Kimball Young

Kimball Young ( born October 26, 1893 in Provo, Utah, USA, † September 1, 1972 ) was an American social psychologist and sociologist as well as 35th president of the American Sociological Association.

Life

Young was the grandson of the namesake of the Mormon Brigham Young University in Provo, where he graduated in 1915 his bachelor's. He then spent a year working as a high school teacher in Arizona. Then he studied for the Master exam sociology at the University of Chicago. In World War I he was a Mormon missionary in Germany. In 1921 he was in psychology at Stanford University for Ph.D. doctorate. As a psychologist, he worked at various universities as a research assistant before he became an associate in 1930 for ten years professor at the University of Wisconsin. He then taught as a professor of sociology at the City University of New York, at the Shrivenham American University ( University for an army stationed in Europe soldiers ), and finally from 1947 to 1962 at Northwestern University. Although he was blinded by retinal detachment, Young still held seminars at Arizona State University.

He was one of the first sociologists, the integrated psychoanalysis in theory building.

In 1945, he served as president of the American Sociological Association.

Writings (selection )

• Differences in Certain Immigrant Groups, 1922
• Sourcebook for Social Psychology, 1927
• Social Psychology, 1930 ( reprint 1944)
• An Introductory Sociology, 1934 ( new editions 1942, 1949)
• Sourcebook for Sociology, 1935
• Personality and Problems of Adjustment, 1941.