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Jonathan H. Turner

Social Physicist. Professor. 

Publications

Dr. Jonathan Turner's Publications

PDFs for Articles and Book Chapters are available for download.

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Jonathan H. Turner is 38th University Professor of the University of California and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division at University of California, Riverside, and Research Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Turner received his B.A in 1965 from UCSB and his M.A in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1968 from Cornell University. Although he is primarily a sociological theorist, Jonathan H. Turner focuses on a biological analysis into sociology, and sociology to the general public. He is the author of 44 books and many research articles, all of which are listed below.   

Authored Books and Monographs

1. Patterns of Social Organization: A Survey of Social Institutions, (New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1972), 432 pp.

 

2. American Society: Problems of Structure (New York: Harper and Row, l972), 299 pp.

  • American Society: Problems of Structure, 2nd edition, l977, 300 pp.

 

3. The Structure of Sociological Theory (Chicago, Ill: The Dorsey Press, l974), 351 pp.

  • revised edition, l978, 446 pp.       

  • 3rd edition, l982, 488 pp.                    

  • 4th edition, l986, 502 pp.                    

  • 5th edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990), 661 pp.

  • 6th edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998, 671 pp.

  • 7th edition (Belmond, CA: Wadsworth, 2002), 529 pp.

 

4. Inequality: Privilege and Poverty in America (Goodyear Publishing, l976), l80 pp. (with Charles Starnes)

 

5. Social Problems in America (New York: Harper and Row, l977), 555 pp.

 

6. Sociology: Studying the Human System (Santa Monica: Goodyear, l978), 610 pp.

  • 2nd edition, (New York: Scott-Forsmen, l981), 540 pp.

 

7. Functionalism (Menlo Park: The Benjamin/Cummings Company, l979),  147 pp. (with A.R. Maryanski).

 

8. The Emergence of Sociological Theory (Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press,       l981) 568 pp. (with L. Beeghley).

  • revised edition, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, l988), 499 pp. (with L. Beeghley and C. Powers).

  • 3rd edition, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994), 421pp. (with L. Beeghley and C. Powers).

  • 4th Edition (Belmont, CA:Wadsworth, 1998), 420 pp.

  • 5th Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002), 504pp.

  • 6th Edition. (Belmont, CA: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2006), 382 pp.

  • 7th Edition. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 2012.

 

9. Societal Stratification: A Theoretical Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, l984), 232 pp.

 

10. Oppression: A Socio-history of Black-White Relations in America   (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, l984), 215 pp. (with R. Singleton and D. Musick).

 

11. Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Appreciation (London & Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, l985), 160 pp.

 

12. American Dilemmas (New York: Columbia University Press, l985), 385 pp. (with D. Musick).

 

13. Sociology: A Student Handbook (New York: Random House, l985), 139 pp.

 

14. Sociology: The Science of Human Organization (Chicago, IL: Nelson-          Hall, 1986), 478 pp.

 

15. A Theory of Social Interaction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988), 225 pp.

 

16. The Impossible Science:  An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology (Newbury Park: Sage, 1990), 222 pp. (with Stephen P. Turner).

 

17. The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 252 pp. (with Alexandra Maryanski).

 

18. Classical Sociological Theory: A Positive Perspective (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1992), 181 pp.

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19. Socjologia Amerykanska W Poszukiwaniu Tozsamosci (with Stephen P. Turner) (Warsaw: Polska Akademia Nauk: instytut Filozofii I Socjologili, 1993), 257pp.

 

20. Sociology: Concepts and Uses (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), 266 pp.

 

21. American Ethnicity: A Sociological Analysis of the Dynamics of Discrimination (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994), 257 pp. (with Adalberto Aguirre)

  • 2nd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998), 315 pp (with Adalberto Aguirre).

  • 3rd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000), 332 pp. (with Adalberto Aguirre).

  • 4th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004) (with Adalberto Aguirre)

  • 5th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006), 368 pp.

  • 6 Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), 356 pp.

  • 7 Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011), 393 pp.

 

22. Macrodynamics: Toward a Theory on the Organization of Human  Populations (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press for Rose  Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association, 1995), 242 pp.

 

23. The Institutional Order (London and New York: Longman, 1997), 306 pp.

 

24. On The Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry into The Evolution of Human Affect (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 189 pp.

 

25. Face-to-Face: Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 232 pp.

 

26. Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution (Boulder, CO: Rowan and  Littlefield, 2003), 304 pp.

 

27. The Sociology of Emotions (with Jan E. Stets) (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 349 pp.

 

28. Sociology (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2006), 418 pp.

 

29. Incest: Origins of The Taboo (with Alexandra Maryanski) (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2005), 256 pp.  

 

30. Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory (London, UK: Routledge, 2007),  240 pp.

 

31. On The Origins of Human Society by Natural Selection (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2008 [with Alexandra Maryanski]), 357 pp.

 

32. Theoretical Principles of Sociology, volume I: Macrodynamics (New York: Springer, 2010), 356 pp.

 

33. Theoretical Principles of Sociology volume II: Microdynamics (New York: Springer, 2010), 354 pp.

 

34. The Problem with Emotions in Societies. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), 74 pp.

 

35. Theoretical Principles of Sociology volume III: Mesodynamics (New York: Springer 2012), 560 pp.

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36.  Contemporary Sociological Theory. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage 2013), 725 pp.

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37. Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage 2013), 925 pp.

 

38.  Theoretical Sociology: A Concise Introduction to Twelve Theoretical Orientations (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 2013), 278 pp.

 

39.  Revolt from the Middle: Emotional Stratification and Change in Post-Industrial Societies (Transaction Press, 2015), 175 pp.

 

40.  On The Origin and Evolution of Religions: By Means of Natural Selection (New York and London: Routledge, 2018) (with Alexandra

Maryanski, Anders K. Peterson, and Armin Geertz), pp. 285.

 

41. The New Evolutionary Sociology: Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Emperical Approaches (New York and London: Routledge

2018) (with Richard Machalek), 466 pp.

 

42.  On Human Nature: The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human (New York and London: Routledge 2021), 297 pp.

 

43.  Seth Abrutyn and Jonathan H. Turner, The Evolution of the First Institutional Spheres: From Foraging to the Brink of Modernity. (New

York and London: Routledge) 472 pp.

 

44.  Jonathan Turner and Anthony Roberts, Inter-Societal Systems: Toward a More General Theory.  New York:  Springer, in press.

