Jonathan H. Turner (born September 7, 1942),
is a professor of
sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...
at
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban dist ...
.
Biography
After receiving his PhD from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teac ...
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
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He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at
Cambridge University
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Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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, UK,
Universitat Bremen, Germany,
Universitat Bielefeld, Germany,
Shandong University
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and
Nankai University, People's 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
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alongside co-author Jan E. Stets for their book Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions.
Selected bibliography
Turner is an author of forty-one books, including textbooks, and well over two hundred articles.
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* Turner, Jonathan H., Alexandra Maryanski, Anders K. Petersen, and Armin Geertz (2018) The Emergence and Evolution of Religion: By Means of Natural Selection. New York and London: Routledge
* Turner, Jonathan H. and Richard Machalek (2018). The New Evolutionary Sociology: Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. New York and London: Routledge.
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References
External links
Homepage at UCRiverside
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1942 births
American sociologists
Cornell University alumni
Living people
University of California, Riverside faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science