Prof. Jonathan H. Turner

Jonathan H. Turner

Distinguished Professor of Sociology
College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
University of California at Riverside (USA)

Personal page:
http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-
bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=581


Publications (pdf)

Education: B.A. in Sociology at University of California at Santa Barbara; M.A. in Sociology at Cornell University; Ph.D. in Sociology at Cornell University.

Research interests: General theory on social processes, from micro-level face-to-face interactions to population-level processes; Sociology of emotions; Social institution; Social stratification; Bio-sociology; Applied research on inequality, race and ethnicity.

Awards and acknowledgments: Distinguished Teaching Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2002 ● University of California at Riverside Faculty Research Lecturer, 1988 ● Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997.

Web resources on Professor Turner: J.H. Turner: How I became, to my great surprise, a bio-sociologist, Newsletter of the ASA Section on Evolution and Social Behavior Volume 1, N. 1, 2004 (http://www2.asanet.org/sectionevol/newsletter/news-sum04.pdf) ● Among modern social theorists, at Professor Elwell's website (http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Turner/Index.html).



SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB

(2005) Jonathan H. Turner, Is public sociology such a good idea? The American Sociologist, Fall/Winter, pp. 27-45 (http://www.indiana.edu/~pubsoc/turner%20and%20public%20soc.pdf).

(2005) Jonathan H. Turner, Jan E. Stets, Conceptualizing emotions sociologically: Elements of emotions. Excerpt: The Sociology of Emotions, Cambridge Univesity Press ( http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/12227/excerpt/9780521612227_excerpt.pdf).

(2003) Salvatore J. Babones, Jonathan H. Turner, Global inequality. In: George Ritzer (ed.), Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, Sage Publications ( http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/isllc/index_files/ISLLC06_forum_12-06_reading.pdf).

(1999) Jonathan H. Turner, The formation of social capital. In: Dasgupta, P. and Serageldin, I. (eds), Social Capital. A Multifaceted Perspective, The World Bank, Washington D.C. (http://www.exclusion.net/images/pdf/778_fimod_turner.pdf).

Updated: January 31, 2007

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