CURRICULUM VITAE

H. Taylor Buckner Retired Associate Professor,  E-Mail: taylor@buckner.cc

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

DEGREES AND THESES:

Maître en administration des affaires (M.B.A. - Finance) Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Affiliée á l'Université de Montréal). 6 September 1984.

Diplôme en sciences administratives. (D.S.A.) Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Affiliée á l'Université de Montréal). 15 April 1982.

Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) University of California at Berkeley, 1967. Thesis: "The Police: The Culture of a Social Control Agency" (Multilith, 1967).

Master of Arts (Sociology) University of California at Berkeley, 1964. Thesis: "Deviant Group Organization" (Mimeo, 1964).

Bachelor of Science (Sociology) University of Louisville, 1959. "Topological Sociological Theory" (Theory Publications, 1959).

LANGUAGES

ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST:

Firearms and Society, Survey Research Methods, Deviant Behavior, Participant Observation Research, Race and Ethnic Relations, Statistics, Finance, Sociology of Business.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

ADMINISTRATIVE

Undergraduate Advisor, Sociology, 1987-1994.

Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, 1981 to 1984, and 1976­77.

Coordinator of Urban Studies, Concordia University, 1974­76.

REGULAR APPOINTMENTS

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Concordia University, 1996 to present. (Retired)

Associate Professor of Sociology, Concordia (Previously Sir George Williams) University, 1970 to 1996. Teaching Research Design and Analysis, Deviant Behaviour, Participant Observation Research, Introduction to Sociology, Self and Society, Urban Sociology.

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sir George Williams University, 1967­70.

Assistant Professor of Sociology, San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University), 1966­67.

Teaching Assistant, Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 1965­1966.

Graduate Research Analyst­Research Assistant, Survey Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, 1961­63.

Research Assistant, Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1960.

CONSULTING:

Consulting Sociologist, 1961 to present, various clients. Consulting on the Design and Analysis of Survey Research projects is available.

Cooper Group, Survey Research Consulting 1988­89.

League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith, surveys on anti­Semitism. 1983 - 1991.

Multi­Reso (Market Research) Consultant, 1978 to 1988. Questionnaire translations (French to English), focus group leader.

Non­Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, Consultant, 1978. Projections of Cannabis use in Canada for 1984.

Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Non­Medical Use of Drugs (LeDain Commission), Consultant, 1969­1972. Analysis of three large scale surveys of drug use in Canada.

School of Criminology, University of California at Berkeley, Consultant, 1966­67. Social Welfare Department, University of California at Berkeley, 1964.

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS PRESENTED:

BOOKS

Deviance, Reality and Change. Random House. New York, 1971.
(Extract from Chapter 12 Flying Saucers and New Age Reality)

Topological Sociological Theory. Theory Publications, Louisville, 1959.

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS.

With Gary A. Mauser. Canadian Attitudes Toward Gun Control: The Real Story. A Mackenzie Institute Occasional Paper, (Toronto) January 1997.

"Zweckrationalität versus Wertrationalität: an Examination of Rationalities in the Gun Control Debate" Presented to the Firearms and Society session of the Canadian Law and Society Association meetings, Brock University, June 3, 1966.

"Sex and Guns: Is Gun Control Male Control?" Presented in the Deviance and Control: Quantitative Studies session of the American Sociological Association 89th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 5 August 1994.

"Concordia's 'Gun Control' Petition: Ignorance of the Law is the Only Excuse." Presented in the Firearms and Society section of the Law and Society Meetings, University of Calgary, 14 June 1994. I was also session organizer.

"Minorities on Minorities: How Canada's Ethnic Minorities View Selected Canadian Minority Groups." Working Paper No. 3 . Centre For Community and Ethnic Studies, Concordia University, 1993.

"Missisquoi Community School Student Survey." Missisquoi Community School, 1992.

The 410 Report: The 1990 Student Services Survey. Department of Sociology, Concordia University, October 1990.

"Attitudes Towards Minorities: Seven Year Results and Analysis." For The Review of Anti­Semitism in Canada. 1990, did not appear as the Review has ceased publication.