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Authored Books in Progress

  1. Evolutionary Sociology: A Primer on One Theoretical Research Strategy (under contract and to be submitted Oct. 1, 2022)

  2. The Sociology of Interpersonal Behavior: Toward a General Theory          

  3. The Stratification of Human Emotions

  4. Social Physics: It is time for a hard science of sociology

  5. Sociological Principles of Practice: Using Theory in Applied and Policy Settings

Edited Books and Monographs

1.   Jonathan H. Turner, ed., Theory Building in Sociology (Newbury Park: Sage, 1988).

 

2.  Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner, eds, Social Theory Today (Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1987).

 

3.  Special Issue, "Strategies for Building Sociological Theory," Humboldt   Journal of Social Relations, 7 (Fall/Winter, 1979-80).

 

4.  Handbook of Sociological Theory (New York: Plenum Press, 2001).

 

5.  Herbert Spencer’s The Principles of Sociology (reprint) with an introduction by Jonathan H. Turner (New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2001).

 

6.  Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions (New York: Springer, 2007)  (with Jan E. Stets).

 

7.  Handbook of Neurosociology (with David Franks) (New York:  Springer 2013).

 

8.  Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions (New York: Springer 2014)  (with Jan E. Stets).                                           

 

9.  Handbook of Evolution and Society (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2015) (with Richard Machalek and Alexandra Maryanski)

Reprints from Books

"Estate Capitalists: Top Wealth Holders and the Super-rich," from Inequality: Privilege and Poverty in America, in J.M. Henslin and C.T. Reynolds, eds., Social Problems in America (1979).

 

"Symbolic Interaction," from The Structure of Sociological Theory, in J.C. Manis and B.N. Meltzer, eds., Symbolic Interaction (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1978).

 

"Inequality" from Inequality: Privilege and Poverty in America, in Vincent Jeffries and H. Edward Ransford, ed., Social Stratification: A Multiple Hierarchy Approach (Boston:  Allyn and Bacon, 1980).

 

"The Welfare and Wealthfare System," from Inequality: Privilege and Poverty in America, in Leonard Gordon, ed., Confronting Social Problems (San Francisco: West Publishing, 1984).

 

"Why Study Sociology?" from Sociology: A Student Handbook, in D. E. Hebding and C. Glick, eds., Introduction to Sociology (New York: Random House, 1987).

 

"The Culture of Black Oppression," from Oppression: A Socio-history of Black-White Relations, in Lynn Bartek and Karen Mullin, eds., Enduring Issues in Sociology (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1994).

 

Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner, "Introduction," from Social Theory Today, edited by Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987), translated into Ukrainian and published in Sociological Theory Today: Essays of American and Ukrainian Theorists (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1995).

 

“Analytical Theorizing,” from Social Theory Today, edited by Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987,) translated into Russian and reprinted in Thesis, 2 (1994).​

Translations of Books

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory (translated into Russian).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 3rd edition (translated into Polish).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 4th edition (three separate translations The Emergence of Sociological Theory, 2nd Edition (translated into Chinese).

  • Social Theory Today (translated into Spanish).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 4th edition, (translated into Korean)

  • The Emergence of Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition, (translated into Korean).

  • Sociology: Concepts and Uses (translated into Portuguese by Makron Books, into Chinese by McGraw-Hill International, and into Polish).

  • Social Theory Today (translated by Fundacao UNESP into Brazilian Portuguese).           

  • Sociology: Concepts and Uses (translated into Polish, ZYSK Wydawnictwo S. J. Publishers, 2007).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 6th Edition, (translated into Polish).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 6th Edition, (translated into Chinese).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 6th edition (translated into Arabic).

  • Macrodynamics: Toward a Theory on the Organization of Human Populations. (translated into Chinese).

  • The Structure of Sociological Theory, 7th Edition, (translated into Chinese by  Beijing University Press).

  • Face to Face: Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (translated into Danish Systime Publishing).

  • On The Origins of Human Emotions: A Sociological Inquiry into Human Affect (translated into Portuguese in Portugal and Brazil).

  • Face-to-Face: Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior.(translated into Japanese (Aksahi Shoten)).

  • On The Origins of Human Emotions (translated into Japanese (Akashi Shoten)).

  • The Social Cage (translated into Japanese (Akashi Shoten)).

  • Incest: Origins of the Taboo (translated into Japanese (Akashi Shoten).

  • American Ethnicity: The Dynamics of Discrimination (currently being translated into Japanese (Akashi Shoten)).

  • The Sociology of Emotions (translated into Polish by PWNS).

  • Sociology, translated by Tijana Bajovic and Dusan Pavlovic into Serbian, (Meridian Publishing (Center for Democracy), 2009.

  • The Sociology of Emotions (currently being translated into Croatian by Naklada Jessenski i Turk).

  • Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory, translated into Chinese by Sun Juncai and Wen-jun for Chinese People’s Publishing House, 2010.  

  • The Sociology of Emotions (translated into Japanese by Akashi Shoten, 2013).

  •  The Problem of Emotions in Societies (translated into Farsi by Shiraz University Press,   2015)

  • Contemporary Sociological Theory (translated into Farsi, 2015)

  • American Society: Problems of Structure (translated and in-print in Hungary)

  • The Emergence of Sociology Theory (translated into Portuguese by Traducao de Cesar Souza, Brasil, Petropolis: Editora Vozes, 2016)

  • Theory Building in Sociology: Assessing Theoretical Accumulation (translated into Farsi by Samad Abedini and Robabeh Pourjabali, 2017).

  • Social Theory Today (currently being translated in Chinese by Commercial Press for 2018).

  • On the Origins of Societies by Natural Selection (translated into Japanese by Kanji Masoaka 2017, Asano, Toyoko.

  • Contemporary Sociological Theory (currently being translated into Korean by NANAM Publishing House, 2018-2019.

  • Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 1 (currently being translated into Japanese by Gakubun Sha Co., Ltd for publication in 2019 or 2020). 

  • Contemporary Sociological Theory. (Translated and published in Koren by NAMAN 2021)

Articles and Book Chapters

Content in this section is linked to downloadable PDFs

1. "Entrepreneurial Environments and the Emergence of Achievement Motivation in Adolescent Males," Sociometry, 33 (1970), pp. 147-165.

Reprinted in:

D. R. Heise, ed., Personality Development: The Origins of Individuality (1971).   

E. A. Dager, Socialization (1972).

 

2. "Patterns of Value Change During Economic Development: An Empirical Study,” Human Organization, 30 (1971), pp. 126-136.

 

3. "A Cybernetic Model of Economic Development," The Sociological  Quarterly, 12 (1971), pp. 19l-203.

