Cecil E Greek

Biographic Data

ID3924330
NAMECecil E Greek
GIVEN NAMESCecil E
FAMILY NAMEGreek
SIGNATUREGREEK C E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Florida
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • The Religious Roots of American Sociology

    Cecil E GreekBOOKReligious Roots of American…2019

    This book, first published in 1992, demonstrates that American sociology has deep religious roots which continue, both directly and indirectly, to influence the discipline today. Early American sociology was closely aligned with the social gospel movement in Protestantism, which hope to make use of the new science of sociology to help solve social problems and, ultimately, prepare America for the establishment of Christ’s kingdom on earth. Althou…

  • Mods and Rockers, Drunken Debutants, and Sozzled Students: Moral Panic or the British Silly Season

    Open AccessBill D Thompson, Bill Thompson et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2012

    Over the last decade, moral panic theory has affected a paradigm shift in the social construction of deviance and social problems in the United States, without any real debate about its viability. This article raises key questions about this perspective by offering the first ever critique of the seminal case study of British youth subcultures on which the paradigm is based. It argues that when analyzed in the context of contemporary criticism of …

  • Criminal Visions: Media Representations of Crime and Justice. By Paul Mason (ed.) (Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing, 2003, 310pp. 18.99)

    Cecil E GreekARTICLEThe British Journal of Criminology2004

    Journal Article Criminal Visions: Media Representations of Crime and Justice. By Paul Mason (ed.) (Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing, 2003, 310pp. £18.99) Get access Cecil E. Greek Cecil E. Greek Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2005, Pages 230–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi006 Published: 01 March 2005

  • Exploring the beliefs surrounding student evaluations of instruction in criminology and criminal justice undergraduate courses

    Kim Michelle Lersch, Cecil Greek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice…2001

    Student evaluations of instructors are given consideration in a number of important decisions concerning instructors such as hiring, merit pay, and in the tenure and promotion process. However, a number of popular beliefs surround the interpretation of these evaluations. Using student evaluations for the three research-oriented universities in the state of Florida as a database, a number of these beliefs are explored. Specifically, the effects of…

  • Criminal justice resources on the internet

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E Greek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice…1997

    We identify World Wide Web (WWW) and gopher sites containing information of interest to criminology and criminal justice professionals, educators, and students. Internet addresses and brief annotations are provided for federal and international resources, law library resources, civil liberties, police and prison information, crime-and addiction-related sites, and criminal justice educational and discussion groups

  • Using active learning strategies in teaching criminology: A personal account

    Cecil E GreekARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice…1995

    Seminars and workshops on active learning techniques are being held at many universities. This essay compares traditional classroom interaction with the new active learning approach and offers a personal account of one instructor's attempts to introduce the active learning method within a criminology curriculum. Small group interaction, weekly written assignments, and student's editing of papers are discussed. Overall the instructor found that st…

  • Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy

    Cecil E Greek, Jimmie L Reeves et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

  • Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil

    Cecil E Greek, Fred E KatzARTICLESocial Forces1995

  • Religious Violence and Abortion: The Gideon Project

    Cecil E Greek, Dallas A Blanchard et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion1994

    Journal Article Religious Violence and Abortion: The Gideon Project, by Dallas A. Blanchard and Terry J. Prewitt. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993, xvi + 347 pp. $39.95; $16.95 (paper) Get access Cecil E. Greek Cecil E. Greek University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 93–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712182 Publ…

  • Antipornography campaigns: Saving the family in America and England

    Open AccessCecil E Greek, William R Thompson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Politics…1992Cited by: 2References: 2

  • The Police and Social Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality

    Cecil E Greek, Nigel G Fielding et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

    Policing and social conflict a golden age of policing? paramilitary policing and public order civil policing and order maintenance managing social conflict police accountability and the politics of social conflict tomorrow's headlines

  • God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E Greek et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1992

    Journal Article God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society, by Melinda Bollar Wagner. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990, xiii + 271 pp. $37 Get access Cecil Greek Cecil Greek University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711127 Published: 01 July 1992

  • Ethnic Ethics: The Restructuring of Moral Theory

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E Greek et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1991

  • Keeping Them out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E GreekREVIEWSociological Analysis1990

    Journal Article Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America, by Susan D. Rose. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1988, xxvi + 253 pp. $25 Get access Cecil Greek Cecil Greek University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 51, Issue 1, Spring 1990, Pages 121–122, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711353 Published: 01 March 19…

  • Evil Influences: Crusades against the Mass Media

    Cecil E Greek, Steven StarkerARTICLESociological Analysis1990

    Journal Article Evil Influences: Crusades Against the Mass Media, by Steven Staker. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1989, vi + 212 pp. $24.95 Get access Cecil E. Greek Cecil E. Greek University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 51, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 339–340, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711189 Published: 01 October 1990

  • Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of the Cold War

    Cecil E Greek, Lary MayARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989

    freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable.-Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History

  • Anomie: History and Meanings

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E Greek et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1989

    Journal Article Anomie: History and Meanings, by Marco Orrú. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1987, xii + 210 pp. $34.95 Get access Cecil Greek Cecil Greek Central State University, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 2, Summer 1989, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711000 Published: 01 July 1989

  • The Cinema of Adolescence

    Cecil E Greek, David M ConsidineARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

  • Taking Soaps Seriously: "The World of "Guiding Light

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E Greek et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

  • Social Accountability and Selfhood

    Cecil Greek, Cecil E GreekREVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

  • Sociology and the Human Image

    Cecil E Greek, David Lyons et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985Cited by: 2

  • Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action

    Cecil E GreekREVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1983Cited by: 1

    FOREWORD ix PREFACE xv INTRODUCTION: A Private-Public Cycle? 3 Chapter 1. On Disappointment 9 The Role of Disappointment in Preference Change 9 Taking Disappointment Seriously 14 Chapter 2. Varieties of Consumer Disappointment 25 The Privileged Position of Truly Nondurable Goods 27 Consumer Durables 32 Services 39 Chapter 3. The General Hostility Toward New Wealth 46 Historical Evidence from the Eighteenth Century in England and France 46 The Man…