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Theodore CaplowProfessor Emeritus, Sociology Department
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Theodore Caplow, Ph.D., LL.D., is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Virginia, coming there from a similar position at Columbia University in 1970. Educated at Columbia, Chicago and Minnesota in sociology and economics, he has authored or co-authored 22 books and some 200 research papers. His works have been translated into all of the principal European languages and into Japanese and Chinese. Mr. Caplow has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Bordeaux, Aix-Marseille, Utrecht, Stanford, Puerto Rico, Bogota, Paris, Rome and Oslo. He was chairman of Virginia's Department of Sociology from 1970-1978, and from 1985 to 1987; Director of the Center for Program Effectiveness Studies and later of the University's Medical Mediation Service. He has served as president of the Tocqueville Society, president of the Mendota Research Group and secretary of the American Sociological Association.
His work spans a broad range from abstract social geometry (Two Against One: Coalitions in Trials) to the study of armed conflict (Systems of War and Peace) but has Recently centered on social change. Caplow's American Social Trends, published in 1991, examined changes in the family, education, work, religion, leisure and government between 1960 and 1990, together with trends regarding money, sex, health, intoxication, and social conflict. He was senior author of Recent Social Trends in the United States 1960-1990, a reference book published in the same year, and of The First Measured Century, an inventory and interpretation of American social trends from 1900 to 2000 that appeared in 2001.. The Social Change Report, a quarterly newsletter which he edits, is distributed to more than six thousand opinion-leaders in North America and Europe.
Selected Publications
Books
The Sociology of Work, University of Minnesota Press, 1954; McGraw Hill, 1963; Greenwood Press, 1978. Oxford University Press, overseas. (Sociologia del Trabajo, Madrid, Instituto de Estudios Politicos, 1958) (Soziologie der Arbeit, Meisenheim am Glan, Verlag Anton Hain K.G., 1958)
The Academic Marketplace (with Reece McGee), Basic Books, 1958; Science Editions, 1961; Doubleday Anchor, 1965. Transaction Press, 2001
The Urban Ambience (with Sheldon Stryker and Samuel E. Wallace), Bedminster Press, 1964
Two Against One: Coalitions in Triads, Prentice-Hall, 1968. (Deux Contre Un: Les Coalitions Dans Les Triades, Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1971.) (Dos contra uno: Teoria de coaliciones en las triades, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1974.) (Chinese ed., Taipei, Knei-Knan Book Co., Ltd., 1977.)
Elementary Sociology, Prentice-Hall, 1971. (Sociologia Fundamental, Barcelona Editorial Vicens-Vives, 1974.)
Old Men Drunk and Sober (with H.M. Bahr), New York University Press, 1974
All Faithful People: Change and Continuity in Middletown's Religion (with Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick), University of Minnesota Press, 1983
Managing an Organization, Hold, Rinehart and Winston, 1983
Peace Games, Wesleyan University Press, 1989
American Social Trends, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991
Recent Social Trends in the United State, 1960-1990 (with Howard M. Bahr, John Modell, and Bruce a. Chadwick) Frankfurt am Main, Campus Verlag and Toronto, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991, 1994
Perverse Incentives: The Neglect of Social Technology in the Public Sector, Praeger, 1994
Systems of War and Peace (with Louis Hicks), University Press of America, 1995., revised, 2002
Sociologie Militaire (with Pascal Venesson), Paris: Armand Colin, 2000
The First Measured Century (with Louis Hicks and Ben Wattenberg), AEI Press, 2001
Books Edited
Leviathan Transformed: The Performance of National States, McGill-Queens and Cornell University Presses, 2002
Papers
"Coalitions" revised version in new edition of Encyclopedia of Sociology, New York: Macmillan, 2000