 

4. "Structural Conditions of Achievement Among Whites and Blacks in Rural South," Social Problems, 19 (1972), pp. 469-503.

 

5. “From Utopia to Where?: A Strategy for Reformulating the Dahrendorf Conflict Model," Social Forces, 52 (1973), pp. 236-244.

 

6. "A Cybernetic Model of Legal Development," Western Sociological Review, 5 (1974), pp. 3-16.

 

7. Jonathan H. Turner and Leonard Beeghley, "Persistent Issues in Parsonian Action Theory," Sociological Inquiry, 44 (1974), pp. 61-63.

 

8. Jonathan H. Turner and Leonard Beeghley, "Current Folklore in the Criticisms of Parsonian Action Theory," Sociological Inquiry, 42 (1974), pp. 7-54.        

Reprinted in:

S. Denisoff, et al., Theories and Paradigms of Sociology (Goodyear, 1975). 

P. Hamilton, ed., Talcott Parsons: A Critical Assessment (1992).

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9. "Parsons as a Symbolic Interactionist: A Comparison of Action and Inter-action Theory," Sociological Inquiry, 44 (1974), pp. 283-293.

 Reprinted in:

K. Plumer, ed., Symbolic Interaction (1990) P. Hamilton, ed., Talcott Parsons: A Critical Assessment (1992).

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10. "Action and Interaction Theory:  Some Questions of Theory Building Strategy," Sociological Inquiry, 45 (1975), pp. 65-68.

Reprinted in:

L. Ray, ed., Formal Sociology (1991).

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11. "A Strategy for Reformulating the Dialectical and Functional Theories of Conflict," Social Forces, 53 (1975), pp. 433-444.

 Reprinted in:

Alan Wells, ed., Contemporary Sociological Theory (1976).

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12. "Marx and Simmel Revisited: Re-assessing the Foundation of Conflict Theory," Social Forces, 53 (1975), pp. 619-627.

 Reprinted in:       

David Frisby, ed., Georg Simmel (1993).

 

13. Royce Singleton and Jonathan H. Turner, “Racism: White Oppression of Blacks in America.” Pp. 130-60 in D. Zimmerman and L. Weider, eds., Understanding Social Problems (New York: Praeger, 1975).

 

14. Jonathan H. Turner, David Musick, and Charles Starnes, “Government and the Rich: A National Wealthfare System.” in B. W. Parlin, ed., Sociological Inquiry: A Humanistic Perspective (Kendall-Hunt, 1975).

 

15. “The Ecosystem: the Interrelationship of Society and Nature.” Pp. 292-322 in D. Zimmerman and L. Weider, eds., Understanding Social Problems (New York: Praeger, 1975).

 

16. “Family Structure during Energy Scarcity,” in C. F. Carter and L. N. Gray, eds., Societal Implications of Energy Scarcity (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1975).

 

17. Turner, Sandra R., Jonathan H. Turner, and Alan Fix, "Throwing the Beast Back Out," American Sociological Review, 41 (1976), pp. 551-555.

 

18. "Building Social Theory: Some Questions About Homan's Strategy,” Pacific Sociological Review, 20 (1977), pp. 203-220.

 

19. Jonathan H. Turner and Charles E. Starnes, “The Culture of Inequality: Welfare and Wealthfare Systems,” in E. Rogg, L. A. Golubchick, and B. Persky, eds., Perspectives in Sociology (New York: Avery, 1978).

 

20. Jonathan H. Turner and Royce R. Singleton, "A Theory of Ethnic Oppression: Toward a Re-integration of Cultural and Structured Concepts in Ethnic Relations Theory," Social Forces, 56 (1978), pp.1001-1019.              

Reprinted in:

Edward Ransford, ed., Race Relations (1979).Stuart Gilman, ed., Race, Society and Politics (1980).

Thomas F. Pettigrew, The Sociology of Race Relations (1980).

John Axelson, Counseling in a Multicultural Society (1984).

 

21. "Some Problematic Trends in Sociological Theorizing," The Wisconsin Sociologist, 15 (1978), pp. 80-88.

 

22."A Theory of Social Structure: An Assessment of Blau's Strategy," Review Essay, Contemporary Sociology, 7 (1978), pp. 698-705.

 

23. “Sociology as a Theory Building Enterprise: Detours from the First Masters," Pacific Sociological Review, 22 (1979), pp. 427-456.

 

24. Jonathan H. Turner and Edna Bonacich, "Toward a Composite Theory of Middle-man Minorities," Ethnicity, 7 (1980), pp. 29-38.

 

25. “Legal System Evolution: An Analytical Model.” Pp. 377-394 in William E. Evan, ed., The Sociology of Law (New York: Free Press, 1980).

 

26. "Toward a Social Physics: Reducing Sociology's Theoretical Inhibitions," Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 7 (1980), pp. 140-155.

 

27. "Parsons on The Human Condition" Review Essay. Contemporary Sociology, 9 (1980), pp. 380-385.

 

28. "Returning to Social Physics: Illustrations from George Herbert Mead," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 2 (1981), pp. 187-208.

 

29. Jonathan H. Turner and James R. Kluegel, “Socio-economic Status.” Pp. 25-247 in Marvin Olsen and Michael Miclin, eds., Frontiers of Applied Sociology (New York: Praeger, 1981).

 

30. Jonathan H. Turner and Charles Powers, “Theory and Political Sociology,” Pp. 139-202 in Samuel Long, ed., Handbook of Political Sociology (New York: Plenum, 1981).

 

31. "Emile Durkheim's Theory of Integration in Differentiated Social Systems," Pacific Sociological Review, 24 (1981), pp. 379-392.

 

32. "The Forgotten Theoretical Giant: Herbert Spencer's Models and Principles," Revue Europeenne Des Sciences Sociales, 19 (1981), pp. 79-98.

 

33. "Trends in American Inequality: Economic vs. Sociological Models," Review Essay, Contemporary Sociology, 11 (1982), pp. 528-532.

 

34. "A Note on G. H. Mead’s Behavioral Theory of Social Structure," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 12 (1982), pp. 213-222.

Reprinted in:

P. Hamilton, ed., George Herbert Mead: A Critical Assessment (1992).

 

35. Jonathan H. Turner and Robert Hanneman, "Some Theoretical Principles of Societal Stratification," Sociological Theory, (1984), pp. 1-22.

 

36. "The Structure of Social Action: An Alternative Approach," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 4 (1983), pp. 225-235.

 

37. "Ideographic vs. Nomothetic Explanation," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 13 (October, 1983), pp. 273-280.

