Aaron Cicourel

Aaron Victor Cicourel ( born August 29, 1928 in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) ) is an American sociologist.

In 1966 he became professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1970 at the site of the University of San Diego. Since 1989 he teaches as a professor of Cognitive Science, Pediatrics and Sociology at the School of Medicine of this University. He is now professor emeritus.

He made ​​numerous guest professorships in Latin America and Western Europe. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-editor of scientific journals. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

Cicourel is one of the main representatives of the phenomenologically influenced sociology in the United States; the pupil of Alfred Schutz is the highly publicized analyzes of everyday life together by Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel very close and has a significant role in the development of ethnomethodology. He combined the traditional micro - sociology with modern approaches of psychology and anthropology. Culture and language, he shall, on not as something given but as something in need of explanation.

His research is primarily interested in everyday thinking, speaking and social action ( interaction ), and especially the hidden non-conscious aspects of these processes.

Works (selection)

• Method and measurement in sociology (From the American Frigga Haug of ), 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1974, 316 pp., ISBN 3- 518-07699 -X
• Language in social interaction, German edition, Munich: List, 1975, 267 pp., ISBN 3- 471-61432 -X