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Shibutani, Tamotsu was born on October 15, 1920 in Stockton, California, United States. Son of Naonosuke and Taka (Aihara) Shibutani.
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Being an “interactionist” approach to social psychology, Society and Personality deals with people, not as isolated individuals, but as participants in groups. The aim of the book is to help the reader develop an orderly perspective—a consistent point of view from which to see his (or her) own conduct and that of his (or her) fellows. Propositions about behavior seen from the viewpoint are presented, and relevant evidence, both descriptive and experimental, is examined and evaluated. The author draws upon the two great intellectual traditions of pragmatism and psychoanalysis, and attempts to integrate them into a single, consistent approach. All concepts are reduced to behavioristic terms—defined always in terms of what people do. In this way, it is possible to draw freely on these two schools, and at the same time, avoid much of the jargon of both. Other approaches to the study of human behavior are frequently mentioned and sometimes discussed, but the objective is to give the reader one perspective rather than confuse him with many. Of course, this standpoint is presented as only one of many possible ways of looking at people. Although the book’s basic ideas are drawn from two main schools of psychological thought, relevant material has been gathered from other sources as well—sociology, ethnography, linguistics, experimental psychology, and clinical data from psychiatry. One very important extra feature is the List of Personal Documents, compiled by the author to guide interested readers to first-person accounts—biographies, diaries, clinical records—each of which provides a valuable record of human experience.
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Shibutani, Tamotsu was born on October 15, 1920 in Stockton, California, United States. Son of Naonosuke and Taka (Aihara) Shibutani.
AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1942; AM, University of Chicago, 1944; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1948.
University of California Berkeley
Born in 1920, Shibutani majored in sociology and philosophy at University of California Berkeley. He was heavy influenced by West. I. Thomas, George Mead, Freud, Dewey and John Steinbeck"s Grapes of Wrath. He developed a deep interest in racial discrimination, especially against Japanese immigrants in central California, form an early age.
In 1942, Shibutani started to work for Dorothy South. Thomas who was conducting one of study about wartime incarceration for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study.
After the war, Shibutani started doctoral work in sociology at the University of Chicago. He studied with Louis Wirth, Everett Hughes, and Herbert Blumer.
He also studied the work of Gorge Herbert Mead. Then he took a job at the University of California at Berkeley.
While at Chicago and Berkeley, He published two influential books: Improvised News: A Sociological Study of Rumor (1966) and The Derelicts of Company K: A Sociological Study of Demoralization (1978).
Shibutani became a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2004, Shibutani died at the age of 83 in Santa Barbara, California. Shibutani made great contributions to the field of sociology, especially in the tradition of Symbolic Interactionism.
( Being an “interactionist” approach to social psychology...)
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After Shibutani finished his doctoral studies in 1948, the University of Chicago offered him a job to study and teach sociological pragmatism there for three years.
Served with Judge Advocate General Corps, United States Army, 1944-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Sociological Association M C.
Married Tomika Harano, April 6, 1942 (divorced April 1969). Married Sandra Gettman, November 15, 1981 (divorced May 1987).