 

38. "The Research-Theory Gap: Researchers versus Theorists," Review Essay, Knowledge (1983), pp. 598-603.

 

39.  "Durkheim's and Spencer's Principles of Social Organization: A Theoretical Note," Sociological Perspectives, 27 (1984), pp. 21-32.

 

40. Jonathan H. Turner and Robert Hanneman, "Baseline Models are Not Finish-line Models: A Sympathetic Critique of Mayhew's Strategy," Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 9 (1984), pp. 283-291.

 

41. Barbara A. Johnson and Jonathan H. Turner, "A Formalization and Reformation of Anomie Theory," South African Journal of Sociology, 15 (1984), pp. 151-158.

 

42. “Introduction,” to Thomas J. Bernard, The Consensus-Conflict Debate: Form and Content in Social Theories (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).

 

43. “The Concept of Action in Sociological Analysis,” in Gottfried SeebaB and Raimo Toumea, eds., Analytical and Sociological Theories of Action Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985).

 

44. “Theoretical Strategies for Linking Micro and Macro Processes," Western Sociological Review, 14 (1983), pp. 4-15.

 

45. "A Predominance in Sociology," review essay, Science (May 17, 1985), pp. 851-855.

 

46. “George Herbert Mead,” in Adam Kuper and J. Kuper, eds., The Social Science Encyclopedia (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985).

 

47.  "The Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens," review essay, American Journal of Sociology, 90 (1985), pp. 969-977.

 

48.  Jonathan H. Turner and Charles Powers, "Some Elementary Principles of Political Organization," Research in Political Sociology, 2 (1985), pp 1-17.

 

49. "In Defense of Positivism," Sociological Theory, 3 (Fall, 1985), pp.24-30.

Reprinted in:

P. Halfpenny and P. McMylor, eds., Positivist Sociology and Its Critics (1993).

       

50.  "The Mechanics of Social Interaction: Toward a Composite Model of Signaling and Interpreting," Sociological Theory, 4 (1986), pp 95-105.

 

51.  "Toward a Unified Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: A Preliminary Synthesis of Three Macro Models," Sociological Forum, 1 (1986), pp. 403-427.

 

52.  Stephan Fuchs and Jonathan H. Turner, "What Makes a Science Mature?" Sociological Theory, 4 (1986), pp. 143-150.

 

53. "Toward a Sociological Theory of Motivation," American Sociological Review, 52 (1987), pp. 15-2.

Reprinted in:

George Herbert Mead: A Critical Assessment (1991).

 

 54. “Analytical Theorizing,” Pp. 156-194 in Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner, eds., Social Theory Today (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987).

Translated into Russian and reprinted in THESIS 1 (4), 1993.

Portions reprinted in: Designing Social Research by N. Bglaikie (1997).

 

55. “Social Exchange Theory: Future Directions,” 223-38 in Karen Cook, ed., Social Exchange Theory (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1987).

 

56. Jonathan H. Turner and Randall Collins, "Toward a Theory of Microstructure” Pp. 118-30 in J. H. Turner, ed., Theory Building in Sociology (Newbury Park: Sage, 1988).

 

57. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, "Is Neofunctionalism Really Functional?" Sociological Theory, 6 (1988), pp.110-121.   

Reprinted in:

D.McQuarie, Contemporary Sociological Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1994).

 

58. Jonathan H. Turner and A.R. Maryanski, "Sociology's Lost Human Relations Area Files," Sociological Perspectives, 31 (1988), pp. 19-34.

 

59. "The Mixed Legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology," Sociological Perspectives, 31 (1988), pp. 325-338.

 

60. "Cultural Analysis and Social Theory," American Journal of Sociology, 94 (1988), pp. 637-644.

 

61. "A Behavioral Theory of Social Structure," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 18 (1989), pp. 354-372. 

Translated into Czechoslovakian and reprinted in Sociológia 23 (3, 91), pp.1-15.

 

62. "A Theory of Microdynamics," Advances in Group Processes, 6, (1989), pp 1-26.

 

63. "Durkheim's Theory of Social Organization," Social Forces, 68 (1990), pp. 1-15.

 

64. "The Disintegration of American Sociology," Sociological Perspectives, volume 32 (1989), pp. 419-433.

 

65. “A Theory of Macrostructural Dynamics,” Pp. 185-211 in Morris Zelditch, Joseph Berger, and Bo Anderson, eds., Sociological Theories in Progress III (Newbury Park: Sage, 1990).

 

66. “Anthony Giddens’ Analysis of Functionalism: A Critique,” Pp. 103-114 in C. C. Modgil, and S. Modgil, eds., Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy (London: Falmer Press, 1990).

 

67. “The Promise of Positivism.” Pp. 371-391 in D. G. Wagner and S. Seidman, eds., Postmodernism and Social Theory (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1990).

 

68. “The Past, Present and Future of Theory in American Sociology,” in G. Ritzer, ed., Frontiers of Sociological Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).

 

Translated into Ukrainian and reprinted in Sociological Theory Today: Essays of American and Ukrainian Theorists, edited by Viktor Tancher and Valentin Korolko (Ukranian Academy of Sciences, 1995).

 

69. “Role” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of 20th Century Social Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).

 

70. Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner, “Functionalism,” in E. Borgatta and M. L. Borgatta, eds.,The Encyclopedia of Sociology (New York: Macmillan, 1991).

 

71. “Positivism,” in E. Borgatta and M. L. Borgatta, eds. The Encyclopedia of Sociology (New York: Macmillan, 1991).

 

72. “Analytical Theorizing,” Sociologica: Problemes e Praticas 2 (1992), pp. 23-33.

 

73. "The Misuse and Use of Metatheory," Sociological Forum, 5 (1990), pp. 37-53.

 

74. "A Positivist's Reflections on the Problems and Prospects of General Theory in Sociology," International Review of Sociology, (1989), pp.79-106.

 

75. Alexandra M. Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner, "The Offspring of Functionalism: French and British Structuralism," Sociological Theory 9 (1991), pp. 106-117.

 

76. “American Sociology,” in I. Genov, ed., Building National Traditions in World Sociology (New Delhi and London: Sage, 1991).

 

77. "What if the Early Masters Had Followed Auguste Comte's Advice?" The Polish Sociological Bulletin, 25 (1990), pp. 1-13.

 

78. Stephan Fuchs and Jonathan H. Turner, "Legal Sociology as General Theory," Virginia Review of Law, 1 (1991), pp. 165-172.

