Otto Klineberg

Otto Klineberg (born November 2, 1899 in Québec , † March 6, 1992 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was a Canadian social psychologist who dealt with questions of race and national character. He carried out cross-cultural studies on human behavior and is considered one of the founding fathers of modern social psychology .

He studied at Columbia University under Franz Boas and graduated in 1927 with a Ph.D. from. He continued his research there and later became a professor.

His epoch-making work Race differences (1935), in which he examined racial differences under biological, psychological and cultural criteria, was of great influence on American anthropology.

Klineberg led intelligence tests on migrants, Indian tribes and colored by students and his pioneering studies influenced the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to case Brown v. Board of Education , which negotiated five racial segregation cases in public schools from 1952 to 1954 .

His work Race and Psychology was included in a series of publications by UNESCO .

Race differences

In his work on racial differences, he found that the impossibility of determining whether it should be three or three hundred is no better illustrated by anyone than by the French anthropologist Joseph Deniker , author of Les races et les peuples de la terre : Éléments d'anthropologie et d'ethnographie ("Races and Peoples of the Earth"), who used a combination of traits such as hair texture, skin color, eye color and nose shape to come up with seventeen main races and twenty-nine sub-races (1935: 21).

Works

• Race differences. New York and London, Harper & brothers 1935
• Negro Intelligence and Selective Migration. Columbia University Press New York 1935
• An Experimental Study of Speed ​​and Other Factors in "Racial" Differences. New York, [1928]
• Social psychology. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1940
• Characteristics of the American Negro. New York [u. a.]: Harper, 1944
• Tensions Affecting International Understanding. A survey of research. NY: Social Science Research Council, 1950
• Race and Psychology. Paris: Unesco, 1951 (La question raciale devant la science modern)
  • Race and psychology. Colloquium, Berlin, 1953. (Unesco series of publications. The modern science of the racial question)
• Social psychology. Rev. ed .-- New York: Holt, 1958
• The Human Dimension in International Relations. New York [u. a.]: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965
  • The human dimension in international relations. From d. Engl. Transl. by Helmut Richter. Bern, Stuttgart: Huber, 1966 ( publications on social psychology , No. 4)
• Nationalism and Tribalism among African Students: A Study of Social Identity. Paris: Mouton, 1969
• International Educational Exchange: an Assessment of Its Nature and Its Prospects. The Hague [u. a.]: Mouton, 1976
• At a Foreign University: an International Study of Adaptation and Coping. New York, NY: Praeger, 1979
• Students, Values, and Politics. New York et al. a., 1979

literature

• Alexander Goldenweiser: Anthropology. New York 1946 (first 1937)

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Klineberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Race, genius, psychopathy

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html