Charles Winick

Background

Winick was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was a house painter.

Education

Winick graduated from the City College of New York and served in the United States. Army during World World War World War II

Career

He was a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the City College of New York, taught at Columbia University, and was the author of more than 20 books, including a book which lamented the decline in the difference between the genders, and a study of prostitution. Winick also challenged the accepted view of narcotics addiction, contending that opiates are harmless but cause harm because they are taken under adverse conditions. He had four brothers.

As a child, his family was so poor that they were spotlighted in "The New York Times Neediest Cases" campaign, and the reporter who wrote the story was so distressed by their poverty that he gave the family his own overcoat.

He was initially assigned to military intelligence, but then was sent to interrogate prominent German prisoners of war, including Wernher von Braun. After the war he earned a doctorate from New York University and served in the army reserves, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

In addition to his academic work, he was research director of the Anti-Defamation League, the New York State Narcotics Commission, and the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. In 1959 he wrote Taste and the Censor in Television for the Fund for the Republic.

In 1962, while on the Columbia faculty, he was hired by National Broadcasting Company as a children"s programming consultant.

Winick"s book The New People: Desexualization in American Life, published in 1969, contended that American society was "following the path of Ancient Greece and Rome" by gradually becoming a "neutered society". He wrote that "equality does not mean equivalence, and a difference is not deficiency". Winick maintained that America was becoming a "beige-colored" society, and that distinctions between the genders were becoming blurred.

His views on drug addiction were controversial.

He believed that many heroin addicts do outgrow their addictions, but those who do not "should be treated as victims of a chronic disease". His 1971 book The Lively Commerce, co-authored by Paul M. Kinsie, a study of prostitution based on interviews with 2,000 prostitutes over a ten-year period, found that most prostitutes were physically unattractive, often were short, overweight, and possessed "flagrant physical defects", and that three-quarters of a sampling of call girls had attempted suicide.

The authors found that 15% of all suicides brought to public hospitals in the United States. were prostitutes. The book also tracked the growth of homosexual and transvestite prostitution.

lieutenant found that brothels and "madams" (female brothel owners) had largely become a thing of the past, and that though prostitution was a $1 billion-a-year industry, prostitutes were paid little more than clerical workers, earning $5,000 to $6,000 in 1971 dollars as annual Netto income for a six-day workweek.

Winick was also among the first jury consultants, using tools of sociology to advise lawyers on jury selection. Among the cases that he advised were those of Jean Harris and Claus von Bulow, both accused murderers. He also authored Dictionary of Anthropology (1956).

Achievements

• Charles Winick has been listed as a noteworthy Sociologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Desexualization in American Life (Classics in Communication and Mass Culture)

    ( Originally published as The New People, this classic vo...)

  • The Television Experience: What Children See (People and communication)

    (A comparison of the similarities and differences in how c...)

  • The Television Experience: What Children See

    (A comparison of the similarities and differences in how c...)

  • The new people;: Desexualization in American life

    (Used-Acceptable Condition- All Pages and Binding in Tact....)

  • Dictionary of Anthropology

    (Dictionary of Anthropology by Charles Winick.)

  • Dictionary of Anthropology

    (A comprehensive resource of anthropology.)

  • The New People; Desexualization in American Life

    (Sociology)

  • The new people : desexualization in American life.

    (Book)

  • The narcotic addiction problem
  • Dictionary of Anthropology.
  • Dictionary of Anthropology by Charles Winick (2014-03-20)
  • Sociological Aspects of Drug Dependence
  • Desexualization in American Life (Classics in Communication and Mass Culture) by Winick, Charles (1994) Paperback

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member American Sociological Association, American Psychological Association, British Society Study Addiction, American Association Public Opinion Research, Society Study Social Problems, Society Psychological Study Social Issues.

Connections

Married Mariann Pezzella, July 2, 1961. Children– Elizabeth, Laura, Raphael.

Father:

David Winick

Mother:

Sadie (Brussel) Winick

Spouse:

Mariann Pezzella

child:

Laura Winick

child:

Raphael Winick

child:

Elizabeth Winick