Steven Goldberg chaired the Department of Sociology at the City College of New York (CCNY) from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. He is most widely known for his theory of patriarchy, which attempts to explain male domination through biological causes. He is the author of Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences, Why Men Rule, When Wish Replaces Thought, and The Inevitability of Patriarchy.