{{short description|American-Canadian sociologist}} {{Infobox scientist |image = |image_size = 150px | |name = Daniel A. Foss |birth_date = 26 July 1940 |birth_place = The Bronx, New York City, U.S. |death_date = {{death-date and age|20 August 2014|26 July 1940}} |death_place = Montreal, Canada |residence = |ethnicity = |field = Sociology |work_institutions = California Institute of the Arts<br />Livingston College<br />Rutgers University |alma_mater = Cornell University, B.A.<br />Brandeis University, M.A., Ph.D. |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = ''Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements'' (1986)<br />''Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics'' (1972) |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Daniel A. Foss''' (26 July 1940 – 20 August 2014) was an American-Canadian sociologist.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/jan15/obit_0115.html |title=Footnotes: Daniel Aaron Foss 1940-2014 |website=American Sociological Association |date=Jan 2015 |access-date=22 Jan 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305025056/http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/jan15/obit_0115.html |url-status=live |archive-date=5 March 2017}}</ref> He is the author of ''Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics'' (1972),<ref>{{cite book | last =Foss | first =Daniel A. | title =Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics | publisher =Dutton | year =1972 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/freakculturelife0000foss/page/218 218] | url =https://archive.org/details/freakculturelife0000foss/page/218 | isbn =0-525-53004-5 | url-access =registration }}</ref> and ''Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements'' (1986).<ref name="beyondrevolution">{{cite book | last =Foss | first =Daniel A. | author2 =Ralph Larkin | author2-link =Ralph Larkin | title =Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (Critical Perspectives in Social Theory) | publisher =Bergin & Garvey | date =March 31, 1986 | pages =192 | url =https://archive.org/details/beyondrevolution0000foss | url-access =registration | isbn =0-89789-077-9 }}</ref>
==Early life and education== Daniel A. Foss was born in the Bronx, New York on 26 July 1940. He attended The Bronx High School of Science and later received his bachelor's degree in Sociology from Cornell University.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /> He went on to study at Brandeis University, where he earned his master's degree in 1962, and his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1969.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /> His book ''Freak Culture'' is an abridged version of his Ph.D. dissertation.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /> In 1964 and 65 he taught sociology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. After receiving his doctoral degree, he taught at the School for Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, at Livingston College, and at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /> He later took coursework at Syracuse University in the field of data processing, and worked in database management and programming for government and academic researchers.<ref name="beyondrevolution" />
==Career== Foss met fellow sociologist Ralph W. Larkin when they were both teaching sociology at Rutgers University.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /> They have frequently partnered in research on the study of social movements.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /><ref name="fromthegates" /><ref name="Worshiping the Absurd" /> The book ''Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements'' was co-authored with Larkin.<ref name="beyondrevolution" /> As well, Foss and Larkin jointly published research in sociology journals, including a piece on the white middle class youth movement of the 1960s and its relationship to later movements such as the Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, Swami Muktananda and the Revolutionary Youth Movement in ''Theory and Society''.<ref name="fromthegates">{{cite journal | last1 =Larkin | first1 =Ralph W. |first2=Daniel A. |last2=Foss | title =From "the gates of Eden" to "day of the locust" | journal =Theory and Society | volume =3 | issue =1 | pages =45–64 | issn=0304-2421 | date =March 1976 | doi =10.1007/BF00158479}}</ref> They later wrote a more focused article dealing with Guru Maharaj Ji and his followers, which was published in ''Sociological Analysis'',<ref name="Worshiping the Absurd">{{cite journal |last =Larkin | first =Ralph W. |author2=Daniel A. Foss | title =Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji | journal =Sociological Analysis | volume =39 | issue =2 | pages =157–164 | publisher = Sociological Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 2| date =Summer 1978 | jstor = 3710215| doi =10.2307/3710215}}</ref> and a piece dealing with the vocabulary utilized in these social movements, in ''Social Text''.<ref>{{cite journal | last =Larkin | first =Ralph |author2=Daniel Foss | title =Lexicon of Folk-Etymology | journal =Social Text | volume =9/10 | issue = 9| pages =The 60's without Apology, 360–377 | date =Spring–Summer 1984 | jstor = 466589| doi =10.2307/466589}}</ref> Foss and Larkin's research has later been cited by books on both the 1960s subculture, and on movements of social change such as the Hippie movement and other forms of counterculture and subculture.<ref>{{cite book | last =Grunenberg | first =Christoph |author2=Jonathan Harris | title = Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s | publisher =Liverpool University Press | year =2005 | pages =35 | isbn = 0-85323-929-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Jordan | first =Tim | author2 =Steve Pile | title =Social Change | publisher =Blackwell Publishing | year =2002 | pages =358 | url =https://archive.org/details/socialchange0000unse | url-access =registration | isbn =0-631-23312-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =McKay | first =George | title =Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties | publisher =Vero | year =1996 | pages =Pages 4, 12–13, 82, 187, 197 | isbn = 1-85984-908-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Falk | first =Ursula A. |author2=Gerhard Falk | title =Youth Culture and the Generation Gap | publisher =Algora Publishing | year =2005 | pages =188 | isbn = 0-87586-369-8}}</ref>
==Published works==
===Books=== *{{cite book | last =Foss | first =Daniel A. | author2 =Ralph Larkin | title =Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (Critical Perspectives in Social Theory) | publisher =Bergin & Garvey | date =March 31, 1986 | pages =192 | url =https://archive.org/details/beyondrevolution0000foss | url-access =registration | isbn =0-89789-077-9 }} *{{cite book | last =Foss | first =Daniel A. | title =Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics | publisher =Dutton | year =1972 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/freakculturelife0000foss/page/218 218] | url =https://archive.org/details/freakculturelife0000foss/page/218 | isbn =0-525-53004-5 | url-access =registration }}
===Articles=== *{{cite journal | last =Satin | first =Maurice S. |author2=Bertrand G. Winsberg |author3=Charlotte H. Monetti |author4=Jeffrey Sverd |author5=Daniel A. Foss | title =A General Population Screen for Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity | journal =Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | volume =24 | issue =6 | pages =756–764 | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | date =November 1985 | doi =10.1016/s0002-7138(10)60120-3| pmid =4067144 }} *{{cite journal | last =Larkin | first =Ralph |author2=Daniel Foss | title =Lexicon of Folk-Etymology | journal = Social Text | volume = 9/10 | issue = The 60's without Apology | pages =360–377 | date =Spring–Summer 1984 | jstor = 466589| doi = 10.2307/466589}} *{{cite journal | last =Foss | first =Daniel A. |author2=Ralph W. Larkin | title =The Roar of the Lemming: Youth Postmovement Groups, and the Life Construction Crisis | journal =Sociological Inquiry | volume =49 | issue = 2–3| pages =264–85 | publisher =Blackwell Publishing Ltd | year =1979 | doi = 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1979.tb00375.x}} *{{cite journal | last =Larkin | first =Ralph W. |author2=Daniel A. Foss | title =Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji | journal =Sociological Analysis | volume =39 | issue =2 | pages =157–164 | publisher = Sociological Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 2| date =Summer 1978 | jstor = 3710215| doi =10.2307/3710215}} *{{cite journal | last =Larkin | first =Ralph W. |author2=Daniel A. Foss | title =From "the gates of Eden" to "day of the locust" | journal =Theory and Society | volume =3 | issue =1 | pages =45–64 | issn=0304-2421 | date =March 1976 | doi =10.1007/BF00158479}}
==See also== {{Portal|Society}} *List of sociologists
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/046.html Third and sixth century crises east and west], Daniel A. Foss, October 21, 1996, ''Hartford Web Publishing''
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