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William Sims Bainbridge was born on 12 October, 1940 in United States, is an American sociologist (born 1940). Discover William Sims Bainbridge's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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1940

William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia.

He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

He is the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Bainbridge is most well known for his work on the sociology of religion.

Recently he has published work studying the sociology of video gaming.

Bainbridge began his academic career at the Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school in his birthstate of Connecticut.

1971

He matriculated at Yale University and Oberlin College before settling on Boston University, where he received his B.A. in sociology in 1971.

Initially, he studied music and became a skilled piano-tuner.

In his free time, he constructed harpsichords and clavichords with the "Bainbridge" name, which still exist in a few households.

1975

Bainbridge received his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in 1975 and went on to study the sociology of religious cults.

After completing his doctorate, Bainbridge served as an assistant (1975-1980) and associate professor (1980-1982) of sociology at the University of Washington.

During this period, he worked with departmental colleague Rodney Stark on the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion.

1976

In 1976, he published his first book, The Spaceflight Revolution, which examined the push for space exploration in the 1960s.

1978

In 1978, he published his second and most popular book, entitled Satan's Power, which described several years in which Bainbridge infiltrated and observed the Process Church, a religious cult whose founders had been members of Scientology.

The study was one of the last of this type of academic studies done before new rules were introduced restricting unregulated participatory observation and study.

1982

Upon returning to Harvard as a visiting associate professor of sociology (1982-1987), he co-wrote the books The Future of Religion (1985) and A Theory of Religion (1987) with Stark.

1986

These included a text entitled Experiments in Psychology (1986), which included psychology experimentation software coded by Bainbridge.

The Future of Religion won the "Outstanding Book of the Year" award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in 1986 and A Theory of Religion won the "Outstanding Scholarship" from the Pacific Sociological Association in 1993.

Bainbridge is a founding member of the Order of Cosmic Engineers and is distantly related to Commodore William Bainbridge.

  • Bainbridge, William S. Curriculum Vitae.

  • 1987

    Bainbridge has also taught at Illinois State University (professor of sociology and anthropology; 1987-1990) and Towson University (professor of sociology and anthropology & department chair; 1990-1992).

    1992

    He then joined the National Science Foundation as the director of its sociology program (1992-1999) before holding a series of positions that prefigured his current appointment in 2006.

    Books authored by Bainbridge include:

    2000

    From this period until the 2000s Bainbridge published more books dealing with space, religion, and psychology.

    2002

    He also studied the religious cult the Children of God, also known as the Family International, in his 2002 book The Endtime Family: Children of God.

    2006

    In addition, The Future of Religion was reprinted in Chinese in 2006 and Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult was translated into Italian in 1994.

    Bainbridge's edited and co-edited books include:

    In addition to his books, Bainbridge has published over 200 articles and essays in various journals and encyclopedias.

    Retrieved October 12, 2006.

    2013

    As of 2013, their theory, which aims to explain religious involvement in terms of rewards and compensators, is seen as a precursor of the more explicit recourse to economic principles in the study of religion later developed by Laurence Iannaccone and others.

    From 2013, when he published eGods, his work has shifted towards the study of the sociology of video gaming, beginning with the publication of a new article (co-authored with his daughter Wilma Alice Bainbridge) on the potentially interesting aspects of glitches in video games.

    He has also studied "personality capture" in software, the process by which one may save one's personality in a computer through the answering of vast personality surveys.