 

79. "Using Metatheory to Develop Cumulative and Practical Knowledge," Sociological Perspectives, 34 (1991), pp. 249-68.

 

80. "If Not Positivism, Then Why is Sociology Important?" The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 17 (1992), pp. 54-61.

 

81. "Weber and Simmel on Money, Exchange, and Differentiation" Simmel Newsletter, I (1991), pp. 88-90.

 

82. "Sociology: The State of the Science." Sociale, Westenschappen, 35 (1992), pp. 30-44.

 

83. "The Production and Reproduction of Social Solidarity: A Syntheses of Two Rational Choice Theories," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 22 (1992), pp.  311-328.

 

84. "The Rise and Fall of Empires: A Sociological Theory." Philosophy and Sociological Thought (translated from Russian and Ukrainian), 6 (1992), pp. 83-98.

 

85. “A Pure Theory-Research Program on Microdynamics,” in J. Berger and M. Zelditch, eds., Theory in Group Processes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993).

 

86. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, "The Biology of Human Organization," Advances in Human Ecology, 2 (1993), pp. 1-33.

 

87. R. Collins, J. Chafetz, R.L. Blumberg, S. Coltrane, and J.H. Turner, "Toward An Integrated Theory of Gender Stratification," Sociological Perspectives, 36 (1994), pp. 185-216.

 

88. “Poverty and Inequality” in G. Ritzer and C. Calhoun, eds., Social Problems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994).

 

89. “The Failure to Institutionalize Cumulative Theorizing.” Pp. 41-51 in Jerald Hage, ed., Formal Sociology: Opportunity or Pitfall (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994).

 

90. “What Can Be Done to Institutionalize Formal and Cumulative Theorizing?” Pp. 176-181 in Jerald Hage, ed., Formal Theory: Opportunity or Pitfall (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994).

 

91. Jonathan H. Turner and Douglas Mitchell, “Contemporary Theories of Education,” in The International Encyclopedia of Education, Second Edition (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994).

 

92. “Roles and Interaction Processes: Toward a More Robust Theory.” Pp. 359-376 in G. Platt and C. Gordon, eds., Self, Collective Action, and Society (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1994).

 

93. "Further Reflections on Sociology as 'The Impossible Science'," Journal of Social Epistemology, 8 (1994), pp. 321-330.

 

94. "The Ecology of Macrostructure," Advances in Human Ecology, 3 (1994), pp. 113-137.

 

95. "The Assembling of Human Populations," Advances in Human Ecology, 3 (1994), pp. 65-91.

 

96. Jonathan H. Turner and Norman A. Dolch, "Classic Statements on Geopolitics and the Aftermath of War "Sociological Inquiry, 64 (1994), pp. 91-102.

 

97. "A General Theory of Motivation and Emotion in Human Interaction," Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, (1994), pp. 20-35.

 

98. "Can Symbolic Interactionism Really Contribute to Macro Sociology?" Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 15 (1995), pp. 181-197.

 

99. "American Sociology: Can What Was Never Composed Be Decomposed?"  Sociological Imagination 33 (1996), pp. 91-202.

 

100. "A Macro-level Functional Theory of Societal Disintegration," International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 16 (1996), pp. 5-36.

 

101. “Herbert Spencer.” Pp. 623-625 in J. J. Chamblis, ed., Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 1996).

 

102. “Cognition, Emotion, and Interaction in the Big-brained Primate.” Pp. 295-315 in K. Kwan, ed., Social Processes and Interpersonal Relations (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996).

 

103. Jonathan H. Turner and Norman Dolch, "Using Classical Theory to Re-conceptualize Theory and Research on Community," Research in Community Sociology, 6 (1996), pp.19-38.

 

104. “The Evolution of Emotions in Humans: A Darwinian-Durkheimian Analysis,” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 26 (1996), pp. 1-34.

Reprinted in:

David Inglis, Nature: Critical Concepts in The Social Sciences (London: Routlege, 2005).

 

105. “The Evolution of Morality,” Critical Review, 11 (1997), pp. 211-32.

 

106. “The Nature and Dynamics of The Social among Humans,” in John D. Greenwood, ed., The Mark of The Social (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997).

 

107. “Inequality and Stratification.” Pp. 80-87 in D. V. Waller and D. Dunn, eds., Social Problems: Concepts and Applications (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997).

 

108. Jonathan H. Turner, et al., “Looking Back: Historical and Theoretical Context of Present Practice,” Pp. 19-87 in P. Weingart, S. D. Mitchell, P.J. Richerson, and S. Maasen, eds., Human by Nature : Between Biology and the Social Sciences (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997).

 

109. Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan H. Turner, and Nancy Thornhill, “Evolutionary Theory and Human Institutions: Three Distinctive Approaches,” Pp. 281-336 in P. Weingart, S. D. Mitchell, P. J. Richerson, and S. Maasen, eds., Human by Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997).

 

110. “The Evolution of Emotions: The Nonverbal Basis of Human Social Organization,” in U. Segerstrale and P. Molnar, eds., Biology with a Human Face: Nonverbal Communication and Social Interaction (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997).

 

111. “Founders and Classics: A Canon in Motion,” in C. Middleton, J. Gubbay, and C. Ballard, eds., The Student Sociologist’s Handbook (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).

 

112. Jonathan H. Turner and Elizabeth Leonard, “Inequality in America: The System of Privilege and Poverty,” G. Ritzer, ed., Social Problems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998).

 

113. “Must Sociological Theory and Practice Be So Far Apart?” Sociological Perspectives, 41 (1998), pp. 244-258.

 

114. “Some Elementary Principles of Geo-politics and Geo-economics,” EuraAmerica: Journal of European and American Studies, 28 (1998), pp. 41-71.

 

115. “Toward a General Sociological Theory of Emotions,” Journal for The Theory of Social Behaviour, 29 (1999), pp. 133-162.

 

116. “The Origins of Positivism: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer’s Contributions,” in G. Ritzer and B. Smart, eds., Handbook of Sociological Theory (London: Sage, 2005).

 

117. “The Formation of Social Capital,” in I. Serageldin and P. S. Dasgupta, eds., Social Capital: A Multi-faceted Perspective (Washington, D.C: The World Bank, 1999).

 

118. “A Sociological Theory of the Economy,” in J. R. Hollingsworth and K. H. Mueller, eds., Advancing Socio-Economics, two volumes (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

 

119. “The Sociology of Emotions,” in Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

120. “Theory in Sociology,” in Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

121. “Sociology,” in Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

122. Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner, “Functionalism and Structuralism,” in E. Borgatta and R. V. Montgomery, eds., Encyclopedia of Sociology (New York: Macmillan, 2001).

