Victor Goertzel, Ted father, died on May 23,
1999. Victor Goertzel's obituary
is available here. Mildred George Goertzel, Ted's mother, died
on January 21, 2000. An obituary
is available here.