Ted Goertzel is a professor in the Sociology
Department at Rutgers
University in Camden, NJ 08102. Telephones: office 856
225-2714; home 609 953-1670. Feel free to call at home during
working hours. He
is easily reached by email.
A full
list
of
Dr. Goertzel's publications, including information on
his books, is
available
on his resume.
For the latest on Fernando Henrique
Cardoso, Lula da Silva and Brazil go the
FHC, Lula da
Silva and Brazil Page.
For research on Welfare Reform in New Jersey go to the Welfare
Reform Page. tedslinks
Click here for
information about: Cradles of
Eminence,
Second Edition (Great Potential Press, 2004). Now available
in paperback, $16.97
at amazon.com.
"Capital
Punishment and Homicide Rates: Sociological Realities and
Econometric Distortions," Critical Sociology 34(2):
239-254, 2008.
"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/.
"
Genoíno'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.
"Brazil
After Lula: Some Predictions," Brazzil Magazine, October 17,
2007. http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/9986/1/
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.
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.
Eight Years
of Pragmatic Leadership in Brazil, the latest upplement to the
English
language edition of Fernando Henrique
Cardoso:
Reinventing Democracy in Brazil.
The World
Trade Center Bombing as a Fourth Generational Turning Point
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.
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.
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.
Ben Goertzel: "Waking
Up from the Economy of Dreams: The Intricate and Peculiar
Torture
of Taking One's Tech Company Bankrupt"
Some Web Pages designed for use in Dr. Goertzel's courses are available. These are for anyone who wants to use them for instructional purposes. This includes a regularly updated page of Recommended Links on Computers and Communications from the New York Times and other newspapers and magazines.
Streaming Video available here: Ben Goertzel's lecture on the Webmind Artificial Intelligence System, Allan Combs' address on the impact of Chaos Theory on Modern Science, and Ted Goertzel on Generational Cycles in Mass Psychology
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 and from the Seattle Times. Mildred George Goertzel, Ted's mother, died on January 21, 2000. An obituary is available here and from the Seattle Times.