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Butler, Edgar W
edgar.butler@ucr.edu

HIGHLANDER HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

(951) 827-5418 (Voice)
(951) 827-3330 (Fax)

    Butler, Edgar W

    Professor of Sociology, Emeritus

    College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
    Sociology

    Biography

     

    Former Institution

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Degrees

    BA Social Science 1958
    California State University, Long Beach
    MA Sociology 1962
    University of Southern California
    PhD Sociology 1966
    University of Southern California

    Awards

    1997, Recipient of "Professor Emeritus Award of the Year", University of California, Riverside

    Research Area

    Urban Sociology, Policy Applications of Research, Human Ecology and Population, Epidemiology, Mexico

    Publications

    Urban Sociology: A Systematic Approach. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

    The Other Americans: Living in Emerging Alternative Lifestyles. vol. 1, Buena Park, CA: Lifestyles Press, 1978 (edited with Robert McGinley).

    Traditional Marriage and Emerging Alternatives. New York: Harper & Row. 1979.

    "Migration to Baja California: 1900-1980". El Paso: University of Texas, Center for InterAmerican and Border Studies, No. 26. March 1987 (with James B Pick, Hiroshi Fukurai, and Suhas Pavgi).

    Atlas of Mexico. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1989 (with James B. Pick and Elizabeth Lanzer).

    Race and the Jury New York, Plenum Press, 1993 (with Hiroshi Fukurai and Richard Krooth).

    "Political Transition in Mexico: Its Impact Upon U.S.-Mexico Relations" in Mexico and the United States: Neighbors in Crisis, Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr., and Lorenzo Meyers (eds). 1993. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, pp. 183-209 (with Jose Luis Reyna).

    Mexico Megacity. 1997. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (with James B. Pick).

    Globalization of the Mexican Economy. 1999. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (with James B. Pick and W. James Hettrick).

    "The Rodney King Beating Verdicts" in The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Future. 1994. Mark Baldasssare (ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Pp. 73-102 (with Richard Krooth and Hiroshi Fukurai).

    "Sociologists in Action: The McMartin Sexual Abuse Case, Litigation, Justice, and Mass Hysteria," The American Sociologist, 1994 (Winter): 44-71 (with Hiroshi Fukurai and Richard Krooth).

    Hire Date

    12/01/2008

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