Charles Kadushin

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    Charles Kadushin is Professor Emeritus Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY; Distinguished Scholar, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University. He has also taught at Columbia University in the Sociology and Social Psychology Departments and at Yale University in the School of Management and in Graduate Sociology.

Ph.D. in sociology, Columbia University and AB, Columbia College. One of the founders of the social network field.

Consultant in organizational behavior, social networks and employee surveys for major international companies as well as for non-profit and non-governmental organizations.

Author of five books including: The American Intellectual Elite. Boston: Little Brown, 1974, (republished by Transaction Press with a new introduction in January, 2006), and numerous journal articles.

Recent published works include: 

2005 Charles Kadushin, Benjamin Phillips, and Leonard Saxe. National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01: A Guide for the Perplexed. Contemporary Jewry. 25, 1-32.

2005 Networks and Small Groups. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 5. http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol1/iss1/art5

2005 Charles Kadushin Matthew Lindholm, Dan Ryan , Archie Brodsky and Leonard Saxe. Why it is so difficult to form effective community coalitions. City & Community 4:3, 255-275.

2005 Who benefits from network analysis: ethics of social network research. Social Networks, 27, 2, 139-153.

 
    To the right is a sociogram of the French Financial Elite. Details in Kadushin, 1995. Friendship Among the FrenchFinancial Elite, American Sociological Review, 60 (April), 202-221.

 
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