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A Life Career in the Polarities of Dissent.
- Source :
- American Sociologist; Fall99, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p81-95, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- This autobiographical sketch is divided into five major sections. A first indicates how participation in certain sectors of institutional life in a small industrial community (in central PA between World Wars I and II) might be conducive to non-conformity. A third shows how early personal experiences could commit one to religious dissent, involving a C.O. position, entering civilian public (rather than military) service, and volunteering as a subject in a semi-starvation experiment in a laboratory at a major Midwestern university, which simultaneously permitted work on an M.A. in sociology. A fourth (after discharge from service) brought a return to normal civilian life, marriage, and completion of sociology doctorates (by both spouses). The fifth summarizes the pursuit of a career specializing in sociological theory (especially history of American theory) and development of a classificatory-periodizing scheme considerably at variance with the conventional approach in the history of theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONFORMITY
SOCIAL influence
DEVIANT behavior
HUMAN behavior
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00031232
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Sociologist
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 3084202
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-999-1011-9