 

123. “Positivism,” in E. Borgatta and R. V. Montgomery, eds., Encyclopedia of Sociology (New York: Macmillan, 2001).

 

124. “Herbert Spencer,” in N. J. Smelser and P. B. Bates, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (New York: Pergamon, 2001).

 

125. “Positivism,” in N. J. Smelser and P. B. Bates, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (New York: Pergamon, 2001).

 

126. “Behaviorism in the Social Sciences,” in The Historical Dictionnnaire de la Pensee Socioligique, edited by M. Borlandi, R. Boudon, M. Cherkaoui, and B. Valade (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005).

 

127. “The Neurology of Emotions: Implications for Sociological Theories of Interpersonal Behavior,” in D. Franks and C. Smith, eds., The Sociology of Emotions (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1999).

 

128. Jonathan H. Turner and Kyung-Man Kim. “The Disintegration of Tribal Solidarity among American Sociologists: Implications for Knowledge Accumulation, The American Sociologist.

 

129. “Herbert Spencer,” in G. Ritzer, ed. Blackwell Companion of Important Social Theorists (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

 

130. “Toward a Theory of Embedded Encounters,” Advances in Group Processes, 17 (2000), pp. 285-322.

 

131. “Introduction” to reissue of Herbert Spencer’s The Principles of Sociology (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001).

 

132. Kenneth Allan and Jonathan H. Turner, “A Formalization of Postmodern Theory,” Sociological Perspectives, 43 (2000) 43, pp. 363-385.

 

133. “Can Functionalism Be Saved?” in J. Trevino, ed., Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology (New York: Greenwood Press, 2001).

 

134. Jonathan H. Turner and David E. Boyns, “The Return of Grand Theory,” Pp. 353-78 in J.H. Turner, Handbook of Sociological Theory, (New York: Plenum Press, 2001).

 

135. Jonathan H. Turner and David E. Boyns, “Expectations, Need States, and Emotional Arousal,” Pp. 97-111 , 99-125in M. Lovaglia, J. Szmatka, K. Wysienska, eds., Theory, Simulation and Experiment (London: Fraeger, 2002).

 

136. “Human Nature and Human Emotions,” Harvard Philosophical Review, Paper # 5 in HRP Studies in Human Nature, 2000: 1-29.

 

137. “Social Engineering: Is This Really as Bad as It Sounds?” Sociological Practice, 2001 3: 99-120.

 

138. “A New Approach for Theoretically Integrating Micro and Macro Analysis,”  Pp. 402-22 in C. Calhoun, C. Rojek, and B.S. Turner, eds., Handbook of Sociology (London: Sage Ltd, 2005).

 

139. "Sociological Theory Today,” in J.H. Turner, ed., Handbook of Sociological Theory (New York: Plenum, 2001).

 

140.  “Role Processes,” in W. Outhwaite, ed. The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).

 

141. Jonathan H. Turner and Pedro R. Payne, “Power, Politics, and African Americans,” Research in Political Sociology (2002). Pp. 139-72.

 

142. “Why Are Elegant Theories Under-utilized in Sociology?” Review Essay, Contemporary Sociology, 31 (2003): 664-68.

 

143. Salvatore Babones and Jonathan H. Turner, “Global Inequality,”  Pp. 101-20 in George Ritzer, ed., Handbook of  Social Problems (London: Sage, 2004).

 

144. “Conflict Theory” Pp. 133-39 in George Ritzer, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Theory (London: Sage, 2005).

 

145. “Theorizing in Sociology: The Advocacy of George C. Homans,” Pp. 255-80 in J. Travino, ed., George Homans Today (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006).

 

146. “Herbert Spencer.” Pp. 586-87 en A. P. Harrington, B. L. Marshall, and H. Mueller, Eds. Encyclopedia of Social Theory. (London: Routledge, 2005).

 

147. “Toward a Sociological Theory of the Economy,” Sociological Theory 22 (2004): 229-246.

 

148. “Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)” in George Ritzer, ed. Encyclopedia of Sociology (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2007).

 

149. “A Theory of The Family?” in Vern Bengtson, et. al., eds., Sourcebook in Family Theory and Research (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 2005).

 

150. Jonathan H. Turner and Barry Markovsky, “Micro and Macro Linkages” in George Ritzer, ed. Encyclopedia of Sociology (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2006).

 

151. “Micro-Macro Theory” Pp. 383-84 in Bryan Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

 

152. “Rational Choice Theory,” Pp. 497-99 in Bryan Turner, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

 

153. “The Social Psychology of Terrorism” Pp.115-45 in Bernard Phillips, ed., The Web or Part/Whole Approach to Terrorism (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007).

 

154. “The Dynamics of Differentiation and Integration.”  Pp. 93-123 in Herausgegeben on Hans-Jurgen Aretz Christian Lahusen , eds. The Order of Society (Frankfurt, D, Perter Lang, 2005).

 

155. “Social Control and Emotions,” Symbolic Interaction 28 (2005), pp. 475-485.

 

156. Jonathan H. Turner and Salvatore J. Babones, “Global Inequality: An Introduction,” Pp. 109-34 in Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones, eds. Global Social Change (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

 

158. "Sociological Theory in the Twenty-first Century" in Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck, eds, The Handbook of 21st Century Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006).

 

159. "Is Public Sociology Really Such a Good Idea?" The American Sociologist 36 (2003), pp 27-45.

 

160. Jonathan H. Turner and Jan E. Stets, "The Moral Emotions,” Pp. 544-68 in Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner, eds., Handbook of The Sociology of Emotions (New York: Springer, 2006).

 

161. "Sociological Psychoanalytical Theories of Emotion," Pp. 276-94 in Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner, eds., Handbook of The Sociology of Emotions (New York: Springer, 2006).

 

162. “Justice and Emotions,” Social Justice Research, 20 (2007): 312-35. 

 

163. “Is It Teaching versus Research, or Teaching and Research.” Pp.24-40 in Jerome Rabow, ed., Excellent Teaching in the Excellent University: Realities and Possibilities for Voice in the College Classroom (Palo Alto, CA: Academica Press, LLC, 2008).        

 

164. “Explaining the Social World: Historicism versus Positivism.” The Sociological Quarterly 47 (2006), pp. 451-63.  

 

165. “American Sociology in Chaos: Differentiation without Integration,” The American Sociologist, 37 (2006), pp. 15-27.    