"Attitudes Towards Minorities: Four Year Results and Analysis." The Review of Anti­Semitism in Canada. 1987. pp. 8­18.

"A Study of Canadian Attitudes Towards Jews, Italians, and Poles: A Three Year Analysis." The Review of Anti­Semitism in Canada. 1985.

"A Study of Canadian Attitudes Towards Jews, Italians and Poles - A Preliminary Comparative Analysis: 1983­84." The Review of Anti­Semitism in Canada. 1984.

Editor, Abstracts and Indices of Research Papers on File in the Montreal Ethnographic Data Bank. Sociology and Anthropology Laboratory, Concordia University, 1983.

With Jean­Marc Fillion. "Night Work." Read at the CSAA meetings, Halifax, N.S., 1981.

"Interaction for Profit: Strategies for Managing a Drinking Establishment." Read at the CSAA meetings, Montreal, 1980.

"Cannabis Use and its Consequences: Projections for Canada in 1984." Health and Welfare, Non­Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, 1978.

"On the Applicability of the Unimodal Distribution Theory of Alcohol Consumption to Cannabis Consumption." Health and Welfare, Non­Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, 1978.

"Observations on the Police Sub­Culture." Read at the CSAA meetings, Toronto, 1974.

"Organization of a Large­Scale Field Work Course." Urban Life and Culture. Vol. 2, No. 3, October, 1973. Also read at the CSAA meetings, Kingston, Ontario, 1973.

With N. Christie and E. Fattah. "Police et culture." In Police, Culture et Société (ed. D. Szabo). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1974.

Editor. Observations on the Normalization of Cannabis. Report to the Non­Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, 1972.

Editor, with K. Jonassohn. Urban Life Styles: Observations in Montreal '72. Department of Sociology, Sir George Williams University 1972.

"Police Culture". Presented at IV Symposium International de Criminologie Comparée, Mont Gabriel, Quebec, 1972.

"Social Reality as Process". Read at the CSAA meetings, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1971.

Editor. Urban Life Styles: St. Catherine St. Friday Night. Department of Sociology, Sir George Williams University, 1971.

"The Transvestic Career Path". Psychiatry. Vol. 33, No. 3, August 1970. Also read at the ASA meetings, San Francisco, 1969.

"Transformations of Reality in the Legal Process". Social Research. Vol. 37, No.l., Spring 1970. Reprinted in Phenomenology and Sociology. edited by Thomas Luckmann, Penguin Books, 1978. Also read at the ASA meetings, 1968.

"The Police and Social Control". Read at the ASA meetings, 1968.

"The Flying Saucerians: An Open Door Cult". In Sociology and Everyday Life. edited by Marcello Truzzi. Prentice­Hall, 1967. Reprinted in Sociology by David Popenoe, Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1971. Also read at ASA meetings 1965.

With N. Gumas. "An Assessment of Training Programs in Public Agencies Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency." School of Criminology, University of California at Berkeley, 1966.

"The Maintenance of Interaction in Three­Person Conversation Groups." Read at the 1966 ASA meetings.

"Flying Saucers are for People." Trans­action. May 1966.

"The Flying Saucerians: A Lingering Cult." New Society. 9 September 1965.

"A Theory of Rumor Transmission." Public Opinion Quarterly. Vol. 29, Spring 1965. Reprinted in Evans, Collective Behavior. 1969, and in the second edition, 1974. Reprinted in Marketing and Society: A Conceptual Introduction. Ronald P. Gist. Read at the ASA meetings in 1963. "How Rumors Spread." New Society. Vol. 4, No. 198, 1964.

"A Survey of the Heterosexual Transvestites." Read at the Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, 1964.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of Concordia University's Human Research Ethics Committee, 1990 - 1992, Chair, 1993.

Expert Witness, Research Methods, R. vs. Fringe Records, Ottawa, 1989.

Expert Witness, Research Methods, R. vs. Penthouse, Montreal, May 1985.

Member, comité d'évaluation, Fonds F.C.A.C., comité 10, 1983.

Member, comité d'évaluation, Conseil québécois de la recherche sociale. Mésadaptation sociale. 1982.

Associate Editor, Deviant Behavior: an Interdisciplinary Journal. 1980­1990.

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