| Colbert Rhodes and John S. Butler. 2004. Understanding Self-Perceptions of Business Performance: An Examination of Black American Entrepreneurs. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 9, 55-71. |
| John S. Butler and Estate Of G Kozmetsky, eds. 2002. Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: Building American Communities and Economies. Greenwood/Praeger Publishers. |
| John S. Butler. 2002. Military Organizations: Best Practices and the Status of Black America, in The State of Black America: Opportunity and Equality One America, Lanham, MD: National Urban League Press. |
| Doris Wilkinson and John S. Butler. 2002. The Clinical Irrelevance and Scientific Invalidity of the 'Minority' Notion: Deleting it from the Social Science Vocabulary. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 29, 21-34. |
| John S. Butler and Charles C. Moskos. 2001. Labor Force Trends: The Military as Data, in America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, William Julius Wilson and Faith Mitchell, eds. National Academy Press. |
| John S. Butler. 2001. The Benefits and Mechanisms for Spreading Asset Ownership, in Assets for the Poor, Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolff, eds. New York, NY: Russels Sage Foundation. |
| John N. Doggett, John S. Butler, and Jay Whitman. 2000. A Report on How American Venture Capital Firms and Incubators Evaluate Business Plans. Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.. |
| John S. Butler and Patricia Gene Greene. 1999. Don't Call Me Small: The Contribution of Ethnic Enterprises to the Economic and Social Well Being of America, in Are Small Firms Important?, Zoltan J. Acs, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers. |
| Charles C. Moskos and John S. Butler. 1999. Overcoming Race: Army Lessons for American Society, in A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality and Community in American Society, Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, and Henry A. Walker, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. |
| John S. Butler. 1997. Entrepreneurship and the Advantages of the Inner City: How to Augment the Porter Thesis. Review of Black Political Economy 24, 39-49. |
| John S. Butler and Patricia Gene Greene. 1997. Entrepreneurship and Wealth Building: From Pakistani/Ismaili Enterprise, in Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research, Wellesley, MA: Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. |
| John S. Butler and Patricia Gene Greene. 1997. Ethnic Entrepreneurship: The Continuous Rebirth of American Enterprise, in The State of the Art of Entrepreneurship, Donald L. Sexton and Raymond W. Smilor, eds. Upstart Publishing Company. |
| John S. Butler. 1997. The Constitution and Achievement in American Society, in Liberty Under Law: American Constitutionalism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Kenneth L. Grasso and Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo, eds. NY: University Press of America. |
| John S. Butler. 1997. Why Booker T. Washington was Right: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics, in A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought, Thomas D. Boston, ed. London and New York, NY: Routledge. |
| Charles C. Moskos and John S. Butler. 1996. All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way. Basic Books. |
| John S. Butler. 1996. Organizational Theory and the Changing Requirements of the Military, in Future Soldiers and the Quality Imperative, Robert Phillips, ed. Fort Knox, KY. |
| Patricia Gene Greene and John S. Butler. 1996. The Ethnic Community as a Natural Business Incubator. Journal of Business Research 36, 51-58. |
| John S. Butler. 1996. The Return of Open Debate. Society 33, 17-18. |
| John S. Butler. 1995. It's Not Academic: It's Competition. Social Science Quarterly 76, 262-266. |
| John S. Butler. 1995. Myrdal Revisited: The Negro in Business: The Professions, Public Service and Other White Collar Occupations. Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 124, 199-121. |
| John S. Butler. 1995. Race, Entrepreneurship, and the Inner City. USA Today: The Journal of the American Scene 123, 26-29. |
| John S. Butler. 1995. The Historical and Continuous Significance of Philanthropy: A Case Study. Alternatives in Philanthropy. |
| John S. Butler. 1993. Homosexuals and the Military Establishment. Society 1, 13-21. |
| John S. Butler. 1992. Affirmative Action in the Military. The Annals, 196-201. |
| John S. Butler. 1992. The Roots and Role of the Black Church. Agenda: The Alternative Journal of Critical Issues 2. |
| John S. Butler and Margaret Anne Johnson. 1991. Attitudes of Americans Towards Issues of Military Service. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 19, 273-291. |
| John S. Butler. 1991. Desegregation and the Quality of Education. The World and I (The Washington Times Corporation) 6. |
| John S. Butler. 1991. Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics. State University of New York Press. |
| John S. Butler and Cedric Herring. 1991. Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship. Sociological Perspectives 34, 79-94. |
