Steven Brown Goldberg (14 October 1941 – 17 December 2022)[1] was the chair of the Department of Sociology at the City College of New York from 1988 until his retirement in 2008.
He joined the American Sociological Association and served in the United States Marine Corps between 1963 and 1969.
He was long-listed in The Guinness Book of World Records for having been rejected sixty-nine times by fifty-five different publishers.
He is most widely known for his theory of patriarchy, which explains male domination through biological causes, and was also a guest lecturer at Marlboro College (1986), the Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics/Princeton University (1991), and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal/Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (1992), listed in publications by Gale Research, the International Biographical Centre, and the American Biographical Institute, and the first non-medical fellow of the American Psychiatric Association/American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
In 2018, he won an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.