September 1998

Bob Blain, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

(618) 650-2490 email: rblain@siue.edu

Degrees

1960 B.A. University of Massachusetts
1960-61 University of Wisconsin Graduate School
1961-64 M.A. Harvard University
1967 Ph.D. University of Massachusetts

Academic Affiliations

1966-68 Instructor to Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
1968-to present Associate to Full Professor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

Publications

1970 A critique of Parsons' four-function paradigm, Sociological Quarterly 11: 157-168.

1971 On Homans' psychological reductionism, Sociological Inquiry 4 1, Winter: 3-25.

1971 An alternative to Parsons' four-function paradigm as a basis for developing general sociological theory, American Sociological Review 36, August: 678-692.

1974 Parsons' hierarchy of control and the codification variable of the ICL theory, Indian Journal of Social Research 15: August & December: 179-189.

1985 The information chain theory of cooperation, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 26, March-June: 75-89.

1987 United States Public and Private Debt: 1791-2000, International Social Science Journal 114, November: 577-591.

1990 The Historic Cooperative Village of Leclaire: A Centennial Collection. Recipient of Certificate of Excellence from the State of Illinois Historical Society.

1996 Defining exchange rate parity in terms of GDP per hour of work. Applied Behavioral Science Review. Vol. 4, Number 1, pages 55-79.

1997 A history of the Cooperative Village of Leclaire. Expansion of Centennial Collection.

1998 National wealth and poverty. 300 page manuscript.

Other

1979 Making money a more accurate measure of value, Eastern Economics Association, Boston.

1981 Cooperation: The Wealth of Nations Game - a boardgame.

1986 Life expectancy as the basis for the theoretical unification of sociology, Illinois Sociological Association, College of Dupage.

1986 to present - Board member of Sovereignty, whose goal is to fund public facilities with U.S. Treasury money interest-free.

1987 Improving life expectancy by enlarging the scale of cooperation, Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.

1991 Toured New Zealand for a month at the invitation of the Democratic Party of New Zealand to explain Sovereignty to government, newspapers, and radio audiences.

1993 Income equality and national wealth, Illinois Sociological Association, Rockford, Illinois.

1994 Causes of national wealth, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.

1994 The role of exchange rates and the International Monetary Fund in the maintenance of First World hegemony, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.

1997 The end of world population growth; A least squares analysis of world population growth from 1950 to 1995 that projects an end to world population around 2030 at 7 billion.

Courses Taught

Introductory sociology, classical and contemporary theory, methods, statistics, inequality, social change, social movements, demography, cooperation and conflict, national wealth and poverty, the sociology of money, and leadership.

Current Priority

Promoting Time Money, specifically, GDP/Hours of work, as the standard for denominating and exchanging currencies.