Julius A. Roth (1924 – 2002) was Professor of

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. He is best known for his 1963 groundbreaking work in

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, ''Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers,'' based in part on his own experience as a tuberculosis (TB) patient. Excerpts from ''Timetables'' were included in the Penguin Modern Sociology Readings anthology ''

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'' (1973). Roth is sometimes associated with the so-called "Second" Chicago School of Sociology, although his

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degrees (M.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1954) were both awarded through the Committee on Human Development.

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. ''A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) Roth describes how his mentors Everett Hughes and

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encouraged him to keep a journal during his TB hospitalizations, which eventually led to the publication of ''Timetables''.

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