Stephen Cole (sociologist)

Stephen Cole (born June 1, 1941 ) is an American sociologist.

Life

Stephen Cole studied sociology at Columbia University with Robert K. Merton and Paul F. Lazarsfeld . With Merton, Harriet Zuckerman and his brother Jonathan R. Cole he worked on an empirically founded sociology of knowledge .

Cole became professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook , the university honored him with the title Distinguished Professor in 2007, and he retired in 2011.

Cole published on the history of sociology , the sociology of education , the sociology of gender and the sociology of medicine . He wrote a reader on empirical research methods that was successful in teaching.

Cole became known through his research contributions on social stratification in the scientific community and scientometry . The Ortega hypothesis formulated in this context by his brother Jonathan R. Cole and himself is, however, not undisputed.

Fonts (selection)

The Sociological Orientation (1979)

• With Jonathan R. Cole: Scientific output and recognition: A study in the operation of the reward system in science . In: American Sociological Review . tape 32 , no. 3 , 1967, p. 377-390 .
• With Jonathan R. Cole: Visibility and the structural bases of awareness of scientific research . In: American Sociological Review . tape 33 , no. 3 , 1968, p. 397-413 , JSTOR : 2091914 .
• The Unionization of Teachers: A Case Study of the UFT . Praeger, New York 1969.
• With Jonathan R. Cole: The Ortega hypothesis . In: Science . tape 178 , no. 4059 , 1972, pp. 368-375 ( abstract ).
• Sociological Method: An Introduction to the Science of Sociology . Markham Pub. Co, Chicago 1972, 1980.
• With Jonathan R. Cole: Social Stratification in Science. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1973, ISBN 978-0226113388 .
• The Sociological Orientation: An Introduction to Sociology . Rand McNally College Pub. Co, Chicago 1975.
• With Leonard Rubin, Jonathan R. Cole: Peer Review in the National Science Foundation: Phase One of a Study. Prepared for the Committee on Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences . The Academy, Washington 1978, 2 volumes.
• With Leonard Rubin, Jonathan R. Cole: Peer review and the support of science . In: Scientific American . tape 237 , no. 4 , 1977, pp. 34-41 .
• With Leonard Rubin, Jonathan R. Cole: Peer Review in the National Science Foundation: Phase Two of a Study . National Academy of Sciences. The Academy, Washington 1981.
• As editor: What's Wrong with Sociology? Transaction Publ, New Brunswick, NJ 1991.
• Making Science: Between Nature and Society . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass 1992, ISBN 9780674543478 .
• With Elinor G. Barber: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass 2003, ISBN 978-0-674-00945-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephen Cole in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Stephen Cole at Stony Brook