Kimball Young

Kimball Young (born October 26, 1893 in Provo , Utah , USA ; † September 1, 1972 ibid) was an American social psychologist and sociologist and 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 took his bachelor's degree in 1915 . He then worked for a year as a high school teacher in Arizona . He then studied sociology at the University of Chicago until his master's degree . During the First World War he was a Mormon missionary in Germany. In 1921 he received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. PhD. As a psychologist, he worked as a research assistant at various universities before he became an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin for ten years from 1930 . He then taught as a sociology professor at the City University of New York , at the Shrivenham American University (an army university for soldiers stationed in Europe) and finally from 1947 to 1962 at Northwestern University . Though he was blind from retinal detachment, Young still held seminars at Arizona State University .

He was one of the first sociologists to integrate psychoanalysis into theory formation.

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

personal data
SURNAME	Young, Kimball
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American social psychologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Provo
DATE OF DEATH	1st September 1972
Place of death	Provo