Claude S. Fischer
University of California, Berkeley
110 Papers
1.7K Citations
Claude S. Fischer is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urbanism & Social history. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 105 publications. Previous affiliations of Claude S. Fischer include University of California & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Papers
Of Modernity and Public Sociology: Reflections on a Career So Far
TL;DR: This paper studied the social consequences of modernization, which led them to study urbanism, personal networks, the history of technology, and personal networks in the context of personal networks and social media.
A Research Note on Urbanism and Tolerance
TL;DR: The authors found that tolerance does increase with the size of a community, but as successive controls are added, the relationship approaches zero and the results are interpreted as not supporting the hypothesis and explanations for the nonsupport are explored.
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Gender and the residential telephone, 1890–1940: Technologies of sociability
TL;DR: This article explored the "affinity" of women for the telephone, how women in the half-century before World War II used the telephone and why, and suggested that there is a class of technologies that women have exploited for their own, gender-linked, social and personal ends.
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The Dispersion of Kinship Ties in Modern Society: Contemporary Data and Historical Speculation
TL;DR: The authors used a survey of social networks to describe "modern" California kinship and found that active relations with kin outside the household tend to be geographically dispersed and focused on immediate kin, especially parents and adult children.
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Holding the line : the telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish life
TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer a historical and ethnographic study of how the Amish and Mennonites responded to and accommodated the telephone from the turn of the 20th century to the present.
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