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Alma mater
  
Cornell University

Main interests
  
Sociology


Name
  
Jonathan Turner

Education
  
Cornell University


Born
  
September 7, 1942 (age 81) (
1942-09-07
)

Institutions
  
University of California, Riverside

Books
  
The structure of sociologi, The sociology of emotions, The Emergence of Sociolo, American Ethnicity: The Dyna, Human Emotions: A Sociolo

Similar People
  
Jan E Stets, Leonard Beeghley, Anthony Giddens

Jonathan H. Turner (born September 7, 1942), is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside.

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Biography

After receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, since the academic year 1969–1970 he has been at UCR. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, German, Shandong University and Nan Kai University, Peoples Republic at China.

He is known as a general theorist of sociology, although he has a number of specialties: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology.

Turner was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award by the American Sociological Association alongside co-author Jan E. Stets for their book Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions.

References

Jonathan H. Turner Wikipedia