Ralph Larkin

Adjunct Professor at Sociology, CUNY City College0 Followers

Ralph Larkin is an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, specializing in social stratification. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from UCLA and has a background in teaching and research in the social sciences. Larkin has published several books and articles on topics such as youth, education, social movements, and sociology of religion. His expertise includes school shootings, and he has been featured in the media discussing various incidents. Larkin's scholarly work and research focus on understanding rampage shootings and social movements, with a particular emphasis on the Columbine tragedy.

Research Interests

Social stratification sociology of education school shootings

Publications

1 - Book Review: Dave Cullen. (2009). Columbine. New York: 12 Press. 417 pp. $26.99. Jonathan Fast Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press. 333 pp. $25.95,Men and Masculinities

, 621-623, 2010-07-20

2 - Learning to Be a Rampage Shooter,The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education

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, 69-84, 2018-04-20

3 - 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon,Globalizing the Streets

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, 203-215, 2008-12-31

4 - Protest and Counterculture: Disaffection Among Affluent Youth,Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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, 17-35, 1974-08-01

5 - Counterculture: 1960s and Beyond,International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

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, 73-79, 2015-01-01

6 - Pattern Maintenance and Change in Education,Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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, 1-10, 1970-10-01

7 - Afterword: Media and School Shootings: A Sociological View,Studies in Media and Communications

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, 343-349, 2012-01-01

8 - Legitimated Adolescent Violence: Lessons from Columbine,School Shootings

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, 159-176, 2012-11-04

9 - Social Exchange in the Elementary School Classroom: The Problem of Teacher Legitimation of Social Power,Sociology of Education

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, 400, 1975-01-01

10 - Masculinity, School Shooters, and the Control of Violence,Control of Violence

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, 315-344, 2010-10-18

11 - Edwin O. Reischauer, The Japanese. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 443 pp. Cloth $ 15.00,African and Asian Studies

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, 155-157, 1982-01-01

12 - Contextual Influences on Teacher Leadership Styles,Sociology of Education

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, 471, 1973-01-01

13 - Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis.,Contemporary Sociology

Norman Goodman , Ralph W. Larkin ,

, 594, 1981-07-01

14 - From ?the gates of Eden? to ?day of the locust?,Theory and Society

Daniel A. Foss , Ralph W. Larkin ,

, 45-64, 1976-01-01

15 - The Roar of the Lemming: Youth Postmovement Groups, and the Life Construction Crisis,Sociological Inquiry

Daniel A. Foss , Ralph W. Larkin ,

, 264-285, 1979-04-01

16 - Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji,Sociological Analysis

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, 157, 1978-01-01

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