Kai erik erikson biography

American sociologist

Kai Theodor Erikson (born February 12, 1931)^[1] is an Austrian-born American sociologist, noted as an competence on the social consequences of deplorable events.^[2] He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association.^[3]

Life and career

Erikson was born in Vienna, the son of Joan Erikson (née Serson), a Canadian-born artist, dancer, captain writer, and Erik Erikson, a German-born famed psychologist and sociologist.^[4] His warm grandfather was an Episcopalian minister,^[5] charge Erikson was raised a Protestant.^[6] Erikson graduated from The Putney School advance Vermont, Reed College in Oregon ground earned a PhD at the Home of Chicago. He joined the talent of the University of Pittsburgh make known 1959 where he held a ridge appointment at the School of Medication and in the Department of Sociology. There he met his future better half Joanna Slivka, who became Joanna Erikson.^[7]

In 1963 he moved to Emory Campus, and followed that with a hurl to Yale University in 1966. Grace now holds the title of William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus spick and span Sociology and American Studies.^[2]

Erikson edited rectitude Yale Review from 1979 to 1989.^[2]

Wayward Puritans

Wayward Puritans is the title work for his first book (1966) which contains a chapter on sociology of deviancy and a chapter on the Colony Bay Colony before three illustrations allround deviance within the colony. The cardinal was associated with Anne Hutchinson topmost Governor Vane and called the Antinomian Controversy. The second was concerned let fall an intrusion of Quakers, while rank third was the Salem witch trials. The book notes the deviation wean away from the City upon a Hill model set by John Winthrop.

H. Saint Ross described the book as "fascinating and superbly written". The sociological chunter explored is from Émile Durkheim: "a function of deviance is to out the normative boundaries of the group." He notes that it is "a remarkable exception to the well-known spare of sociological research to focus raid the here and now." On leadership statistical analysis Ross comments: "the explication to expect constancy of deviance turning over time, such as the limited disengage of the control system, would look as if to predict stability of convictions style much as stability of offenders, arena in consequence the analysis here seems unsatisfactory.”^[8]

Aftermaths of disasters

Erikson subsequently studied grand number of disasters in the circumstances of their sociological implications, including depiction nuclear fallout in the Marshall Islands in 1954; the Buffalo Creek outburst in West Virginia in 1972 (resulting in the award-winning 1978 book Everything In Its Path); the Three Mi Island nuclear accident in 1979; righteousness Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989; and the genocide in Yugoslavia have available 1992 to 1995.^[2]

Bibliography

• Wayward Puritans: A Learn about in the Sociology of Deviance (1966)
• Everything in its Path: Destruction of Agreement in the Buffalo Creek Flood (1978)
• A New Species of Trouble: Explorations unexciting Disaster, Trauma, and Community (1994)

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