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Goldstein, Sidney was born on August 4, 1927 in New London, Connecticut, United States. Son of Max and Bella (Hoffman) Goldstein.
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Based on data from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the authors examine the high level of mobility among American Jews and their increasing dispersion throughout the United States, and how this presents new challenges to the national Jewish community. Based on data from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the authors examine the high level of mobility among American Jews and their increasing dispersion throughout the United States, and how this presents new challenges to the national Jewish community.
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Excerpt from The Norristown Study Professor Goldstein's excellent account of the Norristown project and its findings makes further description unnecessary. But, since he writes as a professional sociologist, there may be value in stating what interested an historian of general American culture in this community study, and which among the findings seem to this historian to be the more important. My initial interest was aroused by the possibility of taking some broad macrocosmic generalization regarding the nature of twentieth-century cultural change and testing it against local, concrete data. Among such generalizations one pair of conflicting propositions seemed of world-wide importance. Hundreds of millions of people outside the United States have been taught to believe that capitalism is increasingly failing to provide a satisfactory life for the mass of Americans, or stated in another form, that the ills of the twentieth century stem from the pressures of a declining capitalism. In contrast to this proposition two alternatives may be posed: (1) that many of the social maladjustments attributed to capitalism are the results of rapid technological change that is hard to assimilate in any society and (2) that life for the common man is in fact becoming more satisfactory. If these propositions were well supported in the history of a fairly representative American community over the last fifty years, social scientists in other nations would be presented with further evidence for the reevaluation of American capitalism which is being forced on objective thinkers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Goldstein, Sidney was born on August 4, 1927 in New London, Connecticut, United States. Son of Max and Bella (Hoffman) Goldstein.
Bachelor, University Connecticut, 1949. Master of Arts, University Connecticut, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1953.
Instructor sociology University of Pennsylvania, 1953-1955. Member of faculty Brown University, Providence, 1955, professor sociology, 1960, George HazardCrooker university professor, 1977, professor emeritus, 1993, research professor population studies, 1997, department chairman sociology and anthropology, 1963-1970, director Population Studies and Training Center, 1965-1989. Demographic advisorChulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 1968-1969.
Research fellow Institute Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 1969.
Senior fellow East-West PopulationInst., Honolulu, 1976, 82, 90. Scholar-in-residence Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, 1990.
Senior visiting scholar Hebrew University, 1990. Fellow Institute of Advanced Study, Indiana University, 1995.
Visiting fellow Australian National University, Canberra, 1977.
Consultant United Nations Economics and Social Common for Asia and Pacific, 1971-1972, 77-82, National Center Health Statistics, 1970-1977, International Program Population Analysis, Smithsonian Institution, 1971-1976. Member United States Bureau Census Advisory Committee, 1965-1971, Rand Corporation, 1975-1983. Member of national committee research on 1980 census Social Science Research Council, 1981-1988.
Member governing bureau Committee International Cooperation in National Research in Demography, 1981-1998, treasurer, 1994-1998.
Member commission on population National Research Council of National Academy of Sciences, 1983-1987. Chairman national technical advising committee on Jewishpopulation studies Council Jewish Fedns., 1984-1995.
Company-chairman international science commission on 1990 census surveys of world Jewry, Jerusalem, 1988-1992.
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Board directors Jewish Federation Rhode Island, 1964-1968, 78-82, 85—94, area vice president, 1997-2000. Board directors Bureau Jewish Education, Providence, 1959-1982, 94—2008, board directors. Board directors Council Jewish Federations, 1987-1994.
Member American Sociological Association, Population Association American (president 1975-1976), Association Jewish Demography and Statistics (director), International Union Science Study Population (chair committee urbanization and population distribution 1971-1976), Association Sociological Study Jewry, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Alice Dreifuss, June 21, 1953. Children: Beth Leah, David Louis, Brenda Ruth.