Background
Erikson was born in Vienna, the son of Joan Erikson (née Serson), a Canadian-born artist, dancer, and writer, and Erik Erikson, a German-born famed psychologist and sociologist.
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Recounts the devastating personal and communal effects of the 1972 Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster on a tightly knit Appalachian community suddenly uprooted and dispersed. Bibliogs.
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This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociology and history, Erikson draws on the records of the Bay Colony to illustrate the way in which deviant behavior fits in the texture of social life generally. The main argument of Wayward Puritans is that deviant forms of behavior are often a valuable resource in society, providing a point of contrast which is necessary for the maintenance of a coherent social order.
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Sociologist Kai Erikson visited seven man-made disasters around America including a mercury spill which displaced a Native American tribe from its homeland; Three-Mile Island, where nearby residents feared exposure to radiation; and Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where the American government proposes to build a vast nuclear waste dump. He discovered that all these communities had in common a chronic dread and helplessness caused by radiation and other toxic substances. The author argues that this is a new and insidious type of trauma and this book is his plea that we do more to protect people from it.
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In the twentieth century, disasters caused by human beings have become more and more common. Unlike earthquakes and other natural catastrophes, this "new species of trouble" afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways. With clear-eyed compassion, in vivid narrative and in participants' own words, Kai Erikson describes how certain communities have faced such disasters. He shows conclusively that new attention must be paid to their experiences if people are to maintain elementary confidence not only in themselves but in society, government, and even life itself.
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Erikson was born in Vienna, the son of Joan Erikson (née Serson), a Canadian-born artist, dancer, and writer, and Erik Erikson, a German-born famed psychologist and sociologist.
Erikson graduated from The Putney School in Vermont, Reed College in Oregon and earned a PhD at the University of Chicago during which he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1959 where he held a joint appointment at the School of Medicine and in the Department of Sociology.
He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association. In 1963 he moved to Emory University, and followed that with a move to Yale University in 1966. He now holds the title of William R. Kenan, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies. He edited the Yale Review from 1979 to 1989. Erikson subsequently studied a number of disasters in the context of their sociological implications, including the nuclear fallout in the Marshall Islands in 1954.
The Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia in 1972 (resulting in the award-winning 1978 book Everything In Its Path). The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
And the genocide in Yugoslavia of 1992 to 1995.
(Sociologist Kai Erikson visited seven man-made disasters ...)
(Recounts the devastating personal and communal effects of...)
(This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Mas...)
( This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century ...)
( This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century ...)
( This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century ...)
( In the twentieth century, disasters caused by human bei...)
(Sociology, Relgious Studies, History)
With Army of the United States, 1955-1957. Fellow American Sociological Association (MacIver award 1967, Sorokin award 1977, president 1984-1985). Member Society Study Social Problems (president 1970-1971), Eastern Sociological Society (president 1980-1981).
Married Joanna M. Slivka, January 27, 1961. Children: Keith S., Christopher J.
