Background
John E. Farley was born on September 13, 1949, in Waterloo, Iowa, United States to C. J. Farley, a pharmaceutical sales representative, and Florenda (Schon) Farley, a teacher and homemaker.
John graduated from Michigan State University with B.A. in 1971.
John graduated from University of Michigan with M.A. in 1973.
John graduated from Michigan State University with B.A. in 1971.
John graduated from University of Michigan with M.A. in 1973.
(This topically organized text is designed to develop stud...)
This topically organized text is designed to develop students' understanding of the principles and processes that shape the patterns of relations between racial, ethnic, and other groups in society. Organized by topic, this book provides a more integrated look at the social forces that affect different racial groups.
https://www.amazon.com/Majority-Minority-Relations-6th-John-Farley/dp/0205645372
1982
https://www.amazon.com/American-Social-Problems-Institutional-Analysis/dp/0130297038
1987
(The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) generated the stronges...)
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) generated the strongest earthquakes ever observed in the lower forty-eight states in 1811 and 1812. And the region is overdue for another damaging quake. When self-proclaimed climatologist lben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would shatter the Heartland on 2 or 3 December 1990, many living within reach of the New Madrid fault zone reacted with varying combinations of preparation and panic. John Farley’s study reports the results of four surveys conducted in the NMSZ both before and after the quake prediction. Thus, Farley notes the level of awareness and preparation at the height of the Browning-induced scare and shows to what extent earthquake awareness and preparedness were sustained in this region after the most widely publicized prediction in recent history proved baseless. All four surveys offer important insights into what people believe about earthquake risk in the NMSZ, what they know about earthquakes, what specific actions they have - and have not - taken in preparation for earthquakes, and what they think a severe quake would do to their neighborhoods. Farley is the first researcher to study the response to an earthquake prediction while the prediction remained in effect and to continue the inquiry after the date covered by the prediction had passed. He is also the first researcher to look at earthquake awareness and preparedness in the NMSZ over an extended period of time.
https://www.amazon.com/Earthquake-Fears-Predictions-Preparations-Mid-America/dp/0809322013/?tag=2022091-20
1998
https://www.amazon.com/Sociology-John-Farley-ebook/dp/B0763NFS65/?tag=2022091-20
John E. Farley was born on September 13, 1949, in Waterloo, Iowa, United States to C. J. Farley, a pharmaceutical sales representative, and Florenda (Schon) Farley, a teacher and homemaker.
John graduated from Michigan State University with B.A. in 1971 and from University of Michigan with M.A. in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in 1977.
Since Johns' days as an undergraduate at Michigan State and a graduate student at Michigan, he have always enjoyed doing research and writing about it. His major research interests today are in the area of race and ethnic relations, with a particular interest in the extent, causes, and consequences of racial housing segregation. In the early 1990s, he also participated in a series of four surveys concerning Iben Browning's pseudoscientific prediction of a damaging earthquake in the central United States, and the short and long-term effects of that prediction on earthquake awareness, concern, and preparedness in the region. He was fortunate to have the opportunity to co-organize a conference of researchers who studied the Browning prediction, and to guest edit a special issue of the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters in November, 1993 that reported many of these studies. His book, Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America, published in 1998 by the SIU Press, reports the results of the four surveys. He is also the author of three major college textbooks in introductory sociology, race and ethnic relations, and social problems, all published by Prentice Hall. The Fifth Edition of the introductory sociology book is now available. The Fifth Edition of the race and ethnic relations textbook was published in 2005 and is available in both printed and electronic formats. He retired in 2006 after 29 years as a sociology professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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1982(The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) generated the stronges...)
1998Quotations: "The roots of my interest in sociology undoubtedly go back to my childhood experiences. Television brought, live to my middle-class Iowa living room, the struggles of the civil rights movement in the South during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The images of the police beating and firehosing young children, who asked only to be treated the same as other children with a different skin color, haunted me then and, in many ways, still do. A more personal impact of America's racial turmoil reached me on a hot day the summer after I graduated from high school, as I lay in bed with an untimely case of the mumps. I watched more pictures on television, but this time the networks were showing pictures of my relatively small hometown, Waterloo, Iowa. The night before, America's nationwide urban upheaval of the long, hot summer' of 1967 had reached even there, as crowds battled police, broke windows, looted, and threw firebombs. A lot of people in my town professed no understanding of what was going on. I thought about a classmate of mine - white like me - who had coinplained about a carload of African Americans driving through his neighborhood. 'Don't they understand that they can never live here?' he had asked. It seemed to me there might be some connection between that attitude and the violence occurring across town."
John was a member of different organizations such as Midwest Sociological Society, Illinois Sociological Association, St. Louis Ski Club. He is currently a coordinating council member and a research fellow at the SIUE Institute for Urban Research.
John is fond of fishing, photography, snow skiing and weather observation.
John married Margi Wagner. They divorced on March 1, 1991. He then married Alice Hall Petry, a professor, on August 30, 1997. He has a daughter Megan S. Farley.