 

166. “Emotions and Social Structure: Toward a General Theory." Pp. 319-42 in D. Robinson and J. Clay-Warner, eds. Emotions and Social Structure. New York: Elsevier, 2008). 

 

167. Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner, "The Sociology of Emotions." Pp. 32-46 in M. Lewis, M. Haviland-Jones, and L. F. Barret, eds., Handbook of Emotions, Third Edition. (New York: Guilford, 2007).  

 

168. "Self, Emotions, and Extreme Violence: Extending Symbolic Interactionist Theorizing." Symbolic Interaction, 30 (2008), pp. 270-30l.     

 

169. “Toward A Theory of Interpersonal Processes.” Pp. 65-95 in J. Chin, J, Cardell, eds., Sociological Social Psychology (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2008).    

 

170. "The Practice of Scientific Theorizing in Sociology, and The Use of Scientific Theory in Practice." Sociological Focus 41 (2008), pp. 281-300. 

 

171. "Emotions and Social Life." Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology, edited by M Sasai, E. Zimmerman, and J. Goldstone. New York: Brill, 2009.  

 

172.  Jonathan H. Turner and Jan E. Stets. 2006. “Sociological Theories of Emotion.” Pp. 25-52. Annual Review of Sociology, volume 32. Annual Reviews.

 

173. “Varieties of Sociological Theorizing” Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (New York: United Nations: UNESCO, 2009)           

 

174. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, “The Limitations of Evolutionary Theory from Biology in Explaining Socio-cultural Evolution.” Sociologica 3 (2008); 1-38. 

 

175. “Toward Hard-Science Sociology,” Journal of Social Studies (Iran), 2 (2009): 1-34.

                       

176. “The Structural Base of Resource Distribution.” Pp. in Kjell Tornblom and Ali Kazemi, eds. Handbook of Social Resource Theory (New York: Springer, 2012).

           

177. “Against Public Sociology: Not The Way to Go to Make Sociology Relevant.” Caderno CRH (Brasil), 2010.

                       

178. “Natural Selection and The Evolution of Morality in Human Societies.” In S. Hitlin and S. Vaisey, ed. Handbook of The Sociology of Morality (New York: Springer, 2010).

 

179. "The Stratification of Emotions: Some Preliminary Generalizations." Sociological Inquiry, 80 (2010): 168-99.

 

180. Review Essay. “An Exchange Theory of Emotions and Social Commitments: Lawler, Thye, and Yoon’s Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World.” (in German) Pp.201-209 in Hauptwerke der Emotionssoziologie. Edited by K. Senge. (Frankfurt: Springer VS, 2012).

 

181. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. 2011. “Lighting the Red Light of Incest.” Pp. 161-182. In An Anthology in Honor of Robin Fox, edited by M. Egan. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014.

 

183. Review Article: “Selection as a Key Tool in Sociological Explanations.” Contemporary Sociology, 2011, 40: pp. 796-809.

 

184. “Introduction” to Herbert Spencer’s Data of Ethics (reprinted by Transaction Press, 2011, pp i-xxxi).

 

185. "The Sociology of Emotions: Basic Theoretical Arguments." Emotion Review (2009) 1: 34-54.

 

186. “Extending the Symbolic Interactionist Theory of Interaction Processes: A Conceptual Outline.” Symbolic Interaction, 34 (3): 330-339.

 

187. Seth Abrutyn and Jonathan H. Turner. 2011. “The Old Institutionalism Meets the New Institutionalism.” Sociological Perspectives, 54 (3): 283-306.

 

188. “The Neurological Basis of the Evolution of Human Sociality.” In Neurosociology. D. Franks and J. Turner (Eds.) New York: Springer, 2013, pp. 289-309.

 

189. “Neurology and Interpersonal Behavior: The Basic Challenge for Neurosociology.” In Neurosociology. D. Franks and J. Turner (Eds.) New York: Springer 2013) pp. 119-137.

 

190. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. 2012. "The Biology and Neurology of Group Processes." In Advances in Group Processes 29, special issue on Biosociology and Neurosociology, 2012, pp. 1-37.

 

191. "The Neurology of Human Nature: Implications for Human Happiness and Well Being." In Connecting the Brain to the Social World. M. S. Keshavana, L. J. Seidman, and R. K. Schutt, Eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.

 

192. “The Evolution of Emotions in Humans.” In Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, Volume 2, edited by J. E. Stets and J. H. Turner (New York: Springer, 2014).

 

193. “Emotions and Stratification: Toward a Re-conceptualization of Stratification Dynamics.” In Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, Volume 2, edited by J. E. Stets and J. H. Turner (New York: Springer, 2014).

 

194. "Using Evolutionary Sociology in Understanding Psychological and Sociocultural Pathologies." International Journal of Neuropsychotherapy, 2014: 1 (1), pp. 34-45.

 

195. "The Sociology of Emotion." In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society.  W. C. Cockerman, R. Dingwall, and S. Quah (Eds.), London: Blackwell, 2014.

 

196. "The Evolution of Affect, Sociality, Altruism and Prosocial Behavior in Humans." In Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: Envisioning a Field. V. Jeffries and L. Nichols (Eds.), London: Palgrave, 2014.

 

197. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, "Evolutionary Sociology: A Cross-species Strategy for Discovering Human Nature." In Handbook of Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science.. J. H. Turner, R. Machalek, and A. R. Maryanski (Eds.), Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2015.

 

198. “The Evolution of The Social Mind: The Limitations of Evolutionary Psychology.”

In Handbook of Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science. J. H. Turner, R. Machalek, and A. R. Maryanski (Eds.), Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2015.

 

199. "Organizational Ecology: Darwinian and Non-Darwinian Dynamics." In Handbook of Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science. J. H. Turner, R. Machalek, and A. R. Maryanski (Eds.), Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2015.

 

200. "Herbert Spencer's Sociological Legacy." In Spencer's Legacies. M. Taylor and M. Francis (Eds.) London: Acumen Press, 2014.

 

201. "Sociological Theory." In International Encyclopedia of The Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition (London: Elsevier 2014).

 

202. "The Biology and Evolution of Morality." In The Science of Morality: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches Now and in the Future. S. Hitlin and J. Stets (eds.) (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation/American Sociological Association 2014).

 

203. "The Ecology of Decline and Revitalization of PSA." The American Sociologist, 2014, 45: 219-253.

 

204.  Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. “The Prospects and Limitations of Evolutionary Theorizing in the Social Sciences.” In Handbook of Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science. J. H. Turner, R. Machalek, and A. R. Maryanski (Eds.), Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2015.

