Anselm L. Strauss

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Anselm Leonard Strauss (born December 18, 1916 in New York City , † September 5, 1996 in San Francisco ) was an American sociologist .

Strauss, whose grandparents emigrated from Germany to the USA, grew up in Mount Vernon . He graduated from the University of Virginia and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago , where Herbert Blumer taught him symbolic interactionism .

Strauss published numerous articles on medical sociology . Together with Barney Glaser , he developed the grounded theory approach in the 1960s .

Scientific work

Strauss, a student of Herbert Blumer at the Chicago School and collaborator with Everett C. Hughes , published early papers on social psychology in the tradition of George Herbert Mead . In the 1960s he became internationally known as a medical sociologist with his empirical hospital studies on death and dying and at the same time developed - together with Barney G. Glaser - the research style of grounded theory in interpretative social research.

Strauss' most important contribution to the development of interactionist social theory consists in overcoming the social-psychological narrowing of interactionism, which goes back to Blumer. By resorting to elements of pragmatic social philosophy and epistemology ( Charles S. Peirce , John Dewey , William James , George Herbert Mead ) that are insufficiently received in Symbolic Interactionism , he comes to a stronger emphasis on the perspectives and processuality of sociality and thereby also relates to materiality of the body and the environment. Influenced by Hughes' sociology of work and organization, Strauss also opened interactionism more to structural aspects of society.

His interactionist theory of action, developed successively on the basis of a large number of empirical studies and coherently formulated only in 1993, is based on the basic idea of ​​the creation of social structures in ongoing negotiation processes (negotiated order, processual ordering) between actors as representatives of social worlds (theory of social worlds). This approach proves to be particularly suitable for science and technology research, organizational sociology, and medical, health and social work research.

resume

  • 1939 BS (Biology) Univ. of Virginia
  • 1942 MA (sociology)
  • 1945 PhD University of Chicago
  • 1946 Ass. Prof. Dep. of Sociology Indiana Univ.
  • 1952 Ass. Prof. Dep. of Soc. Univ. of Chicago
  • 1958 Director of Research at Michael Reese Hospital Chicago
  • 1960 Prof. Dep. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Univ. of Calif. San Francisco
  • 1987 Prof. emerit. ibid .; numerous Visiting professorships, including Konstanz, Cambridge (Engl.), Paris, Frankfurt a. M., Tokyo.

Publications

  • together with Alfred Lindesmith : Social Psychology. 1956
    • German edition: Symbolic conditions of socialization. 1974
  • Mirrors and Masks. The Search for Identity. 1959
    • German edition: mirrors and masks. The search for identity. Translated from the American by Heidi Munscheid. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • together with Barney Glaser: Awareness of Dying. 1965
  • together with Barney Glaser: The Discovery of Grounded Theory. 1967
    • German edition: Grounded Theory. Qualitative Research Strategies. 1998
  • together with Barney Glaser: Time for Dying. 1968
  • together with Barney Glaser: Interaction with the dying. Observations for doctors, nurses, chaplains and relatives. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974.
  • Negotiations: Varieties, Processes, Contexts, and Social Orders. 1978
  • together with other authors: The Social Organization of Medical Work. 1985
  • Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. 1987
    • German edition: Basics of qualitative social research: data analysis and theory formation in empirical sociological research. 1991
  • together with Juliet Corbin: Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. 1990
    • German edition: Grounded Theory. Basics of qualitative social research. 1996
  • Continual Permutations of Action. 1993

literature

  • Heiner Legewie , Barbara Schervier-Legewie: Person, Science and Gender Relationship. Anselm Strauss in conversation. J. f. Psychology 3/1995
  • J. Strübing: Anselm Strauss. Constance 2006
  • Legewie, Heiner & Schervier-Legewie, Barbara (September 2004). "Research is hard work, there is always some suffering associated with it. Therefore, on the other hand, it has to be fun". Anselm Strauss interviewed by Heiner Legewie and Barbara Schervier-Legewie. Forum: Qualitative Social Research On-line Journal , Volume 5 (No. 3), Art. 22. Interview as MP3 audio (English) / German translation of the interview

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personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Anselm L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Anselm Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1996
Place of death San Francisco