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2140 WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Turner, Jonathan H

University Professor & Distinguished Professor of Sociology

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Biography

Jonathan H.Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1968, and since the 1969-1970 academic year,he has been at UCR. Within the discipline, he is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more subtantive specialities,including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institututions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has lectured widely all over the world, and he has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University, UK, Universitat Bremen, Germany, Universitat Bielefeld, German, Shandong University and Nan Kai University, Peoples Republic at China.  

Former Institution

University of Hawaii

Degrees

BA Sociology 1965

UC Santa Barbara

MA Sociology 1966

Cornell University

PhD Sociology 1968

Cornell University

Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997
UC Riverside Faculty Research Lecturer, 1988
Distinguished Teaching Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2002


Research Area

General theorist on all social processes, from micro-level face-to-face interactions to population-level processes. Also, applied research on inequality, race & ethnicity.

Publications

The Sociology of Emotions with Jan E. Stets (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2005)

Incest: Origins of the Taboo with Alexandra Maryanski (Paradigm Publishers, 2005)

Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)

Face-to-Face: Toward A Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (Stanford University Press, 2002)

On the Origins of Human Emotions (Stanford University Press, 2000)

The Structure of Sociological Theory (Wadsworth 1998)

Macrodynamics: Toward a Theory of the Organization of Human Populations (Rutgers University Press)

A Theory of Social Interaction (Stanford University Press, 1988)

The Institutional Order (Longman, 1997)