 

205. “The Evolutionary Biology and Sociology of Social Order on the Edge of Chaos.” In Order on The Edge of Chaos: Social Psychology and the Problem of Social Order. E. J. Lawler, S. Thye, and J. Yoon (Eds.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

 

206. “Positivism, Sociological.” International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 18. James D. Wright (Ed.),  (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015),  pp. 625–629.

 

207.  “American Journals and Sociology’s Big Divide: A Modest But Radical  Proposal.” American Sociologist 2016 47: 289-301.

 

208.  “Functionalism” in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. B. S. Turner (Ed.). (Oxford, UK:  Wiley-Blackwell 2015, 2017.

 

209.  “Integration and Disintegration in Societies” in Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory. S. Abrutyn (Ed.), New York: Springer, 2016.

 

210.  “The Macro Basis of Microdynamics” in Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory. S. Abrutyn (Ed.), New York: Springer, 2016.

 

211.  “Using Neurosociology and Evolutionary Sociology to Explain the Origins and Evolution of Religion.”  Journal for Cognitive Science of Religion, 2016.

 

212.  Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner, “Incest: Theoretical Perspectives” in International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Wiley 2018.

 

213. Jonathan H. Turner and Seth Abrutyn, "Returning the ‘Social’ to Sociocultural Evolution: Reconsidering Spencer, Durkheim, and Marx's Models of ‘Natural’ Selection." Sociological Perspectives, 2017, 60: 529-556.

 

214.  “Discovering Human Nature Through Cross-Species Analysis”

         in Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society. R. Hopcroft (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press 2018.

 

215. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, “The Neurology of Religion” in Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society. R. Hopcroft (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press 2018.

 

216.  “The Effects of Cultural, Structural, and Interpersonal Dynamics on Interaction Rituals.” Essays in Honor of Randall Collins. New York and London: Routledge 2019.

 

217. “Religion as an Artifact of Selection Pressures to Make Hominins and then Humans More Social” in A New Synthesis: Cognition, Evolution, and History in The Study of Religion. A. P. Peterson, Ed., Amsterdam: Brill, 2018.

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218.  “Principles of Inter-societal Dynamics.” Journal of World Systems Research, 2018 23 (2): 1-23.

 

219.  Alberto Bellocchi and Jonathan H. Turner. 2018. “Revising the Valence   Construct in Emotion Theory and Sociology of Emotions.” Interdisciplinary Approaches to Emotions – a Conversation with Sociology,” Volume1. New York: Springer.

 

 220. “The Problem with Too Much Fidelity to the Modern Synthesis When Explaining the Origins and Evolution of the Social Universe?” Journal for Cognitive Science of Religion, 2019.           

 

221. “Principles of Geo-political Dynamics” in Ino Rossi, Ed., New Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theories, Processes, and Perspectives from the Global North and Global South (New York: Springer, in press for 2019)

 

222.  J. Turner, A. Geertz, A. K. Peterson, and A. Maryanski. 2019.“Explaining the Evolution of Religion: A Response to Commentators.” Journal for Cognitive Science of Religion, in press for 2019.

 

223. Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. “Emotions and The Evolution of Auditory Language: An Application of Evolution and Neuro Sociology.” in J. Fenigsen, S. Pritzker, and J. Wilce, Eds. The Handbook of Language and Emotions. New York and London: Routledge.

 

224. Russel Schutt and Jonathan H. Turner. 2019 “Biology and American Sociology, Part I: The Rise of Evolutionary Thinking, Its Rejection, and Its Resurrection.”  American Sociologists, 2019.

 

225. “The More Sociology Seeks to Become a Politically Relevant Discipline, The More Irrelevant It Becomes to Solving Societal Social Problems,” American Sociologist, 2019,

 

226.   Jonathan H. Turner and Armin W. Geertz. “Applying Sociological Models to Understanding the Evolution of Religion.” Routledge Guidebook to Evolutionary Approaches in the Study of Religion, in press.

 

227.   Jonathan H. Turner and Kevin McCafree.  “Evolutionary Analysis in Theoretical Sociology:  Early Beginnings and New Directions. In S. Abruytn and O. Lizardo, Eds. Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, 2021.

  

228.  “Natural and Sociocultural Selection: Analyzing the Failure to Respond to the C-19 Pandemic.” This View of Life, The Evolution Institute, Newsletter July 2020

 

229.  “Why Are Humans So Emotional: An Explanation from Evolutionary Sociology.” In D. Dukes, A. Samson, and E. Walle, Eds. Oxford Handbook on Emotional Development, in press forthcoming.

 

230.  Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. “The Deep Origins of Society: Assessment of E. O. Wilson’s Genesis.” International Sociological Review, 2019 34(5)P: 536-551.

 

230.  “The Evolution of Emotions in Homo sapiens.”  Under review, Emotions Review.

 

231.  Jonathan H. Turner, Russell Schutt, and Matcheri S. Keshavan. “Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology.” The American Sociologists 2020, 51: 470-505.

 

232.  Anders Klostegaard Petersen, Jonathan H. Turner, Armin W. Geertz, and Alexandra Maryanski. 2021. “Homines Emotionales and Religion as an Evolutionary Exaptation.”

 

233. “On Becoming and Being a General theorist in Sociology: A Most Improbable  Journey.” In S. Abrutyn and K, McCaffree, Eds. Theoretical Sociology: The  Future  of a Disciplinary Foundation. New York and London: Routledge, 2021, 256-61.

 

234. “Commentary and Analyses of Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 15.” In S.  Abrutyn and K, McCaffree, Eds. Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation. New York and London: Routledge, 2021.

 

235.  Daniel Dukes…..(50 others) Jonathan Turner. “The Rise of Affectivism.” Nature:Human Behavior 5 (July) 2021: 816-820

 

236.  “Grand Theory is Alive.” Theory of Science 43, No 2 (2021), pp. 1914.

 

237. “Erving Goffman’s Contribution to a General Theory of Interpersonal Behavior.” In The Anthem Companion to Irving Goffman. M. H. Jacobsen (Ed.). London: Anthem Press, in press.

 

238.  “The Structure, Culture, and Biology Driving Moralization of the Human Universe.” In Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, volume 2. S. Hitlin Ed. New York: Springer, in press.

 

239.  Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. “Functionalism.” Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. M. Giuni Encyclopeida and M. Grasso, Eds. Chelteham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, in press.

 

240.  “Toward a Distinctive Evolutionary Sociology: An Overview of One Long-term Theoretical Research Program.”

xxx. "This Rise of the Academic Justice Warriors"

 

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