Frank Tannenbaum

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Frank Tannenbaum 1915

Frank Tannenbaum (born March 4, 1893 in Austria , † June 1, 1969 in New York City ) was an American sociologist , historian and criminologist .

Life

In 1905 Frank Tannenbaum emigrated to the United States with his Jewish family. He met Emma Goldman and became a militant union activist with the ( Industrial Workers of the World ). Arrested in 1914 after rioting, he was imprisoned for one year. He then went to Columbia University . He received his bachelor's degree there in 1921 and later received his Ph.D. with a thesis on land reform in Mexico in economics at the Brookings Institution . He then moved to Mexico and worked, among other things, as an advisor to the Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río . In 1932 he returned to the United States to initially teach criminology at Cornell University . In 1935 he moved to Columbia University as a professor of Latin American history. An important student of Tannenbaum there was the historian and political scientist Robert J. Alexander .

plant

Tannenbaum's conception of the "dramatization of evil" led to the further development of symbolic interactionism . His main criminological work Crime and the Community is considered to be the first formulation of a labeling theory approach . Among other things, it contains the concise wording “The criminal becomes bad because he is defined as bad”. However, the later representatives of the labeling approach ( Edwin M. Lemert , Howard S. Becker ) did not primarily fall back on Tannenbaum's remarks directly, but justified their approach independently. Tannenbaum is therefore predominantly classified as a forerunner rather than an actual representative of the criminal-sociological labeling perspective.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Mexican agrarian revolution. The Macmillan Company, New York 1929 (other editions: The Brookings institution, Washington, DC 1930; Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut 1968, ISBN 0208007091 ).
  • Crime and the Community. Ginn and company, Boston, 1938.
  • Slave and Citizen. The Negro in the Americas. AA Knopf, New York 1947 (additional edition: Boston: Beacon Press, Boston 1992, ISBN 080700913X ).
  • Mexico. The Struggle for Peace and Bread. Knopf, New York 1950.
    • Mexico. Face of a country. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1967.
  • A Philosophy of Labor. Knopf, New York 1951.
    • A philosophy of work. Nest-Verlag, Nuremberg 1954.
  • Ten Keys to Latin America. Knopf, New York 1962.
    • Latin America. 2nd edition, Kohlhammer Stuttgart 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Siegfried Lamnek: Theories of deviant behavior. 7th edition. Munich 2001, p. 219.
  2. ^ Frank Tannenbaum: Crime and the Community. London 1938, p. 17.

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personal data
SURNAME Tannenbaum, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Austria
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1969
Place of death New York City