Arthur B. Shostak

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937,[1] Shostak received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1958.[1] In 1961, he received his Ph.D. in Industrial Sociology at Princeton[1] and began teaching at Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania until 1967.[2] He became professor of sociology at Drexel where he taught courses on the effects of technology, industrial and urban sociology, and race and ethnic relations.[1] In 1975 he began serving as an adjunct sociologist with the National Labor College and AFL-CIO George Meany Center for Labor Studies until 2000.[2] Alongside professorship, he was director of the Drexel University Center for Employment.[2] He was also a longtime participant in the World Future Society of futurists where he headed the Philadelphia chapter until 2003.[3] In 2003, Shostak retired from Drexel.[4]

Shostak's articles and books investigate a wide range of topics, all of which are mostly future oriented. Such topics include childhood and adolescent education, globalization, foreign policy, war and peace, information technology, bio, nano, and space technology, labor movements, and utopias.