Ralph Herbert Turner

Background

Turner, Ralph Herbert was born on December 15, 1919 in Effingham, Illinois, United States. Son of Herbert Turner and Hilda Pearl (Bohn) Turner.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, U Southern California, 1941; Master of Arts, U Southern California, 1942; postgraduate, University of Wisconsin, 1942-1943; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1948.

Career

Research associate, American Council Race Relations, 1947-1948; faculty, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1948; professor sociology and anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959-1990; professor emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1990; department chairman sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1963-1968; chairman Academy Senate, University of California System, 1983-1984. Board directors Founds. Fund for Research in Psychiatry.

Visiting summer professor of University Washington, 1960, U. Hawaii, 1962. Visiting scholar Australian National U., 1972. Visiting professor U. Georgia, 1975, Ben Gurion U., Israel, 1983.

Visiting fellow Nuffield College University of Oxford, 1980. Distinguished visiting professor American U., Cairo, Egypt, 1983. Adjunct Professor China Academy Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic China, 1986.

Achievements

• Ralph Herbert Turner has been listed as a noteworthy Sociologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Impossible Science: An Institutional Analysis of American Sociology (SAGE Library of Social Research)

    (Tracing the history of American sociology since the Civil...)

  • Family Interaction

    (John Wiley & Sons Inc. Hardcover. Missing dust jacket.)

  • By Ralph H. Turner - Collective Behavior (3 Sub) (1987-01-16) Hardcover
  • Social Context of Ambition: a Study of High-School Seniors in Los Angeles, the
  • Collective Behavior
  • Collective Behaviour
  • Waiting for Disaster: Earthquake Watch in California

Membership

Member behavioral science study section National Institutes of Health, 1961-1966, chairman, 1963-1964. Director-at-large Social Science Research Council, 1965-1966. Chairman panel on public policy implications of earthquake predictions National Academy of Sciences, 1974-1975, also member earthquake study delegate to Peoples Republic of China, 1976.

Member policy advisory board Southern California Earthquake Preparedness program, 1987-1992, member committee social education and action Los Angeles Presbytery, 1954-1956. Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (exchange delegate to China 1988), American Association of University Professors, American Sociological Association (council 1959-1964, chairman social psychology section 1960-1961, president 1968-1969, chairman section theoretical sociology 1973-1974, chairman collective behavior and social movements section 1983-1984, Cooley-Mead award 1987), Pacific Sociological Association (president 1957), International Sociological Association (council 1974-1982, vice president 1978-1982), Society Study Social Problems (executive committee 1962-1963), Society for Study Symbolic Interaction (president 1982-1983, Charles Horton Cooley award 1978, George Herbert Mead award 1990), Sociological Research Association (president 1989-1990), American Council of Learned Society (executive committee of council 1990-1993), University of California at Los Angeles Emeriti Association (council, president 1992-1993), University of California Emeriti Associations (chair-elect 1996-1997, chair 1997-1998, Panunzio award 2002, Lifetime Service award 2007).

Connections

Married Christine Elizabeth Hanks, November 2, 1943. Children: Lowell Ralph, Cheryl Christine.

Father:

Herbert Turner Turner

Mother:

Hilda Pearl (Bohn) Turner

Spouse:

Christine Elizabeth Hanks

child:

Cheryl Christine Turner

child:

Lowell Ralph Turner