Arthur stinchcombe biography
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Bio: (-) American sociologist. Arthur Stinchcomb earned his Ph.d. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at several universities in the United States and Norway, including the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Stinchcomb dealt with sociological theory, economic sociology, and social history, and the more specific topics he studied were stratification, organizations, high schools, and slavery in the Caribbean.
Stinchcomb accepted the functionalist view of society and believed that for a functionalist causal explanation of the emergence of social practice, it is crucial to: 1) find out whether that social practice has a consequence/function that survives in a state of equilibrium, regardless of tensions 2) determine whether the increase in tensions affects that social practice, that is, whether it tends to survive or strengthen due to tensions, 3) determine exactly how the function/consequence affects the survival or strengthening of social p
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Arthur Stinchcombe
American sociologist (–)
Arthur Leonard Stinchcombe (–) was an American sociologist. Stinchcombe was born on May 16, , in Clare County, Michigan, and attended Central Michigan University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He then pursued graduate study in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a doctorate.
Stinchcombe began his teaching career at Johns Hopkins University before returning to Berkeley from to He then left for the University of Chicago, followed by a stint at the University of Arizona.
Stinchcombe joined the Northwestern University faculty in and was named John Evans Professor of Sociology in He retired in Stinchcombe died on July 3,
Awards
[edit]Over the course of his career, Stinchcombe was granted fellowship by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (), and National Academy of Sciences (). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in [1][2][3]
Academic research
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IN MEMORIAM: ARTHUR STINCHCOMBE PASSED AWAY ON JULY 3,
Arthur Stinchcombe, or simply Art as everyone knew him, passed away on July 3rd. He was 85 years old, having had a brilliant, luminescent career. He received his PhD from Berkeley in He was a distinguished member of the famous First Berkeley School of Sociology who went on to shape the discipline. There was nothing Art couldn’t do. He began as a mathematician, turning his mind to sociology where he made major contributions to organization theory, sociology of law, sociology of education, and economic sociology. His books dealt with the logic of inquiry, statistical methods, social history, comparative sociology, high school rebellion, and much more. They won him countless awards. Art taught at Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Arizona and Northwestern as well as at Berkeley (), chairing the department in those hot years, He will be missed bygd sociologists in many a place; he will be remembered for his gangly, retiring disposition, bu