Background
Lopreato, Joseph was born on July 13, 1928 in Stefanaconi, Italy. Son of Frank and Marianna (Pavone) Lopreato. came to the United States, 1951.
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Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool, sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines, such as business administration, criminal justice, social work, and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science, it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, will help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles, social stratification, and ethnic conflict, showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge.
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Lopreato, Joseph was born on July 13, 1928 in Stefanaconi, Italy. Son of Frank and Marianna (Pavone) Lopreato. came to the United States, 1951.
Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology, University Connecticut, Storrs, 1956. Master of Arts in Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960.
Assistant professor sociology University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1960-1962. Visiting lecturer University Rome, 1962-1964. Associate professor University Connecticut, Storrs, 1964-1966.
Professor sociology University Texas, Austin, 1968-1998, chairman department sociology, 1969-1972. Visiting professor University Catania, Italy, 1974, University Calabria, Italy, 1980. Lectr.in various European University.
Steering committee Council European Studies, Columbia University, 1977-1980. Chairman sociology committee Council for International Exchange Scholars, 1977-1979. Member International Committee Mezzogiorno, 1986-1988.
Calabria International Committee, 1988-1990.
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Member National Italian-American Committee for United States of America Bicentennial. Member Executive Committee Congress Italian Politics, 1977-1980. Served to corporal United States Army, 1952-1954.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (behavioral science research prize committee 1992-1994), International Sociological Association, European Sociobiolog. Society, Evolution and Behavior Society, Southern Sociological Society (associate editor American Sociological Review 1970-1972, Social Forces1987-1990, Journal Political and Military Sociology since 1980), International Society Human Ethology.
Married Carolyn H. Prestopino, July 18, 1954. (divorced 1971); children: Gregory F., Marisa S. Schmidt. Married Sally A. Cook, August 24, 1972 (divorced 1978).