Publications

President Glassner has published 10 books, edited four scholarly texts, and authored dozens of journal articles and essays. Learn more about his publications below.

 

Books by President Glassner:

• The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat (HarperCollins, 2007)
• Our Studies, Ourselves, co-editor with Rosanna Hertz (Oxford University Press, 2003) 
• The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (Basic Books, 1999; 10th Anniversary Edition released in 2010)

• Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life, co-editor with Rosanna Hertz (Sage, 1999)
• Career Crash (Simon and Schuster 1994) 
• The Qualitative – Quantitative Distinction, editor with Jonathan Moreno (Kluwer Publishers, 1989)
• Bodies (G.P. Putnam’s, 1988)
• Kids, Drugs and Crime, with Cheryl Carpenter et al. (Lexington Books, 1988)
• Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights, with Julia Loughlin (St. Martin’s Press, 1987)
• A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences, with David Sylvan (Basil Blackwell, 1985)
• Discourse in the Social Sciences: Translating Models of Mental Illness, with Jonathan Moreno (Greenwood Press, 1982)
• Time: Conceptualization and Application in Sociological and Gerontology Research, co-editor with E.H. Mizruchi and T. Pastorello (General Hall Press, 1982)
• Essential Interactionism: On the Intelligibility of Prejudice (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980)
• Clinical Sociology, with Jonathan Freedman (Longman, 1979)

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected list of journal publications by President Glassner:

• “Safe Treyf,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Winter 2010
• “Narrative Techniques of Fear Mongering,” Social Research, Vol. 71, no. 4, 2004
• “Where Meanings Get Constructed,” Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 29, no. 4, July 2000
• “The Construction of Fear,” Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 22, no. 4, Winter 1999
• Introduction to special issue, “Qualitative Sociology and Everyday Life,” Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 1997
• “The Medium Must Not Deconstruct: A Postmodern Ethnography,” Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 13, 1991
• “Fitness and the Postmodern Self,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 30, June 1989. Reprinted in The Sociology of Medicine, 1995 
•  “A Note on the Deterrent Effect of Juvenile vs. Adult Jurisdiction” (with Margret Ksander, et al.), Social Problems, Vol. 31, December 1983
• “Life Events and Early- and Late-Onset of Bipolar Disorder” (with C.V. Haldipur), American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 140, February 1983. Reprinted in Stressful Life Events (International University Press, 1989)
• “How Jews Avoid Alcohol Problems” (with Bruce Berg), American Sociological Review, Vol. 45, August 1980