Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton (born February 27, 1893 in Philadelphia , USA, † December 24, 1953 in New Haven , USA) was an American cultural anthropologist .
Life
Linton is considered "one of the fathers of American sociology". Linton stood out in particular through his works The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955), in which he worked out the analytical separation between social status and social role with great continued impact . Linton defines status as the position within a certain cultural pattern ("a position in a particular pattern" (Linton 1936: 113)) that is associated with a collection of rights, duties and expectations. Role, on the other hand, is the way in which the position is filled out individually. (ibid .: 114).
In 1945 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1950 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
- The Tanala: A Hill Tribe of Madagascar. Chicago 1933. Digitized
- The Study of Man. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York 1936. Digitized
- The Cultural Background of Personality . D. Appleton-Century, New York 1945.
- The Tree of Culture . Vintage Books, London 1955.
- People, culture, society . Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7773-0469-7 .
literature
- Helmut Schoeck : Linton, Ralf. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon, Vol. 1: Articles about sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , pp. 251 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gottfried Korff , Simplität und Sinn reachigkeit, p. 83.
- ↑ Thomas Schweizer: Patterns of social order. Network analysis as the foundation of social ethnology . Reimer, Berlin 1996, p. 34, ISBN 3-496-02613-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linton, Ralph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cultural anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1953 |
| Place of death | New Haven (Connecticut) |