Publications
Research Activities:
Telecommunications and Education: Since 1990, grants and contracts from various Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education (for evaluation of computer education centers), research on computers, networks, and other informational technologies.
Environment, Public Space, Social Behavior. Sponsors include the U.S. Department of interior, National Park Service, The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the New York Parks Council, the Central Park Conservancy, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation; over ten studies of environmental planning, urban park design, community conflict resolution, policy analysis, impact assessment, etc., at national, state and local level.
Community Studies: Research on work, ethnic communities, education and training, labor, trade unions, youth unemployment, the underground economy and industry -- sponsored by Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, and other sponsors.
Applied Urban Research: Research on urban planning and urban ecology --- sponsored by Ford Foundation, the Urban Development Corporation, and others.
Publications: Books and Monographs:
On The Ocean In The City: New York from the water’s view. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002
Environmental Impact of Urban Public Space: Methods for Commercial Developers. The Readers Digest Foundation, 1998.
Project Telecommuting: Telecommunications for Learning (International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 1997): Strategies of education and training for mobile individuals and groups.
The Harlem Valley Kids: Struggle and Hope in Public Housing Putnam, Grosset Books, 2003. Based on research sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation. Used as the basis of the film, Harlem Diary, Discovery Channel 1996.
The Urban Healing Experience: Readings in the Phenomenology of Urban Health Care (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001)
Outside of The Box: Readings in the Field Research Experience. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1999, Sociological Metamorphism (Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishing, Fifth Edition, 2000)
Growing Up Indigent: A comparative study of the lives of teenagers from four major American cites. Chicago: L.A. Heath, Lexington Books.
Sociological Problems (Prentice Hall, 13th edition, 2008)
New York Times Square: How Bright Are the Lights? (New York: The Ford Foundation, 1983) Blue Collar Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Grey Collar Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Selected articles and publications since 1992
“Sex Segregation in Military.” (With Thomas Vaughtner). 19931 The Encyclopedia of Military Personnel. Vol. 22. 1983-1990.
"Major Divides: Deceptive Distinctions and Rhetorical Strategies in the Black Colleges in the south. Black Colleges in America. 1994 Winter/Spring. 34-46
“Dichotomies and DNA Pushing the Boundaries: A Lifetime of Research on Alternate Life Styles in the Professions.” 1995. Our Professions, Oxford University Press
"Politics of Associations: Private Visions, Public Realities," American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 42, No. 13, 1985: 272-290.
"Psychology, Sociology, and Mentors," J.M. Dickey, New York: NYU University Press, 1976.
"Black Men in Law: Piercing the Glass Ceiling?" thesis 7:1 Spring, 1996: 122-127
"Black, Male and Gay: The Triple Whammy," Psychology Today,
"Same Sex Partners and Marital Partners: Strains and Solutions in the Dual Career Family Enterprise," Human Relations, 31 (December, 1997): 495-501.