| John S. Butler. 1991. Military Institutions and Social Integration: The Case of America, in Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military, Henry Dietz, Jerrold Elkin, and Andrew Riteze, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 27-50. |
| John S. Butler and Robert Woodson Jr.. 1991. The Greenwood Section of Tulsa: The Legacy of Self-Help. Agenda: The Alternative Journal of Critical Issues 2, 2-9. |
| John S. Butler and Kenneth L. Wilson, eds. 1990. Entrpreneurial Enclaves in the African American Experience. The National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise Neighborhood Policy Institute Publication Series. |
| John S. Butler. 1990. Resurrecting Black Business in America. The World and I 5, 128-134. |
| John S. Butler. 1990. Self-Help and Adjustment to American Society. Agenda: The Alternative Journal of Critical Issues 1, 2-6. |
| John S. Butler. 1990. The Sociology of Multiple Identities: A Comparative Analysis. Society 27, 8-13. |
| John S. Butler and Kenneth L. Wilson. 1989. Entrepreneurial Enclaves: An Exposition into the Afro-American Experience. National Journal of Sociology 2, 127-166. |
| John S. Butler. 1989. Test Scores and Evaluation: The Military as Data, in Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity: The Workplace and the Law, Bernard Gifford, ed. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. |
| Charles C. Moskos and John S. Butler. 1989. The Military Since World War II, in A Special Report for the National Academy of Sciences, |
| John S. Butler. 1988. The Institutional-Occupational Thesis: Implications for Race Relations, in The Military: Just Another Job, Charles C. Moskos, Jr. and C. Wood, eds. Pergamon Press. |
| John S. Butler, John Blair, Robert L. Phillips, and Neil Schmitt. 1987. Framework for Research on Leadership, Cohesion and Values. Washington, D.C.: Army Research Institute for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. |
| John S. Butler, Anderson, Kathryn H., and Sloan, Frank A.. 1987. Labor Market Segmentation: A Cluster Analysis of Job Groupings and Barriers to Entry. Southern Economic Journal 53, p571. |
| John S. Butler. 1987. Social Research and Scholarly Interpretation. Society 24, 13-18. |
| Malcolm D. Holmes and John S. Butler. 1987. Status Inconsistency, Racial Separatism and Job Satisfaction. Sociological Perspectives 30, 201-224. |
| John S. Butler and Malcolm D. Holmes. 1984. Race, Separatist Ideology and Organizational Commitment. Social Science Quarterly 65, 138-149. |
| Dudley L. Poston Jr, Mady Wechler Segal, and John S. Butler. 1984. The Influence of Military Service on the Civilian Earning Patterns of Female Veterans: Evidence from the 1980 Census, in Women in the United States Armed Forces, Nancy Goldman, ed. Chicago, IL: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. |
| John S. Butler and Malcolm D. Holmes. 1982. Changing Organizational Structure and the Future of Race Relations in the Military, in Conscripts and Volunteers: Military Requirements, Social Justice, and the All-Volunteer Force, Robert K. Fullinwider, ed. New York, NY: Rowan and Littlefield. |
| John S. Butler and Malcolm D. Holmes. 1981. Perceived Discrimination and the Military Experience. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 9, 17-30. |
| John S. Butler. 1980. Race and the All-Volunteer Force. Armed Forces and Society 7, 586-613. |
| John S. Butler and Kenneth L. Wilson. 1980. The American Soldier Revised. Social Science Quarterly 61, 337-338. |
| John S. Butler. 1979. Inequality in the Military: The Black Experience. Saratoga, CA: 20th Century One Publishing - Scholarly Studies in Sociology and Psychology. |
| John S. Butler. 1979. Military Attainment: Universalistic or Particularistic. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 7, 143-145. |
| John S. Butler. 1978. Enlisted Promotion Rates: A Methodological Note. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 9, 75-77. |
| John S. Butler. 1978. Inequality in the Military Revisited. American Sociological Review 43, 607-610. |
| John S. Butler. 1978. Institutional Inequality: Viable Perspective or Intellectual Bogey. Journal of the Black Sociologist 7, 5-25. |
| John S. Butler. 1978. Institutional Racism: The Problem is Explanation. Journal of the Black Sociologist 7, 31-37. |
| John S. Butler and Kenneth L. Wilson. 1978. The American Soldier Revisited: Race and the Military. The Social Science Quarterly 19, 626-638. |
| John S. Butler and Rose Brewer. 1978. The Promotion of Enlisted Women. Journal of Armed Forces and Society 4, 679-687. |
| John S. Butler. 1976. Assessing Black Enlisted Participation in the Army. Social Problems 23, 558-566. |
| John S. Butler. 1976. Inequality in the Military: An Examination of Promotion Time for Black and White Enlisted Personnel. American Sociological Review 41, 807-818. |
| Alvin V. Schneider and John S. Butler. 1976. Race and the All-Volunteer System. Journal of Armed Forces and Society 2, 421-423. |
| Lodis Rhodes and John S. Butler. 1975. Sport and Racism: A Contribution to Theory Building in Race Relations. Social Science Quarterly 55, 919-925. |